The national news "Math Education SmartBrief" picked up a story about Indian Hill of OPS and Noyce Master Teacher Matthew Timm in the Omaha World-Herald on Oct. 22: "Some parents at a Nebraska elementary school are going back to class to learn more about the school's approach to math instruction." Continue reading…
On Oct. 18, 2017, Alan Holdorf, Lincoln Southeast math & computer programming teacher, was the recipient of the Teacher of the Month Award for the month of September from the Lincoln East Rotary Club. Alan was a Noyce Teaching Fellow and earned his MAmt from UNL. Congratulations Alan! Continue reading…
The upcoming 2nd annual statewide K-12 Science Education Summit is Monday, Dec. 11, 2017, at Nebraska Innovation Campus in Lincoln. This year’s summit will build on last year’s inaugural event and will provide an opportunity to engage with members of Nebraska’s science education community. Continue reading…
Each chapter unpacks ways in which mathematics teacher educators (MTEs) use theoretical perspectives to inform their construction of goals, activities designed to address those goals, facilitation of activities, and ways in which MTEs make sense of experiences prospective teachers have as a result. Continue reading…
Research has long shown that women who enter college intending to pursue a career in science abandon that path more frequently than their male peers, with many citing poor grades and large gateway classes as reasons for their declining interest. Continue reading…
This activity webinar by Nick Horton of Amherst College on Nov. 21 at 2 pm describes a classroom activity where pairs of students hand scrape data from cars.com, ingest these data into R, then carry out analyses of the relationships between price, mileage, and model year for a selected type of car. Continue reading…
The Nebraska Association for the Gifted Annual Conference will be held Feb. 22-23 in Omaha at the downtown Embassy Suites for an exciting two-day conference featuring national and local presenters. Continue reading…