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    Professional Development Guide based on NCTM's publication, Principles to Actions: Ensuring Mathematical Success for All.

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    How real-world problems enhance student learning and teachers’ understanding of student learning.  Extend student’s understanding of area and volume through real-world context.
    Mathematics Teacher
    Measurement
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    Explaining why an algorithm works challenges teachers to review and develop their conceptual understanding. The value of this process is applied to their students.
    Teaching Children Mathematics
    Teaching and Learning Instruction
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    Reasoning deductively to analyze problem approaches and comparing theoretical and experimental probabilities. Classroom insights on how to allow students more opportunities for personal discovery.
    Mathematics Teacher
    Probability, Data Analysis, and Statistics
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    Student responses to an algebraic task bring teachers insight into students’ approach, their interpretation and what knowledge they drew on in answering the question.  Learn how to plan better instruction to develop students’ understanding of mathematical proofs.
    Mathematics Teacher
    Reasoning, Sense Making and Proof
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    Develop and strengthen students’ algebraic and geometric reasoning and representations and justification skills while studying patterns in a toothpick task. 
    Mathematics Teaching in the Middle School
    Reasoning, Sense Making and Proof
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    Student work samples are used to develop teachers’ ability to determine students’ algebraic thinking from their work.
    Mathematics Teaching in the Middle School
    Algebra
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    Acknowledging disequilibrium and fostering struggle in students while challenging can become part of the learning routine.  Teachers use a first grade teacher’s experiences to develop strategies to embrace struggle in their own classrooms.

    Teaching Children Mathematics
    Teaching and Learning Instruction
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     How to help students generalize and transfer procedures and strategies for a particular problem to a more generalized system that can be used to solve other types of problems. 

    Journal for Research in Mathematics Education
    Probability, Data Analysis, and Statistics
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    Role of mental mathematics and how it applies to clear objectives for what students should be able to do mentally. Engage teachers in linking mental mathematics strategies with critical thinking strategies in the classroom.
    Mathematics Teacher
    Number and Operations
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    The Before-During-After (BDA) lesson format is developed and applied to assess students’ prior knowledge, engage every student in communication, promote higher-level thinking, and connect math to the real world.
    Mathematics Teacher
    Teaching and Learning Instruction
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    Advantages and disadvantages of different mathematical representations are developed for teachers and applied through a rich task to engage students in higher level activities.

    Mathematics Teaching in the Middle School
    Representation
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    Verbal interaction between teachers and students is studied. Strategies for identifying and addressing inequitable aspects of one’s own teaching practice are developed with teachers. 

    Teaching Children Mathematics
    Equity
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    Raise awareness, start a conversation about equity, and begin to examine practices teachers can change that impact students.  Includes multiple cases that can be used to identify and explore strategies for creating equitable classroom environments.

    Mathematics Teaching in the Middle School
    Equity
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    Implementing the Reasoning and Proof Standard in Geometry and Algebra classes by exploring a problem inductively before doing a deductive proof. 
    Mathematics Teacher
    Reasoning, Sense Making and Proof
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    Classes of multiplication problems and their representations provide teachers with tool for better assessing student understanding.  A lesson on problem writing assists teachers in moving the strategy to the classroom. 
    Teaching Children Mathematics
    Number and Operations
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    Myths/beliefs on teaching through problem solving are analyzed.  Guided discussion assists teachers in understanding and reflecting on their own beliefs.
    Teaching Children Mathematics
    Problem Solving
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    Problem Solving with multiple content-rich tasks to guide the discussion are evaluated. Student solutions focusing on their strategies and potential questions to strengthen student’s problem solving skills are examined.
    Mathematics Teaching in the Middle School
    Problem Solving
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    Collaborative design of technology-enhanced mathematics lessons with the use of a structured planning guide provides teachers a framework for increasing mathematical thinking and enhancing the teaching and learning.
    Teaching Children Mathematics
    Technology
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    What the arithmetic mean represents and doesn’t tell us are developed with teachers.  Data set and mean exploration and comparison develops deeper understanding and leads to more meaningful instruction about finding averages.
    Mathematics Teaching in the Middle School
    Probability, Data Analysis, and Statistics
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