Welcome to the Teacher Tools for math subsection.
Professional development
- Course information for classes - EDU 432 - EDU 614
- Professional readings books
- Principled procedures - Mathematics 2005
- Professional portfolio production and suggestions
- Independent study planning
- Suggestions for Reflecting on mathematical instructional practices
- How does your mathematical wisdom of practice match the latest practice and research? - Answer these questions, then check what the research suggests.
- How flexible is your mathematical understanding?
Mental mathematics quiz and solutions - Conceptual and procedural knowledge - Illustrated with card magic
- What is hands on really?
- History of mathematics in North America
- SAT sample questions
- ESU #1 Algebra Workshop information
- Technology Help Pages - ILife and Windows Media tutorials and help pages for using/ making: photos, audio, and video --->>> directions and tutorials...
- NATM fall conference presentation 2006
- NATM spring conference presentation 2005
- NCTM regional presentation fall 2004
General planning
- Mathematical ideas categorized as noun or verb
- Pedagogy Directory <<< --->>> assessment <<<--->>> Parent letter with information on authentic assessment and student lead conferences >>>
- General Planning to facilitate learning
- General steps in planning to facilitate generalization
- Assessment introduction and review
- Planning sequences scenario
- Sample plans --> counting <--> addition & subtraction
Graphing Software - Free Graphing Software --- read: The Graphing Calculator Story by Ron Avitzur and look for the software links after the story.
Problem creation and examples
- Problems
- Selecting problems --->> > sample problems with different formats , characteristics of a good problem , a guide for selecting a good activity, taks, or problem
- Cuisenaire Rods kinds of problems ---> work sheets
- Spanish translations of some math problems
- Math Their Way notes
- Uses of literature
- Annotated list of literature and classroom uses in NCTM Journals
- List of Trade Books and Math Themes
- List of Trade Books to investigate
Assessment
- Student Information - open ended - about one page
- Student survey - rating sheet (always, mostly, some, not) - about two page
Curriculum
- Notes on exemplary and promising math programs
- Concepts, suggested sequences, plans, rubrics, and other stuff may be found linked by the mathematics topics in row one.
- Standards
- Curriculm Documents
- Manipulative materials list <<<--->>> Parent letter for using manipulatives and representation with multiplication & division
- Quotes
- Rubrics click the desired mathematics topics above and find concepts... assessment... evaluation
- Characteristic of mathematically talented