Recently I was catching up on episodes of "Triangulation," an interview show on the TWiT.tv network. The network focuses on technology, and guests on Triangulation are often key people from the (near) history of computing. Two recent guests made comments about technology and education, and the difference could not have been more striking. I'll let you judge for yourself.
First, Scott McNealy, co-founder of Sun Microsystems, starting at 26:27 and going through 33:33:
Second, Bill Atkinson, early Apple engineer and creator of MacPaint and HyperCard, starting at 17:17 and going through 22:15:
This Week in Math Ed: September 2, 2016
Math Ed Said
August 26: An academic genealogy analysis featured in Nature found that the majority of mathematicians hail from just 24 scientific 'families'. The Mathematics Genealogy Project extends into mathematics education. I've traced back my own academic roots here.Shared by: Francis Su, Dana C. Ernst, Justin Lanier, Steven Strogatz, OCTM, Evelyn Lamb
August 27: Annie Perkins shared some wonderful experiences from "Math-on-a-Stick!," the Minnesota State Fair (where other good things come on sticks) exhibit that engages kids in mathematics.
Shared by: Annie Perkins, Tracy Johnston Zager, Megan Schmidt, Sara VanDerWerf, Sharon Vestal, Ilona Vashchyshyn
August 28: Lately I've been seeing parts of the world through one of two lenses: one, a "solution to a problem" lens, and two, a "not a solution but we should have it anyway" lens. A NYT piece by Christopher Emdin titled "Why Black Men Quit Teaching," shines brightly through the second of those lenses. Simply having teachers of color, particularly black men, is not by itself a solution. We absolutely should have a diverse teaching workforce, where students of any underrepresented background can see in their teachers someone like themselves who is professional, intellectual, and a leader. But as Emdin points out, there are structural and systemic issues in teaching and education that also need to be addressed, regardless of the color of the teachers.
Shared by: Terry Jones, Karen King, Wendy Menard, Chris Shore, David Coffey
August 29: With more Minnesota goodness, Sara VanDerWerf appeared on her local news to talk about the variety of math graphing tools and to spread the word about the need for donated technology (old calculators, smartphones, and tablets) that can be used in the classroom.
Shared by: Sara VanDerWerf, Megan Schmidt, Andy Martinson, Laura Wagenman, Bryan Anderson, David Keller, Jonathan Osters
August 30: Graham Fletcher is serving on the 2017 Orlando NCTM Regional Program Committee and asks for your input with his post, "Building a Conference."
Shared by: Graham Fletcher, Matt Larson, Nanette Johnson, Zak Champagne, Nicole Bridge
August 31: Dan Meyer wrote to tell us that Christopher Danielson's latest book, Which One Doesn't Belong, has been released.
Shared by: Dan Meyer, Sara VanDerWerf, Ilana Horn, Martin Joyce, Nancy Terry, Tyler Anderson, Christopher Danielson, Megan Schmidt, Tracy Johnston Zager, Bridget Dunbar, Jill Gough, Spencer Olmsted
September 1: One year I began the school year with not one, but two days of syllabus-explaining and rule-laying-down. It was bad. Later I figured out what Tracy Johnston Zager writes about in her post, "How Not To Start Math Class in the Fall."
Shared by: Mark Chubb, Tracy Johnston Zager, Chris Hunter, Annie Forest, Kassia Wedekind, Alex Overwijk, Susan Davidson, Karyn Vogel, Bridget Dunbar, Danielle Reycer, Dan Anderson, Alison Hansel, Cal Armstrong, WMC - WI MathCouncil, Richelle Marynowski, Jami D. Packer, Ilana Horn, Nanette Johnson, Annie Perkins, Janice Novakowski, Tim Hudson
Around the Math Ed Web
Do you want to present at the 2017 NCTM Research Conference? If yes, you'd better hurry up and submit a proposal — they're due by September 4!Mike Flynn caught my attention recruiting people to join a Virtual Math PLC.
The National Girls Collaborative Project is hosting a webinar titled "The Importance of a Growth Mindset: Action Steps for Educators" on September 21.
Last week the Global Math Department made sense of logarithms, and this Tuesday they'll be Cultivating Mathematical Reasoning with Marian Small.
