Updated Item Samplers and TE Item Types for Math MCA
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Grade 11 and DOK III Items Added to MCA Released Items
MDE added 21 released items to the released item web page. The items span grades 3 through 8 and 11, including a few DOK III items.
Continue readingMyNCTM is Your NCTM!
You know, and we know, that learning, planning, and growing with others is better than doing so in isolation. MyNCTM, just released, is designed to support you in actively doing this with one another.
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I love books about leadership. I especially love those books that provide a vision and an opportunity for reflection. Dr. Timothy Kanold’s book titled HEART! Fully Forming Your Professional Life as a Teacher and Leader does both.
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2018 MCTM Spring Conference and Symposium – Information and Registration.
Continue readingData Table Added to Each Released Math Item
Released items and data tables are now provided for teacher or parent use as well as for students. All items on the MDE Released Item webpage were used operationally on the Minnesota Comprehensive Assessment (MCA-III).
Continue readingMathematical Beauty on Vacation to Use in Classroom Conversation
This interaction reminded me of a talk Christopher Danielson gave at MCTM Duluth this past spring, using photos to encourage math discussion and Malke Rosenfeld’s Instagram Page, Math Off the Page. I was inspired to find the mathematical beauty as I explored Trinidad and Tobago the next several days.
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Here are some of my favorite Minnesota Math Teacher Bloggers. You need to follow each of their blogs. They all have some fantastic things to say. (In no particular order)
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I organized a professional development day this summer and had to make signs to point people in the right direction. As an overachiever, I had to make them mathy.
Continue readingLearning Basic Single-Digit Combinations (Facts): Developing Important Ideas in Mathematics; Part II – Developing Number Strings to Build Derived Strategies
This month, I would like to concentrate on ways to develop number strings with students. Multiplication will be featured as the operation around which these number strings can be formed.
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