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- The Eddie Files: Welcome to Math:
You Gotta Start Somewhere
- The Eddie Files: Estimation: Going
to the Dogs
- The Eddie Files: Geometry: Invasion
of the Polygons
- The Eddie Files: Fractions: Any
Way You Slice It
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- Project Mathematics--Science Screen
Report--California Inst. of Technology
- Project Mathematics: The Tunnel
of Samos
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- Teacher Talk: Hands-On Math
- Teacher Talk: Mathematics &
Communication
- Teacher Talk: The Math Trail
- Teacher Talk: Oobleck
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- Living and Working in Space: The
Countdown Has Begun
- Math...Who Needs It? with Jaime
Escalante
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The
Eddie Files
Title:
The Eddie Files: Welcome to Math: You Gotta Start Somewhere
Time: 20 minutes
Teacher guide available.
Synopsis:
Who is Eddie, and how were his files born? It’s the first week of
school in math teacher Kay Toliver’s class. The assignment: find
out about jobs that people have and how they use math. Eddie’s father
happens to give him a camera and Vincent (Vincent Schiavelli), the
local shop owner, takes Eddie under his wing. Eddie takes his camera
along as he tackles his math assignment, and his files "take
off". Along the way, he meets a judge, a dancer, a restaurant
owner, a telephone technician, a sunglasses designer, and a TV director.
He also consults his Aunt Rosa (Kamala Dawson). Eddie’s work brings
glowing praise from "Miss T", and a real awareness that
math is everywhere.
Geared towards students
in grades 3 through 6, the EDDIE FILES is told from the point of
view of Eddie, an 11-year old East Harlem student. Eddie’s teacher
is the acclaimed Kay Toliver, profiled in the Peabody Award-winning
PBS special "Good Morning Miss Toliver". The series is
a unique combination of fiction and real-world math and science,
taking students from the classroom to the world outside -- where
they meet real people who demonstrate the real world uses of math.
Title:
The Eddie Files: Estimation: Going to the Dogs
Time: 20 minutes
Teacher guide available.
Synopsis:
It all starts when Eddie agrees to baby-sit Hector, the dog owned
by his Aunt Rosa (Kamala Dawson). If only Hector could talk, maybe
he could help Eddie with his assignment--estimating how many dogs
there are in New York City. With advice from the local photo shop
owner (Vincent Schiavelli) and his friend Johnny (Raymond Cruz),
a bike messenger, Eddie gets to work. He gets some tips from professionals
who use estimation--like a veterinarian, a professional bug farmer
and a bat expert who has to determine how many millions of bats
are in a single cave. After some amusing experiments, Eddie discovers
how to make a smart guess.
Geared towards students
in grades 3 through 6, THE EDDIE FILES is told from the point of
view of Eddie, an 11-year old East Harlem student. Eddie’s teacher
is the acclaimed Kay Toliver, profiled in the Peabody Award-winning
PBS special "Good Morning Miss Toliver". The series is
a unique combination of fiction and real-world math and science,
taking students from the classroom to the world outside--where they
meet real people who demonstrate the real-world uses of math.
Title:
The Eddie Files: Geometry: Invasion of the Polygons
Time: 20 minutes
Teacher guide available.
Synopsis:
After Miss T. talks about polygons in class, Eddie starts seeing
them in everything he looks at--the blackboard, notebooks, windows,
the clock--and even in some humorously scary daydreams. As he explores
the subject, construction workers, an inventor, an engineer and
an architect demonstrate the ways polygons are used to create everything
from skyscrapers to collapsible spheres. Features celebrities Vincent
Schiavelli, Paul Rodriquez, Debbie Dunning, Weird Al Yankovic and
Katie Mitchell.
Geared towards students
in grades 3 through 6, THE EDDIE FILES is told from the point of
view of Eddie, an 11-year old East Harlem student. Eddie’s teacher
is the acclaimed Kay Toliver, profiled in the Peabody Award-winning
PBS special "Good Morning Miss Toliver". The series is
a unique combination of fiction and real-world math and science,
taking students from the classroom to the world outside--where they
meet real people who demonstrate the real-world uses of math.
