This timely book provides support for secondary mathematics teachers learning how to enact high-quality, equitable math instruction with dynamic, mathematics-specific technologies. Using practical advice from their own work as well as from interviews with 23 exceptional technology-using math teachers, the authors develop a vision of teaching with…

The new Common Core State Standards for Mathematics have been formulated to provide students with instruction that will help them acquire a thorough knowledge of math at their grade level, which will in turn enable them to move on to higher mathematics with competence and confidence. "Hands-on Activities for Teaching the Common Core Math…

This is one in a series of manuals for teachers using SMSG high school supplementary materials. The pamphlet includes commentaries on the sections of the student's booklet, answers to the exercises, and sample test questions. Topics covered include definitions, parallel and perpendicular lines, distance formula, midpoint formula, linear equations,…

Includes materials in reproducible format designed to help students read and draw distance-time graphs and use the slopes of these graphs to draw conclusions about car speed. (PK)

These materials are intended to provide meaningful mathematical experiences for pre-algebra students. These experiences emphasize the development of computational skills, mathematical concepts, and problem-solving techniques. This bulletin may be used as the basis for the second term of a one-year course, or for the second year of a two-year…

Presents a lesson in which students communicate verbally and in writing to create and describe geometric transformations, develop vocabulary, demonstrate ability to give unambiguous instructions to translate a triangle, form and test conjectures, and create extensions of problems. Includes reproducible student worksheets and questions for…

Discusses a method of graphing polar equations using information from the Cartesian graphs of trigonometric functions. (MKR)

This book contains 40 lessons in problem solving divided into five chapters. Chapter 1 contains several lessons in which solutions are derived through investigation of numerical patterns. Chapter 2 contains lessons in which problem-solving situations are presented in a graphical context. It also includes two lessons in which students construct…

Cooperative groups were given transparencies of eight regular inscribed polygons and overlays of corresponding circumscribed polygons and were asked to find the perimeters and ratios of perimeter to diameter. Transparencies give students a graphic illustration of limits. Includes reproducible worksheet. (NI)

Presents a strategy for graphing conic sections on the polar plane without using a table of values by beginning with information gained from the graphs of circular functions. (MKR)

Presents a secondary classroom investigation into mathematical modeling techniques with the graphing calculator using a match stick puzzle. Geometric models, through their corresponding area formulas, are constructed, tested, and analyzed graphically to fit specified problem conditions. (Author/MKR)

An exercise which relates particle scattering and the calculation of cross-sections to answer the following question--"Do you get wetter by walking or running through the rain?"--is described. The calculations used to answer the question are provided. (KR)

This article presents problems to challenge students over and above the standard curriculum problems assigned at a Course I level. Every additional problem in the article can be solved using only the tools provided by Course I. (AIM)

Discusses the use of a dynamic geometry software package to improve teaching of graph theory in basic graph sketching and in isomorphic, bipartite, and planar graphs. (JRH)

This book provides a resource for mathematics teachers to understanding the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics' (NCTM) standards and implementing these standards in their teaching. Five standards are overviewed: (1) number and operation; (2) algebra; (3) geometry; (4) measurement; and (5) data analysis and probability. Lesson plans are…