Energy, Climate, Environment

CONTENTS OF CURRICULUM UNIT 09.07.05

  1. Unit Guide
  1. Introduction and Rationale
  2. Objectives
  3. Strategies
  4. Classroom Activities
  5. Annotated Bibliography
  6. Endnotes

Math and Consequences: Environmental Context in Math Instruction

Jonathan Fantazier

Published September 2009

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Endnotes

1 Tim F. Flannery, The Weather Makers (Melbourne, Australia: Text Publishing Company, 2005), 4.

2 "climate change" (July 10, 2009) http://www.google.com/search?

3 Bernstein, et al, "Climate Change 2007: Synthesis Report" An Assessment of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (report adopted section by section at IPCC Plenary XXVII, Valencia, Spain, November 12-17, 2007).

4 John Wargo, Green Intelligence (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2009), 209.

5 I. I. Mokhov et al., "Estimation of Global and Regional Climate Changes during the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries on the Basis of the IAP RAS Model with Consideration for Anthropogenic Forcing," Izvestiya Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics 38 (2002): 555-568.

6 John M. Broder, "Seeking to Save the Planet, With a Thesaurus" New York Times, May 1, 2009.

7 G. Polya, How to Solve It: A New Aspect of Mathematical Method (New York: Double Day, 1957), 205.

8 Tim F. Flannery, 164.

9 J. Alan Pounds, Michael P. L. Fogden, John H. Campbell, "Biological Response to Climate Change on a Tropical Mountain" Nature 398 (1999) 611-615.

10 A. Giannini, R. Saravanan, and P. Chang, "Oceanic Forcing of Sahel Rainfall on Interannual to Interdecadal Time Scales" Science 302 (2003) 1027-1030.

11 G. Polya, 7-19.

12 Elizabeth Kolbert, "The Darkening Sea: What Carbon Emissions are Doing to the Ocean." The New Yorker, November 20, 2006.

13 Pennsylvania Department of Education, Academic Standards for Mathematics, 2.5 Mathematical Problem Solving and Communication, Standard 2.5.11.A

14 Pennsylvania Department of Education, Academic Standards for Mathematics, 2.8 Algebra and Functions, Standards 2.8.3-11

15 Pennsylvania Department of Education, Academic Standards for Mathematics, 2.9 Geometry, Standards 2.9.3-11

16 Lulu Healy and Celia Hoyles, "A Study of Proof Conceptions in Algebra" Journal for Research in Mathematics Education, Vol. 31, No. 4 (2000) 396- 428

17 The American Lung Association, SOTA (State of the Air Report) 2009

18 Jeffrey Fraser, "The Truth About Pittsburgh's Air: Our Poor Air Quality is a Real Problem That Needs a Regional Solution" Pittsburgh Quarterly, Winter 2009

19 Pittsburgh Public Schools, Algebra 1 Curriculum Road Map 2008-2009

20 Ian Ayres, Super Crunchers (New York: Random House, 2007), 215.

21 LEED 2009 for Schools New Construction and Major Renovations

22 Clive Doucet, Urban Meltdown: Cities, Climate Change and Politics as Usual (British Columbia: New Society Publishers) 2007, 54.

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