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Teacher package: On thin ice - maths and climate change in the Arctic

"the National Research Council (NRC) convened two public workshops to examine the impact and effectiveness of selected STEM undergraduate education innovations. This volume summarizes the workshops, which addressed such topics as the link between learning goals and evidence; promising practices at the individual faculty and institutional levels; classroom-based promising practices; and professional development for graduate students, new faculty, and veteran faculty. The workshops concluded with a broader examination of the barriers and opportunities associated with systemic change."

LiveBinders is a free web 2.0 tool which offers educators the ability to save and organize materials for any class. One advantage of this online service the capability to update a binder anywhere an educator has internet access.

challenges and puzzles

textbook for pre-service teachers and current teachers

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Mathematics Teacher Noticing is the first book to examine research on the particular type of noticing done by teachers---how teachers pay attention to and make sense of what happens in the complexity of instructional situations. In the midst of all that is happening in a classroom, where do mathematics teachers look, what do they see, and what sense do they make of it?

A blog on introverts considers the methods of one-on-one learning in mathematics and other disciplines practiced at the Khan Academy, acknowledging the importance of balance between individual and group learning.

The authors found that Math Days for girls translates into math majors for women.

Book to be published in November 2011

Published in 2011, "reveals the secrets of amazing, fun-to-perform card tricks--and the profound mathematical ideas behind them--that will astound even the most accomplished magician. ... Each card trick introduces a new mathematical idea, and varying the tricks in turn takes readers to the very threshold of today's mathematical knowledge. For example, the Gilbreath Principle--a fantastic effect where the cards remain in control despite being shuffled--is found to share an intimate connection with the Mandelbrot set. Other card tricks link to the mathematical secrets of combinatorics, graph theory, number theory, topology, the Riemann hypothesis, and even Fermat's last theorem." Read more about one of the authors here: http://chronicle.com/article/The-Magical-Mind-of-Persi/129404/

An oped by the executive director of the Consortium for Mathematics and Its Applications and a Brown University professor argue that different math skills are needed for different life applications and high school math curriculum should be adjusted accordingly.

Partnership between Uof Nottingham and Cal Berkeley to design and develop well-engineered assessment tools to support US schools in implementing the Common Core State Standards for Mathematics (CCSS).Funding is provided by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation through the University of California, Berkeley.

An article examines the use of drawing in science learning, starting from the history of drawing in experimental science. Unfortunately the full text requires a subscription. Thinking of implications for math learning.

free worksheets and video tutorials.