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The “Spectacle” of Disability Representations

February 20, 2014 – 3:36 pm

Stephanie Misko, English, W.A. Hough High School

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Tags Detournement, Disability Narrative, eugenics, North Carolina Selective Sterilization Program, of mice and men, representation, social justice, socratic seminar, spectacle | Permalink | Comments Off

Big and Small: Bodily Difference and Disability in the Work of Velázquez and Botero

February 11, 2014 – 10:19 pm

Matthew Kelly, Spanish, Independence High School

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Tags art history, Diego Velázquez, disability in art, Dwarfism, Fernando Botero, obesity | Permalink | Comments Off

Navigating the Landscape: Using Disability Studies to Enhance the Analysis of Sylvia Plath’s Bell Jar

February 11, 2014 – 10:14 pm

Marva Hutchinson, English, Providence High School

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Tags advanced placement english language, disability studies, English, gender studies, language analysis, plath, Rhetoric, Style, the bell jar, the scarlet letter | Permalink | Comments Off

“Our Mere Defects Prove Our Commodities”: King Lear as a Disability Narrative

February 11, 2014 – 10:10 pm

Tiffany DiMatteo, English, Myers Park High School

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Tags Analysis, ap, critical literary theory, disability studies, English, ib, Literature, reader response theory, shakespeare | Permalink | Comments Off

Investigating Visual Disabilities through the Perspectives of Disabled Artists

February 11, 2014 – 10:07 pm

Lucy Beaube, First Grade, Barringer Academic Center

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Tags Art, blindness, Braille, cataracts, communication, Degas, disability, human echolocation, low vision, Monet, retinal disease, vision impairment | Permalink | Comments Off

Math Training Camp Carnival

February 11, 2014 – 8:54 pm

LaToya Scott, Kindergarten, Ashley Park Pre-K-8

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Tags add, altogether, and, equal, join, less, more, same amount as, separate, subtract, total | Permalink | Comments Off

The Hot Hand and Other Ways to Relate Math in Sports

February 11, 2014 – 8:50 pm

Michael Pillsbury, Mathematics, Randolph Middle School

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Tags exponents, Football, Golf, hot hand, integers, nascar, Probability, rational numbers, sports | Permalink | Comments Off

Getting Graphic With Sports: Math, Graphing, Infographics

February 11, 2014 – 8:41 pm

Mindy Passe, Fourth Grade, Barringer Academic Center

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Tags action research, childhood obesity, Data Analysis, infographics, physical fitness, problem-based learning, scientific method | Permalink | Comments Off

Whose Line is it Anyway? Using Line is Sports

February 11, 2014 – 8:36 pm

Susan Jones, First Grade, Steele Creek Elementary School

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Tags angry birds, basketball, line, line segment, Math, parabola, ray, sports, yoga | Permalink | Comments Off

Ladies and Gentlemen- Announcing the Great Tumbling Geometrics Geometry and Gymnastics

February 11, 2014 – 8:28 pm

Cynthia Hicks, Kindergarten, Steele Creek Elementary School

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Tags 2-D Shapes, 3-D Shapes, Geometry, gymnastics, movement | Permalink | Comments Off

World Cup Math

February 11, 2014 – 8:05 pm

Monica Echols, Mathematics, Francis Bradley Middle School

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Tags coordinate plane, domain, exponential decay, exponential functions, exponential growth, function, input, intercepts, interval notation, intervals, negative, ordered pair, output, parallel and perpendicular lines, point-slope form, positive, range, rate of change, Slope, slope-intercept form, solution, standard form, x-intercept, y-intercept | Permalink | Comments Off

Statistical Understanding Through Competitive Decisions and Results or Should We, in the Words of Nike “Just Do It”?

February 11, 2014 – 8:01 pm

Lew Davidson, Mathematics, Mallard Creek High School

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Tags AP Statistics, Brackets, Decision Theory, False Positives, Moneyball, Probability, Sabermetrics, Sports Analytics, Testing Errors, Won-Loss Standings | Permalink | Comments Off

Transforming Sports with Geometry

February 7, 2014 – 8:35 pm

Madalina Corneanu, Mathematics, Harding University High School

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Tags composition of translations, dilatation, reflections, rotations, soccer, transformations, translations | Permalink | Comments Off

The physics of sports: the math and science behind a champion

February 7, 2014 – 8:30 pm

Stephanie Coggins, Science, Bailey Middle School

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Tags acceleration, collision, Energy, forces and motion, Inertia, momentum, newton's laws, Physics, power, speed, velocity, work | Permalink | Comments Off

Movement in Math

February 7, 2014 – 8:27 pm

Cassandra Black, First Grade, Ashley Park Pre-K-8

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Tags brain, common core, disadvantaged, economically, engagement, enrichment activities, first grade, Geometry, kinesthetic, learner, manipulative, Math, measurement and data, movement, newsletters, number and operations in base ten, on grade level activities, operation and algebraic thinking, physical fitness, Poject L.I.F.T., poverty, remedial activities, sports | Permalink | Comments Off

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