1. Integrating Computing into K-12 Mathematics Susan Rodger, Richard Lucic, Melissa Dalis, Peggy Li, Chitra Gadwal and Wenhui Zhang Duke University www.cs.duke.edu/csed/alice/aliceInSchools ICA CON 2012 Research Triangle Park, NC April 19, 2012 Supported by IBM Faculty Awards, the National Science Foundation Collaborative Grant DRL-1031351, a CRA distributed mentor award.

2. Integrate Alice into high school and middle schools by training teachers – all disciplines Summer workshops for teachers in 2008 -2011, more in 2012 Alice Symposium in 2009, next one in 2013 Developed free web tutorials – CS topics – Animation topics – Projects Adventures in Alice Programming

3. Integrating Alice Virtual Worlds into K-12 Alice is – Hands-on! – Interactive! – Visual! – Less Error prone – Exciting Results right away! Alice has the potential to excite kids about computer science in the same way that experiments excite kids about chemistry, physics and biology!

4. Math Example: Teacher Lesson Plan on quadrant plane Click on lighthouse Enter x,y position Objects randomly move

5. Random Sampling

6. Math Story – Variables/Algebra

7. Game with Scientific Notation Game with guessing new prices based on percentage discounts

8. User generates the data and then the bar graph is created Shows how the population of fish changes over several rounds Example – Collect data and create bar graph

9. Example: Plot points based on bike ride

10. Adventure Game

11. Language Arts Project: Book Report

12. Science Example – How Volcanoes Form

13. Virtual Computing Lab What is it? A Computing Environment Delivery Service (Cloud Computing) Remote Access to High- End Software Anytime, Anywhere, On Demand Computing

14. Motivation for Teachers Shared Compute Resources (Always On) Custom Compute Environments (Can be Saved and Recalled at a Later Date) "Distributed" Education Increased Utilization of Hardware, While Meeting the Needs of Teachers and Students

15. Value for Teachers Update one (the VCL), run many (student machines) Shared Libraries Ubiquitous Access Shared Resources, Help Files, etc. CIPA Compliant (per Durham Public School District Standards)

16. Web site Adventures in Alice Programming www.cs.duke.edu/csed/alice/aliceInSchools