Research Notes
I haven't looked through the research in a few weeks, so hold on for a long list! Let's start with a new article in Educational Researcher:- Evaluating Longitudinal Mathematics Achievement Growth by Lina Shanley, University of Oregon
- Gender in STEM Education: an Exploratory Study of Student Perceptions of Math and Science Instructors in the United Arab Emirates by Nausheen Pasha-Zaidi and Ernest Afari, The Petroleum Institute
- A Study on Sixth Grade Students' Misconceptions and Errors in Spatial Measurement: Length, Area, and Volume by Gulcin Tan Sisman, Hacettepe University; and Meral Aksu, Middle East Technical University
- History of Mathematics in Korean Mathematics Textbooks: Implication for Using Ethnomathematics in Culturally Diverse School by Mi-Kyung Ju, Hanyang University; Jong-Eun Moon, Hanyang University; and Ryoon-Jin Song, University of Wisconsin Madison
- Explaining Student Achievement: the Influence of Teachers' Pedagogical Content Knowledge in Statistics by Rosemary Callingham, University of Tasmania; Colin Carmichael, Charles Sturt University; and Jane M. Watson, University of Tasmania
- Student Motivation and Learning in Mathematics and Science: A Cluster Analysis by Betsy L. L. Ng, W. C. Liu, and John C. K. Wang, Nanyang Technological University
- Mathematics Learning Development: the Role of Long-Term Retrieval by Carlos O. Calderón-Tena, California State University, Fresno; and Linda C. Caterino, Arizona State University
- Detracking and Tracking Up: Mathematics Course Placements in California Middle Schools, 2003–2013 by Thurston Domina, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; Paul Hanselman, University of California, Irvine; NaYoung Hwang, University of California, Irvine; and Andrew McEachin, RAND
- Taking Stock: MTE's Contribution to Building a Knowledge Base for the Practice of Mathematics Teacher Education by Kristen Bieda, Michigan State University
- Supporting Novice Teachers in Leading Discussions That Reach a Mathematical Point: Defining and Clarifying Mathematical Ideas by Erin E. Baldinger, University of Minnesota; Sarah Kate Selling, University of Utah; and Rajeev Virmani, University of Saint Joseph
- Developing an Interview Module to Support Secondary PST's Noticing of Student Thinking by Kristin Lesseig, Washington State University Vancouver, Stephanie Casey; Eastern Michigan University, Debra Monson, University of St. Thomas; Erin E. Krupa, Montclair State University; and Maryann Huey, Drake University
- Unpacking the Practice of Probing Student Thinking by Dawn Teuscher, Brigham Young University; J. Matt Switzer, Texas Christian University; and Tyler Morwood, Brigham Young University
- Translating Learning Trajectories Into Useable Tools for Teachers by Cyndi Edgington, North Carolina State University; P. Holt Wilson, University of North Carolina at Greensboro; Paola Sztajn, North Carolina State University; and Jared Webb, University of North Carolina at Greensboro
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- Variables in Elementary Mathematics Education by Bárbara M. Brizuela, Tufts University
- Fostering First Graders' Reasoning Strategies with Basic Sums: The Value of Guided Instruction by David J. Purpura, Purdue University; Arthur J. Baroody, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Michael D. Eiland, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; and Erin E. Reid, Erikson Institute
- Truth, Lies, and Videotapes: Embracing the Contraries of Mathematics Teaching by Sandra Crespo, Michigan State University
- Secondary mathematics coaching: The components of effective mathematics coaching and implications by Priscilla Bengo, University of Toronto
- Assessing Fun Items' Effectiveness in Increasing Learning of College Introductory Statistics Students: Results of a Randomized Experiment by Lawrence M. Lesser, The University of Texas at El Paso; Dennis K. Pearl, The Pennsylvania State University; and John J. Weber III, Georgia State University
- Markov Processes: Exploring the Use of Dynamic Visualizations to Enhance Student Understanding by Maxine Pfannkuch and Stephanie Budgett, The University of Auckland
- Diverse Perspectives on a Flipped Biostatistics Classroom by Todd A. Schwartz, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Rebecca R. Andridge, The Ohio State University; Kirstin L. Sainani, Stanford University; Dalene K. Stangle, Duke University; and Megan L. Neely, Duke University Medical Center
- Café Data 2.0: New Data From a New and Improved Café by Concetta A. DePaolo, David F. Robinson, and Aimee Jacobs, Indiana State University
- Interview With Soma Roy by Allan J. Rossman and Soma Roy, California Polytechnic State University
- Student Approaches to Constructing Statistical Models using TinkerPlots™ by Jennifer Noll and Dana Kirin, Portland State University
Math Ed in the News
- Study: IES-funded research improves quality of math education (Vanderbilt University)
- Palo Alto school district committee drops Everyday Math (Palo Alto Weekly)
- A place where 'nerds and geeks come together': Schools spend millions on STEM studies (Dallas Morning News)
- Math programs at Lincoln filling gaps and helping children (Rexburg Standard Journal)
Math Ed in Colorado
Award Winning Teachers!
