This Week in Math Ed: October 28, 2016

Math Ed Said

October 21: Dan Meyer explained how a new Desmos activity embodied their design principles in a post titled "Marcellus the Giant."

Shared by: Kirsten Silverman, Andrew Stadel, John Golden, Cathy Yenca, Sara VanDerWerf, Jennifer Blinzler, Jen Silverman, Dan Meyer, Nancy Terry

October 22: A number of people shared a link to a PDF titled "60 iPad and iPhone Apps for the Math Classroom." It's not listed, but I'll plug PhET Interactive Simulations, a CU-Boulder project with some math simulations that recently became available for iOS.

Shared by: David Petro, Jessica Faurote, Matthew Oldridge, Tyler Anderson, Kyle Pearce, Dan Allen

October 23: Sunil Singh's post "Stop Selling Math For Its Usefulness" reminds me of why I think it's so critical for math educators to take a course or otherwise study the perspectives of mathematics and math education. How we define mathematics for our students, and the approach we take in helping them learn mathematics, directly shapes their perspective of math and its utility. And just as this post advocates one of several perspectives, students need multiple perspectives, too.

Shared by: Craig Barton, T R, Jocelyn Dagenais, Federico Chialvo, Cathy Campbell, Matthew Oldridge, Learning Maths, Chris Hunter, Jo Morgan, Edmund Harriss, Brandi Moore, Meleia Bridenstine, Sunil Singh

October 24: Jamie Duncan wrote a post for the Teaching Children Mathematics blog called "Primary Thieves, Part 1." The first paragraph has a great hook:
As a first-grade teacher, I lived in Literacy Land for the first thirteen years of my career. Nearly all primary-grade teachers live there. It’s a great place to be; learning to read, write, and comprehend is critical. Sure, we took day trips to Math Land, but it was less comfortable for us as teachers. We weren’t really sure where Math Land would take us next. We had heard that the older grades were throwing math parties,* but we weren’t invited. So, we just kept to ourselves, doing what we thought was best: using manipulatives and modeling for students in whatever way we (or the publisher’s curriculum) thought they should solve problems.
Shared by: Jennifer Bell, Chris Kalmbach, Steve Wyborney, Adrianne Burns, Brian Bushart, Mark Chubb, Jamie Duncan, Matt Larson, Zak Champagne

Matt Larson at the 2016 NCTM Annual Meeting
October 25: NCTM President Matt Larson announced a significant new initiative aimed at high school. With a working title of Pathways through High School Mathematics: Building Focus and Coherence, NCTM plans to look carefully at the purpose of high school math, define curricular pathways that lead to college pathways and career readiness, and describe exemplar courses.

Shared by: ElementaryMathTeach, Dylan Kane, Brett Parker, Arpi Lajinian, Matt Larson, Raymond Johnson, Farshid Safi, NCTM, Robert Kaplinsky

October 26: It's been a while since Ben Orlin entertained this blog with one of his comics, but here he is again with "The Student-to-Teacher Dictionary," in which Ben promotes an optimistic perspective on things students say that often come across as negative.

Shared by: Denise Gaskins, Shauna Hedgepeth, Joshua Bowman, David Butler, Rebecca Gasper, TJ Hitchman, Brian Bushart, Bowen Kerins, John Golden, Ben Orlin

October 27: Joe Schwartz gave us a "Frowny Face," a short post about an oddly (poorly?) specific estimation worksheet that caused a student frustration and how he resolved it.

Shared by: Brian Bushart, Jim Doherty, Shauna Hedgepeth, Simon Gregg, Joe Schwartz

Around the Math Ed Web

The last day to vote for NCTM Board of Directors is Monday, October 31! If you're a member you should have a link to your ballot in your email.

Don't miss Matt Larson's high school announcement people were sharing on the 25th, mentioned above! I think this is a big deal and I'm most interested in seeing where it goes.

Following the #NCTMregionals tweets from this past week will give you the latest from Phoenix, where math educators gathered for NCTM's Regional Conference. Next week NCTM will host a regional in Philadelphia before catching its breath and hosting Innov8 later in November. If you want to catch up on the Ignite sessions from Phoenix, Suzanne Alejandre has the Storify right here.

NCTM has an impressive number of grants available courtesy of the Mathematics Education Trust. If you've ever needed money for attending a conference, purusing some PD, or doing classroom research, there's probably a grant that fits your needs. Applications for this round of funding are due November 4th.

The Global Math Department welcomed Gail Burrill last week for a talk about calculus, and next up is "Children Living in Poverty Can Solve CCSS OA Word Problems" by Karen Fuson.

Tuesday, November 1st is the deadline to nominate someone for NCSM's Taylor/Gilbert National Leadership Award.

Research Notes

I see three new articles in AERA Open:
That's all the research from my regular sources. I realized recently that I probably should keep an eye on Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, so here are the math ed-related articles published there so far in 2016:

Math Ed in the News

Math Ed in Colorado

There isn't much new but there's a lot in progress! Here are a few key items in case you missed them:

Colorado Academic Standards Survey

Please reply to the survey by November 13!

CDE invites educators, educational leaders, parents, students and the general public to share their perceptions of the Colorado Academic Standards through an online survey available through Nov. 13. To participate, click here.

The results of the survey will inform the department’s planning for the upcoming review and revision of the standards, required by Senate Bill 08-212, known as Colorado’s Achievement Plan for Kids (CAP4K). The law requires a review and revision of the CAS on or before July 1, 2018 and every six years thereafter.

In addition to the survey on general perceptions of the standards, CDE will launch an online feedback system in November which will enable all educators and others to provide specific feedback on every expectation within the 10 content areas included in the Colorado Academic Standards.

In early 2017, CDE will provide comprehensive information about the timeline and phases of the standards review and revision process as well as information about how to become involved.

The survey and online standards feedback system can be found at http://www.cde.state.co.us/standardsandinstruction/casreview. General questions and comments about the review and revision process can be sent to standardsreview2018@cde.state.co.us.

Computer Science Standards Meetings

During the 2016 legislative session, the Colorado General Assembly passed House Bill 16-1198 requiring CDE to develop academic standards for computer science for secondary students. The new law allows districts to elect to adopt these standards for their high school students. These voluntary, secondary computer science standards must be adopted by the State Board of Education by July 2018, and CDE is hosting three stakeholder meetings in October and November to engage a broad array of stakeholders to inform the development process:
  • Monday, October 31 in Pueblo
  • Monday, November 14 in Denver
  • Thursday, November 17 in Grand Junction
There will also be a webinar on Monday, November 28 from 3:30 to 5:00. For more information and to register to attend any of these meetings, see the announcement on the CDE Standards and Instructional Support webpage.

