Handouts and slides from BMTC summer retreat sessions

• Slides from Glenn Stevens’ Monday evening session
• Slides from Andy’s Tuesday morning session
• Bottle Calibration Problem from Robin Gottlieb’s Tuesday afternoon session
• Selim Tezel’s Project Based Learning Initiative in Mathematics
• The Art and Craft of Posing Problems from Judah Schwartz’s Wednesday sessions
• Tatiana Shubin’s Grid Luck from Meredith’s Wednesday afternoon session
• Pythagorean Triples handouts from Brendan’s Thursday morning session
• The Magic Square Rectangle from the Kaplan’s Thursday afternoon session

Neat websites and articles

• Lisa Soltani’s website providing a guide/selected readings for the MTBos
• Ipad apps from Ellen Davis iPad apps that Ellen Davis likes
• Cut The Knot an excellent resource for math puzzles and games (and Pythagorean Theorem proofs!)
• Mathematician’s Lament  A wonderful article about teaching and learning math
• Desmos A truly excellent (and free!) Graphing Calculator (and more!)
• Online Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, …  what comes next?!

Presentation materials from the retreat

• Presentation outline for Ellen’s algebra, geometry, and slope group
• Factoring Activity demonstrated by Nefertiti
• Mean Absolute Deviation Activity presented by Elissa, Guy, and Lisa
• Styrofoam Cup Stacking Activity presented by Rebecca’s group with an additional Word file