Discover math Activities for the Primary Grades designed for first through third grade teachers. This course integrates theory and practice, using innovative teaching strategies. Teachers will engage their students in hands-on activities that build mathematical knowledge and demonstrate proficiency. The learning experiences are easily adaptable to meet the various learning styles and needs as well as prepare students for achievement testing.
Learn innovative teaching strategies integrating theory and practice utilizing a variety of high-interest formats. The activities are designed to serve as reviews, diagnostic aids, and remedial teaching tools for teachers who are working with students in grades four, five and six. The learning experiences are easily adaptable to meet the various learning styles and needs as well as prepare students for achievement testing.
Creating a learning environment that supports the development of understanding math concepts for our young learners is as critical as the choice of curriculum expectations. Learn how to encourage and promote understanding so children will learn that mathematics makes sense and is applicable to their everyday needs.
Organizing Learning Environments for Math is designed to offer Preschool, Transitional Kindergarten, and Kindergarten teachers a guide for designing a learning environment that supports the development of understanding math concepts for young learners. If lessons are developed to encourage and promote understanding, children will learn that mathematics makes sense and is applicable to their everyday needs.
Surprise and excite students as they discover mathematics come from real human beings like themselves. Learn how to take the fear and apprehension out of mathematics. The stories behind mathematical discoveries are fascinating but rarely told. When students learn how persons like themselves have discovered and shaped mathematics, their interest and motivation grows. This course examines the lives and work of great mathematicians who lived before 1700.
Explore the stories behind mathematical discoveries which are fascinating but rarely told. When students learn how people like themselves have discovered and shaped mathematics, their interest and motivation grows. Share with students the stories about mathematicians and engage in problems similar to the ones these mathematicians worked with, which opens the door for students to see how mathematics is inter-connected.
Many of us already know that problem solving can be an exciting, exhilarating adventure. Students who have caught this enthusiasm may simply be given a problem and "turned loose" to see what they can find. Others, frustrated by lack of direction or insecure about process, will find the activities in this course guiding them towards success. With just a little help, every student can make some significant discoveries about mathematics.
Through this 100% online professional development course, educators will discover how recreational mathematics is real mathematics but presented in a context that makes it engaging, interesting, and challenging. The regular use of mathematical recreations throughout the school year can serve to convince students that math can be exciting and rewarding.
This course is a standards-based methods course that offers Pre-School and Primary grade teachers a guide for designing a learning experience for their students which focuses on counting, comparing, and patterns. Students choose from over 100 activities that address students individually, in small learning groups, or with whole class experiences. The assignments may be completed with or without classroom student participation.
Discover how to use hands-on materials, real-world problem-solving and playful activities to support number concepts while introducing students to the building blocks of Algebra. This course will help you extend primary students' experiences with numbers through the use of patterning, number relationships, and graphing.
Discover captivating activities, use manipulatives and real-world problem-solving to support number concepts while introducing students to the building blocks of Algebra. This online course will provide you with numerous opportunities to reflect on current research and pedagogy related to algebraic thinking in the intermediate grades. Make direct application to your own classroom through the design and development of lessons that explore growth patterns, tables, variables, and coordinate graphs.
Integrating the arts into mathematics learning allows students to experiment with shape and form, investigate abstract concepts with concrete materials, and approach problems from multiple perspectives. Students realize that mathematics can help them order and understand the natural world. At the same time, art invites students to participate in the creative playfulness and aesthetic expression so often missing in classroom mathematics.
Faced with teaching first year algebra? This course provides useful ideas, strategies and resources for teachers of first year algebra. The ideas, approaches and strategies in this course should make teaching first year algebra less abstract and more satisfying to both teacher and student. Participants will be asked to read several articles and to experiment with a variety of creative approaches to make algebra concepts more concrete.
Do you find it challenging to develop assessment tasks that measure student thinking and understanding? If so, you're not alone. Authentic assessment--the kind that tells us what students know, what they've learned, and how they are relating to the math content--can be one of the keys that unlocks powerful teaching and learning in the classroom.
Investigate virtual pattern blocks, geoboards, function machines and more. This online course will introduce teachers K - 12 to the world of virtual manipulatives. You will compare and contrast virtual manipulatives to traditional manipulatives and discover ways to integrate them into their standards-based mathematics instruction. You will become familiar with current research on the use of computer-based virtual manipulatives in the classroom.