I am super happy to share that the White House has announced new PAEMST awardees, and two of Colorado's math teachers have been honored:- Carolyn Jordan, a teacher at Normandy Elementary School in Littleton
- Lisa Bejarano, a teacher at Aspen Valley High School in Colorado Springs (read more)
CCTM Conference
The 2016 CCTM Conference is only weeks away! Please join me and math teachers from across the state on September 22-23 at the Denver Merchandise Mart. Thursday will feature two pre-sessions:
Classrooms should be where all students engage in rigorous mathematics, reason mathematically, justify and defend their thinking, and critique the reasoning of others. Engage in this session with activities and discussions, and to examine your beliefs about teaching and learning mathematics for all students.
Join math leaders and school and district administrators to explore rubrics for evaluating curricular materials, learn about open resources, and make reviewing materials a professional learning opportunity for teachers.
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| Rochelle Gutiérrez |
Math on the "Planes"
Registration for the February 2017 Conference opens September 15. Because of the highly interactive nature of the conference, each of the two workshops will be limited to 60 participants. You can find more information on the Colorado Council for Learning Disabilities website.Dr. Karen Karp will lead these workshops. She is a visiting professor in the Ed.D. Program in the School of Education at Johns Hopkins University. For twenty-one years prior to this appointment, she was Professor of Mathematics Education in the Department of Early and Elementary Childhood Education at the University of Louisville.
Job Openings
- Aurora is looking for three math teachers, including a 7th grade math teacher for Aurora Hills Middle School. Contact Susan Shaw, Math Teaching Partner, for more information.
- Denver Public Schools needs an 8th grade math teacher at Farrell B. Howell K-8. If you need more information, contact Katie Johnson, MS Math Curriculum Specialist.
Math and Neuroscience Research Opportunity
Jennifer Jacobs at CU Boulder is interested in researching early elementary students with and without language processing difficulties and how that relates to math ability. If you are interested in having a child participate, you can contact Jennifer at jennifer.jacobs@colorado.edu.Rocky Mountain Math Teachers' Circle
Over at rmmtc.ucdenver.edu you can find the 2016-2017 dates for the meetings of the Rocky Mountain Math Teachers' Circle, as well as information about RSVPing for each session.PARCC
FYI: PARCC has updated their practice tests to match their latest test designs.PARCC has also kept me busy over the last month — for several days I immersed myself in high school geometry and helped select items for future field tests, and later I met with other math educators from around the country to examine the data collected from test items that had already been field tested. In both cases, the goal is to come away with the best possible set of items to consider for future tests. If you have questions about the process, feel free to ask!
This Week in Math Ed: August 26, 2016
I'm still in a period of catching up, but I'm almost there! Here are the top links from the week of August 19-25. The next TWiME will be stuffed full of all the other updates!
Shared by: Matthew Oldridge, Robert Kaplinsky, Mark Chubb, Heather Kohn, Jill Buecking, EdD, Nathaniel Highstein, Katherine Martin, David Costello, Margie Pearse
August 20: Robert Kaplinsky's "#ObserveMe" was the most shared post again this day, but since I've already highlighted it twice I'll instead direct your attention to Dave Burgess's "Table Talk Math: Finally a Math Resource for Parents is Here!"
Shared by: Steve Wyborney, Donna Boucher, Math Coach Rivera, Tyler Anderson, Denis Sheeran, Jennifer Lawler
August 21: Laura Wagenman shared "Resources for Building Your Math Community," where she describes why and how she helps support the math teachers she works with using resources from around the web.
Shared by: Laura Wagenman, Jamie Duncan, Sara VanDerWerf, Open Middle, Kit G, WODB? Math, Jessica Jeffers, Cathy Campbell, Martin Joyce
August 22: The White House announced the 2014 and 2015 PAEMST awardees! Among the honorees were several widely-known teachers in the math ed Twitter community, Lisa Bejarano and Kristin Gray.
