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From Effective Questioning to Deeper Understanding

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While asking questions may seem a simple task, it is perhaps the most powerful tool we possess as teachers. Knowing that effective questioning is the foundation for successful implementation of logical reasoning in the classroom, four opportunities for questioning have been identified (Texas and Jones 2013). One of the biggest challenges facing today's educators is addressing more rigorous … [Read more...]

Using Trade Books in the Mathematics Classroom

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                                                                                                                                                          These books are perfect resources for RtI/Intervention, small group instruction, centers and/or learning stations.   Incorporating literature into the mathematics classroom at any level can increase student engagement, as well as … [Read more...]

Global Project Challenge: Excursions in Mathematics

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"The Global Education Conference is a collaborative, inclusive, world-wide community initiative involving students, educators, and organizations at all levels. Their activities are designed to significantly increase opportunities for connecting classrooms while supporting cultural awareness and recognition of diversity and educational access for all." This year GEC is sponsoring the Global … [Read more...]

Writing, Vocabulary, & Literacy in Secondary Mathematics

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Students learn mathematics more effectively and more deeply when reading and writing is directed at learning mathematics. (Bossé and Faulconer 2008) Writing, Vocabulary, & Literacy in Secondary Mathematics Packet includes activities that target foundational components for developing understandings and building fluency with key mathematical topics: Circles Data Analysis Exponential … [Read more...]

Tennessee Mathematics Teachers’ Association Conference

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The Mission of the Tennessee Mathematics Teachers' Association (TMTA) is to encourage the study of and improve the teaching of mathematics in all the schools and colleges of Tennessee. Location: MTSU Date: September 23-24, 2016 Registration and conference information - click here Stop by the TLJ Consulting  booth! Tammy's sessions are listed below and: Tea, Guinness, Crop Yields: The Faces … [Read more...]

NCTM, San Francisco

My colleagues and I really enjoyed your presentation at NCTM.  We have already convinced our principal to pre-order us copies of your new book, but we would also like 4 class sets of the pyramids. 

Many presentations talked about problem solving and the benefits of giving students higher level thinking problems, but yours was the only one that really told us how to teach it and scaffold it for students, rather than just modeling what problem-solving looks likes.  Thanks.

Julie Jacewicz
Beaverton, OR

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