Tag: NCTM

  • PBL: Project? Problem? Does it matter

    Last week I attended the PBLWorld workshop. It is a 3 day workshop hosted by the Buck Institute for Education (BIE). I am not going to get into what that conference experience was like. It wasn’t good. I would not recommend any math teacher (any teacher of any subject, actually) to ever attend PBLWorld unless…

  • #Made4MathMonday – Math practices poster and more

    I made something! I haven’t been very ‘makey’ lately. Focusing a lot on teaching college students, observing college students in the classroom, and then observing more. But, we got a new classroom on campus at the beginning of the semester, and we needed decorations. I looked all over for some good, high quality posters of…

  • Equity Links

    I have been collecting links related to Equity and Social Justice in Mathematics. I need to get them out of my Diigo, and into someplace more public where I can use them better. I am stunned by how many I have. Clearly, this topic is one that mathematics professionals are discussing and writing about. Communicating…

  • Math organizations & the vacuum of leadership

    On this bright,cheery Veteran’s day I took some time to clean up my reader, delete a bunch of feeds that I don’t read any more, organize the math teacher and other teacher feeds a bit and catch up on a couple of posts that I saved but didn’t have a chance to read yet. Be…

  • Peg Cagle–Pedagogical Judgment & Instructional Choices

    Peg had a very busy Friday at NCTM Las Vegas, giving 3 different presentations in 1 day. The first was for newbies to the NCTM conference, the second was the resource presentation I already posted about, and then there was this presentation entitled: Pedagogical Judgment & Instructional Choices for Building Mathematics Classrooms. I thought this…

  • Peg Cagle, Diane Briars & resources for CCSS

    Two weeks ago, I attended the NCTM Regional in Las Vegas. I took copious notes, and lots of pictures, and have sat on them since. I am going to do some posting tonight and tomorrow of the notes from the impactful sessions I attended. First off, Peg Cagle and Diane Briars session on Resources for…

  • Am I creating more “Clever Hans’”

    That really is the question posed by Dan Meyer in his opening keynote speech at the NCTM Reasoning and Sense Making Conference Institute. Honestly, I had never heard of Clever Hans, and unless you are a fan of esoteric German animal trivia, you might not have heard of him either. Clever Hans was a horse…