Discover how to support deeper understanding of foundational algebraic concepts in grades 6-8. Teachers will explore growth patterns and functions, variables, linear relationships, and coordinate graphs. Based on the text and research-based journal articles, teachers will design and implement a unit of grade-level appropriate algebraic thinking activities with their students.
This fully online course provides teachers with effective techniques for engaging English language learners, also called multilingual learners, in rigorous mathematics learning. Participants will explore the ways that language proficiency and cultural background can shape mathematics learning and achievement. The course provides strategies for supporting language development and cultural awareness as well as methods to foster a learning environment that encourages participation and engagement.
The activities in this online course will provide you with multiple opportunities to deepen your understanding and apply insights to your own teaching. Designed to provide you with a foundation for using technology to enhance students' mathematics learning in your classroom, participants in this course will examine best practices for technology-based mathematics using dynamic calculators, digital games, virtual manipulatives, interactive online tools, and more.
Discover powerful ways to engage students in mathematics discussion. This online course will explore principles of productive talk and specific techniques that will get your students talking about math. Collaborate with online colleagues as you add useful strategies to your math talk toolkit. All of the readings and activities are built upon the Common Core standards. Teachers may complete this course with or without students.
Discover how to engage your students in the Common Core Standards for Mathematical Practice. In this course, you will explore specific strategies for developing mathematically proficient students who reason, apply mathematics to problems and communicate precisely about their thinking. Opportunities for online collaboration and resource sharing make this course a powerful vehicle for professional growth and classroom change.
Social justice awareness can be utilized in lessons in the classroom. This online course will introduce you to specific strategies for engaging students in mathematics lessons and activities built around social justice issues, such as healthy eating, living wages around the world, access to clean water or fair trade.
The goal of this online course is to introduce you to strategies to enrich your students critical thinking skills by engaging in meaningful problem solving using rich mathematical tasks. The eight Common Core Standards for Mathematical Practice require students to think critically as they apply their skills and knowledge to mathematical situations. Rich tasks present students with the opportunity to conjecture and reason, explore and model, collaborate and communicate about mathematical thinking.
Do your students struggle with math facts? Are you looking for practical methods that go beyond memorization? This online course will introduce you to number talks, a classroom routine that engages students in the use of strategies that support number flexibility and fluency. During number talks, students explore and discuss number structure and relationships for mentally calculating addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, fractions, percents and decimals.
Students bring a rich variety of cultural backgrounds and identities to classroom learning. Research suggests that teachers who value student culture and experience are better able to foster academic success, cultural competence, critical citizenship, and caring relationships. Culturally responsive mathematics is a pedagogy that seeks to energize the relationship between students' home and community culture and classroom mathematics learning.
Routines help us develop healthy daily habits, math classrooms establish routines for lectures and homework, fewer offer specific daily routines to help students think, communicate, and reason like mathematicians. If your students struggle to get started on mathematical tasks or if they rely on teacher examples in order to 'do problems', this course offers an exciting set of practices to foster confident mathematical thinking.
Great math instruction needs more than a good explanation on the board. The Desmos in the Math Classroom course is designed for educators who want new, interactive approaches to teaching students math through discussion and real-time problem-solving. In this professional development course in math, educators explore Desmos tools and classroom reminders they can use right away. These include the graphing calculator, ready-made activities and features that support pacing and collaboration.
Understanding Geometry, 'Big Ideas' is a course designed for Preschool, TK, K-3rd grade educators that provides a variety of classroom-tested activities to promote in-depth understanding of 2-D and 3-D geometry concepts and spatial awareness. Participants will learn many practical strategies and approaches to develop spatial reasoning, recognition of shapes, and real-world connections in a fun and engaging manner.
Remote technologies that connect people have expanded the ways we teach and learn. Many schools are embracing digitized education through blended and online offerings. With a higher prevalence of remote learning, it's increasingly important for educators to develop pedagogical approaches that maximize benefits for online learners.
Transform your classroom with 14 evidence-based teaching techniques to optimize student thinking. This course explores the principles and practices outlined in Peter Liljedahl's Building Thinking Classrooms in Mathematics-a teaching framework developed over fifteen years of research in more than 400 classrooms. Math teachers are inundated with ideas about what works in the classroom. Liljedahl put teaching strategies to the test, identifying the moves that genuinely foster student learning.
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