During this course, I completed the following assignments that helped me to develop skills that will be useful in my future career as a mathematics teacher, either in middle or secondary school.   

Using Microsoft Word, I created a poster for use in my classroom and on the school bulletin board, encouraging secondary or middle school students to join the Math Club.

I wrote a review of a scholarly article that examined the possibility of developing a computer-graded, standardized math test that allows for partial credit.

As a middle school/secondary math teacher, I hope to create documents like this newsletter to encourage interest in mathematics, and to maintain open lines of communication between students, parents, and teacher.

I created a gradebook in Word and Excel with multiple worksheets for tracking students' personal information, attendance, and grades. A summary worksheet named 'Tally' imports information from several of the others for quick review.

I created a mail merge that includes letters to students' parents/guardians, by linking the letters to the previously created gradebook.

The hyperlink directory contains a list of web sites that will be of particular help to my future students in middle and secondary mathematics, their parents and myself.  There are links to sites to help foster understanding and provide support for students, links with helpful hints for parents, and others that will help me as a professional educator to find useful information regarding lesson planning and integrating technology into the classroom. 

I created a multimedia presentation entitled 'Use of Graphing Calculators in the Mathematics Classroom' to become familiar with the current research and pedagogy associated with this technology.

The following files are assignments that were completed in class:

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One of my favorite web sites for secondary math instruction in geometry and advanced algebra is

http://illuminations.nctm.org/ActivityDetail.aspx?ID=169.

This interactive activity is called Creating Dihedral Figures, and allows students to visualize reflections and rotations of polygons. Students can experiment with changing vertices of polygons and observing the changing transformations.