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Alternative Instruction and Alternative, Performance-Based Assessment - Jane Ehrenfeld; Math Forum Two annotated bibliographies designed to present ways in which assessment can be altered without drastic restructuring of class and curriculum. Some of the articles and books referenced have links to portfolio-based instruction and assessment, and can therefore provide resources for teachers interested in pursuing portfolio systems in their classrooms. All of the articles are math-related, and many give concrete lesson plans and suggestions for practice. more>> Learning & Mathematics Discussion Sessions - Math Forum Newsgroup discussions inspired by recent work on how students learn mathematics among mathematicians, teachers of mathematics, and students of educational psychology that occurred on the Math Forum's newsgroup geometry.pre-college. Much of the work around ideas that form the basis of the NCTM Standards indicates that the traditional classroom needs to be changed if more effective learning (learning that is more conceptual and less formulaic) is to take place. Summaries of articles posted to the group include implications for classroom practice. Annotated bibliographies include: Alternative Instruction and Alternative, Performance-Based Assessment; Cross-Age Tutoring; Girls' Attitudes, Self-Expectations, and Performance in Math; Limited English Proficiency Students and Mathematics; Mathematics and Motivation. more>> Math Learning Center (MLC) - Gene Maier A non-profit Oregon-based educational organization that develops and publishes curriculum materials, provides continuing education for teachers, consults with educational agencies, and provides opportunities for parents and others to become knowledgeable about alternatives in mathematics education. Products and services include publications and teaching supplies (books, manipulatives). Materials are typically teaching guides designed for sensory-rich, highly interactive, textbook-free classroom settings, stressing visual thinking entailing the use of models, sketches and other graphic representations. Curricula include Bridges in Mathematics; Algebra Through Visual Patterns; Opening Eyes to Mathematics; Visual Math and Math Alive!; Number Corner; Box It or Bag It Mathematics; and Story Boxes. Conferences, seminars, and workshops are listed, and a searchable catalog is provided. more>> Montessori Math Album - Shu-Chen Jenny Yen Montessori-method lesson plans for children on numeration, the golden beads, arithmetic (addition, subtraction, multiplication, division), the stamp game, the bead frame, fractions, and geometry. Also from the same author: Language Development, Practical Life, and Sensorial-Motor Development activities. more>>

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Association for Experiential Education (AEE) An international membership organization with roots in adventure education, committed to the development, practice, and evaluation of experiential learning in all settings: education, recreation, outdoor adventure programming, mental health, youth service, ...more>> Calculus for Liberal Arts: A Humanistic Approach - K. M. Shannon; Salisbury State University Calculus: what it is, where it came from, and why we should care. This paper outlines an approach to calculus for the liberal arts student that puts it in its cultural and historical context. Calculus can be presented in terms of its role in the Enlightenment ...more>> Classroom Conversation (Learning and Mathematics) - Nicholls, Hazzard; Math Forum In their 1993 book Education as Adventure, John Nicholls and Susan Hazzard explore students' understandings of the nature and point of school learning and the idea that students are valuable critics of the classroom curriculum and their own learning. ...more>> Cognitive Apprenticeship (Learning and Mathematics) - Collins, et al.; Math Forum In a chapter entitled "Cognitive apprenticeship: Teaching the crafts of reading, writing, and mathematics," in the 1989 book Knowing, learning, and instruction: Essays in honor of Robert Glaser, Allan Collins, of BBN Laboratories, and John Seely Brown ...more>> Collaborative Learning - Mathematics Education at The Math Forum A collection of links to collaborative and cooperative learning resources on the Web, including articles, discussions, and teaching techniques that emphasize collaboration. ...more>> Course Materials Online - College of Education, San Diego State University Courses online in Administration, Rehabilitation and Postsecondary Education; Education; Educational Technology, including multimedia development and distance education. Also humanistic and social aspects of teaching, from the School of Teacher Education. ...more>> Cross-Age Tutoring - Marah Fortson; Math Forum An annotated bibliography: articles to help teachers deal with a classroom of learners with different abilities, different strengths and weaknesses, who are at different levels academically, behaviorally, and socially. The task of the teacher is a challenge, ...more>> Decision