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Teaching Children Mathematics (TCM) offers activities, lesson ideas, teaching strategies, and problems. Article downloads are free to individual members that subscribe to Teaching Children Mathematics.

 

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BLACK HISTORY MONTH

Take the opportunity to educate yourself this month about integrating culture and catering to diversity.

Tips include suggestions to educate yourself by picking up an engaging book, organizing or taking part in related professional development opportunities, getting to really know your students, or trying out some of Benjamin Banneker’s mathematical puzzles.

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Curriculum Focal Points–related resources 

Collection of lesson ideas and activities organized by Focal Point.

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An Agenda for Action
Recommendations for School Mathematics of the 1980s.

The historic document that started the standards movement

TCM Aug 08 HL

THOUSANDS of Problems

 Member access to problem archive of countless problems sorted by topic.

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Investigations

Hands-on activities focused on conceptual understanding.

 

New Teacher Highlights

Elem New Teacher

Beginning your journey as a mathematics teacher? This volume has been created to help you reach your full potential as a mathematics educator. Resources cover professional growth, curriculum and instruction, classroom-level assessment, classroom management and organization, equity, and school and community.
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Weekly Problem


When stores are very busy, lines of customers at the cash registers get very long. One way cashiers can work quickly is by using the minimum number of coins possible when giving change to a customer. If you had to give a customer 53 cents in change, how many different coin combinations can you find to give this amount of change? What is the minimum number of coins you can use? The maximum number? If you purchased an item that costs $2.99 plus 6% tax and paid with a $20.00 bill, what would be the minimum number of coins the cashier could give you as change?

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