COmath Calendar

During a CCTM board meeting a number of us were discussing ways to help bring Colorado math educators together. One idea was to have a centralized calendar, not just for CCTM events, but for all events of interest to math educators in Colorado. You can access it here:
If you have an event you'd like to add to the calendar, email calendar@cctmath.org to submit your request.

A Stitch in TWiME Saves Nine

A few people have asked how I assemble each week's "This Week in Math Ed" (TWiME) post, so here's my explainer. It's a good time for me to do this, as this weekend I finally found a way to automate some things.

The Data

For the "Math Ed Said" section of TWiME, I list each day's most-shared post from my list of 1600+ math educators on Twitter. I've been curating this list for years, and by keeping it open in Tweetdeck right next to my timeline it's allowed me to keep my following list smaller and more subject-diverse, while still seeing a big chunk of what math teachers might be talking about in the list. Right now 228 people subscribe to this list, and I do try to keep it curated by only adding people if I see they frequently tweet about math ed. I occasionally have to remove someone if I notice their interests have gone elsewhere.

For the "Research Notes" section of TWiME, I simply have a bookmarks folder with 30+ journals in it. Each week, Chrome questions my sanity with this:

Opening many tabs in Chrome
Opening many tabs in Chrome


From there, I look through every latest journal issue. Most of the time I can recognize if it hasn't been updated since the previous week. If it's new, I open every article page in preparation for inclusion in TWiME.

For the "Math Ed in the News" section, I added a "math education" topic to Google News and personalized Google News to show me an above-average number of math ed stories.

For anything else, it's something I've come across on my own or had emailed to me, as is the case with much of my Colorado news.

My Tools

TWiME, in its current form, is largely possible due to Nuzzel. Nuzzel does the hard work of watching my Twitter list and tracking what gets shared. Nuzzel does have a newsletter feature, but I've never found those kinds of things very popular or attractive.

Nuzzel
Nuzzel


For most of my writing destined for the web, I use Draft. If you've ever thought, "I wish I had something like Google Docs, but simpler, that let me write in Markdown, and could freeze revisions of my writing in time to compare with later," then you're looking for Draft. I can convert Markdown to HTML with Draft, or with any number of other tools.

Draft
Draft


Making links in Markdown is easier than in HTML:

[This is my Twitter profile](https://twitter.com/MathEdnet)

Typing these out was pretty tedious, so the "Copy as Markdown" Chrome extension has been a great timesaver.

Links in TWiME, One at a Time

I try to set aside most of my Fridays for assembling each TWiME, with most of that time spent reading. Still, with around 100 links in each TWiME post, I end up doing this over and over and over:

Copying links from Nuzzel
Copying links from Nuzzel


There's no keyboard shortcut in Copy as Markdown for this, but I can quickly paste in Draft with CTRL+v to produce a Markdown-formatted link:

[John Golden](http://twitter.com/mathhombre)

I've done it this way almost since the beginning. It's tedious. After months of meaning to find a better way, I finally spent the time that will save me time.

Links in TWiME, Saving Time

Instead of getting TWiME out on Friday, I started exploring how I might automate the "shared by" links in the "Math Ed Said" section. First, I checked out the Nuzzel source and found this:

Nuzzel HTML source
Nuzzel HTML source


There's a ton of whitespace in the Nuzzel HTML, but that's no big deal. The big deal is the "externalUserLink" class, which I could search for to isolate the links to Twitter profiles. I started by saving the source into a text file and using simple cat and grep Linux commands:

johnson@flatiron:~/Documents/MathEdnet$ cat nuzzel-source.txt | grep "externalUserLink"
<a class="externalUserLink" target="_blank" href="http://twitter.com/klsilverman">Kirsten Silverman</a>
<a class="externalUserLink" target="_blank" href="http://twitter.com/mr_stadel">Andrew Stadel</a>
<a class="externalUserLink" target="_blank" href="http://twitter.com/mathhombre">John Golden</a>
<a class="externalUserLink" target="_blank" href="http://twitter.com/mathycathy">Cathy Yenca </a>
<a class="externalUserLink" target="_blank" href="http://twitter.com/saravdwerf">Sara VanDerWerf</a>
<a class="externalUserLink" target="_blank" href="http://twitter.com/jenblinzler">Jennifer Blinzler</a>
<a class="externalUserLink" target="_blank" href="http://twitter.com/jensilvermath">Jen Silverman</a>
<a class="externalUserLink" target="_blank" href="http://twitter.com/jensilvermath">Jen Silverman</a>
<a class="externalUserLink" target="_blank" href="http://twitter.com/ddmeyer">Dan Meyer</a>
<a class="externalUserLink" target="_blank" href="http://twitter.com/NancyTerryMath">Nancy Terry</a>
<a class="externalUserLink" target="_blank" href="http://twitter.com/mathhombre">John Golden</a>
<a class="externalUserLink" target="_blank" href="http://twitter.com/BridgetDunbar">Bridget Dunbar</a>
<a class="externalUserLink" target="_blank" href="http://twitter.com/AllisonPeet">Allison Peet</a>
<a class="externalUserLink" target="_blank" href="http://twitter.com/bstockus">Brian Bushart</a>
<a class="externalUserLink" target="_blank" href="http://twitter.com/BeckyAfghani">Rebecca Afghani</a>
<a class="externalUserLink" target="_blank" href="http://twitter.com/laura_wagenman">Laura Wagenman</a>
<a class="externalUserLink" target="_blank" href="http://twitter.com/WIMathCouncil">WMC - WI MathCouncil</a>
<a class="externalUserLink" target="_blank" href="http://twitter.com/TCM_at_NCTM">TCM - NCTM</a>
<a class="externalUserLink" target="_blank" href="http://twitter.com/KristinFrang">Kristin Frang</a>
<a class="externalUserLink" target="_blank" href="http://twitter.com/MathCoachCorner">Donna Boucher</a>
<a class="externalUserLink" target="_blank" href="http://twitter.com/jody_guarino">Jody Guarino</a>
<a class="externalUserLink" target="_blank" href="http://twitter.com/MathMinds">Kristin Gray</a>
<a class="externalUserLink" target="_blank" href="http://twitter.com/NancyTerryMath">Nancy Terry</a>
<a class="externalUserLink" target="_blank" href="http://twitter.com/MatthewMaddux">Egan J Chernoff</a>
<a class="externalUserLink" target="_blank" href="http://twitter.com/quantgal67">Laurie Hailer</a>
<a class="externalUserLink" target="_blank" href="http://twitter.com/ilana_horn">Ilana Horn</a>
<a class="externalUserLink" target="_blank" href="http://twitter.com/maanow">MAA</a>
<a class="externalUserLink" target="_blank" href="http://twitter.com/CmonMattTHINK">Matt Enlow</a>
<a class="externalUserLink" target="_blank" href="http://twitter.com/bkdidact">Andrew Gael</a>
<a class="externalUserLink" target="_blank" href="http://twitter.com/pmacoun">Phil Macoun</a>
<a class="externalUserLink" target="_blank" href="http://twitter.com/NancyTerryMath">Nancy Terry</a>
<a class="externalUserLink" target="_blank" href="http://twitter.com/Vanes63">Vanessa Garcia</a>
<a class="externalUserLink" target="_blank" href="http://twitter.com/bstockus">Brian Bushart</a>
<a class="externalUserLink" target="_blank" href="http://twitter.com/ryan_psmith">Ryan Smith</a>
<a class="externalUserLink" target="_blank" href="http://twitter.com/geogebra">GeoGebra</a>
<a class="externalUserLink" target="_blank" href="http://twitter.com/ProfNoodlearms">TJ Hitchman</a>
<a class="externalUserLink" target="_blank" href="http://twitter.com/j_lanier">Justin Lanier</a

