Lights, camera, action! Math educators consider how to improve their instruction by examining a model of the five-practice problem-solving model involving a movie theater. Participants examine cognitive demand in relation to problem...

Designed specifically for math instructors, the seventh workshop of a 15-part series allows time to explore Webb's DOK, ponder open-ended questions, and create lessons to apply what is learned. Teachers craft high-quality math problems...

The six instructional shifts in this workshop definitely move math and science teachers' understanding of instruction. The workshop, 13th out of a series of 15, asks participants to examine sample tests and to look at how the six...

Are you an educator looking for a new program for your math class to help the students in your room succeed? Do you need more options in teaching math? Peruse BEE to find over 80 reports on math intervention strategies for your class....

The purpose of this task is to promote certain addition strategies that will help students learn to fluently add and subtract within 20. Students will use a number line or magnetic cubes to solve addition problems. Students will be asked...

This document for Grades 7-9 teachers explains what mathematical literacy looks like and why it is so important to success in Mathematics, how to plan for it and what the research tells us. The focus is primarily on developing...

The mathematics lesson plans consist of teaching strategies and activities for algebra, geometry, and trigonometry. Some strategies included are teaching in block scheduling, working with lower ability students, and planning curriculum....

This activity unit guides students in developing strategies for modeling problems. The task focuses on investigating a cat shelter's claims about the rate of cat population growth. The unit includes a full lesson plan, examples of...

Short selections from W. W. Rouse Ball's "A Short Account of the History of Mathematics," most of which are biographies that focus on the mathematician's work. The text can be read online or downloaded by individual chapters in MP3 or...

This task challenges a student to use knowledge of place value to solve a problem using a variety of strategies.

This excellent document looks at the literacy skills necessary at the middle school level for understanding printed Math materials such as textbooks. Many strategies are offered for teaching students the literacy skills they need.

Students look for patterns to determine how many valentines will be distributed in a class of 28 students. After trying the problem, they can look at several other methods that could be used and compare the answer they got. There is also...

Educational publisher Houghton Mifflin provides a colorful, engaging site that offers test-prep practice, test-taking strategies, and brain teasers on a variety of math concepts for grades 1-6. Just "Choose an activity and pick a grade,"...

Educational publisher Houghton Mifflin provides a colorful, engaging site that offers test-prep practice, test-taking strategies, and brain teasers on a variety of math concepts for grades 1-6. Just "Choose an activity and pick a grade,"...

Challenge the genius in you with these three mathematically interesting games recommended by the University of Toronto?s Mathematics Network. Your goal is to uncover winning strategies for each game and to mathematically ?prove? that...

This site provides intervention strategies for math teachers. The site talks about both identifying students that need intervention and ways to address the issues. The ways to address the issues include small groups, differentiated...

The purpose of this task is to support students in developing an understanding of a place value strategy for adding numbers. By using a representation to visualize the abstract notation, students will make sense of the strategy, adding...

Strategies for basic addition and multiplication are explained here and there are several practice worksheets that can be downloaded.

This task builds on that knowledge by asking them to study more carefully the make-a-ten strategy that they should already know and use intuitively. Aligns with CCSS.Math.Content.3.OA.D.9 Identify arithmetic patterns, and explain them...

National Council of Supervisors of Mathematics:Geometric Tasks is a teacher resource that uses the Problem of the Month (POM) strategy as a way to solve pattern and other problems.

In this lesson plan students use strategies based on place value to add and subtract within 100.

This lesson plan has students adding up to four numbers using place value strategies.

Students will determine whether a set of objects contains an even or odd number of members using strategies such as pairing objects or attempting to divide the objects into two equal subgroups. Discussion questions and explanations are...

The purpose of this task is to help learners develop flexible strategies for adding and subtracting within 20. Students will pick 5 number cards from pre-made cards labeled 1-10. Then, another student will pick a "target number" between...