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Seeing Math™ is a series of innovative, online professional-development courses that make challenging mathematical concepts visual, relevant, and easier to teach. These courses are designed for in-service and pre-service teachers of mathematics, grades 6-12.
The Seeing Math™ series offers learners:
- Rich, topic-based courses
- Computer-based interactives
- Parallel teacher and student activities
- Videos that provide expert commentary and insights into student thinking
- Online, facilitated discussions about algebraic content, student thinking, instructional strategies, and classroom management
Nine key topics are addressed in these five-week courses:
- Math 410 - Seeing Math™ Linear Functions: Discover ways to teach linear functions through real-world problems that generate varied approaches and solutions. Experience how multiple representations strengthen understanding of functions, equations, and problem solving. Adapt your own problem and come away with activities for your students.
- Math 415 - Seeing Math™ Transformations of Linear Functions: How do changes to a function's graph mirror changes to its symbolic representation, and vice versa? Learn how to help students better grasp the symbolic representations of function while representing families of linear functions in multiple formats, and try out activities for your students.
- Math 420 - Seeing Math™ Linear Equations: Develop strategies for teaching students to represent and manipulate linear equations. Examine the rationale behind symbol manipulation that maintains an equality or corresponding inequality, use symbolic and graphic techniques to solve equations; try activities for your students.
- Math 425 - Seeing Math™ Systems of Linear Equations: Learn how to help your students make the connections between the symbolic, graphic, and tabular representations of systems of linear equations. Understand each step in the solution process to help your students master the skills needed to solve these systems of equations.
- Math 430 - Seeing Math™ Proportional Reasoning: Use effective strategies to evaluate and improve students' proportional reasoning skills. Distinguish proportional reasoning from alternative strategies, overcome stumbling blocks, connect proportional reasoning concepts and algebra topics, and come away with activities for your students.
- Math 435 - Seeing Math™ Quadratic Functions: Discover ways to teach quadratic functions through modeling and problem solving, using multiple representations-tables, graphs, and symbolic expressions-as powerful tools to model physical situations and predict patterns. Adapt your own problem and come away with activities for your students.
- Math 440 - Seeing Math™ Transformations of Quadratic Functions: Discover the answer to the following question: "How do changes to a function's graph mirror its symbolic representation, and vice versa?" Learn how to help students grasp the symbolic representations of functions, while representing families of linear functions in multiple formats.
- Math 445 - Seeing Math™ Quadratic Equations: Move beyond tried-and-true manipulations to examine the breadth of information available from quadratic equations. Look at the big picture: what the results reveal, how to interpret them within the context of a problem, and hot to find related information.
- Math 455 - Seeing Math™ Data Analysis: Learn how to answer the following questions: "What do the measures of central tendency-mean, median, and mode-tell you about the data?" Even high school students who can expertly determine these measures often miss the larger picture: interpreting the meaning of these simple measures and the ways that they characterize the data set as a whole.
To enroll:
- Go to the national course catalog
- Select Mathematics from the menu on the right
- Make course selection and view details
- Click the Enroll button and continue following instructions
Seeing Math™ courses can be easily organized into sequenced programs of study to accommodate the specific needs of districts or local groups. Please contact Virginia's PBS TeacherLine for more information.
Seeing Math™ was jointly developed by the Concord Consortium and PBS TeacherLine. |
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