Welcome to our area focused on the Standards for Mathematical Practice of the Common Core State Standards. We invite you to participate in conversations targeted at practices to implement in Kindergarten through Grade 5 classrooms.
Notice the top (tabbed) navigation allows you to view pages with conversation starters focused on:
Grades K-1
Grades 2-3
Grades 4-5
Grades K-5 (general)
Also, there is a page to comment on video resources and/or suggest links.
We look forward to reading your thoughts, suggestions, and questions!
I’m an independent K – 12 math consultant based in Vermont, but I work nationally. (I also worked for several terms as instructor of an online course for Drexel: The Cultural and Historical Significance of Mathematics.)
My work at this time, as you can imagine, centers around helping teachers implement the CCSS-M. Do you also have blogs based on 6 – 8 and 9 – 12?
Will I receive an email when there is a new question or post on the blog?
I look forward to participating and learning!
Thanks,
Elaine
Elaine, you ask two very good questions!
We don’t yet have blogs as obviously named as this one for discussions at either the 6-8 or 9-12 levels but we agree that the time is right to launch such blogs and we hope to soon. In the meantime, you might view these blogs:
Suzanne at the Math Forum
http://mathforum.org/blogs/suzanne/
I have several posts focused on developing the practices at the middle school level.
The Max Ray Blog
http://mathforum.org/blogs/max/
Max often works with high school teachers and students and uses those experiences in his blog.
Problems of the Week Blog
http://mathforum.org/blogs/pows/
Here you’ll find a range of ideas, suggestions, discussion opportunities.
To respond to your second question about email alerts to our blogs. We decided not to include a “subscriber” option on our blogs because of the inevitable additional login. The Math Forum site does not yet have a “single user sign-on” which would make everything easier. Funding is the reason and we’re continually optimistic that in the not to distant future we’ll be able to offer that option. In the meantime, we hope that you mark our blogs as a favorite! If you visit one, you can navigate to the others using the links under “More Math Forum Blogs”.
Glad to have found this online community of math professionals. Looking forward to learning together.
Excellent move by mathforum.org to make math professionals share their ideas and concerns.
It is great.
Monika
I work for Multnomah County Library, a library system with 19 branches serving residents of Portland, OR. We are starting to pilot a program to circulate math and science kits for K-5th graders. The pilot aims to have at least 10 topics with multiples of the more popular ones for a total of about 30 kits. The kits would be something like “Fractions: Grades 1-4″ and would include a game, some kind of manipulative(s) (like the decimal/fraction equivalency towers), a book or DVD or combination, and an activity guide. Our target audience is not teachers, though they will of course be welcome to check out the kits, but parents of traditional and homeschooled children.
Obviously we’re working with our local educational professionals for advice, but would welcome any hints on what kinds of manipulative and/or games have been popular, durable, and seem to be effective in the classroom. Also, any preferred brands or vendors for durability and service.
Thanks in advance for any help!
Seana Lane