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Making Mathematical Reasoning Explicit
This project is developing mathematics teacher leaders to serve as school and district-based intellectual leaders and master teachers in a set of small rural school districts in Eastern Washington and Northern Idaho. Teachers in these underserved areas are geographically isolated and intellectually removed from colleagues in the same discipline. To counter these circumstances the team of investigators is combining in-depth mathematical content knowledge focused on reasoning, justification, and generalization of mathematical ideas, with ongoing, purposeful, supported professional development activities during the academic year. Supporting these activities is a partnership among teachers, school administrators, and higher education faculty intended to create a mechanism for sustained school change, resulting in continued improvement in teaching and student achievement.

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Mathematics workshop 'Making Mathematical Reasoning Explicit' teaches instructors how to teach math
"Math is a subject that common-core education advocates want to emphasize in the classroom, but it's also a subject that intimidates…

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Learning Theory-Driven Professional Development - Stories from Two MSP Projects
"Learning Theory-Driven Professional Development (LTDPD) empowers teachers to engage students in learning experiences derived from research about how students learn. Two MSP projects are implementing forms of LTDPD. The Arizona…
Mathematics workshop 'Making Mathematical Reasoning Explicit' teaches instructors how to teach math
"Math is a subject that common-core education advocates want to emphasize in the classroom, but it's also a subject that intimidates…
A classroom observation rubric for mathematical justification
Posted by: Robert Ely . Our MMRE rubric, with examples, for describing mathematical justification made explicit in the classroom. The poster is included as a pdf.