[This post is a part of series on the Eight Mathematics Teaching Practices. If you haven’t had a chance to get to know the Eight Mathematics Teaching Practices, start with an introduction here. You can check out Practice 1 here. We also did a survey about the Teacher and Student Actions you can read about […]

Here’s how I like to explain it… I had this crazy idea to send out an enormous survey and somehow there were over 100 crazy math teachers in Oklahoma who actually filled it out! Like Jeff Lay, Anthony Purcell, and so many others, I fell in love with NCTM’s Principles to Actions (link) almost immediately. […]

Today’s article was written by Johni Edsel of Tulsa Technology Center As a math teacher, I’m always looking for ways to make my lessons make “sense” to my students. Sometimes it’s hard to determine if my students understand what they are actually doing. Yes, they can “plug and chug”. Yes, they can manipulate an equation […]

“You want me to what?” Many of us have been in faculty meeting lately where the topic of choice is “Literacy Across the Curriculum.” Let’s be honest, as math teachers, especially secondary math teachers, we often leave those meetings thinking “What?!? Writing in math?!? How is that supposed to work?” One of the Standards for […]

Jan. 31 , 2014: Levi Patrick gives a brief overview of the goings on at the Oklahoma State Department of Education. Topics discussed include the REAC3H Regional Meeting in Stillwater and Ardmore and an interview with Sammie Marshall about her Friday Round-Up, “5 Ways to Reinforce MP.1 – Make sense of problems and persevere in […]

As students develop into emergent mathematicians, the Standards for Mathematical Practice highlight certain habits or tendencies that describe mathematically proficient students. However, these standards seem to be less tangible to teach than the Oklahoma Academic content Standards. I know of no unequivocal recipe for developing sense-making capabilities or cultivating perseverance in students. But there are some classroom […]