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NCTM Afiliate Leaders Conference, Atlanta, Aug 2012

Elementary School Resources

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Teaching Children Mathematics (TCM) offers activities, lesson ideas, teaching strategies, and problems. Article downloads are free to individual members that subscribe to Teaching Children Mathematics.

Read a FREE Preview from the current issue: Common Core State Standards for Mathematics: The Big Picture 
BannekerBLACK HISTORY MONTH  

Take the opportunity to educate yourself this month about integrating culture and catering to diversity.

This month’s tips focus on honoring Black History Month. Tips include suggestions to educate yourself by picking up an engaging book, organizing or taking part in related professional development opportunities, getting to really know your students, or trying out some of Benjamin Banneker’s mathematical puzzles.
Reflection Guides 
Guidelines for Professional Development Using Publications 

NCTM school journals and other publications are a rich resource for professional development. Reflection Guides are written by members of NCTM's Professional Development Services Committee (PDSC).

Featured Reflection Guide - Representation
A Model for Understanding, Using, and Connecting Representations 

Teachers can reflect on their practice by examining a model for representation. Students’ thinking about problem solving as reflected in these representations may differ from their teachers’ thinking. The Representations Model provides a lens for making sense of students’ responses to tasks.

CFP Image Curriculum Focal Point - related resources
Collection of lesson ideas and activities organized by Focal Point.

 

Agenda For Action CoverAn Agenda for Action
Recommendations for School Mathematics of the 1980s.

The historic document that started the standards movement.

Illuminations Activities
Deep Sea Duel 

Play a strategy game that requires you to select cards with a specified sum before your opponent. (3-8)

 

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Investigations  

Hands-on activities focused on conceptual understanding.

 

THOUSANDS of Problems

Member access to problem archive of countless problems sorted by topic.

 
Elem New TeacherNew Teacher?

Beginning your journey as a mathematics teacher? This volume has been created to help you reach your full potential as a mathematics educator. Resources cover professional growth, curriculum and instruction, classroom-level assessment, classroom management and organization, equity, and school and community.
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A zookeeper was promised that she could have some special animals called mathemalsas soon as she builds a pen for them. She has 20 feet of fence to use for the pen. What type of pen can she build? How many different types of pens can she build?

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