Development Corporation Software for K-12 students and teachers, for all platforms. Math software included separately and as part of other product lines. (Gigamath Playground and Junior Gigamath Playground offer word problem practice for ages 7-14 and 4-8 respectively; Ellen ...more>> Devising channels that nurture ingenuity and creativity in mathematics classes. - Helen Christensen; Loyola College; The Math Forum Summary of a presentation given at the 1996 Joint Mathematics Meetings in Orlando, Florida. Original projects and individual journals can challenge students who are more linguistically oriented, and who crave expression for their ingenuity and creativity ...more>> Digital Mathematical Performance - Gadanidis, George; Borba, Marcelo; Hughes, Janette; et al. Watch video, live-acted dramatic storyboards, and animations of how people "perform" mathematics: Flatland, "Help Me, Fermi," Should Parallel Lines Never Meet," "The Pleasure of Making 10" (linear equations), "The Waiter" (the missing dollar problem), ...more>> Essays in Humanistic Mathematics - Alvin White, Editor; MAA Notes A collection of papers published by the Mathematical Association of America (MAA) that give an account of the social and historical nature of mathematics and mathematical knowledge, serving as a manifesto for the humanization of both the philosophy of ...more>> Fermi Questions - Sheila Talamo Fermi questions emphasize estimation, numerical reasoning, communicating in mathematics, and questioning skills. Students often believe that "word problems" have one exact answer and that the answer is derived in a unique manner. Fermi questions encourage ...more>> Fifth-Grade Empathy ... For Plants - William E. Ray; Kodak Children were introduced to this project by taking them outside Pinoak Elementary School, Oil City, PA, in March and having each pair of them select a living plant specimen. Buds were noticed as being a part of each plant and were the plant parts which ...more>> The Geometer's Sketchpad Bibliography - Key Curriculum Press This bibliography lists publications that concern the software application the Geometer's Sketchpad, Dynamic Geometry in general, and the mathematical and educational contexts in which they are relevant: research, reviews, and applications. ...more>> Geometry Everywhere - Betty R. Allen; Kodak An activity intended to make students more aware of geometric shapes and lines in objects around them. Students were divided into five groups, four to photograph geometric shapes and concepts at home, on the farm, in town, and at the lake, and one group ...more>> The Greatest Math Teacher Ever - Keith Devlin (Devlin's Angle) An article about the individual who, Devlin suggests, could justifiably be described as the American university mathematician who, through his teaching, has had the greatest impact on the field of mathematics... He was a pioneer in one of the most important ...more>> Humanistic Mathematics - Mathematics Education at The Math Forum The idea that teaching, learning, and creating mathematics issues from the same psyche as literature, aesthetics, and music has attracted, since 1986, a worldwide network of people who share this belief. The existence of the Humanistic Mathematics Network ...more>> inQuiry Almanack - Franklin Institute A magazine about inquiry-based learning. Regular features, a surprise spotlight of the month, favorite sites, the latest in science news, what's new at The Franklin Institute, experiments, and a puzzle. Archives are online beginning in March, 1995. ...more>> Interactive Learning (Learning and Mathematics) - Brown, et al.; Math Forum In a chapter entitled "Interactive learning and individual understanding: The case of reading and mathematics" in the 1991 book, Culture, schooling, and psychological development, - Brown, Campione, Reeve, Ferrara & Palincsar discuss learning in which ...more>> The Interactive Mathematics Program (IMP) - Chicago, Univ. of Illinois A Model for Mathematics Education Reform. A four-year, problem based mathematics curriculum for high schools, to meet the needs of both college-bound and non-college-bound students. IMP is designed to replace the four-course sequence typical of most high ...more>> The International Netcourse Teacher Enhancement Coalition (INTEC) - The Concord Consortium An online professional development course that introduces inquiry-based teaching and learning to mathematics and science classrooms: network-based netcourses are designed to engage teachers in their own investigations, supplying skills, a knowledge of ...more>> Investigations in Number, Data, and Space (TERC) - Testbed for Collaboration, Eisenhower Regional Consortia A K-5 mathematics curriculum with four major goals: to offer students meaningful mathematical problems; emphasize depth in mathematical thinking rather than superficial exposure to a series of fragmented topics; communicate mathematics content and pedagogy ...more>> Kumon Math & Reading Centers Individualized, self-paced, mastery learning programs for math and reading, offered at the center or by correspondence. The