Today I had my first meeting with my project mentor (thank you to Ms. Lepi for taking on the role). We discussed my overall project and summer goals. I realized that I need to more carefully consider my target audience before I get too far into this. My initial idea was to create activities ideal for middle school math students, but I am now considering lessons for older lower schoolers as well. Ms. Lepi also gave me the idea of linking my project somewhat with the Severn math curriculum. One of my tasks for the near future will be to reach out to a few teachers in the middle and lower schools to ask what sorts of topics they think would be most beneficial for their own students to see in these lesson plans I will be creating. Other than that, I am still hoping to create five lesson plans over the summer. While that is my goal right now, I really don't know how much time and effort will go into creating each one. For this reason, I think I will have a more accurate idea of the feasible amount of lessons I can create once I've actually begun making them.
On another note, I began reading the book 50 Visions of Mathematics by Sam Parc and Dara O'Briain. This books includes 50 essays on various unique mathematical applications and challenges. I think that a good number of them could translate really well into the sorts of activities I am looking to create, which gives me optimism for my research.
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At the summer leadership lab, we plunged right into things, creating a pitch for our project, a timeline, and establishing our summer goals. I think I have a pretty solid idea of what I need to do moving forward; I will probably spend the next few weeks doing as much research as I can. Attending the leadership lab definitely cleared up some of the uncertainties I had about doing a fellows project, but it also made me think more about the sheer amount of time and effort that I will be putting into this. My greatest concern is that, because there is a significant creative element to my project, I will experience some sort of "creative block" which prevents me from making a final product that I am satisfied with. More than anything though, I am excited to get started!
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