This fun project capitalizes on students’ lived experiences of playing miniature golf. Through authentic engagement and collaboration with peers, students can create their own visual representations and practical explanations of math concepts.
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Construct It! The Great Mini-Golf Project
Sandra Vorensky
My Problematic Fave
Aubrey Neihaus, Crystal Kalinec-Craig, Priya V. Prasad, and Marcy B. Wood
A guide for revising tasks with harmful contexts
Building Coherence and Progression on Sound Frameworks
Travis Lemon and Scott Hendrickson
A robust framework can support teachers and their students’ learning.
The Importance of Lesson Study
Meghan Smith Durkin
Teaching Is a Journey: Advice for a New Teacher
Sandy Vorensky
This department provides a space for current and past PK-12 teachers of mathematics to connect with other teachers of mathematics through their stories that lend personal and professional support.
Exploring Grades 3–5 Mathematics Activities Found Online
Lara K. Dick, Amanda G. Sawyer, Margaret MacNeille, Emily Shapiro, and Tabitha A. Wismer
We investigate resources on TeachersPayTeachers and discuss how what is available affects our teaching practices.
The Data Revolution
David B. Custer and Ksenija Simic-Muller
We reflect on recent presentations at the NCTM annual conference and articles in MTLT that address statistics, data modeling, and data science. We observe that such presentations and articles are increasingly common, and encourage readers to use them in their teaching and write about their own adventures with data.
Engaging Teachers in the Combination of Statistical Investigation and Social Justice: Fairness in School Funding
Stephanie Casey, Liza Bondurant, and Andrew Ross
This Perspectives on Practice manuscript focuses on an innovation associated with “Engaging Teachers in the Powerful Combination of Mathematical Modeling and Social Justice: The Flint Water Task” from Volume 7, Issue 2 of MTE. We built on Aguirre et al.’s (2019) integration of mathematical modeling and social justice issues in mathematics teacher education to similarly integrate statistical investigations with social justice issues.
Exploring, Testing, & Selecting Curriculum Through Lesson Study
Melissa Graham, Johana Thomas Zapata, Amy Roth McDuffie, Nicole Blake, Introduction and Reflection by Angela T. Barlow, David Custer, and Clayton Edwards
Lesson study supports teachers in learning about curriculum and effective teaching practices. We discuss a district-wide lesson study process used to explore and adopt a new curriculum.
The Case for High School Math Pathways
Eric Milou and Steve Leinwand
The standard high school math curriculum is not meeting the needs of the majority of high school students and that serious consideration of rigorous alternatives is a solution whose time has come.