Title:
The Eddie Files: Fractions: Any Way You Slice It
Time: 20 minutes
Teacher guide available
Synopsis:
Kay Toliver’s story about the history of pizza sends Eddie on a
trail that leads to Sal’s pizzeria, where the self-proclaimed best
pizza maker in the world reveals a trade secret. In the kitchen
of an executive chef and the studio of a renowned percussionist,
Eddie discovers surprising things about fractions. Eddie’s growing
fascination with photography get the attention of pros at the photo
shop, and top sports photographer Tracy Frankel explains how understanding
fractions can improve his picture taking. Features celebrities Vincent
Schiavelli, Kamala Dawson, Weird Al Yankovic and John C. Moskoff.
Geared towards students
in grades 3 through 6, THE EDDIE FILES is told from the point of
view of Eddie, an 11-year old East Harlem student. Eddie’s teacher
is the acclaimed Kay Toliver, profiled in the Peabody Award-winning
PBS special "Good Morning Miss Toliver". The series is
a unique combination of fiction and real-world math and science,
taking students from the classroom to the world outside--where they
meet real people who demonstrate the real-world uses of math.
The
Kay Toliver Files
Title:
The Kay Toliver Files: Welcome to Mathematics
Time: Approximately
15 minutes
Teacher guide available.
Synopsis Ms.
Toliver helps her students understand the value of mathematics in
communication, and as a tool for solving problems that have real-world
relevance. This is itself accomplished in the context of solving
a problem: How can an imaginary student find a location in New York
City if he knows no mathematics? In addition to the strategies used
to guide the lesson, this episode illustrates effective class discussion
and the use of common objects to encourage students to think about
applications of mathematics.
Kay Toliver demonstrates
multidisciplinary lessons developed in her 28 years of classroom
experience in this companion series to THE EDDIE FILES, meant for
in-service and pre-service use. Many themes run through the programs,
including: using problem solving to teach mathematics; developing
communication skills in the mathematics classroom; relating mathematics
to its real-world uses; and strategies and techniques for assessment.
Title:
The Kay Toliver Files: Estimation
Time: Approximately
15 minutes.
Teacher guide available.
Synopsis:
Ms. Toliver begins by asking her students to estimate the number
of biscuits in a large box, then guides them through a process of
refining their estimate using small, proportionate boxes also filled
with biscuits. The lesson emphasizes the value of estimation as
a skill and helps students differentiate between an estimate and
a guess. In addition to illustrating teaching strategies for the
concept of estimation, the lesson illustrates the benefits of students
working in groups, the use of manipulatives, effective class discussion
which helps students to view their own reasoning, and discovery-based
learning.
Kay Toliver demonstrates
multidisciplinary lessons developed in her 28 years of classroom
experience in this companion series to THE EDDIE FILES, meant for
in-service and pre-service use. Many themes run through the programs,
including: using problem solving to teach mathematics; developing
communication skills in the mathematics classroom; relating mathematics
to its real-world uses; and strategies and techniques for assessment.
Title:
The Kay Toliver Files: Polygons
Time: Approximately
15 minutes
Teacher guide available.
Synopsis:
Ms. Toliver begins with a discussion of the individual who first
introduced pizza to New York City and builds a lesson on equivalent
fractions called The Great Pizza Swap. This exercise clearly demonstrates
that, as Ms. Toliver points out in an accompanying interview, a
noisy classroom can be an excellent learning environment. This lesson
demonstrates group learning, the use of simply-made or inexpensively-purchased
manipulatives, connections between math, art and history and classroom
management.
Kay Toliver demonstrates
multidisciplinary lessons developed in her 28 years of classroom
experience in this companion series to THE EDDIE FILES, meant for
in-service and pre-service use. Many themes run through the programs,
including: using problem solving to teach mathematics; developing
communication skills in the mathematics classroom; relating mathematics
to its real-world uses; and strategies and techniques for assessment.
Title:
"Good Morning Miss Toliver"
Time: 27 minutes
Synopsis:
"Good Morning Miss Toliver" is a captivating look at how
Presidential Awardee Kay Toliver combines math and communication
arts skills to inspire and motivate her students. The half-hour
program, as seen on PBS, takes viewers to New York City’s East Harlem
Tech/P.S. 72, where Kay Toliver has taught for more than 26 years.
