This Week at the Global Math Department / Global Math Department

Edited By Casey McCormick @cmmteach

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Online Professional Development Sessions

Rethinking Math Homework
Presented by Frank Wapole and Evan Borkowski

Do you have 100% of your students completing your homework? Are students in your classes routinely using your homework assignments as learning tools? Yes? Then this session is not for you!!! This session is designed to challenge your views on HW, and help you utilize research based HW strategies.

To join this meeting when it starts at 9pm Eastern (or RSVP if it’s before 9pm), click here .

Last week Cal Armstrong presented the webinar, Learning Math in a Digital Environment. If you missed it, make sure to catch the recording! Don’t forget – recordings for all previously held webinars can be found here.

The #MTBoS Never Sleeps

Desmos Statistics

Desmos just added statistics features to its already amazing free online graphing calculator. Dot plots, box plots, histograms, distributions and t-tests are all now available. This is great news for teachers who teach one variable statistics and data displays.

Bob Lochel created a short video to explain how to use these new features:

And while we’re talking about Desmos, don’t forget that the application for the fourth year of the Desmos fellowship are now open. This amazing professional development opportunity is open to teachers across the US and Canada. If you want to hear more about the fellowship weekend, check out the recent Des-blog featuring past participants experiences.

Written by Erick Lee (@TheErickLee)

Homework: a Problem or a Solution?

Do many of your students struggle to complete math homework?

Recently, Julie Reulbach blogged about Meaningful Homework and CPM. She doesn’t grade homework anymore, but she does check for completion. The CPM curriculum she uses has homework that includes spiral review. Julie has made some purposeful decisions about the quantity and timing of homework where her “students absolutely love the new system.” Read her blog post to learn what steps she took to increase the completion rate and connection to student learning.

Written by Andrew Stadel (@mr_stadel)