Learning Math: Number and Operations - Rational Numbers and Proportional Reasoning
This course will look at ways to interpret, model and work with rational numbers. Educators will also analyze proportional reasoning and the difference between absolute and relative thinking, and explore ways to represent proportional relationships and the resulting operations with ratios.
Learning Math: Number and Operations - Fractions, Percents, and Ratios
This course looks at several topics related to fractions, percents, and ratios. More specifically, educators will look at graphical and geometric representations of these topics, as well as some of their applications in the physical world.
Learning Math: Number and Operations - Case Studies (Grades K-2)
In the previous sessions, you explored number and operations as a mathematics learner, both to analyze your own approach to solving problems and to gain some insight into your personal conception of number and operations. It may have been difficult to separate your thinking as a mathematics learner from your thinking as a mathematics teacher -- most teachers think about teaching as they are learning and think about learning as they are teaching. In this session, we shift the focus to your own classroom and to the approaches your students might take to mathematical tasks involving number and operations concepts.
Learning Math: Number and Operations - Case Studies (Grades 3-5)
In the previous sessions, you explored number and operations as a mathematics learner, both to analyze your own approach to solving problems and to gain some insight into your personal conception of number and operations. It may have been difficult to separate your thinking as a mathematics learner from your thinking as a mathematics teacher -- most teachers think about teaching as they are learning and think about learning as they are teaching. In this session, we shift the focus to your own classroom and to the approaches your students might take to mathematical tasks involving number and operations concepts.
Learning Math: Number and Operations - Case Studies (Grades 6-8)
In this course, educators will examine how number and operations concepts from the previous nine sessions might look when applied to situations in the classroom, focusing on the approaches students might take to mathematical tasks involving number and operations concepts. This course is specific to Grades Six through Eight.
The Missing Link: Essential Concepts for Middle School Math Teachers - Proportionality and Similar Figures
In each pair of one-hour workshops, Master Teacher Jan Robinson and Workshop Guide Shannon C'de Baca lead a group of "learner teachers" as they investigate a series of hands-on problems. Short visits to schools in Illinois show how the lessons work in actual middle school classrooms. After taking the lessons back to their own classes, the learner teachers return to the studio a few months later to discuss their experiences and learn new instructional and assessment techniques.
The Missing Link: Essential Concepts for Middle School Math Teachers - Patterns and Functions
In this two-part course, Master Teacher Jan Robinson and Workshop Guide Shannon C'de Baca lead a group of "learner teachers" as they investigate a series of hands-on problems. In the "Discovery" portion of this course, educators use real-life problems and experiments to gather and display experimental data in graphs and tables. They then analyze the resulting patterns to make predictions and develop algebraic equations. In this follow-up video, "In Practice", educators discuss the experience of teaching the Patterns & Functions lessons in their classrooms.
The Missing Link: Essential Concepts for Middle School Math Teachers - Polygons and Angles
In this two-part course, Master Teacher Jan Robinson and Workshop Guide Shannon C'de Baca lead a group of "learner teachers" as they investigate a series of hands-on problems. Short visits to schools in Illinois show how the lessons work in actual middle school classrooms. After taking the lessons back to their own classes, the learner teachers return to the studio a few months later to discuss their experiences and learn new instructional and assessment techniques.
The Missing Link: Essential Concepts for Middle School Math Teachers - Sampling and Probability
In this two-part course, Master Teacher Jan Robinson and Workshop Guide Shannon C'de Baca lead a group of "learner teachers" as they investigate a series of hands-on problems. Short visits to schools in Illinois show how the lessons work in actual middle school classrooms. After taking the lessons back to their own classes, the Learner Teachers return to the studio a few months later to discuss their experiences and learn new instructional and assessment techniques.
Intensive Interventions for Students Struggling in Reading and Mathematics
Welcome to Intensive Interventions for Students Struggling in Reading and Mathematics. This course is a series of four modules based on the practice guide, Intensive Interventions for Students Struggling in Reading and Mathematics. It provides research-based guidance for intensifying instruction in reading and mathematics for students with significant learning difficulties, including students with disabilities, in kindergarten through grade twelve.