Bingo! That gave me all the "shared by" links on the entire page, and I could manually pick out the ones that matched the most-shared story. Unfortunately, the links aren't in Markdown, and I don't need the class and target parameters in my links. I've done a lot of scripting in Bash and could probably figure out how to do the reformatting, but something told me this was an opportunity to push myself to get more Python experience.

Switching to Python meant I needed equivalent tools for things like grep and cut, which I found explained on Stack Overflow. I've read files line-by-line in Python before, so I could reuse those lines of code from previous projects. Then a thought struck me: Instead of saving the Nuzzel HTML source as a file, how difficult would it be for the script to grab the source itself?

Answer: Really easy. Like "add a library and two lines of code" easy. It's handled by the urllib2 Python module. Before long, I had a script that asked me for a date, fetched the page, then parsed line-by-line looking for storyTitle and externalUserLink with some if statements:

#!/usr/bin/python
import os, sys, string, urllib2

base = "http://nuzzel.com/MathEdnet/mathed?sort=friends&when="
date = raw_input('Enter date, Nuzzel-style: ')
url = base+date

f = urllib2.urlopen(url)

for line in f:
    if "storyTitle" in line:
        url = line.split('"')[7]
        title = line.split('>')[2]
        title = title.split('<')[0]
        print "\n"
        print "**Date**: "+"["+title+"]"+"("+url+")"+"\n\n"+"*Shared by:",
    if "externalUserLink" in line:
        url = line.split('"')[3]
        name = line.split('>')[1]
        name = name.split('<')[0]
        print "["+name+"]"+"("+url+"),",

In 21 lines, I ask for the date, construct the URL, get the source, then find/isolate/format both the story title and the shared-by links. The split command cuts the line into pieces, with me telling it which piece I want. (I'm so glad Nuzzel is consistent with its formatting!) When the script is run, I get this output:

johnson@flatiron:~/Documents/MathEdnet$ bin/sharers.py 
Enter date, Nuzzel-style: 10212016

**Date**: [Marcellus the Giant](http://blog.mrmeyer.com/2016/marcellus-the-giant/)

*Shared by: [Kirsten Silverman](http://twitter.com/klsilverman), [Andrew Stadel](http://twitter.com/mr_stadel), [John Golden](http://twitter.com/mathhombre), [Cathy Yenca ](http://twitter.com/mathycathy), [Sara VanDerWerf](http://twitter.com/saravdwerf), [Jennifer Blinzler](http://twitter.com/jenblinzler), [Jen Silverman](http://twitter.com/jensilvermath), [Jen Silverman](http://twitter.com/jensilvermath), [Dan Meyer](http://twitter.com/ddmeyer), [Nancy Terry](http://twitter.com/NancyTerryMath), 

**Date**: [Math with Bad Drawings](http://bstockus.wordpress.com/2016/10/20/math-with-bad-drawings/)

*Shared by: [John Golden](http://twitter.com/mathhombre), [Bridget Dunbar](http://twitter.com/BridgetDunbar), [Allison Peet](http://twitter.com/AllisonPeet), [Brian Bushart](http://twitter.com/bstockus), [Rebecca Afghani](http://twitter.com/BeckyAfghani), [Laura Wagenman](http://twitter.com/laura_wagenman), 

**Date**: [Addictive Game for Practicing Combinations for Ten](http://www.mathcoachscorner.com/2014/10/addictive-game-for-practicing-combinations-for-ten/)

*Shared by: [WMC - WI MathCouncil](http://twitter.com/WIMathCouncil), [TCM - NCTM](http://twitter.com/TCM_at_NCTM), [Kristin Frang](http://twitter.com/KristinFrang), [Donna Boucher](http://twitter.com/MathCoachCorner), 

**Date**: [Story Not Available At This Time](http://www.teachingchannel.org/blog/2016/10/21/illustrative-mathematics-collaborate/)

*Shared by: [Jody Guarino](http://twitter.com/jody_guarino), [Kristin Gray](http://twitter.com/MathMinds), [Nancy Terry](http://twitter.com/NancyTerryMath), 

**Date**: [Turns Out, Counting on Your Fingers Makes You Smarter](http://www.wsj.com/articles/turns-out-counting-on-your-fingers-makes-you-smarter-1477065563)

*Shared by: [Egan J Chernoff](http://twitter.com/MatthewMaddux), [Laurie Hailer](http://twitter.com/quantgal67), [Ilana Horn](http://twitter.com/ilana_horn), 

**Date**: [Do You Love or Hate Math and Science?](http://www.quantamagazine.org/20161020-science-math-education-survey)

*Shared by: [MAA](http://twitter.com/maanow), [Matt Enlow](http://twitter.com/CmonMattTHINK), [Andrew Gael](http://twitter.com/bkdidact), 

**Date**: [Top 10 Tools for Creating Digital Quizzes](http://www.educatorstechnology.com/2016/10/top-10-tools-for-creating-digital.html)

*Shared by: [Phil Macoun](http://twitter.com/pmacoun), [Nancy Terry](http://twitter.com/NancyTerryMath), 

**Date**: [#ShadowCon16](http://bstockus.wordpress.com/shadowcon16/)

*Shared by: [Vanessa Garcia](http://twitter.com/Vanes63), [Brian Bushart](http://twitter.com/bstockus), 

