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Boaler on Common Core Math
Here is another video about the need for Common Core Mathematics. This is done by Jo Boaler who is a well respected mathematics education researcher.
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MCTM @ Mississippi College
This weekend the Mississippi Council of Teachers of Mathematics held their annual conference at Mississippi College. I was given the opportunity to talk more about this idea of creating space for the progressive teaching of mathematics. It is an idea Read more…
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Common Core. Not so scary…
As a mathematics teacher educator I get asked a lot of questions about the Common Core and usually the questions I get are concerning the half truths (or non-truths) being spread by media outlets. Here are three things I suggest Read more…
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Blue Math Group
LessonSketch is a web-based platform that allows for the creation of teaching practice representations in the form of student work, classroom videos and the use of the “blue people” in the form of comic book-like creations. Last spring I was named Read more…
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the rebel went down to georgia
Today, I traveled to the University of Georgia’s School of Education, specifically the Department of Mathematics and Science Education, as an awardee of an SECU Faculty Travel Grant. What an amazing opportunity! Just today I had an opportunity to meet with Read more…
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Math Nerds in the OC
Today begins the Annual Conference of the Association of Mathematics Teacher Educators (AMTE) in Irvine, California. What is cool about arriving to this conference is that I flew into an airport named after John Wayne, with a big stature of Read more…
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Statistics, Probability, Algebra: Nothing but Problems
Today starts the Annual Teacher Conference for the Mississippi Space Grant Consortium, which is hosted by the NASA Mississippi Space Grant Consortium College and Fellowship Program and the Center for Mathematics and Science Education at the University of Mississippi. Teachers from Read more…
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Broadening Perspectives at PME-NA 2013
The Annual Conference for the North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education (PME-NA) starts today. This conference is the opposite of AERA. It is small, manageable, and you can easily have conversations with some Read more…
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Math specialists assemble…we’ve got problems.
Today I am giving a presentation on problems at the Mathematics Specialists Conference at the Center for Mathematics and Science Education. The more I am exposed to the Common Core State Standards for School Mathematics the more I am convinced Read more…
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Creating Space for Progressive Teaching of Mathematics
This weekend is the Fall Conference of the Mississippi Council of Teachers of Mathematics (MCTM) which is the state affiliate of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM). This is my third year speaking at the conference and every Read more…