suzettehermann@pickens.k12.ga.us
706-253-1800

Academic Math Coach
 

 


Suzette Hermann


Math Lab Schedule for Students

Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday
Room 184 Until 4:00 Until 4:30 Homeroom or club
Until 4:30
Until 4:30 Until 4:00
Room 230 Morning by appt
Until 4:30
Morning by appt
Morning by appt
Until 4:30
Morning by appt
Morning by appt
Until 4:30
Media
Center
During class or
lunch with pass
7:30-4:00
During class or
lunch with pass
7:30-4:00
During class or
lunch with pass
7:30-4:00
During class or
lunch with pass
7:30-4:00
During class or
lunch with pass
7:30-4:00
Individual
Teacher
Rooms
181, 182, 183
Rooms
181, 182, 183
Rooms
181, 182, 183
Rooms
181, 182, 183
Rooms
181, 182, 183

Phantom Toll Booth Learning

Purpose: To analyze literature in a mathematical context. To view mathematical topics outside the math textbook.
Chapter Assignment
1
Word List 
4 color problem
famous mathematical paradox
Compare and Contrast to Milo and a student
2
Compare and Contrast the Whether Man to a teacher
Topic used outside of math class
Make a net
How is Milo's journey like math class
Scheduling problem
History of zero
3
erroneous name and description
calendar fact
conversion ratios
Law of supply and demand
write an algorithm for a topic
cryptogram
4
words versus numbers debate
probability--sorting and choosing
letters with tangrams
personality of numbers
interesting problem
mental math bee
famous mathematician
5
Palindromes
Quotes by a famous mathematician
Significance of the "Which"
6
mathemagician--find math trick
history of infinity
symbolisms
7
frequency of light
math and music
permutations and combinations
"half-baked ideas"
8
"too much too quickly" - negation of statements
inverse, converse, contrapositive
equally good, equally bad--half full, half empty
return of rhyme and reason
word box
9
shadows for inaccessible distances
perspective drawing
think of a different way to solve a problem-boy growing
down
learning styles
10
leave reality--sets of numbers
each instrument plays a different color
world without numbers
create a taboo game card without using similar words
maybe without numbers
11
lost week--lost time on calendar
music--frequency of notes
models of roads with functions
write a label for a math product and give the inventor a
name
white noise/brown noise
12
make a sign for math
math songs
where here began and there ended-numbers
sounds-where do they go?
"I've never seen a sound"--use CBL for sound lab
13
significance of "you can't improve a sound by having
only silence"
significance of "the problem is to use each at the
proper time" 
p. 166
Logic puzzles
Symbolism of Island of Confusion
14
relativity
distance problems
dodecahedron construction
p. 180 fractions from broken stones-representation of
fractional values
15
significance of bowl of stew
measuring devices
simplify the expression
biggest number, longest number ???
location of smallest number
16
discussion of averages
"The only thing you can do easily is be wrong and that's
hardly worth the effort."
significance of darkness
p. 210 compare to math class
17
Compare humbug to student
What is the terrible trivium?
18
Significance of senses taker
reaction to time flies