Shared by: Jennifer Wilson, Ann Gaffney, Mike Lawler, Raymond Johnson, Fawn Nguyen, Patrick Honner, Lisa Bejarano, Heather Johnson, Jen Silverman, Jill Buecking, EdD, Michael Pershan, Ann Gaffney, Karen King, Kent Haines, Megan M. Allen, Shauna Hedgepeth, Mary Bourassa, Janice Novakowski, Amy Hogan, Avery Pickford, Carrie Muir
August 23: Lots of people were still talking about #ObserveMe, but since I've covered that, let's talk about how "Harvey Mudd College took on gender inequality in tech, and now more than half its computer-science majors are women," a story from Quartz.
Shared by: MAA, Steven Gnagni, Francis Su, Dan Anderson, Heather Johnson, Rachel Levy, Kimberly Wassmuth
August 24: As the new school year begins, Fawn Nguyen gives us some do-nots with "7 Deadly Sins of Teaching [Maths]."
Shared by: Fawn Nguyen, Chris Stapel, Sherri Burroughs, Dan Anderson, Tracy Johnston Zager, Nicole Bridge, Bridget Dunbar, Steven Gnagni, Danielle Reycer, Nathan Kraft, Laura Wagenman, Erica Litke, Casey McCormick, John Golden, Geoff Krall, Daniel Luevanos, Bob Lochel, Megan Schmidt, Margie Pearse, Edmund Harriss, Jen Overley, Greg George, Jeremiah Ruesch, Sara VanDerWerf, Sharon Vestal, Ilona Vashchyshyn
August 25: Mollie Hall, a math instructional lead teacher from Georgia, has a blog dedicated to elementary number talks and on this day people were sharing the resources for her 3rd, 4th and 5th Grade number talks.
Shared by: Graham Fletcher, Denis Sheeran, Rosa Serratore, Brian Bushart, Mike Flynn, Federico Chialvo, Dave Lanovaz, Math Coach Rivera
Math Ed Said
August 19: I mentioned this on the previous TWiME, but Robert Kaplinsky's "#ObserveMe" is worth mentioning again. Many of you must have felt the same way, as it was the most-shared post for the 19th as well.Shared by: Matthew Oldridge, Robert Kaplinsky, Mark Chubb, Heather Kohn, Jill Buecking, EdD, Nathaniel Highstein, Katherine Martin, David Costello, Margie Pearse
August 20: Robert Kaplinsky's "#ObserveMe" was the most shared post again this day, but since I've already highlighted it twice I'll instead direct your attention to Dave Burgess's "Table Talk Math: Finally a Math Resource for Parents is Here!"
Shared by: Steve Wyborney, Donna Boucher, Math Coach Rivera, Tyler Anderson, Denis Sheeran, Jennifer Lawler
August 21: Laura Wagenman shared "Resources for Building Your Math Community," where she describes why and how she helps support the math teachers she works with using resources from around the web.
Shared by: Laura Wagenman, Jamie Duncan, Sara VanDerWerf, Open Middle, Kit G, WODB? Math, Jessica Jeffers, Cathy Campbell, Martin Joyce
Shared by: Jennifer Wilson, Ann Gaffney, Mike Lawler, Raymond Johnson, Fawn Nguyen, Patrick Honner, Lisa Bejarano, Heather Johnson, Jen Silverman, Jill Buecking, EdD, Michael Pershan, Ann Gaffney, Karen King, Kent Haines, Megan M. Allen, Shauna Hedgepeth, Mary Bourassa, Janice Novakowski, Amy Hogan, Avery Pickford, Carrie Muir
August 23: Lots of people were still talking about #ObserveMe, but since I've covered that, let's talk about how "Harvey Mudd College took on gender inequality in tech, and now more than half its computer-science majors are women," a story from Quartz.
Shared by: MAA, Steven Gnagni, Francis Su, Dan Anderson, Heather Johnson, Rachel Levy, Kimberly Wassmuth
August 24: As the new school year begins, Fawn Nguyen gives us some do-nots with "7 Deadly Sins of Teaching [Maths]."
