INTRODUCTION: This poster describes my professional development as aFellow in the Puerto Rico Master Math Teacher Program (PRMMTP). AsRobert Noyce Fellows we also participated in the Project Maximizing YieldThrough Integration that aims to foster action research and educationalpractices (PBL) focused on the solid waste problem in Puerto Rico. Throughthis initiative, we have been able to demonstrate our leadership as we haveintegrated parents, teachers, students, and the community in general towork on this project.

OUR EDUCATIONAL LEADERSHIP JOURNEY

FIRST YEAR

• Leadership Academy

• Inductive and deductive reasoning

• NCTM at San Diego

SECOND YEAR

• Inductive and deductive reasoning: classroom transfer

• Mathematical models: linear, quadratic, and exponential

• Classroom visits

• NCTM conference at Indiana

THIRD YEAR

• Mathematical models: linear, quadratic, and exponential

• Mathematical models: linear, quadratic, and exponential – classroom transfer

• Classroom visits

• NCTM conference at Philadelphia

FOURTH YEAR

• Action Research: : The fractions and the real number line

• Design and implementation of activities on Math content for grades 4-6

• NCTM conference at Denver

FIFTH YEAR

• Participant in the Project Maximizing Yield Through Integration (MYTI – I3)

• Professional Portfolio as final assessment

• Manuscript to be publish in a Math Journal

• NCTM conference at New Orleans

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Acknowledgement: This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. DUE-0934820 and DUE- 1038166

Action Research: Project Based Learning (PBL) strategy to enhance students academic achievement about geometric solid volume concepts.

Will the students enhance their academic performance in the

concepts of volume, prism and cylinder as a result of their

participation in a PBL project?

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Quasi experimental design. Pre and post tests were administered to measure

impact of treatment. Data analysis was performed using an analysis of variance. M

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• Student were presented with videos and pictures ofclandestine landfills or big piles of trash, all of them locatedwithin their community.

• Working groups were formed to gather information and sharetheir perspective on this problem. One of the proposedsolutions was to create a “green area” at the school to recycle.

• The students wrote and presented a theater play to theirpeers to encourage and create awareness on the importanceof solid waste management at their school. All wardrobe andset was made with recycled materials.

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As a result of the variance test, significant differences were identified

at the pre and post tests (F= 22.87-, p = 0.000), indicating that the

intervention had an impact on thestudents’ understanding of the

volume, prism and cylinder concepts.

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LTS Control Group

Experimental Group