**Date**: [Cat Maze](http://www.geogebra.org/m/Z3bry2pG)

*Shared by: [Ryan Smith](http://twitter.com/ryan_psmith), [GeoGebra](http://twitter.com/geogebra), 

**Date**: [Master of Liberal Arts - MALA - Graduate Program](http://www.sjc.edu/academic-programs/graduate/masters-liberal-arts)

*Shared by: [TJ Hitchman](http://twitter.com/ProfNoodlearms), [Justin Lanier](http://twitter.com/j_lanier),

The output isn't perfect, but it's close. What a huge timesaver! This gives me all the stories and Twitter links I want from the Nuzzel page, and I can manually copy the ones for top story into Draft. I'd need to make the dates right and trim the unnecessary comma at the end of the "Shared by" list while replacing it with an asterisk to make that text italicized. I had been listing the "shared by" from oldest to newest (bottom-up) in TWiME, which the script doesn't do since it's top-down, but I'm really not too concerned about the order.

Then again, I was having fun with my newfound script-fu at this point, and pressed on to find a way to (a) format the dates in the script and (b) grab all seven days at once. That led to this code:

#!/usr/bin/python
import os, sys, string, urllib2
from datetime import datetime, date, time

base = "http://nuzzel.com/MathEdnet/mathed?sort=friends&when="
d = raw_input('Enter date, Nuzzel-style, or enter \"week\": ')

if d != "week":

    url = base+d

    d = datetime.strptime(str(d), "%m%d%Y")
    d = d.strftime("%B %d")

    f = urllib2.urlopen(url)

    for line in f:
        if "storyTitle" in line:
            url = line.split('"')[7]
            title = line.split('>')[2]
            title = title.split('<')[0]
            print "\n"
            print "**"+d+"**: "+"["+title+"]"+"("+url+")"+"\n\n"+"*Shared by:",
        if "externalUserLink" in line:
            url = line.split('"')[3]
            name = line.split('>')[1]
            name = name.split('<')[0]
            print "["+name+"]"+"("+url+"),",

if d == "week":

    dt = raw_input('Enter first day of your week, Nuzzel-style: ')
    dt = datetime.strptime(str(dt), "%m%d%Y")

    d1 = dt
    d2 = dt.replace(day=dt.day+1)
    d3 = dt.replace(day=dt.day+2)
    d4 = dt.replace(day=dt.day+3)
    d5 = dt.replace(day=dt.day+4)
    d6 = dt.replace(day=dt.day+5)
    d7 = dt.replace(day=dt.day+6)

    d1=d1.strftime("%m%d%Y")
    d2=d2.strftime("%m%d%Y")
    d3=d3.strftime("%m%d%Y")
    d4=d4.strftime("%m%d%Y")
    d5=d5.strftime("%m%d%Y")
    d6=d6.strftime("%m%d%Y")
    d7=d7.strftime("%m%d%Y")

    sevendays = [d1, d2, d3, d4, d5, d6, d7]
    print sevendays

    for i in sevendays:

        url = base+i

        d = datetime.strptime(str(i), "%m%d%Y")
        d = d.strftime("%B %d")

        f = urllib2.urlopen(url)

        for line in f:
            if "storyTitle" in line:
                url = line.split('"')[7]
                title = line.split('>')[2]
                title = title.split('<')[0]
                print "\n"
                print "**"+d+"**: "+"["+title+"]"+"("+url+")"+"\n\n"+"*Shared by:",
            if "externalUserLink" in line:
                url = line.split('"')[3]
                name = line.split('>')[1]
                name = name.split('<')[0]
                print "["+name+"]"+"("+url+"),",

You'll see two big if blocks: the top one for dealing with just a single day, and the bottom one for dealing with the whole week. This script still grabs every story from each day, not just the top one, but I like to be able to see other popular stories so that's not a big deal to me. I'm a bit of a clutz with the date formatting. The documentation is pretty helpful, and I think a general lack of experience with Python modules and syntax trips me up or causes me to write more lines of code than I probably need. That's fine with a short script that I'm going to run once a week. It's already going to save me an hour or two, so I'm not worried about losing milliseconds of CPU time.

It feels pretty good to have produced some code that will make my life a little easier. Right now Colorado is in the beginning phases of creating a voluntary set of secondary computer science standards, and it's little projects like this that remind me that even a little bit of scripting knowledge can be powerful. It's something I think every student should have the opportunity to learn and pursue further if they so choose.

This Week in Math Ed: October 21, 2016

Math Ed Said

October 14: A story in BBC News called "Maths becomes biology's magic number" says the future of biology research will involve a lot of mathematical modeling, and well-trained researchers who know how to avoid pitfalls of working with big data.

Shared by: Kat Hendry, Mathematics cian, Steven Strogatz, John Gunn, Jim Noble, Eddi Vulić, Keith Jones, Steve Humble, Malyn Mawby

October 15: AMTE, the Association of Mathematics Teacher Educators, has shared draft standards for mathematics teacher preparation and asks you to read them and provide feedback by Tuesday, November 15.

Shared by: Carrie Muir, Sharon Vestal, David Hallowell, Jennifer Lawler, Douglas H. Clements, Travis Olson, Ed Dickey

October 16: People were sharing new youcubed videos that answer the question "What is number sense?" These Jo Boaler productions demonstrate flexibility in calculations and come in both English and Spanish.

Note: If liked the youcubed number sense videos, you might really like Cathy Fosnot's "What is numeracy?" video:


Cathy Fosnot - What is numeracy? from LearnTeachLead (1) on Vimeo.

Shared by: Alyssa Kodroff, Aimee Shackleton, Math Coach Rivera, David Keller, Mark Chubb, Matthew Oldridge, Terry Kaminski, Jo Boaler, Karyn Vogel

October 17: Wendy Menard was featured in the MfA Teacher Voices blog with "Enrich and Enhance Your Professionalism through Blogging." Like so many of us, she's experienced both individual and community benefits through blogging and sharing with others about math education.

Shared by: Patrick Honner, Cary Behrendt, John Golden, James Cleveland, Kit G, Math for America

October 18: Tuesday was Global Math Department day, but the presentation people were sharing was last August's "Exploding Dots: Uniting Elements of the K-12 Curriculum and Beyond" by James Tanton.

Shared by: TCM - NCTM, Kit, James Tanton, Global Math, Sadie Estrella, Brian Bushart

October 19: An article in Slate called "How technology can facilitate classroom discussion" (originally seen in The Hechinger Report) looked at Desmos's Activity Builder, Classkick, and Pear Deck, three apps that have added features to make technology use in the classroom more social.