Shared by: Fawn Nguyen, Chris Stapel, Sherri Burroughs, Dan Anderson, Tracy Johnston Zager, Nicole Bridge, Bridget Dunbar, Steven Gnagni, Danielle Reycer, Nathan Kraft, Laura Wagenman, Erica Litke, Casey McCormick, John Golden, Geoff Krall, Daniel Luevanos, Bob Lochel, Megan Schmidt, Margie Pearse, Edmund Harriss, Jen Overley, Greg George, Jeremiah Ruesch, Sara VanDerWerf, Sharon Vestal, Ilona Vashchyshyn
August 25: Mollie Hall, a math instructional lead teacher from Georgia, has a blog dedicated to elementary number talks and on this day people were sharing the resources for her 3rd, 4th and 5th Grade number talks.
Shared by: Graham Fletcher, Denis Sheeran, Rosa Serratore, Brian Bushart, Mike Flynn, Federico Chialvo, Dave Lanovaz, Math Coach Rivera
This Week in Math Ed: August 19, 2016
I've been behind in my TWiME posts before, but not by this much! I'll just recap the most-shared posts from August 12-18 and save the other bits for later.
August 12: Dan Meyer says that he cares about what we share, but cares even more how we "Testify" on behalf of our work and the things we care about.
Shared by: Elizabeth Statmore, Rebecca Afghani, Simon Gregg, Jocelyn Dagenais, Danielle Reycer, Alex Jaffurs, John Golden, Jeffrey Mashbitz
August 13: In one of my favorite articles to come out of the 2016 Olympic Games, "This Is Why There Are So Many Ties In Swimming" gives us a little lesson on attending to precision. (And swimming pool engineering.)
Shared by: Anthony Purcell, Steve Phelps, Amy Hogan, MAA, Mike Lawler, Jo Morgan, Mark Dittmer, Christopher Rohde, Pam J. Wilson, Katherine Martin, Janice Cotcher, Patrick Honner, Ilona Vashchyshyn, Chris Harrow, Evelyn Lamb, Mikael Johansson, Carrie Muir, Peter Balyta, Jeremy Babel, Gregory Taylor
August 14: Robert Kaplinsky used some Google whiz-bangery to create a "Problem-Based Lesson Search Engine."
Shared by: Math Coach Rivera, Ann Elise Record, Julia Haun, Bryan Anderson, David Coffey, Tracy Johnston Zager, Cathy Campbell, Laura Wagenman, Margie Pearse, Rosa Serratore
August 15: Robert Kaplinsky comes at us for a second day in a row, this time with "#ObserveMe." I think this is wonderful, as I believe making our practice more public helps professionalize teaching as a field.
Shared by: Robert Kaplinsky, Matt Vaudrey, Math Coach Rivera, Carl Oliver, Ian Kerr, Matt Larson, Glenn Waddell, Jr., Christina Sherman, Heather Kohn, Mary Bourassa, Natalee Peterson, Laura Wagenman, Andrew Stadel
August 16: Ever wish you could high-five a math teacher virtually? Now you kind of can, thanks to Sam Shah's "MTBoS High Fives."
Shared by: Kathy Henderson, John Golden, Mary Bourassa, Casey McCormick, Meg Craig, Megan Hayes-Golding, Anna Blinstein, Ali Grace
August 17: Henri Picciotto explains what he means when he says his stance as an educator is "Eclectic."
Shared by: Henri Picciotto, Marilyn Burns, John Golden, Malke Rosenfeld, Dittmer, Patrick Honner, Justin Lanier
August 18: The folks at Desmos announced their first cohort of Desmos Fellows.
Shared by: Desmos.com, Eli Luberoff, Jocelyn Dagenais, Michael Fenton, Laurie Hailer, Meg Craig, Heather Johnson, Julie Reulbach, Marissa W
Looking for more? Like I said, in an effort to catch up I'll save what's new in research, the news, and other goings-on for upcoming posts.
Math Ed Said
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| Dan Meyer "testifies" about Girl Scout cookies. I might be missing the point of his latest blog post. |
Shared by: Elizabeth Statmore, Rebecca Afghani, Simon Gregg, Jocelyn Dagenais, Danielle Reycer, Alex Jaffurs, John Golden, Jeffrey Mashbitz
August 13: In one of my favorite articles to come out of the 2016 Olympic Games, "This Is Why There Are So Many Ties In Swimming" gives us a little lesson on attending to precision. (And swimming pool engineering.)
