- 2009 Annual Meeting Webcasts - National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM)
Presentations from this year's annual meeting in Washington, DC, for Windows Media Player: Opening Session - Hank Kepner, Pedro Noguera; Equity: the Most Important and Challenging Issue Facing Our Schools - Julian Weissglass; With an Eye on the Mathematical
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- Alexandre Borovik
Borovik teaches and researches group theory at the University of Manchester (UK), where he is a Professor of Pure Mathematics. See his eight-point teaching manifesto, read about his methodology, and download slides of selected talks, which include "Hidden
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- The Algebra Survival Kit - Josh Rappaport
A kit that includes a 520-page handbook covering the main content areas of Algebra 1 in accordance with the NCTM Standards. Sections are tabbed, and pages are written in flash card format with questions on the front and answers on the back. Also, a poster,
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- AngryMath - Daniel R. Collins
Blog by an adjunct math lecturer at Kingsborough Community College who believes that "Math is a battle. It is a battle that feels like it must be fought ...," and for whom "math isn't beautiful or fun, but it is powerful, and that's what we need from
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- APStatistics Dissertation - Kim Robinson, Clayton College & State University
A qualitative research study focused on students' learning and their performance on the Advanced Placement Exam with respect to concept-oriented instruction as recommended by the AP Statistics Test Development Committee. Organized into chapters, including
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- AP Statistics Listserv FAQ - Kim Robinson, Jared Derksen, Dan Teague
Frequently Asked Questions site for the AP Statistics listserv discussion. Includes information for new AP Stats teachers, course content, exam details, and other resources.
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- Archives of American Mathematics - The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, The University of Texas at Austin
The only archival repository in the United States solely dedicated to collecting, preserving, and providing access to the records of American mathematicians and mathematical organizations for use by historians, mathematicians, educators, and others interested
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- The Art of Asking Thought Provoking Questions in the Mathematics Classroom - Carmen Bellido, Uroyoan Walker, Keith Wayland
A position paper in PDF format: a "How To" guide for developing higher-level conceptual questions that provoke students to think. Several techniques for modifying traditional questions are illustrated with examples ranging from elementary to high school
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A Supplemental Introduction to Algebra - Rick Garlikov
Some things algebra books don't tend to tell students, but which Garlikov thinks are important for them to know so that they can understand what algebra is about and see, in a sense, how it works. Also The Way Algebra Works.
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- Avoiding Weapons of Math Destruction
"Reflections from a student teacher." Blog posts, which date back to September, 2012, have included "First Week Excitement," "The Flipped Classroom," and "The Challenge of Open-Ended Questions."
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- BEAM: Be A Mathematician
A mathematics curriculum development project for nursery, primary, special and lower secondary teachers. It publishes resource materials for teachers' use in the classroom, offers training courses for teachers, and provides consultancy in the area of
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- The Benezet Centre - Richard Hake & Sanjoy Mahajan
In 1929, Louis Benezet tried an experiment, "abandoning all formal instruction in arithmetic below the seventh grade and concentrating on teaching the children to read, to reason, and to recite." The experiment was successful; this site includes Benezet's
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- Blended Animated Teaching and eLearning - Dr. Massoud Hajsadr
Description of the author's pedagogical experiments with e-learning and online animations.
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- BLOSSOMS - Massachusetts Institute of Technology Learning International Networks Consortium (MIT LINC)
Video modules that enliven existing curricula with clips and support materials for in-class teachers to intersperse in active, goal-oriented exercises. Each module includes a teacher's guide, downloadable hand-outs, and a list of additional resources;
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- Bonsonhos HomePage - David Salvado
See and learn about trigonometry with the freeware program Círculo Trigonométrico 2.0. Also a way of calculating Pi. Veja e aprenda o que é a trigonometria com o programa freeware Círculo Trigonométrico 2.0. Aprenda
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- Bret Victor
From the creator of Kill Math, Victor's "umbrella project for techniques that enable people to model and solve meaningful problems of quantity using concrete representations and intuition-guided exploration" in pursuit of a "widely-usable, insight-generating
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- Calculating Cones - Monika Schwarze and Bianca Gonterney
A complete lesson plan including all materials, emphasizing a challenging and motivating method for self-guided and co-operative learning.
