Transcript Blogs and Listservs of Interest

Blogs and Listservs of Interest
Craig Morgan
Haddon Township Public School
PCMI 2007
Troubles With Anti Reform
Factions?
Michael Goldenberg blog
"Float Like A Butterfly, Sting Like An SOB"
AN ISLAND OF RATIONALITY IN THE INSANITY OF THE MATH WARS
Topics Covered This Year
Let's Debunk Some NYC-HOLD Nonsense (Part 1)
Open Letter to Dr. Martin Brooks regarding Ridgewood, NJ
What Does Liping Ma REALLY say?
When Is A Topic No Longer Vital For The Curriculum?
Asking Good Questions In Math Class, Part 1
Math Anxiety: Where Does It Come From?
Links Available Also
Blog also contains links to these sites:
* Buckminster Fuller Institute
* COMPASS CENTER
* Cut-The-Knot
* Gene's Corner
* GRUNCH
* Library of Virtual Manipulatives
* Math Learning Center
* Math Revolution
* Mathematically Sane
* NCTM
* PULSE
* ShowMeCenter
* Sparkle Pony blog
* The Math Forum
* This Is MegaMathematics
* WashMath.com
Jerry Becker-Math News Listserv
List serv-sends messages about learning
with a basic slant toward math
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A Book To Investigate
The idea of open-ended problems is not radical or
unique to American mathematics education reform.
Jerry Becker and Shigeru Shimada edited an
excellent volume entitled, The Open-Ended Approach:
A New Proposal for Teaching Mathematics. It explores
many examples of quite challenging and engaging
problems from Japanese K-12 math classrooms that
illustrate what is meant by problems with more than
one reasonable or valid solution. And there is clear
evidence from the TIMSS videos taken in Japan that
such problems are used regularly in ordinary middle
school lessons. It seems almost obvious that a nonroutine problem, even one drawn from quite typical
mathematics content, can fit this criterion.
Book Details