Investigations 3: Making Sense of and Persevering with the Mathematical Practices
An Essay on the Math Practices
What does it look like when students engage in the Mathematical Practices? What is the teacher’s role in supporting the Practices? Read Deborah Schifter and Susan Jo Russell’s essay about what it means to take the Mathematical Practices seriously as part of instruction.
NEWS
September 19, 2018—Announcement
New BOLD blog post by EdGE's Jodi Asbell-Clarke, "Many learners have unrecognized talents that are not nurtured and leveraged."
September 1, 2018—Announcement
Featured DR K-12 Video of the Week is from the TERC project Doing the Math with Paraeducators
New Storytelling Math book published in Spanish and English! Clean Up, Up, Up! is a playful story that models engaging conversations between parent and child.
August 14, 2018—Announcement
Join TERC's Andee Rubin for a free webinar to learn about bringing Data Science Education to middle school. Sign up at http://concord.org/meetup
July 16, 2018—Announcement
Dr. Megan Bang, former TERC Postdoc Fellow, is the new Senior Vice President of the Spencer Foundation in Chicago
Featured Project
Center for Innovative Research in Cyber Learning — Perspective on EdGE
Plus an interview with EdGE director, Jodi Asbell-Clarke, about the NSF-funded project to study the development of computational thinking for upper elementary and middle grades students. More »
TERC Welcomes Two New Board Members
TERC’s Board of Trustees has appointed two new members: Chi Onyebuchi, Director of Global Program Management at Takeda Pharmaceuticals and Christina Olayon-Baker.
Featured Research
Algebraic Reasoning in the Elementary Classroom: Results of a Professional Development Program for Teachers
Authors: Susan Jo Russell, Deborah Schifter, Virginia Bastable. Megan Franke
—TERC (2016).
This paper describes a professional development experience designed to help teachers support their students to make, represent, and justify generalizations about the behavior of the operations … Read More »
Featured Service
STEM Education Evaluation Center (SEEC) offers consultation, external evaluation, and research support for existing STEM education grants and programs, and we collaborate with proposal writing teams to design studies. We are experienced quantitative and qualitative researchers with expertise grounded in theory and practice spanning STEM education.
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