Dear Friends,
One of the many things that makes working on a global learning project
such fun, is that the same project changes from year to year. We are now
in the 5th year of the math project, and every year we have more and
more diversity in this project: diversity in the countries
participating, ages of students, and types of schools. In the past we
usually started the project in October and tried to complete it by the
end of March. This year we had many more participants from the Southern
Hemisphere where the school year might start in January or February, and
end in November or December. We also had many new participants who
joined the project later than October.
With this in mind we want to make the following suggestions for
completing your projects. Those of you who joined the project several
months ago, please send us your reports by mid-April so we can share
them with other participants. If your school year ends in May or June,
and you are still working on your project, we want to ask that you plan
to finish it by the end of your school year and send us your report
before you go on summer vacation.
For folks on year-round schools, or schools in the Southern Hemisphere,
please send us, by mid April, a short note to let us know when you plan
to finish up your project, and what would be a convenient time for you
to send us your report.
In the meantime, we invite all participants to please feel free to write
in with any comments, suggestions or progress reports.
With best regards,
Enid Figueroa, Puerto Rico
Gerda de Klerk, South Africa/U.S.
Kristin Brown, California
Petru Dumitru, Romania/Belgium
Tanesha Glover, California
Victor Soria, Argentina
Coordinators, Connecting Math to Our Lives
An Orillas/CLMER/IEARN-Orillas global networking project
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Gerda de Klerk
Center for Bilingual Education & Research
http://www.asu.edu/educ/cber <http://www.asu.edu/educ/cber> and
Educational Leadership and Policy Studies
http://tikkun.ed.asu.edu/elps/ <http://tikkun.ed.asu.edu/elps/>
Arizona State University
Tel (W) 091-480-965-4346
Tel (H) 091-480-446-3672
gdk@asu.edu