Shared by: Nicole Muth, Amanda Haskell, Jason Merrill, Heather Kohn, Heather Johnson, Dan Anderson, Jennifer Blinzler, Eli Luberoff, Bob Lochel, Dan Meyer

October 20: Ibram X. Kendi's article "Why The Academic Achievement Gap Is A Racist Idea" makes the claim that achievement gaps don't just measure racism, but even the idea of an achievement gap conditions us to think in terms of racial hierarchies, which have a long history in American academia.

Shared by: Jennifer Lawler, Laura Wagenman, Rochelle Gutierrez, Bryan Meyer, Karen King, Robert Berry, Nicole M. Joseph

Around the Math Ed Web

Did you miss last week's #MTMSchat? If so, you can scroll back through these tweets and see what people had to say about Maryellen Williams-Candek's article, "All Talk and More Action." Next up on Wednesday: #MTchat.

Gail Burrill at the 2016
ASSM Annual Meeting
Global Math last week featured "6 Hand Signals That Bring Learning to Life" with Ellie Cowen and Megan Nee. Next week, Gail Burrill will be presenting "Reasoning from Definitions & Theorems: An Important Calculus Practice."

James Middleton is giving a webinar on Wednesday called "'Why Should I?' Insight Into the Choices Students Make Regarding Mathematics Engagement" as part of their Innov8 series.

There is an ASCD webinar on Thursday called "Lesson Imaging in Mathematics and Science: Mindfully Planning for Inquiry Instruction" with Michelle Stephan, David Pugalee, Julie Cline, and Chris Cline.

If you prefer to do your learning in person, go to Phoenix! On Tuesday NCSM is holding their Fall Leadership Seminar prior to NCTM's Conference from Wednesday through Friday.

Research Notes

Are you a professional development facilitator who works with elementary teachers? You might be interested in participating in a research pilot of some geometry materials from a project led by Tim Boerst, Kara Suzuka, Deborah Ball, and Hyman Bass at Michigan, with partners at the University of Denver and AIR.

Three new articles have appeared for the December 2016 issue of The Journal of Mathematical Behavior:
The December 2016 issue of the International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education is out, and here are the math-related articles:
Paul Ernest has been busy! Fresh off last week's new issue of the Philosophy of Mathematics Education Journal, he's followed it with a special issue stemming from the philosophy of math education group at ICME 13. Again, it's mostly links to Word docs, so here's a link to the whole issue and a list of the articles:
  • An Overview of the Philosophy of Mathematics Education by Paul Ernest
  • Philosophy of Mathematical Practice: What is it All About? by Jean Paul Van Bendegem
  • Politics of Meaning in Mathematics Education by Ole Skovsmose
  • The Language of Mathematics in a Historical, Epistemological, and Educational Perspective by Ladislav Kvasz
  • The Teaching of Velocity in Mathematics Classes – Chances for Philosophical Ideas by Regina Möller
  • Developments In Philosophy in/of Mathematical Education by Maria Aparecida Viggiani Bicudo
  • The Collateral Damage of Learning Mathematics by Paul Ernest
  • Theoretical Incompleteness: A Driving Mechanism of Evolution in Mathematics Education Research by Iskra Nunez
  • Researchers as Policy Actors? Examining interactions between mathematics education research and PIAAC by Jeff Evans & Keiko Yasukawa
  • The Ockham Razor of Creativity Research In Mathematics Education by Bronislaw Czarnocha, William Baker & Olen Dias
  • Using Family Resemblances for Elaborating Mathematical Rules in Classroom Communication by Jessica Kunsteller
  • Concept Formation as a Rule-Based Use of Words by Michael Meyer
  • Opening a Philosophical Space in the Mathematics Curriculum by Nadia Stoyanova Kennedy
  • Reading Mathematical Texts with Philosophical Methods by Jörn Schnieder & Ingrid Scharlau
  • Journal Rankings and Representation in Mathematics Education by Ryan A. Nivens & Samuel Otten
  • Mathematical Modelling and the Separation of Mathematics from Reality by Uwe Schürmann
  • The Role of Exhibitions by Children in Making Mathematics by Hilary Povey, Gill Adams, Colin Jackson & Emanuela Ughi
  • Teaching Applied Mathematics as a Bridge from Philosophy of Science to Philosophy of Mathematics Education by Peter Collignon
  • Philosophy of Mathematics and its Relevance In Maths Classroom by Durga Prasad Dhakal
  • The Production of Knowledge in Mathematics Education Research Groups in Brazil by Anderson Afonso da Silva & Maria Aparecida Viggiani Bicudo
  • History of Scientific and Academic Production in Mathematics Education: Representation, Institution and Policy by Filipe Santos Fernandes
  • Complexity and Mathematics Education by Fayez M. Mina
  • From Essence to Existence in Mathematics Education by Allan Tarp
  • Possibilities of the Phenomenological Approach and of Philosophical Hermeneutics in Type Search State of Art by Fernanda Aparecida Ferreira & Cintia A. Bento dos Santos
  • Epistemology of Teachers about the Mathematical Knowledge by Karla Sepúlveda Obreque & Javier Lezama Andalón
  • Geometry: Of What it Treats? by Taís Barbariz

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Colorado Academic Standards Survey

If you missed the announcement a few days ago, here it is again. Please reply to the survey by November 13!

CDE invites educators, educational leaders, parents, students and the general public to share their perceptions of the Colorado Academic Standards through an online survey available through Nov. 13. To participate, click here.

The results of the survey will inform the department’s planning for the upcoming review and revision of the standards, required by Senate Bill 08-212, known as Colorado’s Achievement Plan for Kids (CAP4K). The law requires a review and revision of the CAS on or before July 1, 2018 and every six years thereafter.

In addition to the survey on general perceptions of the standards, CDE will launch an online feedback system in November which will enable all educators and others to provide specific feedback on every expectation within the 10 content areas included in the Colorado Academic Standards.

In early 2017, CDE will provide comprehensive information about the timeline and phases of the standards review and revision process as well as information about how to become involved.
The survey and online standards feedback system can be found at http://www.cde.state.co.us/standardsandinstruction/casreview. General questions and comments about the review and revision process can be sent to standardsreview2018@cde.state.co.us.

COmath Calendar

During a CCTM board meeting a number of us were discussing ways to help bring Colorado math educators together. One idea was to have a centralized calendar, not just for CCTM events, but for all events of interest to math educators in Colorado. You can access it here:
If you have an event you'd like to add to the calendar, email calendar@cctmath.org to submit your request.

