Math Teacher ties math to students interests!

"For Ronald Duncan, being an effective high school teacher is all about making things relatable for the students. 

Duncan has been teaching math at St. Anthony High School in Jersey City for the past eight years, and in that time he's developed a methodology that focuses on a student's individual strengths, to make the sometimes daunting subject more easily accessible for his ninth to twelfth grade students."

"If he's teaching a football player for example, Duncan might use audibles and formations to help the student understand what a proper equation or formula looks like and then challenge him to see the relationship between them."

Source: http://www.nj.com/hudson/index.ssf/2016/05/jersey_city_teacher_to_be_recognized_and_honored_b.html

A few books* already highlight student interests and their connection to math:

Adamson, Thomas K.    Basketball : the math of the game

Juv.796.32 .A221b

  

Frederick, Shane            Football: The Math of the game                                                                Juv.796.33.F852f           (geometry, percentages, mean median mode ,positive and negative numbers.)

Martin, Hope              The math of sports

CMC. QA109 .M376 2000

Murray, Stuart             Score with basketball math

Juv.796.32 .M984s                                                                    

Murray, Stuart             Score with race car math

Juv.796.72 .M984s  

Murray, Stuart             Score with soccer math

Juv.796.33 .M984s

Perritano, John               Start the game : geometry in sports

Juv.516.15 .P458s
* in the Congressman Frank J. Guarini Library

College Bound Honor Students Alert!-6/23/07

From
Kevin C. Hudson
Director of College Admission & Advising The Wight Foundation, Inc.

1. Are you an Honor student?

2. Are you focused on attending college?

3. Do schools like Princeton, Harvard, MIT, TCNJ, Stanford, Vassar, CalTech, Williams and Yale seem out of your reach?

4. Do you wonder how you will be admitted to a college of your choice?

5. Do you wonder how you and your family will be able to afford college?

The Wight Foundation Education Fair provides an opportunity for students and families from urban Essex County and surrounding New Jersey communities and counties to learn about the college admission process for highly selective colleges and universities.

Admission and Financial Aid professionals will provide insight into the process and answer all of those questions you wanted to know about highly selective admissions.

WHO SHOULD ATTEND

1. Honor Students in the Classes of 2008, 2009, 2010.

2. Parents/Guardians of Honor Students in the Class of 2008, 2009, 2010.

3. All Class of 2008, 2009, 2010 Wight Foundation Scholars & Parents/Guardians.

4. Community College Honor Students.

5. Counselors, Mentors, Administrators of HS Honor Students.

The schedule and a brief sample listing of schools
are below:

Saturday, June 23, 2007 8:30 am ET - 3:00 pm ETNewark, NJ
SCHEDULE

Registration

8:30am - 9:30am

Opening Remarks

9:30am

"Demystifying the College Application and Admission Process"
10:00am to 11:15am

"Understanding College Financial Aid"
11:30am to 12:45pm

College Fair
1:00pm to 3:00pm

SAMPLE COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES

Princeton University
Bates College
Barnard College
Bowdoin College
NJIT
MIT
University of Pennsylvania
Boston College
University of Chicago
Dartmouth College
Bryn Mawr College
The College of New Jersey
Oberlin College
Wellesley College

and many more...

TRANSPORTATION

Essex County College (ECC)is located at 303 University Avenue in Newark, NJ. Participants should enter the Market Street/Martin Luther King Boulevard entrance for the event. NJ Transit provides multiple options to access ECC via bus or connections through the Newark Light Rail.

QUESTIONS?

Contact: Kevin C. Hudson, Director of College Admission & Advising for The Wight Foundation at kchudson@wightfoundation.org

http://wightfoundationeducationfair.eventbrite.com\