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 | Fred N. Hollingshead Oskaloosa Middle School 404 Park Street Oskaloosa,Kansas 66066 (785) 863-3237 1-877-800-1784 fhollingshead@usd341.org | Know what's weird? Day by day, nothing seems to change, but pretty soon... everything's different. - Calvin (from Bill Watterson's Calvin and Hobbes) When I started off doing mathematics, I wasn't very good at it. I never learned my multiplication tables and it was certainly the conclusion of my teachers at that time that there was no way I would ever go on and do anything . . . mathematically oriented. As it turned out, I found out about computers and found out that you could make computers do these kinds of things. - Stephen Wolfram, creator of the famed Mathematica software package. |
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I am beginning my second year of teaching 7th and 8th grade math after graduating with a B.A. in Mathematics and a specialization in secondary education from Washburn University in Topeka, KS. After beginning graduate work at Washburn, I am currently continuing my graduate career at Michigan State University where I can combine my passions of math education and technology. I am most interested in the idea of numeracy and its place within the framework of literacy and the uses of technology within the learning and teaching of mathematics to improve numeracy. In addition, I am also interested in brain-based learning and 21st century skills. | |||||
I am a member of NCTM and the local affiliate NEKATM, MAA, MACE, ISTE, KAECT, and PDK. I have presented at MACE conferences and most recently at ISTE 2006 in San Diego with Dr. David Pownell from Washburn University on using handheld computers in a middle school classroom. During my graduate career, I hope to further pursue my interest in numeracy and explore how various technologies can improve numeracy in K-12 students. | |||||
When I am not teaching or working on numeracy, I am exploring technologies or reading my favorite education journals. When I leave the realm of education completely, I am spending time with my beautiful and supportive wife Shari (who will be completing her own education degree next year), our three children, and my two older boys. I also enjoy my favorite tv show, Numerb3rs (of course), the occassional Tom Clancy or Dan Brown novel, and playing and coaching my favorite sports - softball, football, and basketball. | |||||
Through radio I look forward to a United States of the World. Radio is standardizing the peoples of the Earth. English will become the universal language because it is predominantly the language of the ether. The most important aspect of radio is its sociological influence. - Arthur Edwin Kennelly, 1926. (Amazingly familiar words - similar things have been said about the World Wide Web. Perhaps we should have learned a valuable lesson from Mr. Kennelly.) Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. Our requirements for world leadership, our hopes for economic growth, and the demands of citizenship itself in an era such as this all require the maximum development of every young American's capacity. The human mind is our fundamental resource. - John F. Kennedy, February 20, 1961. (President Kennedy appears to speaking of 21st century skills in the mid-20th century.) Arithmetic is where the answer is right and everything is nice and you can look out of the window and see the blue sky -- or the answer is wrong and you have to start over and try again and see how it comes out this time. - Carl Sundberg, 1950. The digital revolution is far more significant than the invention of writing or even of printing. - Douglas Engelbart, Inventor of the computer mouse. (This might be a bit of an overstatement, but it does reflect the view of some and the place of computer-related technology in history.) Statistical thinking will one day be as necessary for efficient citizenship as the ability to read and write. - H.G. Wells, early 20th century. (Spoken as if he were looking in a crystal ball.) |
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