Math Day at Colorado State University

The deadline to register for the CSU Math Day is Monday, October 24!

Computer Science Standards Meetings

During the 2016 legislative session, the Colorado General Assembly passed House Bill 16-1198 requiring CDE to develop academic standards for computer science for secondary students. The new law allows districts to elect to adopt these standards for their high school students. These voluntary, secondary computer science standards must be adopted by the State Board of Education by July 2018, and CDE is hosting three stakeholder meetings in October and November to engage a broad array of stakeholders to inform the development process:
  • Monday, October 31 in Pueblo
  • Monday, November 14 in Denver
  • Thursday, November 17 in Grand Junction
There will also be a webinar on Monday, November 28 from 3:30 to 5:00. For more information and to register to attend any of these meetings, see the announcement on the CDE Standards and Instructional Support webpage.

This Week in Math Ed: October 14, 2016

Math Ed Said

October 7: After initially getting stumped when tasked with turning bottle flipping into a math lesson, Dan Meyer (with the help of commenters) comes through with "I Was Wrong About #BottleFlipping."

Shared by: Dan Meyer, Dawn DuPriest, Nancy Terry, Kat Hendry, Kimberly Wassmuth, April Pforts, Eddi Vulić, Avery Pickford, Martin Joyce

October 8: This Quanta article was a popular long-read for the weekend. "Meet the New Math, Unlike the Old Math" takes a patient look at the role of standards in math and science education reform.

Shared by: Mike Thayer, Tom Boito, Steven Strogatz, Jennifer Lawler, Kathy Henderson, Greg George

Polygon in Polygon
October 9: Here's a rather mesmerizing "Polygon in Polygon," created in Desmos, that illustrates the patterns made by the vertices of a square when it "rolls" around on the inside of different kinds of polygons.

Shared by: solve my maths, Taylor Belcher, John Golden, Eddi Vulić, Malke Rosenfeld, Dan Anderson, Jennifer Michaelis

October 10: Graham Fletcher wrote about "Geometric Subitizing: A Different Kind of Number Talk." It certainly looks clever, and I hope teachers of young students who are willing to try it take a bit of a researcher's eye when sharing how the activity works with their students.

Shared by: Graham Fletcher, Jamie Duncan, Justin Bock, Joe Schwartz, Mike Flynn, John Golden, Shauna Hedgepeth, Jennifer Lawler, Amanda Haskell

October 11: It's posts like this that exemplify the rewards I feel for digging through everything that gets shared each week. Joe Schwartz wrote about "Unknown Unknowns," in which by asking students to say everything they know about a figure he finds out so much more than asking them to solve a single problem.

Shared by: Marilyn Burns, Nicole Bridge, Lenny VerMaas, John Golden, Gregory Taylor, Simon Gregg, Kristin Gray, Denise Gaskins, Brian Bushart, TCM - NCTM, Michael Jerrell, T R

October 12: A recent OECD report says "Math Students From High-Performing Countries Memorize Less, PISA Shows." Not too surprisingly, there's also an association between students who say they rely on memorization in mathematics and students who claim higher levels of anxiety towards mathematics.

Shared by: DeAnn Huinker, Lane Walker, Egan J Chernoff, Heather Johnson, Peg Cagle, Shauna Hedgepeth, Laurie Hailer, Ethan Weker, Chris Shore, Ilona Vashchyshyn

October 13: The website Getting Smart talks about the forthcoming curriculum from Open Up Resources in their post, "Middle School Math: Comprehensive and Open."

Shared by: Kate Nowak, Jen Silverman, Martin Joyce, Illustrative Maths, Kristin Gray, Nik Doran, Sadie Estrella, David Petersen, Bridget Dunbar, Andrew Gael, Bridget Dunbar

Around the Math Ed Web

This week's #TCMchat focused on the article "Assessming Students' Understanding of Fraction Multiplication." Next week it's the #MTMSchat for the middle school crowd, and the free article to be discussed is "All Talk and More Action" by Maryellen Williams-Candek.

This week's Global Math Department meeting was "Teaching Ideas to Prepare Your Students for the AP Stats Exam" with Amy Hogan, Bob Lochel, and Doug Tyson. Next week you can look forward to "6 Hand Signals That Bring Learning to Life" with Ellie Cowen and Megan Nee.

Research Notes

Appearing in the November 2016 issue of Educational Studies in Mathematics:
New in Mathematical Thinking and Learning:
The November 2016 ZDM is out, and it takes the theme of "Methods for helping early childhood educators to assess and understand young children's mathematical minds."
There's one math ed-related article in the October 2016 issue of the American Educational Research Journal:
I've been checking Paul Ernest's web page every week in the hopes of seeing something new, and today I've been rewarded with a new issue of the Philosophy of Mathematics Education Journal. The articles are Word docs, which I'd rather not link to, so here's a link to the whole issue and a list of the articles:
  • "The Euclidean Tradition as a Paradigm for Scientific Thinking" by Melissa Andrade-Molina and Ole Ravn
  • "The Mathematics of Space-Time and the Limits of Human Understanding" by Paul Ernest
  • "Revisiting Piaget: Could Postformal Thinking be the Next Step?" by Elizabeth Scott-Janda and Gulden Karakok
  • "On Student Understanding of the Concept of Infinity" by Michael Gr. Voskoglou
  • "The Contribution of Teacher Confidence to 'Excellent' Mathematics Teaching" by Judith McCullouch
  • "Teachers' Professed Beliefs about the Nature of Mathematics, its Teaching and Learning: Inconsistencies among Data from Different Instruments" by K. G. Garegae
  • "A Concept of Mathematical Certainty and the Gettier Problem" by Sergei Korchevoi
  • "Normative Judgments attached to Mathematical Proofs" by Eyob Demeke
  • "Existence of Numbers: From a Philosophical Perspective" by Min Bahadur Shrestha
  • "Critical Analysis of the Foundations of Pure Mathematics" by Temur Z. Kalanov
  • "Mathematics for Human Flourishing" by Luke Tunstall
  • "Using Sets to Make Sense of the World: A Case Study of One Man's Vision" by F. Keith Robins

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Math Ed in Colorado

Elementary Mathematics Specialist Endorsement

I am looking to recruit people interested in doing the work necessary to establish an elementary mathematics specialist endorsement in Colorado. Such an endorsement has been wished-for by quite a number of people in K-12 and higher ed, and we now have an opportunity to do the work in the coming weeks. From the COmath community, I'm especially interested in elementary teachers with extra mathematics training, like a math major or minor, or other specific preparation to teach mathematics. The committee will probably consist of 4-6 representatives from higher ed, 4-6 district math specialists, and 4-6 classroom teachers who have extra training and expertise in mathematics teaching. Volunteers from rural districts would be especially appreciated! Email me if you are interested and I will follow up with more information in the coming days.

