I recently attended the Regional NCTM conference in Minneapolis where I sat in on a lot of great sessions. One of the sessions I sat in on was titled Using Area Models To Teach Multiplying, Factoring And Polynomial Division.
Continue readingHere’s an interesting piece of mathematics that’s fun and useful for high school teachers to know. It deals with polynomials|adding/multiplying polynomials; the relationship between its roots and factors; and so on.
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Continue readingRecently, I have been working with teachers to challenge conventional wisdom and classroom practices regarding fact fluency.
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The practice of looking for and expressing regularity in repeated reasoning… examples for use in the classroom
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I left NCSM/NCTM week in Boston with a lot of big ideas to ponder for the summer, And as a full-time classroom teacher, I also look for that one new thing to bring back and implement with my students right away. For me that moment was when Dan Meyer said, “You can always add. You can’t subtract.”
The version of these software tools developed in conjunction with an NCTM task force is called is Core Math Tools. It is promoted on the NCTM website along with sample lessons, custom apps, and readily available how-to pages that may make it the most user friendly place to begin.
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I am always looking for new ways to get my students communicating mathematics and working together. If you are looking for a fairly inexpensive tool to get your students engaged, consider whiteboarding.
Submitted by Sherri Kruger
I came across an interesting reading, a report titled Solving America’s Mathematics Education Problem
Once we have guided our students to connect the geometric representation with the algebraic representation of the relationship, we can further deepen their conceptual understanding, broaden their concept image, and promote reasoning and sense making through a series of tasks such as these.
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