Are you interested in improving your community through STEM? What if you had the technology and the money to do so? Check out this great opportunity and apply by October 31! We are excited to announce the launch of Samsung Solve for Tomorrow 2014/2015 contest. From now until October 31st, we are accepting applications from […]
This is another composition of the resources teachers created this summer. Where the companion guides are centered around one grade level, the focus of these is the vertical alignment. *If you downloaded any of the companion guides or vertical alignment pdfs for 5th grade before 10/3/2014, you will have a mistake on standard 1.3. It […]
“Connect math to real world experiences.” We hear that all the time. All we have to do is think about the most memorable moments in our own learning to realize it was the ideas excited us that got our attention, but it was the concepts and lesson that made sense in our own world, to […]
[If you haven’t had a chance to get to know the Eight Mathematics Teaching Practices, start with an introduction here.] One of the things I really started wrapping my head around while I was writing math lessons at the K20 Center was the power of the narrative. As a teacher, I did not really convey […]
Collaboration and Connection There are always great things that come out of collaboration with other teachers. This one idea of a Facebook page started last year blossomed into still one space for general news and questions, but now has all these seedling groups sprouting. Teachers who wanted to focus more on Elementary asked for and […]
When we did our initial launch of PD On Your Plan (PDOyP…all the cool kids are are pronouncing without the Y) for Elementary Math with the awesome Drab to Fab team, we told you it was the first of a 4 part series. We are now very happy to say that the first THREE parts are […]
This week I had the great honor to present at the 2014 Oklahoma CareerTech Conference for STEM Education held at OSU-Tulsa. I was asked by Sara Wright, my esteemed counterpart at Career Tech, to present on my favorite free calculator, Desmos, and on the new landmark publication from NCTM, “Principles to Actions: Ensuring Mathematics Success for […]
This Progression Guide is for 6th-8th grade, Algebra 1, Geometry, and Algebra 2. It is the result of a lot of hard work by the wonderful folks who attended the OSDE’s OKMath Summer Convening. If you are just looking for the Secondary Math PASS objectives, check them out here. Please keep in mind this guide […]
The goal of the Challenge is to increase student interest and knowledge in STEM subjects and mobile technology through an engaging and empowering learning experience. Click here to sign up to receive information on the 2014-2015 App Challenge 2014 - 2015 App Challenge Flyer DESCRIPTION AND PURPOSE The Verizon Innovative App Challenge is an exciting, […]
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 […]