Math Forum Professional Development Courses

http://mathforum.org/pd/

Make effective use of your Problems of the Week subscription, or improve your classes' mathematical thinking and communication skills while you earn CEUs. New courses start soon:

September 17:

• PoW Class Membership: Resources & Strategies for Effective Implementation *
• Differentiated Math Instruction: Using Rich Problems to Reach All Learners *
• Problem Solving Strategies

September 24:

• The Math Forum's Problem Solving Process
• Teaching Math with the Problems of the Week *
• Problem Solving in Geometry and Measurement, Course 1
• Resources & Strategies for Effective Math in Context (MiC) Implementation, Course 1 [6th or 7th or 8th grade focus]

September 30:

• Moving Students from Arithmetic to Algebra...one step at a time

* Participation requires a PoW Membership at the Class level or higher.

Free Mentoring Opportunities

http://mathforum.org/pows/

Mentors will provide feedback to Geometry PoW submitters for the problem posted on September 21.

Please have your students submit solutions. If they receive replies from a mentor, we hope you'll encourage them to revise. Not only will your students learn more, but the mentors will learn as well!

How to Use Free Mentoring

http://mathforum.org/pow/free_mentoring.html

Help your students make the most of the mentoring experience.

Trial Class Account

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Free 21 day access to Current Problems of the Week and the Problems of the Week Library.

http://www.mccc.edu/~kelld/page200.html

Interactive quizzes constructed using software provided by Addison Wesley Longman Publishers. Auto-scoring, multiple choice self-tests cover:

• whole numbers
• fractions
• decimals
• proportions
• percents
• introduction to algebra
• problem solving
• inequalities
• exponents
• formulas
• polynomials
• factoring
• solving quadratic equations by factoring
• rationals
• applications of rationals
• measurement
• scientific notation
• geometry

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• NASACast
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