This staff development program helps teachers identify important properties of number that help build a firm foundation for understanding geometry and algebra. Program design, teacher guides, and online opportunities for students, teachers, and parents are explored. Strategies and resources are presented to help students learn how to use technology as a tool for processing information, visualizing and solving problems, exploring and testing conjectures, accessing data, and verifying solutions.

This module introduces primary students to the properties of number. Lessons help them develop an understanding of the multiple relationships among whole numbers and the effects of operations on those numbers Topics include: Representing Numbers, Part-Part-Whole Concepts, Operations on Numbers and Understanding Place Value.

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The two staff development programs help teachers understand what algebraic thinking is and the importance of teaching algebraic concepts throughout the grades. Emphasis is placed on how these concepts relate to learning basic skills. Strategies for helping students develop algebraic thinking are modeled. Program design, teacher guides, and online opportunities for students, teachers, and parents are explored. Teachers discover that they can teach algebra to their students.

This module develops an understanding of how naturally occurring situations can be represented algebraically. Through active investigation, students model, represent, and interpret number relationships. They use algebraic symbols to create and solve problems using addition and subtraction. Equations are introduced as a way to generalize patterns and describe number relationships. Technology and online resources are highlighted. The topics include: Writing Equations, Exploring Number Relationships, Using Data for Problem Solving, Working with Functions, Describing and Extending Patterns, and Solving Riddles.

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These staff development programs help teachers understand geometry and the instructional strategies for effectively teaching geometry concepts. Program design, teacher guides, and online opportunities for students, teachers, and parents are explored. Strategies and resources are presented to help students learn how to use technology as a tool for processing information, visualizing and solving problems, exploring and testing conjectures, accessing data, and verifying solutions.

This module stresses the development of geometric ideas through activities that engage students in doing, thinking, and reflecting on geometric concepts. Activities help build self-confidence, nurture natural curiosity, and challenge students with rich problems that help them learn to appreciate and value mathematics. The content includes Sorting Geometric Shapes, Classifying Geometric Shapes, Discovering Attributes of Geometric Shapes, Constructing Shapes, Slides, Flips, and Turns and Three-Dimensional Geometry.

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First Grade
Reading | Mathematics