Meet Laurel Pollard, a computer lab tech from Hanover Street School in Lebanon New Hampshire. See how she’s making videos based on PoW scenarios. What can you learn from her?

You may have seen our many tweets, facebook posts or handouts with our free scenarios and thought; How do I use these, what are they and why do I care? See how we learn to “Forget The Question” to use this as a learning tool.

Tune in and see where we’ve been and where we’re headed. Look for us at conferences or professional development in a city near you.

Dr. Valerie Klein, Professional Collaboration Leader at the Math Forum. Valerie was head of the Numeracy and Financial Education Summer Institute here in Philadelphia. The institute brought together teachers from all across the US and canada to explore using problem solving to integrate financial literacy into the mathematics classroom and to find and use math relevant to financial literacy and how it aligns to the core mathematics curriculum. Today, Valerie is involved with local schools here in the Philadelphia area, leading the professional development team at Universal Companies’ family of schools as well as the School District of Philadelphia’s Samuel Powel School, in West Philadelphia.

Meet Fawn Nguyen from California. See how she uses Problem Solving Activities (PSs) in her classroom. Have you had similar experiences? What can you learn from her story?

This four year project, entitled EnCoMPASS: Emerging Communities for Mathematical Practices and Assessment, uses the Math Forum’s popular Problems of the Week (PoW) to help teachers develop strategies that support students’ mathematical thinking and encourage teachers to move beyond simply identifying wrong answers.