Seven Nebraska middle and high school mathematics teachers who are NSF Robert Noyce Master Teaching Fellows earned National Professional Board Certification during the 2013 application cycle. Continue reading…
To help meet the needs of teachers who wish to take graduate courses designed for mathematics teachers, but whose busy schedules require flexible scheduling in order to make this happen, the UNL Department of Mathematics is offering mathematics courses for teachers online on a regular basis. Continue reading…
It has become a NebraskaMATH tradition for our December newsletter to welcome new babies born into the NebraskaMATH community. Enjoy these adorable photos of NebraskaMATH teachers' babies born in 2013. Continue reading…
The State Board of Education named Matt Blomstedt as the new Commissioner of Education on Thursday, Dec. 12. Blomstedt is the executive director of the Nebraska Educational Service Unit Coordinating Council. Continue reading…
You have likely seen the headlines lamenting US students' performance on the 2012 PISA results. You may also have read articles decrying China's reporting practices. A Google search of "PISA results 2012" yields 1,270,000 results. Clearly a LOT of information is out there. What do we make of it? Continue reading…
1,549 students from 109 Nebraska high schools participated in the 24th annual UNL Math Day on Thursday, November 21 on the UNL campus. Lincoln East in Class I won first place in both the bowl competition and the PROBE team competition. Continue reading…
Two of our Noyce Master Teaching Fellows, Katie Garcia and Alicia Davis, had an article published in the December/January 2013 issue of NCTM's "Mathematics Teacher." Continue reading…
Today's classrooms are full of routines. Although we often think of routines as being used for organization, they can also be used to enhance instruction. High-Yield Routines for Grades K–8 discusses seven easily implemented mathematical routines that may be used effectively at many levels. Continue reading…
Manil Suri, mathematics professor at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, offers this discussion of ht beauty of math in the New York Times Opinion page on Sept. 16, 2013. Continue reading…
Think twice before skipping your geometry homework. The further you get in high-school math, the better you're likely to fare in the labor market.
Students who complete higher levels of math in high school experience lower rates of unemployment and receive higher salaries, on average. Continue reading…
A good read: The concluding chapter from NCTM's 1999 Yearbook, which is devoted to mathematical reasoning: "Developing Mathematical Reasoning in Grades K-12" by Lynn Arthur Steen, St. Olaf College. Continue reading…
Why do students drop out? An oft-cited 2006 study by the public-policy firm Civic Enterprises asked then-high-school dropouts that question and came up with unsurprising answers. Nearly half of them-47 percent-said that classes were boring, and 69 percent said that school just didn't motivate them. Continue reading…
Professor Emeritus Hung-Hsi Wu from the University of California, Berkeley, posted these PDFs on his website about geometry and the common core. These are designed to help teachers, especially high school teachers, to negotiate the geometry standards in CCSSM. Continue reading…
Students at a North Carolina middle school built a paper pyramid based on the Sierpinski triangle fractal and earned the math club a place in the Guinness World Records. Continue reading…
Two new competitions for pupils of age 9-18 with international participation are MATHFactor Europe 2014 and MATHeatre Europe 2014. They were currently launched under PHASE1 with online submission until Feb. 7, 2014. Continue reading…
Dive into math fun as you grab tokens, combine like terms, and use your algebra skills! Increase the coefficients to maximize your score when the secret values of the variables are revealed. Play Ker-Splash on Calculation Nation® today! Continue reading…
How do you provide PD that's neither overwhelming for new teachers nor repetitive for seasoned teachers? The flipped instructional model is being incorporated into professional development for teachers to help solve this, said a former principal at the ASCD conference. Continue reading…