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In This Issue
Free Mentoring Opportunities
Bring Geometry to Life with Google SketchUp
"The Tiles of Infinity"
Reasoning and Sense Making
Online PD
The Math Forum's Problem Solving Process
PoW Class Membership: ... Effective Implementation
Teaching Math with the Problems of the Week
Differentiated Math Instruction: Using Rich Problems to Reach All Learners
Problem Solving in Geometry
and Measurement, Course 1
Problem Solving in Geometry
and Measurement, Course 2
Moving Students from Arithmetic to Algebra
Resources & Strategies for Effective Math in Context (MiC) Implementation, Courses 1, 2, 3, and 4
Problem Solving Strategies
Free Online
Opportunities
Tools for Building Math Concepts
For PA teachers preparing for the Praxis II:
Moving to Mathematics, a series of online courses
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Free Mentoring Opportunities
http://mathforum.org/pow/free_mentoring.html
Mentor groups will be providing feedback to submitters in
upcoming problems opening on these dates:
- FunPoW and AlgPoW, October 12
- PreAlgPoW, October 19
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!
Trial Class Account
http://mathforum.org/products/store/demoAccount.htm
Free 21 day access to Current Problems of the Week and the
Problems of the Week Library.
Bring Geometry to Life with Google Sketchup
http://mathforum.org/sketchup/
Google SketchUp is a free, fun, easy-to-use 3D modeling application. Originally created for architects and designers, SketchUp is also a great tool for teaching geometry.
3DVinci, hosted by the Math Forum, offers resources to help you do just that:
- Projects of the Month
- videos
- teacher resources and guide
- 2D and 3D project books
- blog
- geometry tips and projects
- SketchUp Training Videos: Google-produced videos on SketchUp, from getting started through advanced topics
- forums and discussion groups
"The Tiles of Infinity"
http://saudiaramcoworld.com/issue/200905/the.tiles.of.infinity.htm
Peter J. Lu's trip to Uzbekistan inspired him to learn about Islamic tile patterns—and their surprisingly modern mathematics. Lu's photographs and diagrams illustrate this article by Sebastian R. Prange, from the September/October 2009 issue of magazine Saudi Aramco World.
Focus in High School Mathematics: Reasoning and Sense Making
http://www.nctm.org/standards/content.aspx?id=23749
NCTM has just released this conceptual framework to guide the
development of future publications and tools related to 9–12
mathematics curriculum and instruction. Focus in High School
Mathematics highlights reasoning opportunities in five
specific content areas of the high school mathematics
curriculum:
- Reasoning with Numbers and Measurements
- Reasoning with Algebraic Symbols
- Reasoning with Functions
- Reasoning with Geometry
- Reasoning with Statistics and Probability
Print and e-books available for purchase. Free resources on
the site include:
- Executive Summary (PDF)
- President's Letter (PDF)
- FAQs (PDF)
- Press Release
- Article (Education Week)
- Teacher's Guide (PDF)
- Administrator's Guide (PDF)
- Policymaker's Guide (PDF)
- Family's Guide (PDF)
- Table of Contents
- Sample pages
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