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Math for Parents: Thinking About Fractions, Decimals, and Percents
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Materials needed by instructor (every session)
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* Overhead projector, screen, pens and blank transparencies
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* Pencils and paper for participants
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* Chart It! (created during sessions)
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* Fraction-Decimal-Percent Charts
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* Set of manipulatives used in each of the sessions
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* Chart paper and markers
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Materials needed for participants
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Tangrams
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Supply of newspaper and magazines
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Indeex Cards, 5 x 8
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Post-it Notes, 3 x 5 * * * *
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Color Tiles * *
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Pattern Blocks *
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Cuisenaire rods * *
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Base Ten Blocks *
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Scissors * * *
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Calculator *
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Rubber Bands *
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Construction Paper, 12 x 18
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Tape, Transparent
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Adding Machine Tape, 5' strips

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Sticky Dots, 2 colors
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Chart Markers *
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Certificates of Completion (optional)
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Math for Parents: Thinking About Numbers
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Materials needed by instructor (every session)
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* Overhead projector, screen, pens and blank transparencies
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* Pencils and paper for participants
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* Chart It!
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* Set of manipulatives used in each of the sessions for the overhead projector
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* Overhead calculator
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* Chart paper and markers
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* Transparent colored chips in place of beans for session 1
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Base Ten Blocks * *
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Beans *
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Straws *
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Play Money *
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Play Coins
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Scientific Calculator
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Pennies * *
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Cuisenaire Rods
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Graph Paper *
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Certificates of Completion (optional)
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Math for Parents: Thinking in Patterns
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Materials needed by instructor (every session)
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* Overhead projector, screen, pens and blank transparencies
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* Pencils and paper for participants
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* Chart It!
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* Set of manipulatives used in each of the sessions for the overhead projector
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* Overhead calculator
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* Easel
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* Chart paper (plain and 1" grid) and chart markers
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* Masking tape
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* Task-it (to post charts)
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Materials needed by instructor (by session)
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Session 1 & 2
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* Poster on large construction paper of activities 1-4 in A Menu of Pattern Activities
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Session 2
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* Venn Diagrams on chart paper
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* Post-its and markers for Venn Diagram activites
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Session 3
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* Complete These Statements on chart paper (optional)
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Session 5 & 7, 8
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* Overhead Graphing Calculator and Viewscreen
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Session 6
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* Masking tape to make horizontal and vertical axies on the floor
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* Post-its, 3 x 5 - to write numbers for the axes
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* Index Cards, 5 x 8 - approximately 10 with "(0, 0) origin" written on one and the others with different ordered pairs (include some negatives)
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* 11 small sheets of paper with one number written on each from -5 to 5
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* 8 - 10 sentence strips with the following written (in English and Spanish) on them - Horizontal axis, X-axis, Vertical axis, Y-axis, 4 to 6 with different verbal descriptions of equations
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* 20 - 25 ft. of rope (optional) or cubes
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* Transparency of graph paper or grid chart paper for A menu of Pattern Activites
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Session 7
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* Transparency of graph paper or grid chart paper
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* 4 sentence strips with one of the following on each: Graph, Table, Pattern, Equation, and 3 arrows
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Session 8
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* Transparency of graph paper
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* Sentence strips from graph paper
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* Charts from previous session
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* Copies of student work about solving equations at different grade levels in the local school district (optional)
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Materials needed for participants