If you haven’t already seen the Companion Guides 2014 the teachers at the convening at the beginning of summer started creating for Grades 1-5, pop on over here and check them out. Remember they are ever evolving as we add more material. The group is working on a document for vocabulary and consistency to add also. I […]
Want to start reading and stealing ideas from middle school and high school math teachers here in the state of Oklahoma? You’ve come to the right place! Here at OKMathTeachers.com, we are working on creating a comprehensive guide to teaching blogs written by Oklahoma math teachers. We posted a question on our #OKMath Facebook group […]
Oklahoma’s Summer Consortium is a time set aside in the summer for educators to come together, brainstorm for and create resources they would use in their classrooms and then share those with the rest of the state. This year, with HB3399, the educators decided we needed a starter document to refresh our minds about PASS […]
Do you ever feel isolated as a math teacher? Are you in need of new ideas for your math classroom? Perhaps you are the only math teacher in your department or the only teacher with a certain prep. Do you need help finding resources for teaching a certain topic? Do you wonder how you might […]
My Biggest Take Away from Twitter Math Camp 2014 Here’s what you should know: there is a subset of math teachers who operate just a bit differently than the rest of us. Some of us share a sliver of an intersection with this group, perhaps by way of simply lurking their conversations on Twitter or Blogs. This […]
You might have heard that Oklahoma is no longer moving toward Common Core. The passage of House Bill 3399 and the subsequent decision by the Oklahoma State Supreme Court to uphold the constitutionality of the bill effectively returns the state of Oklahoma to the Priority Academic State Standards (PASS). While the entire bill is worth […]
What is perseverance? The first of the Mathematics Practices from the Common Core State Standards placed this buzzword front and center in our consideration. As it turns out, it is quite easy to agree that perseverance is essential in students’ approach to mathematics. The harder question is how do we teach it. The National Research […]
It’s nearly here! Vision 2020 starts tomorrow and it is going to be spectacular. We are trying something new this year by hosting an un-conference within a conference. I’ve been practicing my “inception” skills so you may have recently dreamt about this. If that’s the case, you may already know what is coming next. Here’s […]
So glad you’re coming to Vision 2020! It’s going to be a great conference this year! If you haven’t already, be sure to register here. (It is completely free!) Supposing you’re registered, you might also consider downloading the Vision 2020 Conference App, which is your best way to find out about great sessions you might […]
Launching the first Elementary PD on Your Plan! This is the first of a four part series on math tasks. Moriah Widener and DeAnne Finley did an awesome job! Forgive the editing goofs, we will get better as we go! http://okmathteachers.com/pd-on-your-plan-math-tasks