Shared by: Anthony Purcell, Steve Phelps, Amy Hogan, MAA, Mike Lawler, Jo Morgan, Mark Dittmer, Christopher Rohde, Pam J. Wilson, Katherine Martin, Janice Cotcher, Patrick Honner, Ilona Vashchyshyn, Chris Harrow, Evelyn Lamb, Mikael Johansson, Carrie Muir, Peter Balyta, Jeremy Babel, Gregory Taylor
August 14: Robert Kaplinsky used some Google whiz-bangery to create a "Problem-Based Lesson Search Engine."
Shared by: Math Coach Rivera, Ann Elise Record, Julia Haun, Bryan Anderson, David Coffey, Tracy Johnston Zager, Cathy Campbell, Laura Wagenman, Margie Pearse, Rosa Serratore
August 15: Robert Kaplinsky comes at us for a second day in a row, this time with "#ObserveMe." I think this is wonderful, as I believe making our practice more public helps professionalize teaching as a field.
Shared by: Robert Kaplinsky, Matt Vaudrey, Math Coach Rivera, Carl Oliver, Ian Kerr, Matt Larson, Glenn Waddell, Jr., Christina Sherman, Heather Kohn, Mary Bourassa, Natalee Peterson, Laura Wagenman, Andrew Stadel
August 16: Ever wish you could high-five a math teacher virtually? Now you kind of can, thanks to Sam Shah's "MTBoS High Fives."
Shared by: Kathy Henderson, John Golden, Mary Bourassa, Casey McCormick, Meg Craig, Megan Hayes-Golding, Anna Blinstein, Ali Grace
August 17: Henri Picciotto explains what he means when he says his stance as an educator is "Eclectic."
Shared by: Henri Picciotto, Marilyn Burns, John Golden, Malke Rosenfeld, Dittmer, Patrick Honner, Justin Lanier
August 18: The folks at Desmos announced their first cohort of Desmos Fellows.
Shared by: Desmos.com, Eli Luberoff, Jocelyn Dagenais, Michael Fenton, Laurie Hailer, Meg Craig, Heather Johnson, Julie Reulbach, Marissa W
Looking for more? Like I said, in an effort to catch up I'll save what's new in research, the news, and other goings-on for upcoming posts.
This Week in Math Ed: August 12, 2016
Math Ed Said
August 5: Inspired by Skemp (1976), Mark Chubb wrote, "Focus on Relational Understanding." In the post he discusses differences between instrumental and relational understanding and offers suggestions and resources to help bridge the gap between the two.Shared by: Mary Gambrel, Ashley Bingenheimer, Beth Brandenburg, Matthew Oldridge, David Costello, Mark Chubb, Brian Bushart, Jeremy Went
August 6: Dylan Kane was thinking about the nature of students' questions, and when and if certain questions are best answered. In his post "Answering Questions," Dylan builds on the ideas of John Holt and Peter Liljedahl to focus on the kinds of questions and answers that keep students thinking.
Shared by: Dylan Kane, Matthew Oldridge, Mary Bourassa, MathDDSB, Ilona Vashchyshyn, Judy Keeney
August 7: The I-don't-know-her-name-cuz-maybe-it's-secret teacher that goes by Druin wrote, "Teaching Statistics: Thinking about Closure." The topic of this post are those precious minutes at the end of lessons, and how best to help students consolidate their ideas and reflect on what they've learned.
Shared by: Druin, Shauna Hedgepeth, Pam J. Wilson, Tracy Johnston Zager, Bridget Dunbar
August 8: The final minutes of a lesson are important, but so are the first few minutes of a unit. Sara VanDerWerf wrote about "Unit Pictures," a visual guide to get students thinking about what they'll be learning in the days ahead.
Shared by: Sara VanDerWerf, Megan Schmidt, Annie Perkins, Laura Wagenman, Mary Gambrel, Meg Craig
August 9: The topic of last week's Global Math Department meeting was "Back to School Night Ignites."
Shared by: Jessica, Global Math, Sadie Estrella, Regan Galvan, Deborah Boden, Cary Behrendt, Katherine Martin
August 10: THE Journal reported on some recent research with the article, "With High-Quality Lessons and Social Supports, Even Weak Teachers Do Better." The researchers, writing in a NBER working paper, found that teachers who were supported in the use of high-quality, off-the-shelf Mathalicious lessons saw greater student achievement than teachers who were not provided the lessons or support. Just giving teachers access to lessons didn't help as much, and researchers hypothesized that some teachers don't invest enough time in lesson planning to use an off-the-shelf lesson.
