It's official; the Greater Nebraska Math Teachers Circle season has begun. Nearly 40 teachers gathered in Kearney before the NATM Conference for math and munchies at the first circle meeting of the year. More circles will be scheduled across Nebraska. All are welcome. Watch for a meeting near you! Continue reading…
The NATM Fall Conference provided a great time for math teachers to reunite with friends and be inspired by one another's ideas. More than 325 math teachers attended NATM this year. Continue reading…
It's a question teachers ask themselves each year: How should I arrange my classroom? Of course constraints like class size, room size and tables vs. desks will yield different arrangements. One student from Scottsbluff studied the question and arrived at some mathematically sound results.
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Primarily Math Cohort 4's Melissa Hawley received the Outstanding Elementary Teacher of the Year Award from Falls City Public Schools. Continue reading…
Teachers are welcome to register for the 24th Annual UNL Math Day, being held on Thursday, Nov. 21, 2013. Registration is open online at http://go.unl.edu/mathday. Several improvements have been made to the structure of Math Day. Continue reading…
Mike Hopkins, Professor at Harvard University, will be giving a free, public talk on Thursday, Nov. 14, from 4:30 p.m. to 6 p.m. in the Nebraska Union Auditorium on UNL City Campus. Hopkins is a Visiting Research Professor in the UNL Department of Mathematics. Continue reading…
Two articles about NebraskaMATH and teacher leadership/ coaching were published online on MSPnet in 2013. One article was co-authored by Noyce Master Teaching Fellow Paula Jakopovic Millerd of OPS. Continue reading…
Please join us for a special presentation on early childhood math education featuring Douglas H. Clements, Kennedy endowed chair in early childhood learning and professor, Department of Educational Research, Policy and Practice, University of Denver. Continue reading…
OPS TLA Math in the Middle teacher Tricia Krause challenges her students with a bulletin board asking: How many ways are there to make change for a dollar? Continue reading…
MathAlive! is designed to inspire, spark the imagination and reveal math at work. This interactive and inspiring exhibit, currently at the Smithsonian, is coming to the Strategic Air & Space Museum in Ashland on Sept. 21 and will be open through Jan. 12. Continue reading…
Formative assessment is an essential process that supports students in developing the reasoning and sense-making skills that they need to reach specific learning targets and move toward mastery of mathematical practices, according to a new position statement issued by NCTM. Continue reading…
Get your camera and your photographic eye ready for the newly announced International Year of Statistics (Statistics2013) photo contest. This new competition is for secondary school students, grades 7–12, from around the world. The deadline is Nov. 1. Continue reading…
How many triangles can you make on a geoboard? Facilitating a discussion and exploration that followed this question changed one teacher. Read more in the free preview article in Mathematics Teacher, "The Geoboard Triangle Quest." Continue reading…