Greetings!
Greetings from the Investigations projects at TERC. For some time now we have wanted to find a way to keep in touch with the Investigations community. We hope that this newsletter will be an avenue for sharing ideas, discussion, and ongoing communication. This first newsletter focuses on the importance of meaningful practice and review. We chose this topic because it's often on people's minds at this time of the school year, when students are solidifying their understanding of concepts and skills that are critical components of the math that is still to come this year. We hope you find it useful.
Karen Economopoulos and Keith Cochran
Co-Directors of Investigations in Number, Data, and Space
Myriam Steinback
Director of Investigations Workshops for Transforming Mathematics
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Practice and Review
Students need a variety of experiences with an idea, concept, or skill in order to become fluent with it. To be effective, practice and review needs to be meaningful. It should provide repeated opportunities to become fluent with a skill while also deepening one's understanding of the mathematics. It should engage children and allow teachers to assess their students. Opportunities for such meaningful practice and review are embedded throughout Investigations.
Learn more about the components that provide practice and review.
Learn more about how those components are used in the classroom to provide meaningful practice that is explicit, coherent, and comprehensive. |
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Games
Games provide a powerful form of practice. This is because most students find them engaging and motivating. That means that they want to play, again and again, and they want to win, so they search for more efficient and effective methods.
Learn more about the role of games in Investigations and how to use them as tools for learning. | 
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Professional Development Institute
Cambridge, MA
March 24 - 26, 2010
$600 early rate ends February 8th!
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NCSM/NCTM
San Diego, CA
April 19-24, 2010
Session #322: Computational Fluency in Subtraction: What Does It Look Like?, by Keith Cochran and Karen Economopoulos on 4/19/10
Session #270: Examining Video of Student Thinking as a Component of Professional Development: Subtraction and Fractions from Second to Seventh Grade, by Virginia Bastable, Deborah Schifter, Susan Jo Russell on 4/19/10
Session #347: Implementing Curriculum: What It Takes, by Karen Economopoulos and Keith Cochran on 4/20/10
Session #375: Connecting Arithmetic to Algebra: An Online Course for Teachers in Grades 1-6, by Susan Jo Russell, Deborah Schifter, Virginia Bastable on 4/20/10
Session #467: Supporting Students to Develop Learning Behaviors in
Mathematics Class , by Judy Storeygard and Christina Myren on 4/21/10 |
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