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Category: Mathematical Discourse

Penny SmitsFebruary 13, 2022February 15, 2022

Did She Just Say, “Snowball fight?”

Did I catch your attention like I caught my students’ curiosity?  So what does a snowball fight have to do with math?  Let’s just say the idea came about because…

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Cathy SinnenNovember 21, 2021December 3, 2021

How I Magnified Students’ Voices by Quieting My Teacher Voice

In one form or another, I have been working on student participation as part of my action research investigation with my CPM TRC (Teacher Research Corps) teams for three or…

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Amanda EthridgeMarch 3, 2021March 4, 2021

Portfolio Assessments with Claim, Evidence, and Reasoning

Even before remote learning, I had been considering different ways of assessing students in my Integrated Math 2 and Introduction to Statistics courses. I felt (and students agreed) that they…

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Penny SmitsFebruary 13, 2021

A Timeless Classic

Who knew teaching students in the virtual environment would be so difficult?  The struggles range from getting students to turn on their cameras to trying to get them working in…

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Jamie KaperFebruary 11, 2021February 11, 2021

Question of the Day

I am a high school teacher in Sonoma, California. I primarily teach Freshman Algebra 1, but I am also teaching a section of Algebra 1 for students who need to…

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Jennifer McCallaMarch 24, 2020March 26, 2020

Using Participation Checks to Promote Turn-Taking in Teams

During the 2019-2020 school year, my CPM Teacher Research Team decided to center our work around active listening and turn-taking. Most of our work ended up focusing more on turn-taking,…

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Mollie SiegelFebruary 4, 2020February 6, 2020

Better Whole-Class Discussion Follows Good Team Discourse

During the 2019-20 school year, my fellow TRC collaborators and I set out to support stronger whole-class discourse in our high school math classrooms. My TRC group believes supporting better…

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Jennifer McCallaJanuary 20, 2020January 27, 2020

Using Sociograms to See Trends in Team Discussions

Our TRC team is conducting research on equal distribution of talk in teams.  Before the school year started, our team decided to use sociograms to collect data on equal talk. …

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Peter TrappNovember 25, 2019November 25, 2019

Digging Deeper into Division with Rationals

I have been studying how to get more kids involved in our math lessons. I feel like sometimes they get bogged down by the number of words on the page,…

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Anthony JonesFebruary 10, 2019February 21, 2019

Math Curiosities, Part 2

In my previous post on Mathematical Curiosities (www.imath.us/math), I wrote that I would explain in more detail later.  So, here are a few of the experiences I have had utilizing…

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