Posted on by

Materials to share with ADVANCE

Thanks so much for taking the time to meet with me. If you ever want to reach out, please email me at mbriscoe@myedme.com.

Here are links to the materials a current student is using to explore Units 0, 1 and 2. She has high math anxiety so we are discussing each topic so she feels comfortable that she is prepared. The two biggest math issues are: 1) no understanding of part-whole relationships from a math sense; 2) no conceptual understanding of proportions.

Here are links to those pages:

  • Unit 0 teaching, practice and support
  • Unit 1 teaching, practice and support
  • Unit 2 teaching, practice and support

More Advance Topics

ADVANCE is about being ready for junior-level courses as well so here are some resources we are using for advance math topics:

  • Calculus
  • Calculus support for focusing on rate of change

Reading Example: Autobiography of Frederick Douglass

STEM from Mason/edMe

This event was Wednesday, 12/4. We have a partnership with the American Society of Naval Engineers to design their STEAM outreach and that is what is depicted by the boy that steals the show in this ABC7 piece:

https://wjla.com/features/spotlight-on-education/fairfax-county-george-mason

Outreach Opportunities

https://vimeopro.com/gmutv/stem

This is the most recent video we took inside the store.

YouTube player

Fighting Superbugs

  1. Contribute – help add to
  2. Antibiotics – medicine that kills bacteria (small things that make you sick)
  3. Superbugs – dangerous new diseases

Student scientist, Mosufa, became independent professionally and personally at Mason.

Project: Paint Sprayer to Stop Corrosion

  • Hull – the bottom of the boat that touches the water
  • Telemetry – sensors that measure location
  • Corrosion – rust that weakens metal (“salt water is corrosive”)
  • XYZ position – Math used to describe a point in three-dimensional space
  • Yaw, pitch, roll – Three measurements used by naval engineers

Mason scientists use biology to measure things in the brain that are hard to easily see.

Project: Safely moving concrete

  • Cure – Concrete becomes harder as water evaporates from wet cement
  • Substitute – Replace one thing with another

Vulcan engineers make designs safe for everyone often using parts they design themselves.