An e-mail survey was conducted in the summer of 2007 to obtain information from state supervisors of mathematics (employees of state departments of education with primary responsibility for K-12 curriculum leadership) ...

This presentation discusses what standards and research say about the learning of probability, dice and coins with Fathom, and how to solve problems by doing simulations. Fathom is a software useful in high school Algebra courses which makes it easy...

through the lens of the curriculum materials they use to provide opportunities for learning for their students....

There is no simple solution to improve student learning opportunities for Missouri students. Rather, we need a “recipe” that will maximize the liklihood of students learning important mathematics....

This report represents the first detailed analysis of the grade placement of particular learning goals across all state-level curriculum documents published and current as of May 2005. The report documents the current situation regarding grade...

The purpose of this activity is to create spreadsheets that would help students to develop an algebraic approach to some problems. Spreadsheets will be created that perform repeated calculations. Through this activity, ...

This presentation discusses the benefits of using GeoGebra, a freely available “dynamic mathematics software” for learning and teaching in schools. It enables teachers to create accurate diagrams and illustrations, create interactive demonstrations...

African American female literacies, social capital theory and spirituality, the researcher reviews existing scholarship and primary documents to present an historical examination of how peoples of African descent have created means of education in venues...

as incapable of learning complex and meaningful algebraic knowledge. Such expectations translate into poor teaching practices, practices of exclusion and marginalization within the mathematics classrooms, and low quality interactions between teachers...

. At the same time, several bivariate learning expectations present in textbooks were not found in CCSSM. For the task features, few instances were at a high level of mathematical complexity and rarely included a Collect Data component. Analyses revealed...

Recent federal initiatives, most notably the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) legislation, have exerted substantial influence on state and local decision-making. One element of the educational system that has been affected ...

observed and interviewed over the span of a week to investigate their goals. Findings were developed inductively and led to a presentation of goal themes. Teachers held goals for self-improvement, for the classroom environment, for the direction tasks...

This presentation gives an overview of the Association of Mathematics Teacher Educators (AMTE) and discusses some pressing issues and challenges related to teaching and learning mathematics, including what is working and what needs attention...

serve as an initial stage for research into how curriculum influences student learning of function....

This presentation discusses the software Geometer's Sketchpad and its relation to learning standards for elementary and secondary students....

motivated and engaged in English learning while doing digital poetry. This study also makes some recommendations in terms of poetry and digital poetry teaching in the American classroom and the ESL/EFL classroom as well as suggestions for future research....

This study examined how algebra teachers plan curriculum units when they actively design their curriculum. I used a case study (Yin, 2013) of five experienced high school mathematics teachers who came from school districts of varying sizes across...

This Institutional Ethnography presents research gathered through interviews with administrators, teachers and students involved in the giving, taking and using of reading assessments to place students in junior high reading intervention. A strong...

of teaching strategies learned by preservice teachers during their methods course, and serves as a springboard for dialogue on pedagogical issues and theories. Student feedback on their experience over the semester with the workshop approach is included...