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

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Learn Ways to Evaluate Math Games  2011_0106_TipsStudents are living and learning in an age of new media. Using games to teach math concepts supports students’ needs for engaging and interactive instruction. This month’s tips focus on the benefits of using math games as part of instruction and ways to evaluate a game’s usefulness. Links to free games are included.

 

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
Representation as a Vehicle for Solving and Communication 

An activity that explores the use of multiple representations in teachers' classrooms, and also builds teachers’ understanding of representations as tools that are vital for recording, analyzing, solving, and communicating mathematical data, problems, and ideas.

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)>

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

Math Roots
Hands-on activities focused on conceptual understanding.
Includes student activity sheets!

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


What is the last digit (ones) of the product of the positive prime numbers less than 50?

Solution:
0. Prime numbers less than 50 end in 1, 3, 7, or 9, with the exception of 2 and 5. Since 2 and 5 will have to be factors and 2×5 equals 10, the product must has a ones digit of 0.

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