Professional development programs based on student work in the online services, integrating research on student learning with classroom practice.

Examples of using Problems of the Week to discuss student learning:

• One Trip Through the POWs by Annie Fetter for the Summer Institute 2000 participants
  
  
• A Day at the Races
      Incorrect Student Responses
      Archive of Problems, Submissions, & Commentary
  
  
• Eminem and Elton
      Incorrect Student Responses
      Archive of Problems, Submissions, & Commentary

Bridging Research and Practice - From 1998 to 2001, a group of teachers and Math Forum staff studied research in education and its effects on their own teaching. Their discussions and experiments resulted in the video paper:

• Encouraging Mathematical Thinking: Discourse around a Rich Problem

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