"I do in life
what I always wanted to do--teach," she says. "Today’s
competitors are formidable: television, video games, rap music,
and the hustlers on the corners of East Harlem. But I think of myself
as a winner and so are my students." Candid interviews with
Kay Toliver, her students and colleagues punctuate an engaging look
at her classroom in action. Good Morning Miss Toliver also
follows the class on the "Math Trail", where they gain
a new appreciation of their environment by creating math problems
that relate to the East Harlem community.
Good Morning Miss
Toliver is produced by FASE Productions, creators of the Peabody
Award-winning series FUTURES with Jaime Escalante and the
acclaimed prime time PBS specials MATH...Who Needs It?
and Living and Working in Space: The Countdown Has Begun.
The program is underwritten by the National Science Foundation,
ARCO, the U.S. Department of Energy, and the Corporation for Public
Broadcasting.
Other
Mathematics Videos
Title:
Living and Working in Space: The Countdown Has Begun
Time: 60 minutes
Teacher guide available.
Synopsis:
Life in space - movies depict intergalactic wars, hyperspeed, beam-ins.
What about laundromats, sports, growing food, getting a driver’s
license? Many of today’s students will have jobs in space. "In
20 to 30 years," says NASA engineer Catherine McLeod, "you
name the profession, and we will have that profession in space."
LIVING AND WORKING
IN SPACE offers dozens of interviews with today’s space professionals,
from a space doctor and the "lunar lettuce man" to designers
of space clothing and Mars vehicles. A touching story involving
Jaime Escalante and a former student is interwoven, and imaginative
segments examine day-to-day activities in outer space. Kathy Bates,
Pat Morita, Jeffrey Tambor, Esai Morales, Jackee, Rodney A. Grant,
"Weird Al" Yankovic, Edie McClurg, Tony Campisi, James
Stephens III, Billy Bob Thornton, Raymond Cruz, Sheila Tousey, Jesse
"the Body" Ventura, and Vincent Schiavelli are featured.
LIVING AND WORKING
IN SPACE is produced by FASE Productions, the producers of the multi
award-winning PBS series "FUTURES with Jaime Escalante".
Title:
Math...Who Needs It? with Jaime Escalante
Time: 58 minutes
Teacher guide available.
Synopsis:
A one-hour entertaining and inspiring TV special starring Jaime
Escalante, the renowned math teacher who inspired the Academy Award
nominated movie "Stand and Deliver," and his students
with guest appearances by Bill Cosby, Dizzy Gillespie, Teri Garr,
Joe Piscopo, Marla Gibbs, Paul Rodriquez, Jeff Altman, Rosana DeSoto,
Paula Poundstone, Charles Fleischer, D.L. Hughley and world class
professionals, engineers and designers at their workplaces from
the FUTURES series.
Starting in Jaime Escalante’s
East Los Angeles classroom, Math Who Needs It" is a fun and
exciting adventure giving viewers a new perspective on how math
is used in real life. From application in skateboard design and
today’s high-tech rollercoasters to fashion, sports, and music,
you’ve never experienced math like this before!
Project
Mathematics
Title:
Project Mathematics--Science Screen Report--California Inst.
of Tech.
Time: 4 segments: 26
minutes; 24:45 minutes, 25 minutes; 27:38 minutes respectively
Synopsis:
Segment #1: The Theorem of Pythagoras: Applications and several
computer animated proofs of the Pythagorean Theorem.
Segment #2: The
Story of Pi: The role of the number Pi as a landmark in the
history of mathematics.
Segment #3: Similarity:
Common properties of figures with the same shape but of different
size.
Segment #4: Polynomials:
Classification of polynomials and the shape of their graphs in a
rectangular coordinate system.
Title:
Project Mathematics: The Tunnel of Samos
Time: 30 minutes
Synopsis:
The story of the building of an irrigation tunnel through a pyramid
using mathematics as the tool. Theories are suggested that the ancients
may have applied to join the tunnel in the center working
from both ends.
Teacher
Talk
Title:
Teacher Talk: Hands-On Math
Time: 15 minutes
Teacher guide available.
Synopsis: Ms. Toliver
describes and demonstrates a "hands-on" approach to mathematics
instruction. We observe her using a variety of strategies to encourage
students to become actively involved in their classwork and take
personal ownership for knowledge. In the accompanying narrative,
Ms. Toliver and her students offer insights into subjects ranging
from teamwork and planning to the need for rules in the classroom.