Kumon method emphasizes practical skills rather than theoretical concepts and focuses on self-learning. Students receive daily ...more>> Make it Happen! - Education Development Center, Inc. (EDC) An approach that aims to improve middle school education for students with diverse learning abilities. Interdisciplinary teams of teachers design and implement inquiry-based I-Search Units and integrate technology in meaningful ways to benefit students. ...more>> Math Camp - Ivars Peterson (MathLand) For four weeks [in 1996], 98 students housed at the University of Washington (Seattle, WA) mixed mathematics with field trips, tennis, swimming, volleyball, and a host of other activities. It was a unique summer camp that kept them busy listening to lectures, ...more>> Mathematical Connections - Whittle, Luoma; Dept. of Learning Support, Augusta State University "Exploring the Interplay Between Mathematics and the Humanities." A forum for exploring the interplay between mathematics and the humanities, including, but not limited to, the relationship between mathematics and the arts, anthropology, history, literature, ...more>> Math Out of the Box - Bill Moss A K-5 mathematics curriculum by the College of Engineering and Science at Clemson University, published by Carolina Biological Supply Company, Inc. Read about the learning cycle that Math Out of the Box uses to foster inquiry-based learning. See presentations, ...more>> Mathworld - Matt Bowling The author developed this math story to act as a structure for the California second grade math curriculum. He finds it to be a big motivator to kids who are not usually interested in math. ...more>> The Nature of Mathematics - Ouida B. Kinzey; Kodak A description of how students created a mathematical slide show based on research projects. Colorado State Standard addressed: students develop number sense and use numbers and number relationships in problem-solving situations and communicate the reasoning ...more>> NCTM San Diego Sessions on Humanistic Math - Mathematics Education at the Math Forum A selection of presentations from the 74th Annual NCTM Meeting, April 1996, San Diego, CA. ...more>> Qwizdom Qwizdom's wireless handheld technologies and student response system let teachers instantly assess students' comprehension and identify their misconceptions and errors, in parallel, without having to facilitate multiple voices or single out "quiet" students. ...more>> Re-Inventing Fourth-Grade Mathematics - Jack J. Lopez; Kodak A series of four related activities through which students acquired a firm, active knowledge of some of the basic terminology of Euclidean geometry, learning the vocabulary for describing various geometric shapes and transformations. Students photographed ...more>> The Seaborg Center - C. Wozniak, Northern Michigan University The Glenn T. Seaborg Center for Teaching & Learning Science and Mathematics reflects Seaborg's belief that, in today's world, each citizen must have a solid base in the understanding of and appreciation for scientific concepts and the technology to ...more>> Sessions on Humanistic Math at the AMS/MAA Joint Meetings - The Math Forum The 1996 Joint Mathematics Meetings in Orlando, Florida featured presentations on the scholarship of humanistic mathematics. ...more>> The Singapore Math Coach - Tricia Salerno Problems of the week based on the Singapore math approach. Students with correct answers can see their names on the web. Site includes some program information as well. ...more>> System Dynamics in Education Project (SDEP) System dynamics is a method for studying the world around us. It deals with understanding how complex systems change over time. Internal feedback loops within the structure of the system influence the entire system behavior. Math materials are available ...more>> Tabula Digita Tabula Digita creates educational software that puts the action adventure fun of mainstream video games in a learning environment that prepares students for high stakes exams. First person shooter games Dimenxian, Evolver, and Meltdown contain 3-dimensional ...more>> Teaching Geometry: Investigations and Conjectures - Leslee Francis Pelton Lecture notes from a computer science/education class on teaching with technology. Topics include: why we should teach Geometry using an investigations and conjecturing approach; some commonly accepted myths about a conjecturing approach; questions teachers ...more>> Theoretical Learning - Peter Moxhay Information about a pilot project in Portland, Maine, public schools to adapt an approach developed in Russia for early math education (grades 1-3). Includes contact forms and request forms for Portland area parents to download trial math applets for ...more>> Workplace Preparedness Resources - H&H Publishing Texts, workbooks, and assessment instruments devoted to helping educators and trainers increase the competence of those in the workforce. Materials are lively, economical, and focused directly on practical workforce skills and behaviors. Assessment instruments, ...more>>

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