Shared by: Desmos.com, Christopher Danielson, Sadie Estrella, Patty Stephens, Glenn Waddell, Jr., John Golden, Martin Joyce, April Pforts
August 11: Mark Chubb is back with another post, "Never Skip the Closing of the Lesson."
Shared by: Tracy Johnston Zager, Margie Pearse, Matthew Oldridge, Max Ray-Riek, Annie Forest, John Rowe, Mark Chubb, Jami D. Packer, Mark Chubb, Jennifer Wilson, Bridget Dunbar, Pam J. Wilson, Brian Bushart
Around the Math Ed Web
On Tuesday the Global Math Department will be talking about "Flipping Your Math Classroom: More Than Just Videos and Worksheets."August 19th is your last chance to submit a proposal for RUME. Actually, that's not entirely true — if you're submitting a poster, they'll take proposals on a rolling basis for a few more months.
The deadline to submit NCTM Research Conference proposals is September 4.
Research Notes
I've had some trouble tracking new article in Teachers College Record, but here's one that I think has appeared recently:- What Keeps Chinese Students Motivated in Doing Math Homework? An Empirical Investigation by Fuyi Yang, East China Normal University; Jianzhong Xu, Mississippi State University; Heping Tan, East China Normal University; and Ningjian Liang, East China Normal University
- An empirical study in the notion of area: a Socratic educational experience anchored in van Hiele's model by María Ángeles Navarro, University of Seville; and Pedro Pérez Carreras, Polytechnic University of Valencia
- On a calculus textbook problem by Arkady Kitover, Rider University; and Mehmet Orhon, University of New Hampshire
- Geometry and mathematical symbolism of the 16th century viewed through a construction problem by Milana Dabić, University of Belgrade
- Does the problem complexity impact students' achievements in a computer aided mathematics instruction? by Eugen Ljajko, Kosovska Mitrovica
Math Ed in the News
- Pilot math program prepares sixth graders for new school year (Caller-Times)
- Numberplay: Olympic Strategies, Part 2 (The New York Times)
Math Ed in Colorado
Recaps:
CCTM Board Meeting: I attended a CCTM board meeting on Saturday, August 6. We welcomed our new board members: Kevin Duren, our newly elected vice president from the Security-Widefield district; Gilbert Apodaca, technology specialist from Centennial R-1, and Erica Hastert, our new MAA representative who comes from Early College of Arvada. Most of the day we discussed the upcoming CCTM Conference and plans to grow and strengthen the math education community in Colorado.
CCTM Conference: Register now!
Upcoming ESSA Standards Committee Webinar:
In December of 2015, the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) was reauthorized as the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), replacing the No Child Left Behind Act. Following a statewide listening tour in May and June of this year, the Colorado Department of Education (CDE) is now convening committees to inform the development of Colorado's ESSA state plan to comply with the requirements of ESSA. For more information regarding ESSA please visit: http://www.cde.state.co.us/fedprograms/essa.
Under the guidance of the State Board of Education, the CDE will utilize a Hub/Spoke Committee structure for ESSA state plan development. The idea is to create a formal, central Hub Committee that will have an oversight role in the development of a draft of our state plan to be submitted to the State Board in early 2017, and ESSA topical spoke committees that will be responsible for developing and appropriately vetting sections of the state plan with the nimbleness and flexibility to get the work done in a timely manner.
The Office of Standards and Instructional Support at CDE is hosting an informational webinar about the standards spoke committee on Thursday, August 18, from 3:30 to 4:30 PM. A recording will be made available for those unable to participate.
The webinar will provide those interested in participating in or knowing about the work of the committee. Topics to be addressed in the webinar include:
- A general overview of the Colorado’s ESSA state plan development process
- ESSA requirements for state standards and related components for the state plan
- Colorado's process for developing, vetting, and finalizing the standards section of the ESSA state plan
- How stakeholders can become a part of the committee
- Expectations of committee members
Following the webinar, the membership for the standards spoke committee will be confirmed and work will begin on the standards section of the ESSA state plan. To become involved in the committee or to follow its work, please visit: http://www.cde.state.co.us/essa_stateplandevelopment_standards/.
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