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Is it Time to Means Test Education?
As we watch the debt-ceiling negotiations among our political leaders, one thing is increasingly clear, the limited resources available for public education will remain tightly constrained for years to...
View ArticleSpreading the education love…
Jim spoke in his previous post "All You Need Is Love" about enriching student learning experiences. According to Jim: "Standards and curriculum define “the space between a student and a teacher” but...
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New Year’s Resolution—more PD!
Last year my colleagues and I traveled around the country attending conferences and workshops for mathematics educators. We also “met” thousands of teachers online when they participated in our online...
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Preparing Cooperative Teachers in a Competitive World
Penn campus scene: Adam Jones, www.flickr.com/photos/adam_jones/ I am troubled. Today is the first day of teaching my spring semester course, “Advanced Methods in Secondary Mathematics,” for my...
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Some Suggestions for Math Technology Professional Development
I have been really focused on math technology professional development lately, which makes sense of course, since that's what I do for a living. But after last week's NCSM and NCTM conferences (see...
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Turning Problems into Professional Development
I had the pleasure of meeting Jamila Riser a few years ago at NCSM and seeing her presentation about P-Cubed: Powerful Pedagogical Practices. P-Cubed was a program implemented jointly by the Delaware...
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A Bittersweet Milestone
I'm about to reach a milestone, and I have mixed feelings about it. I started teaching in 1994, and I taught for nine memorable years. In 2003, I realized that I need time away from the classroom, and...
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Sketchpad Activities, Cognitive Demand, and Differentiation
What conjectures can you make? Not long ago, I conducted a Saturday morning PD session for some Texas teachers participating in an NSF research project. (The research is a controlled study of the...
View ArticleThe Standards Are Not The Curriculum
We were so impressed by Jamila Riser's talk at NCSM a couple of years ago that we asked her to present an Ignite! for us this year. Now, we've asked her to guest blog so we can share even more about...
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Using Technology Training to Explore Meaningful Mathematics
Today is the first day of the pilot of our newest online course, "Teaching Advanced High School Math with Sketchpad." This is the eighth online course we've developed at … Continue Reading ››
View ArticleInternational Congress for Mathematics Education Part 1
I'm currently attending the 13th International Congress on Mathematics Education (ICME) in Hamburg, Germany, with well over 1000 math educators from around the world. Professor Gabriele Kaiser opened...
View ArticleIs it Time to Means Test Education?
As we watch the debt-ceiling negotiations among our political leaders, one thing is increasingly clear, the limited resources available for public education will remain tightly constrained for years to...
View ArticleChange done right with the Common Core
I spent the better part of last week with a district that is beginning its implementation of the Common Core standards. I want to share some of their story because I believe it is a fine example of...
View ArticleWe Were All New Teachers Once
I just returned from the Texas math conference (CAMT to those of you in the know). It has always been one of my favorite events as it gives me a chance to catch up with old friends and colleagues and...
View ArticleAre We Insane?
Thirty years after NCTM’s publication of An Agenda for Action (1980), and ten years after the release of Principles and Standards for School Mathematics (2000), the Common Core State Standards have...
View ArticleCreating Animated Factorization Diagrams
Last year, I had the pleasure of co-organizing a geometry-focused coaching collaborative led by Metamorphosis, a New York-based organization that offers professional content coaching to transform the...
View ArticleBinomial Multiplication and Concreteness Fading
I was delighted that Daniel recently posted our Binomial Multiplication sketches in Web Sketchpad format. I thought about those sketches when I noticed a fairly new myNCTM thread on "When and How do we...
View ArticleIntroducing Web Sketchpad at the 2021 NCTM Annual Meeting
NCTM’s Virtual 2021 Annual Meeting ran from April 21 through May 1, and in Session 299 Daniel Scher, Karen Hollebrands, and I presented an on-demand video workshop to introduce Web Sketchpad (WSP)....
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