Title:
Teacher Talk: Mathematics & Communication
Time: 15 minutes
Teacher guide available.
Synopsis:
For Ms. Toliver, mathematics is a communication arts skill. In this
program, she discusses and demonstrates the uses of speaking and
writing as tools to develop--and assess--student understanding of
math concepts. Other topics addressed include approaches to clarifying
basic concepts and terms, and ways to create an atmosphere in which
students can communicate freely.
Title:
Teacher Talk: The Math Trail
Time: 15 minutes
Teacher guide available.
Synopsis:
The "math trail" is an activity which awakens students
to the mathematics that abounds in everyday life. Using concepts
from their math curriculum, students create books of problems based
on objects and events in their environment. At the end of the trail,
students understand more about their curriculum and their community.
Title:
Teacher Talk: Oobleck
Time: 15 minutes
Teacher guide available.
Synopsis:
"Oobleck" (from the Dr. Seuss book "Bartholomew and
the Oobleck") is the focal point of a classroom lesson that
combines literature, scientific method and imagination. Ms. Toliver
and her students discuss and demonstrate how motivation to learn
math concepts can result from strategies that encourage creativity
and curiosity.
FASE: The Eddie Files;
4 titles
Welcome to Math, You Gotta Start
Somewhere
Estimation: Going to the Dogs
Geometry: Invasion of the Polygons
Fractions: Any Way You Slice It
Teacher Guide
VIDEOTEXT INTERACTIVE: Algebra -
A Complete Course; 1995
Tapes #1-3 Unit I "Structure
of Math"
Tapes #4-9 Units II-IV "First
Degree Relations"
Tapes #10-13 Units V-VI "Second
Degree
Relations (or higher)"
Tapes #14 UnitsVII "Rational
Degree Relations
Tapes #15-16 Units VIII-IX "Summary"
Tapes #17 Units X "Literall
Degree Relations"
FASE: Math--Who Needs It?
Project Mathematics:
The Tunnel of Samos
FASE: Kay Toliver Series;
4 titles:
Welcome to Math
Estimation
Polygons
Fractions
Teacher guide
PBS VIDEO:
Living & Working Space
Detroit Public Schools
DUSI-Detroit Urban Systemic Initiative
-"Community of Learners"
APCAT: Advanced Placement Calculus
Awareness & Training 1995-96 Series
with Richard Phillips
Tape #1 - "Introduction to
Limits"
Tape #2 - "Limits"
Tape #3 - "More on Limits"
Tape #4 - "One-sided Limits"
Tape #5 - "Continuity"
Tape #6 - "Continuity Continued"
Tape #7 - "Differentiation"
Tape #8 - "Chain Rule"
Tape #9 - "Inverse Functions"
Tape #10 - "Differentiation
of Trip. and Inverse Functions
Tape #11 - "Mean Value Theorem
max/minI
Tape #12 - "Second Derivative
Tape #13 - "Differentiation
& Graphing
Tape #14 - "Implicit Function"
Tape #15 - "Realted Rates"
Back
APCAT: Advanced Placement Calculus
Awareness & Training 1995-96 Series
with Richard Phillips
Tape #16 - "Applied max/minI’
Tape #17 - "Applied max/minII"
Tape #18 - "Antidifferentiation"
Tape #19 - "Area and Riemann
Sums"
Tape #20- "Logs and Exponentials"
Tape #21- "Area and the Definite
Integral"
Tape #22- "Volume"
Tape #23- "Integration Techniques"
Tape #24- "L’Hopital’s Rule"
Tape #25- "Wrapup"
Back
FUTURES: with Jaime Escalante
- "Advanced Transportation"
- "Renewable Energy"
- "Fitness and Physical Performance"
- "Ocean Exploration"
- "Graphic Design"
- "Mass Communication"
- "Environmental Science and
Technology"
- "Meterology"
- "Industrial Design"
- "Personal Communication"
- "Future Habits"
- "Animal Care"
- "Fashion"
- "Agriculture"
- "Putting Man in Space"
- "Statistics"
- "Sound Engineering"
- Sports Performance"
- "Aircraft Design"
- "Optics"
- "Automotive Design"
- "Architecture and Structural
Engineering"
- "Cartography"
- "Water Engineering
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