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Shopping online with Amazon.com or Target this holiday season? Start at mathforum.org, and with one small initial step, you can help sustain the Math Forum.

Just bookmark or select our page as a "favorite" in your browser. The next time you start to shop online, first click through the "amazon.com" or "Target" icons on our page. If you then purchase anything at either site, a little revenue will come our way, at no extra cost to you.

For as little as $5, Amazon.com sells our Ask Dr. Math books, which present algebra and geometry as a series of questions and answers drawn from our ask-an-expert service:

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Enter the coupon code at the top of Make It Real Learning's page to save 31% on our partner's workbooks, which normally start at $5:

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The MIRL Activity Library contains engaging activities that demonstrate everyday applications of mathematics. From baking chocolate chip cookies to choosing a cell phone plan, the activities provide learners with valuable life skills in addition to mathematical understanding. Each workbook contains 10 activities and worked out solutions.

States by the Numbers are MIRL's real-data math adventures across the United States. Learn about your favorite state by delving into place values, rounding, estimation, fractions, and percentages. Each workbook includes basic instructions and 80 practice problems. Additionally, the "What's the big idea?" pages give learners the opportunity to reflect on the things they've learned.

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Four Math Forum professional development courses begin next month:

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

http://mathforum.org/articles/communicator2010.html

Middle school teacher Marie Hogan observed as the Forum's Director of Professional Development modeled a full cycle of the PoWs in Hogan's West Covina (CA) classroom. The article that Hogan and Suzanne Alejandre co-authored about their experience appears in this month's issue of the CMC ComMuniCator, the journal of the California Mathematics Council.

Their article joins several others about implementing problem solving and writing: