Workshop will focus on activities that highlight effective strategies for teaching ratios, proportion and similarity. Some of the highlighted examples of student activities which correlate to Everyday and Transition Math will be:
 
Do taller people have larger feet?

Use shoe size and height data we collect to make predictions. For example, what is Shaq O'Neil's shoe size? More->

Indirect measurements
(inspired by a project suggestion in TM Ch. 11)

If you know the height of Mr. Wadlow can you figure out the height of the shorter man? see http://ciese.org/ciesemath/robertwadlowandfriend.html

Participate in CIESEmath (Post GEPA/Terra Nova) Projects
March-May, 2005

The Noon Day project - students measure shadows to find out what the
circumference of the earth is. (That's what Eratosthenes did in Egypt 2200 years ago.)

Where in the world is this man standing?

Warm up: The Pizza Slice Problem
Go Outside: Do the experiment! 

The Million three-Cube Roll Race - Predict who will win! Middle school
students will contribute to the race by rolling 3 dice 100 times and posting
their results on the Internet. The goal will be to reach a million rolls.
(Can we do it?)

Warm Up:  the one and two cube roll games (with Probability Explorer)
 
The Great Green Globs contest - Students will try to get the best score by
"shooting down" globs on a coordinate X Y axis by entering in equations.
Warm up: Glob Hunt, X equals something or Y equals something