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- CalculusABC.com - Chris Watson
A site for calculus teachers to share questions they've written and discuss
issues relating to the field. Sort multiple choice questions according to calculator use and representation type (verbal, numerical, analytical, or graphical). With web forums
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- Center for Inquiry Based Learning - University of Michigan
Promoting "the teaching and development of inquiry-based learning in mathematics." See, in particular, the Center's descriptions of undergraduate math and math education courses.
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- Challenge by Choice - David Suarez and others
A classroom mathematics program that lets students choose their own level of challenge within the structure of the curriculum. His blog offers details of the program, the theoretical and practical basis of differentiated instruction, and the results he's
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- Chris Fenwick's mathematics education (self-organised reading-to-learn) research and teaching page - Chris Fenwick
Research material on mathematics education, from the perspective of a teacher of A-level mathematics students.
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- Collaborative Learning - Mathematics Education at The Math Forum
A collection of links to collaborative and cooperative learning resources on the Web, including articles, discussions, and teaching techniques that emphasize collaboration.
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- The Concept and Teaching of Place-Value - Rick Garlikov
A theoretical explanation about (the problem of) teaching Place-Value to children, with a practical method given based on that explanation.
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- Confessions of an Engineering Washout - Douglas Kern
Article about the author's experiences with undergraduate education for engineering.
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- Continuous Everywhere but Differentiable Nowhere - Sameer Shah
Blog by a high school math teacher in Brooklyn (NY), beginning shortly before teacher training and orientation, upon realizing that the textbook "completely limits me as a teacher and as a creative person" and who subsequently sets out to "design clear,
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- Curriculum Development via Literary and Musical Forms - Joel K. Haack, Dept. of Mathematics, Univ. of Northern Iowa; the Math Forum
An article presented at the Humanistic Math session of the Joint Mathematics Meetings, January 10-13, 1996, in Orlando, Florida. Haack's article discusses how the literary and musical forms can help develop a path through mathematical knowledge, envisioning
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- Department of Science & Mathematics Education: Research and Development - Univ. of Melbourne, Australia
Read faculty research and learn about their projects and interests: children's understanding of statistical and probabilistic concepts; the negotiation of meaning in mathematics & science classrooms (The Classroom Project); the expression of algorithms
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- A Difference - Darren Kuropatwa
This Winnipeg pre-calculus teacher's blog serves to "... record and reflect on my personal evolution of how to integrate ... technologies into my teaching." Blog posts dating back March, 2005, include "Wikis As Assessment For Learning Tools" and "Great
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- Disabilities and Math Anxiety - Math Forum, Teacher2Teacher FAQ
Answers to a frequently asked question: How can I help my child who has a physical or learning disability?
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- Doing Mathematics - Bryan Meyer
Blog by an eleventh grade math teacher at a project-based learning (PBL) school pursuing a Masters Degree in Teacher Leadership. Posts, which date back to February, 2012, have included "What Bowflex Can Teach Us about Assessment," "Habits of a Mathematician,"
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- Drawing on Math - Tina Cardone
Blog by a public high school math teacher in Massachusetts who has participated in Boston University's PROMYS and the Institute of Advanced Studies' PCMI. Posts, which date back to August, 2011, have included "End of Year Reflections: Geometry Favorite
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- Educational Aspirations
"Ramblings from a 21st century educator" who specializes in differentiating math and seeks to make the subject "more engaging and relevant to students' lives." Blog posts, which date back to July, 2011, have included "Measuring Student Growth," "Twitter
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- Edward Burger
Journal publications, Thinkwell textbooks, and other professional activities of the Francis Christopher Oakley Third Century Professor of Mathematics, formerly Baylor University's Robert Foster Cherry Professor for Great Teaching. Burger, who co-authored
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- Elementary Thoughts: A Collection of Gail's Responses - Gail Englert
A collection of Gail Englert's responses to questions from elementary and middle school teachers, parents, and students, in the Teacher2Teacher service. Covers a wide range of elementary mathematics topics, as well as teaching points.
