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Staff
Development:
Teaching Number Concepts (K-8)
Staff Development: One 60-minute staff development program
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
Student
Programs:
Number
Concepts for Primary Grades (Grades 1-2)
Six 30-minute student programs
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.
Staff
Development:
Teaching
Algebraic Concepts (K-8)
Two 60-minute
staff development programs
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.
Student
Programs:
Algebra and Functions for Primary Grades (Grades 1-2)
Six 30-minute student programs
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.
Staff
Development:
Teaching
Geometry Concepts (K-8)
Two 60-minute
staff development programs
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.
Student
Programs:
Geometry
Concepts for Primary Grades (Grades 1-2)
Six
30-minute student programs
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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