Welcome back!
We realize some of you have already started school, and others are just beginning. We hope you had an enjoyable summer and are excited to begin a new year. The start of the school year always brings a combination of anticipation and excitement. The new year offers a fresh start; a chance for all educators, regardless of their role or years of experience, to consider how they can improve the teaching and learning of mathematics. This newsletter offers support in this process; by sharing video clips to show what Classroom Routines and Ten-Minute Math look like in classrooms K-5, and by offering our first ever online course, "Implementing Investigations." We've also included information about free activities that help educators and families do mathematics in creative and fun ways. We hope each of you has a successful and productive school year!
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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Implementing Investigations Online Course
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Continuing our commitment to offer high quality professional development, Investigations Workshops has added an online course option for this fall. Implementing Investigations is a six-week course developed to meet the needs of teachers and schools who have been unable to attend our face-to-face sessions.
Designed for teachers who are new - or relatively new - to Investigations, this course provides in-depth instruction and proven strategies for successfully implementing the curriculum.
The first class begins on October 24th. Registration is open for individuals or groups of teachers. Class size is limited, so please register today.
For more information about Implementing Investigations or any of our offerings, please contact us.
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Classroom Routines and Ten-Minute Math Activities
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A critical part of the practice and review built into Investigations, Classroom Routines (K-3) and Ten-Minute Math Activities (3-5) are brief activities, designed to:
- support and balance the in-depth work of each curriculum unit,
- build over the course of the year,
- provide practice with current concepts and skills,
- review previously introduced content.
Requiring 10-15 minutes of additional daily work, these activities are intended for use outside of math time e.g. just before or after lunch or recess or at the beginning or end of the day.
Learn more about CRs and TMMs and their role in the curriculum.
Learn more about using CRs and TMMs in the classroom, and watch video of one in action at each grade. 
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Mixing in Math: Integrating math all day long
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Mixing in Math (MiM) is a set of over
200 English and Spanish  interdisciplinary activities, games, and projects designed for in-school and out-of-school learning.
Families, after-school providers, and teachers use MiM to combine math with cooking, art, physical activity, and literacy.
Families may be especially interested in using MiM to complement and support Investigations, for instance, with:
After-school providers might enjoy viewing a MiM webinar to learn more  about the range of resources. Download everything for free at http://mixinginmath.terc.edu. Mixing in Math was funded by the National Science Foundation and developed at TERC. Questions? Please contact mixinginmath@terc.edu.
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As a not-for-profit education organization, we are always looking for ways to better serve educators. We want to hear from you about your professional development challenges and the programs you are looking for to help meet those challenges. Please consider taking this online survey. Your answers about educator professional development will help shape our offerings and improve the way we deliver our programs and services to schools and other learning environments. Your responses will be kept completely confidential.
http://surveys.terc.edu/NoviSurvey/n/zzz8l.aspx
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