Hours

Time Logged:

__Monday 7/9:__ Grace & Betty - searched for and read relevant articles, outlined day-by-day unit **4 hours**

__Tuesday 7/10:__ Grace & Betty - Watched the four part series - Story of Maths - for applicable snippets relating to various topics in the course 4 **hours**

__Wednesday 7/11:__ Grace & Betty - Created contact list needs for 21st Century fund, fleshed out first unit first 7 days in more detail, organized desired clip from Story of Maths: **4 hours**

Grace & Betty - Watched Ascent of Man for relevant clips of math history **2 hours**

__Thursday 7/12:__ Grace & Betty - finished history of math unit and outline of final product, worked in clips from ascent to man, started unit 2 researching background information, relevant articles, and lesson plans on non-euclidean geometry **4 hours**

Grace & Betty - Worked through taxicab geometry worksheets, searched for resources on spherical geometry 2 **hours**

__Friday 7/13:__ Grace & Betty - meeting, started processing non-euclidean geometry**,** transferring web resources to usable documents, completed taxi-cab geometry packet problems. **6 hours**


 * TOTAL for week of 7/9 to 7/13 for Grace & Betty: 26 hours**

__Monday 7/16:__ Grace & Betty - started daily outline with details for taxi-cab geometry unit - fleshed out first 8 days, started studying spherical geometry. **6 hours**

__Tuesday 7/17:__ Grace & Betty - worked through spherical geometry hands-on examples - wrote up spherical geometry day-by-day plan. Contacted Wiley publisher for possible textbook, outlined and unified resource wiki, started finding resources for hyperbolic geometry day **5 hours**

__Wednesday 7/18:__ Grace & Betty - Finished Non-Euclidean Geometries outline unit - found articles, videos, and fun games / clips for students to explore on the web. Started gathering problem-solving resouces and outlining the days. **6 hours**

__Thursday 7/19:__ Grace & Betty - started gathering materials for modeling unit and looking at COMAP resources - discovered the unit is not really a stand alone unit after many hours of gathering materials, but rather an extension of problem solving. Decided to merge problem solving and modeling and create a new choice of 2 unit between calculus and statistics. examined possible math software to use. **6 hours**

__Friday 7/20:__ Grace & Betty - responded to textbook request from publisher, upgraded wiki, worked on video editing for segments we want to show in Story of Maths, looked more closely at timeline of units and how they might match to the school year's timeline, ie, per quarter, rethought about the order of the topics due to possible senioritis, etc. **6 hours**


 * TOTAL for week of 7/16 to 7/20 for Grace & Betty: 29 hours**

__Monday 7/23:__ Grace & Betty - started gathering resources and reading materials for Book Club. Met with Gaelen to go over possible contacts for various units. Discussed problem solving and modeling and math applications unit, trying to gain a better handle on what we want it to look like. **6 hours**

__Tuesday 7/24;__ Grace & Betty - Started gathering material for math in the arts, read through text problem solving 101 to help form outline of problem solving unit. **3 hours**

__Wednesday 7/25:__ Grace & Betty - formulated initial contact emails so individuals, companies, cold-contacts, bhs staff. fleshed out a more detailed day-by-day unit on problem solving, decided to move data modeling to stats unit, continued gathering resources for math in the arts. **6 hours**

__Thursday 7/26:__ Grace & Betty - finished sending out initial contact emails to BHS professional staff. started working out day-by-day of math in the arts. planned potential field trip to ICA, MIT Museum, continued searching for art materials in "other" disciplines - origami, music, sculpture, perused resources from math museum website and public talks. **5 hours**

__Friday 7/27:__ Grace & Betty - read through best writing in mathematics publications, skimmed through math novels, discussed book club unit outline. narrowed down readings for the students and choices of books to pick from. **6 hours**


 * TOTAL for week 7/23 to 7/27 for Grace & Betty each: 26 hours**

__Monday / Tuesday 7/30-7/31:__ Grace & Betty - worked individually hunting for material in number theory, watching documentaries relating math and music. **4 hours**

__Wednesday 8/1:__ Grace & Betty: decided on specific class readings for Book Club. skimmed through lovecraft and biography of zero. narrowed down choices for student's independent reading, generated day by day vision for book club. searched for more materials on fractals, number theory, game theory. **6 hours.**

__Thursday 8/2:__ Grace & Betty: outlined and worked through an actual real life case - "value of a dinosaur" for problem solving and math applications. met with Gaelen to discuss contacts, as well as ideas for book club activities and how to manage independent readings. followed up with book orders, finalized book club day-by-day. started day-by-day for math in the arts. **6 hours.**

__Friday 8/3:__ Grace & Betty: continued to refine math in the arts, chunking topics and resources. talked about vision for online presence, started creating the student website. started organizing and getting video clips, went back through initial units and filled in missing details in history unit. **6 hours.**


 * TOTAL for week 7/30 - 8/3 for Grace & Betty each: 22 hours**

__Monday 8/6__: Grace & Betty - worked on creating the power points presentations for the first unit of history, also created tentative plan for Number Theory Unit. **6 hours**

__Tuesday 8/7:__ Grace & Betty - finished power point presentations, started to create corresponding video montage to go along with the presentation. Fleshed out in detail Number Theory Unit creating day-by-day plan. **6 hours**

__Thursday 8/9:__ Grace & Betty - Started to work on Game Theory Unit and overall vision for the topic. Continued working on video editing. **5 hours**


 * TOTAL for week 8/6 - 8/9 for Grace & Betty each: 17 hours**