Computer Science Standards Input Meetings

During the 2016 legislative session, the Colorado General Assembly passed House Bill 16-1198 requiring CDE to develop academic standards for computer science for secondary students. The new law allows districts to elect to adopt these standards for their high school students. These voluntary, secondary computer science standards must be adopted by the State Board of Education by July 2018, and CDE is hosting three stakeholder meetings in October and November to engage a broad array of stakeholders to inform the development process:
  • Monday, October 31 in Pueblo
  • Monday, November 14 in Denver
  • Thursday, November 17 in Grand Junction
There will also be a webinar on Monday, November 28 from 3:30 to 5:00. For more information and to register to attend any of these meetings, see the announcement on the CDE Standards and Instructional Support webpage.

Math Day at Colorado State University

Math Day at CSU is Thursday, November 3. Math Day is a day of individual and team competitive mathematics for high school students, with scholarships available for high-performing students. The cost is $20 per student and registration is by recommendation of high school teachers. The registration deadline is Monday, October 24.

Teaching English Learners Workshop now in Bayfield, Too

If you have emerging bilingual students in your class, and you want to know more about helping them access mathematical content, there are now two upcoming workshops to attend. Rebekah Ottenbreit of CDE is offering "Teaching Math to English Learners" on October 18 in Grand Junction, and on October 20 in Bayfield. The all-day workshop will offer tools and strategies for making math more accessible to English learners through teaching the Colorado English Proficiency (CELP) standards. You can register for the workshop on the CDE website.

Job Openings

Fort Lewis College in Durango is looking for a non-tenure track lecturer with statistics experience.

CDE has two jobs which aren't math ed, but they might be of interest to someone who reads this. First, we're looking for an Assessment Principal Consultant who would oversee assessments for Grades 10 and 11. Second we need a Digital Literacy Instructional Specialist who would work in the department and with schools around issues related to ed tech and digital literacy.

Math on the "Planes"

Registration for next February's conference is open. The focus will be Tier 1 and Tier 2 interventions for K-5 math students, with Dr. Karen Karp as the workshop leader.

This Week in Math Ed: October 7, 2016

Math Ed Said

September 30: Six different links (some math-related, some not) were shared four times this day, but one stands out to me: "Pentomino Puzzles" by Jon Orr. The post describes an activity using Pentominoes and a hundred grid chart, with students generalizing the patterns they find.

Shared by: Jon Orr, Fred G. Harwood, Rebecca Price, David Keller

October 1: Nautilus published a nice story about Richard Guy called "An 'Infinitely Rich' Mathematician Turns 100."

Shared by: Steve Humble, POWER Org Math, Patrick Honner, Paul Morris, Steven Strogatz, Egan J Chernoff, Carrie Muir

October 2: Dylan Kane wrote about "Discovery," in which he justifies the reasons he thinks it's not always a good idea to let students figure things out for themselves.

Comment: As I mentioned in the comments of Dylan's post, there's some good research from the field of science education that is useful here. Furtak, Seidel, Iverson, and Briggs (2012) did a meta-analysis of inquiry-based science teaching studies and drew distinctions between types of inquiry, including whether inquiry-based activities were teacher-guided or student-led. When compared to traditional instruction, they found that inquiry approaches had positive effects. However, teacher-guided inquiry approaches had a mean effect size more than double the size than for student-led inquiry. In math education, these kinds of results support the push-back against pure "discovery" approaches, which are often described as having little to no teacher guidance. Historically, this also supports Freudenthal's decision to shift his philosophies about learning mathematics from "reinvention" to "guided reinvention," which stressed the role of the teacher in instruction.

Shared by: Dylan Kane, Michael Pershan, Henri Picciotto, Josh Fisher, Jon Orr, Matthew Oldridge, Bryan Meyer

Cathy Fosnot at the 2015 NCTM Annual Meeting
October 3: The most shared link this day goes to a webinar that's no longer available, sadly. However, with a little digging I can see people were excited about a new book by Cathy Fosnot called Conferring With Young Mathematicians at Work, which builds on her Young Mathematicians at Work series.

Shared by: Pam Harris, Brian Bushart, TCM - NCTM, Katherine Bryant, Christina Moore, Early Math, Jennifer Lawler

October 4: Desmos.com is doing something they call the "Desmos Fellows Potluck," in which they ask for Desmos users to create and share graphs from things that interest them.

Shared by: Desmos.com, Bob Lochel, Dan Anderson, Jennifer Lawler, Mary Bourassa, Michael Fenton, Joshua Bowman

October 5: Jason Merrill shared a model of flipping a water bottle in Desmos.

Shared by: Shauna Hedgepeth, Kate Owens, Brett Parker, Eli Luberoff, Shelley Carranza, Shelby Aaberg, Anna Vance, Denis Sheeran, Michael Fenton, Scott Leverentz, Luke Walsh, Brandi Moore, Andrew Stadel, Chris Lusto, George Carganilla, Chris Adams

October 6: In recognition of World Teachers' Day, Springer has made a number of research articles and book chapters free for the month of October, including the special issue of the Journal of Mathematics Teacher Education that I had an article in, focused on "Mathematics Teachers as Partners in Task Design."

Shared by: Raymond Johnson, Shauna Hedgepeth, Tom Snarsky, Egan J Chernoff, Jennifer Lawler

Around the Math Ed Web

There are only a few hours left to get the early-bird registration discount for the NCTM Regional Conferences in Phoenix and Philadelphia. If you're wanting a discount on Innov8, you have until next Friday, October 14th.

Last week at the Global Math Department meeting, Linda Dacey presented "Unleashing the Power of Math Games and Puzzles, K-5." Next week you can look forward to "Teaching Ideas to Prepare Your Students for the AP Stats Exam" with Amy Hogan, Bob Lochel, and Doug Tyson.

The #TCMchat next Wednesday will focus on the article "Assessming Students' Understanding of Fraction Multiplication."

Research Notes

Added to the Journal of Mathematical Behavior, we have:
And that's it. If you're looking for more, you might check out the journal Research in Mathematics Education, which is published by Routledge and the British Society for Research into Learning Mathematics. I'm not sure why this journal hasn't been on my radar, but you can see the current issue here.

