Spotting math structure in children's games for Math Teachers' Circle

Tom Clark (back, right) helps teachers during New Teacher Network in 2011.
Tom Clark (back, right) helps teachers during New Teacher Network in 2011.

Former NebraskaMATH graduate student Dr. Tom Clark of Dordt College was featured in the Winter/Spring 2017 issue of MTCircular, the magazine of the Math Teachers' Circle Network. Check out his article "Spot It! Spotting mathematical structure in a children’s game."

http://www.mathteacherscircle.org/news/mtc-magazine/ws2017/spot-it/

Other highlights of the Winter/Spring 2017 issue of MTCircular include:

* A Teacher and a Mathematician: Katie A. Hendrickson (SouthEast Ohio MTC) shares how MTCs can affect teachers' beliefs about themselves and about mathematics
* A Circle in the Delta: Liza Cope (Mississippi Delta MTC) discovers that an MTC can extend the impact of a Math-Science Partnership grant
* Freeing the Clones: Kimberly Muller (Eastern Upper Peninsula MTC) explores paradox through mathematical games

The featured resources are available at http://www.mathteacherscircle.org/news/mtc-magazine/#resources.