Using Problems to Implement the NCTM's "Professional Teaching Standards.".

Showalter, Millard W.

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Publication Date: 1994

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Using Problems to Implement the NCTM's "Professional Teaching Standards."

Showalter, Millard W.

Mathematics Teacher, v87 n1 p5-7 Jan 1994

Presents four investigations involving geometric sequences and series: folding a sheet of paper in half 8 times, stacking pieces of paper cut in half 50 times, snapping your fingers at intervals doubled in length for 1 year, and summing time intervals continuously cut in half. (MDH)

Descriptors: Investigations, Mathematical Applications, Mathematical Concepts, Mathematical Enrichment, Mathematics Education, Mathematics Instruction, Problem Sets, Problem Solving, Secondary Education, Secondary School Mathematics

Publication Type: Guides - Classroom - Teacher; Journal Articles

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Audience: Teachers; Practitioners

Language: English

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