Washington Mathematics Official Publication of the Washington State Mathematics Council February/March 2006 Volume 48, Number 5

Selected offerings from Washington Mathematics

Articles and other items of interest

• WSMC Board of Directors
• President’s Message
• WSMC Calendar
• Regional Reports
• Contest Question Writing Workshop
• Math Olympiad
• Elementary Corner (Harry Potter & the Chamber of Secrets — Statistics)
• Elementary Corner (I Am the Greatest — Problem Solving)
• Discover Triangle Perimeters (Measurement)
• Middle School Corner (Analyzing the Aliens — Statistics)
• High School Corner (Developing the Concept of Linear Model, part 1 — Algebraic Sense)
• Address or Email Change
• Articles of Washington Mathematics
• Lesson Idea (Circle Limit 4 —Geometric Sense)
• Awards and Scholarships
• WSMC Awards
• OSPI Updates 
• Dazzling Data (Carbon Monoxide — Statistics)
• Thinker Dinkers (Meyersdale Farmers Market & Breakfast — Reasoning)
• Number Fun (Sudoku — Number Sense)
• Math Game (The New Plus and Minus Game — Probability & Problem Solving)
• Math History (Proof of the Pythagorean Theorem by Liu Hui — Geometric Sense)
• Interactive Math Applet (Polygon Playground — Geometric Sense)
• Happy Face Math (Connections) 
• Number Sense Teachable Moment (Grade 1 — Number Sense)
• NCTM Reports (Mental Math — Number Sense)
• By The Numb3rs
• Web Bytes
• Teaching Math to English Language Learners
• A Visit into the Past (Tunis, Tunisia)
• Math Day at the University of Washington
  
• Mathematics in Africa (Number Sense & Connections)
• Dr. James King (Recipient of the Richard P. Stuckey Award) 
• NAEP Progress by Zachary Rutledge
• NAEP—Washington State Mathematics, 2005, Grade 8
• WSMC Publication Order Forms
• WSMC Membership Forms

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