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- Encouraging Mathematical Thinking, Discourse around a Rich Problem - Math Forum: Bridging Research and Practice Group (BRAP)
This videopaper by the Math Forum's Bridging Research and Practice Group (BRAP) of teacher practitioners and Math Forum Staff opens a conversation around the use of discourse as a basis for encouraging students' mathematical thinking and supporting teachers'
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- Explaining Mathematics - Joel Feinstein
Ideas and praxis by a lecturer at the University of Nottingham (UK). Feinstein's blog posts, which date to December, 2008, have included "How and why we do proofs" and "Problems using LaTeX seminar class with pdflatex" and "Feedback on the use of IT in
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- The Exponential Curve - Dan Greene
A blog by a math teacher at Downtown College Prep charter high school (San Jose, California), where the students "... are primarily Latino, are far below grade level in their math and reading skills, and will be the first in their families to go to college.
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- FamilyEducation Network
Articles, discussion groups, professional advice, suggestions, and other resources for children of preschool and younger, elementary school, middle school, and high school and beyond. Resources topics include activities, health and safety, homework help,
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- Finding Common Ground in K-12 Mathematics Education - Mathematical Association of America
"Starting point" documents, designed to advance the discourse about how to improve K-12 mathematics teaching and learning, that emerged from MAA-convened pilot meetings between mathematicians and mathematics educators thought to be strongly aligned with
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- Finding Ways to Nguyen Students Over - Fawn Nguyen
Nguyen blogs mostly about her teaching middle school math. Posts, which date back to November, 2011, have included "Teaching 101 -- How I Got Like This," "Puzzles and Brainteasers, Set 11," "Pi Day Activities," "Always Sometimes Never," "Using Excel for
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- First Day of School - Math Forum, Teacher2Teacher FAQ
Answers to a frequently asked question: What do you do on the first day of school?
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- First Year Suggestions - Math Forum, Teacher2Teacher FAQ
Answers to a frequently asked question: Can you give me some helpful suggestions for getting through my first year of teaching?
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- The Four Learning Styles in the DVC Survey - Suzanne Miller, Diablo Valley College
Descriptions of and strategies for four learning styles: visual/verbal, visual/nonverbal, tactile/kinesthetic, and auditory/verbal style. With tips for studying mathematics and a link to the Learning Styles Survey online.
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- freemathtexts.org - Alain Schremmer
Original texts that emphasize a very few but very powerful ideas; appeal to common sense and make no assumption of any kind about the students; and focus on helping readers convince themselves about mathematics. Written for use in developmental mathematics
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- gealgerobophysiculus - Evan Weinberg
Thoughts on teaching, learning, and "the crazy process of having fun doing both with students." Posts, which date back to September, 2011, have included "How China Keeps Me Learning: Part I," "Lens Ray Tracing in Geogebra," "Take Time to Tech – Perspectives
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- Gowers's Weblog - Timothy Gowers
Blog by a Cambridge University professor interested in analysis, combinatorics, arithmetic combinatorics, and "general questions about mathematics, and how it is discovered and transmitted -- hence this blog." Posts, which date back to September, 2007
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- Guaranteach - Alasdair Trotter and George Tattersfield
Thousands of very short video lessons, recorded by dozens of different professional teachers whose methods and styles of teaching math vary widely. The diverse perspectives and "bite-size" chunks in Guaranteach's video library let viewers stay focused
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- Horizon Research, Inc.
A private research firm located in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, that specializes in work related to science and mathematics education. Recent project include Looking Inside the Classroom, A Study of K-12 Mathematics and Science Education in the United
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- Illuminations - National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM)
Interactive resources for students and teachers based on NCTM's Principles and Standards for School Mathematics. The site is divided by grade band (Pre-K-2, 3-5, 6-8, 9-12, and a cross-band section). Each band contains the following topics: i-Math Investigations--interactive
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- Improving Measurement and Geometry in Elementary Schools (IMAGES) - Research for Better Schools (RBS)
Information and resources designed to help teachers develop a deeper understanding of geometry and measurement concepts and to assist in designing meaningful instruction for elementary students. Topics addressed include: cognitive and developmental issues;
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