I think of myself as a middle school mathematics and computer teacher because from 1973 – 1977 and 1987 – 2000 that is what I did! I joined the Math Forum staff full time on June 26, 2000 and my first job title was Educational Resource and Service Developer. As of January 1, 2008, I agreed to be the Director of Professional Development. At the Math Forum each staff person works on a variety of projects — some more than others — but I work in:
* Pre-Algebra Problems of the Week – http://mathforum.org/pows/
* Math Fundamentals Problems of the Week - http://mathforum.org/pows/
* Primary Problems of the Week - http://mathforum.org/pows/
* Professional Development online / onsite offerings – http://mathforum.org/pd/
* EnCoMPASS – http://mathforum.org/encompass/
* Math Tools – http://mathforum.org/mathtools/
* Teacher2Teacher – http://mathforum.org/t2t/
* Teacher Exchange – http://mathforum.org/te/
* Blogs: Elementary Mathematical Practices, Middle School Mathematical Practices, High School Mathematical Practices (also linked from the right sidebar of this page)
* Twitter: @sumaczanne – https://twitter.com/SuMACzanne
And quite a few other things but that will give you a little idea. I’m very interested in helping students and teachers approach problem solving as a process. The goal is not to be over and done. The goal is to think, express, reflect, and revise.
Suzanne,
I’ve run into you several times online, so feel like we’ve met. Years back, I volunteered to be a mentor for Problems of the Week, but had to stop because of time constraints. Then I worked for 2+ years teaching a Drexel online course “Cultural and Historical Significance of Mathematics”, where my Drexel contact was Jason Silverman. Once again, as my real job needed more of my time, I had to withdraw from that commitment.
Now I’m back reading your blog in my role as an independent K-12 Math consultant.
This summer I’m teaching courses on CCSSM for grades 3 – 5, 6 – 8 and HS. I ran across the video of you working with Grade 5 students around the problem about wooden legs. I plan to use that in my 3 – 5 course this summer.
Can I subscribe to your blog and have it send me email updates directly?
Best Regards,
Elaine
Hi Elaine, it’s great to hear from you and I’m looking forward to having you use the Classroom Videos in your course. I would love it if your students posted questions/observations/comments on my blog. The other blog that I would love to get some activity on is our new Elementary Mathematical Practices blog:
http://mathforum.org/blogs/emp/
We launched that blog to complement the new Mathlanding site: http://www.mathlanding.org and as with any public discussions, it usually takes a little time to get momentum going. Any ideas you might have to encourage public discussion, I’d love to hear either here or by emailing me directly.
It’s not possible to receive 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”.
One feature that I have on the browser (Safari) I use is that in the Toolbar there is a link on the right side that reads RSS. When I click it from the Elementary Mathematical Practices blog this is the URL that it goes to:
feed://mathforum.org/blogs/emp/feed/
Similarly, from my blog, this is the URL:
feed://mathforum.org/blogs/suzanne/feed/
There are some useful features when you view the RSS feed in that you can search and sort. So, even though we do not have email alerts, you could check once a week using the RSS link to see what’s new at a glance. I hope that’s helpful to you and others!