Elementary School Resources

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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.

An 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)

 

Hands-on activities focused on conceptual understanding.

THOUSANDS of Problems

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

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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