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
October 2, 2018—Announcement
Susan Jo Russell will be at NCTM Regional in Hartford. “Contextualizing and Decontextualizing: Supporting Students to Visualize Mathematical Relationships.” 10/6/18 at 1:30 in Mtg Rm 16 of the CT Convention Center.
September 27, 2018—Announcement
Martha Merson will be at the 2018 ASTC Annual Conference, 9/29/18, presenting Bringing Scientific Research to Visitors’ Attention in National Parks—Where Could This Lead?
September 26, 2018—Announcement
Jodi Asbell-Clarke EdGE will be at the 2018 IMBES Conference, 9/29/18, and chair the panel Innovative Uses of Game-Based Learning and Data Analytics in Educational Neuroscience.
September 24, 2018—Announcement
The STEM Literacy Through Infographics educational resource website is now live! Check out science-infographics.org for resources to integrate data literacy and visualization in the classroom.
September 21, 2018—Announcement
This Saturday, 9/29/18, Harvard Coop will have a very special Storytime and Craft Activity from 11am-12pm! Author Ellen Mayer will be there to launch Clean Up, Up, Up!, the second book from Marlene Kliman’s project, Storytelling Math.
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."
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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