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Math Ed in Colorado

Math Day at Colorado State University

Math Day at CSU is Thursday, November 3. Math Day is a day of individual and team competitive mathematics for high school students, with scholarships available for high-performing students. The cost is $20 per student and registration is by recommendation of high school teachers. The registration deadline is Monday, October 24.

Calculus Center @ CSU

For a glimpse at the kind of support CSU students get in calculus, see "New Calculus Center offers study help and camaraderie" in CSU's Source.

Mathematics of Voting

The next meeting of the Rocky Mountain Math Teachers' Circle will be October 8 from 8:30 to noon at 1201 Larimer St., Room 4125. The topic will be the mathematics of voting, and you need to RSVP to attend.

Teaching English Learners Workshop now in Bayfield, Too

If you have emerging bilingual students in your class, and you want to know more about helping them access mathematical content, there are now two upcoming workshops to attend. Rebekah Ottenbreit of CDE is offering "Teaching Math to English Learners" on October 18 in Grand Junction, and on October 20 in Bayfield. The all-day workshop will offer tools and strategies for making math more accessible to English learners through teaching the Colorado English Proficiency (CELP) standards. You can register for the workshop on the CDE website.

Job Opportunity

Fort Lewis College in Durango is looking for a non-tenure track lecturer with statistics experience.

Math on the "Planes"

Registration for next February's conference is open. The focus will be Tier 1 and Tier 2 interventions for K-5 math students, with Dr. Karen Karp as the workshop leader.

This Week in Math Ed: September 30, 2016

Math Ed Said

September 23: Mark McCourt writes about "#MasteryFail," detailing some of the ways he sees and hears poor practice paraded under a banner of "mastery," such as teaching skills in isolation or hearing someone say, "We do mastery on Tuesdays."

Shared by: Richard Cowley, John Gunn, Mark McCourt, Louise Seeley, Jo Morgan, Simon Gregg, Craig Barton

September 24: Alice Keeler wrote in the Fresno Bee, "I turn 40 next month and, for pretty much my whole life, I have felt dumb. I’m not."

Shared by: Jo Boaler, John Scammell, Lorraine Males, Mathematics Teaching, Jamie Duncan, Sharon Vestal, Anthony Purcell, Kathy Henderson, Stephanie Iacadoro, John Staley, Kyle Pearce, Math Coach Rivera, Laura Wagenman, Peter Cincotta, Jennifer Perez, Megan Heine, Richelle Marynowski, Matt Leiss, Jim Pardun, Kit G, Jenise Sexton, Christopher Rohde, Mr. Harris, Susan Davidson, Stacey Roshan, Rosa Serratore

September 25: What's special about the date 9/25/16? You can count on Patrick Honner to tell us.

Shared by: Patrick Honner, Annie Forest, Jennifer Fairbanks, Kit G, Mark Chubb, Greg George, Matt Leiss, Peg Cagle, Evelyn Lamb, Gregory Taylor

September 26: Christopher Danielson wrote in the TCM blog, "The power of having more than one right answer: Ambiguity in math class."

Shared by: Christopher Danielson, Glenn Waddell, Jr., Megan Schmidt, TCM - NCTM, Michael Fenton, Katherine Bryant, Nicole Bridge, Aran W. Glancy, Jennifer Lawler, Mary Bourassa, Daniel Luevanos, WODB? Math, Bryn Humberstone, Bryan Anderson

September 27: Carmel Schettino wrote in the MT blog, "Aspects of Problem-Based Teaching." In this and future posts, she'll be discussing aspects of problem-based teaching and connections to mathematical practices.

Shared by: NCTM, Jennifer Lawler, NCTM - MT, Mary Bourassa, USU TeachMath, Andrew Gael, Carl Oliver

September 28: Ilana Horn is looking for a postdoc, and she got some help with her search from others on Twitter.

Shared by: Ilana Horn, David Coffey, Carrie Muir, Justin Lanier, Elizabeth Self, Christopher Parrish, Nicole M. Joseph, Raymond Johnson

September 29: Wednesday the 28th marked the debut of #MTchat, which NCTM Storified at "Snapshots of Equitable Teaching in a Highly Diverse Classroom (with images, tweets)."

Shared by: NCTM - MT, NCTM, April Pforts, The Math Forum, Matt Larson, Jennifer Lawler

Around the Math Ed Web

Michelle Stephan at the 2015 NCTM Research Conference
ASCD is hosting a webinar on October 27th called "Lesson Imaging in Mathematics and Science: Mindfully Planning for Inquiry Instruction." The Speakers are Michelle Stephan, David Pugalee, Julie Cline, and Chris Cline, and you can register here.

Last week the Global Math Department had Chritina Tondevold presenting "3 Reasons Kids Don't Know Facts and How to Help." This week, it's Linda Dacey and "Unleashing the Power of Math Games and Puzzles, K-5."

Research Notes

The October 2016 issue of Educational Studies in Mathematics is out with these articles:
Kicking off the December 2016 issue of The Journal of Mathematical Behavior, we have:
In the January 2017 (really?) issue of Teaching and Teacher Education, you'll find:

I usually don't monitor IES on a week-to-week basis, but this study got my attention:

Math Ed in the News

Math Ed in Colorado

Boaler Book Study

Cassie Harrelson's book study of Mathematical Mindsets by Jo Boaler starts today on COPilot! Participants will need to purchase the book and register online ($45 for CEA members; $145 for non-members). The study will last for 5 weeks and you should email Cassie if you have any questions.

MSP Grants

If interested in applying for a Mathematics and Science Partnership grant, please submit a letter of intent via SurveyMonkey by Oct. 5. Applications will be due Monday, Nov. 14. For additional information and to access the application, please visit the MSP webpage.

Teaching English Learners

Do you have English learners in your class? Do you want to know more about how to help them access mathematical content? Rebekah Ottenbreit of CDE is offering "Teaching Math to English Learners" on October 18 in Grand Junction. The all-day workshop will offer tools and strategies for making math more accessible to English learners through teaching the Colorado English Proficiency (CELP) standards. You can register for the workshop on the CDE website.

Math on the "Planes"

Math on the "Planes", Colorado's conference specializing on the mathematical learning of students with learning disabilities, is limited to 60 participants this year. To secure your spot, register now!

A Look Back at the CCTM Conference

Big thanks to all of you who attended last week's CCTM Conference! It was a packed two days and I want to thank the conference organizers for making it come together. In the coming months, CCTM will be reaching out to Colorado educators to get ideas for next year's conference and on how to serve you best. I spent most of my time at the conference taking pictures, which I've now posted. Here are a few highlights:

2016 CCTM Conference Photo Highlights