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The focus of the journal Mathematics Teaching in the Middle School (MTMS) is on intuitive, exploratory investigations that use informal reasoning to help students develop a strong conceptual basis that leads to greater mathematical abstraction.

 

Highlights from the Annual Meeting

This month's tips were highlighted in the Activity Books (ELEM MS HS) at the Annual Meeting and also in the New Teacher Strand.

Also, please check out the Blog and the WebCasts of selected sessions.

  

 

 

 Summer - MS

  

Let the Summer Games Begin!

  Resources for teachers and students.

Games, professional development, and opportunities to write, review, and present.

 

Curriculum Focal Points–Related Resources

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Lesson ideas and activities
organized by Focal Point.

 

Agenda For Action Cover  

An Agenda for Action
Recommendations for School Mathematics of the 1980s.

The historic document that started the standards movement

 
 MTMS March HL  THOUSANDS of Problems

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

 
 MTMS Feb

Math Roots

Hands-on activities focused on conceptual understanding.

 

INCLUDES STUDENT ACTIVITY SHEETS!

New Teacher Highlights

Middle School New 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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Weekly Problem


Your uncle buys a new car that comes with five new tires, one for each wheel and one spare tire. He decides to be economical by using the spare tire as much as the other four tires. If he drives 68,000 miles, what will be the wear in miles on each tire?

Solution:
54,400 miles. 68,000/5×4 = 54,400. He must use four tires at a time, and he must use five tires equally. He has five tires: tires A, B, C, D, and E. Divide his total miles into 5 driving intervals: 68,000/5 = 13,600.

Each tire is used for only 4 intervals; 4×13,600 = 54,400 miles.



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