New to Math Tools? Welcome!

There's a lot of stuff in here. Join our community! You can get a nice tour in the Getting Started section and also by viewing Navigating Math Tools by Bethany Hudnutt.

Opportunities

Enroll in one of our Online Professional Development Courses fully moderated by the Math Forum's staff. Registration is currently open for each of the five different six-week courses. Current prices for each course start at $149. Successfully complete the course to receive 15 hours of professional development, equivalent to 1.5 Continuing Education Units (CEUs).

For teachers of students in grades 5-9: Participate in one of our online workshops:
    Technology and Algebraic Reasoning
    Tools for Thinking about Probability
The $100 workshop fee is currently covered by a grant from the National Science Foundation. Next sessions start October 27, 2008.

What's Hot?

[October 6] Secondary Math posters: Mathsoul adds to a discussion, "I read your post some time ago now, and amongst other things your message encouraged me to have a range of educational math motivational posters professionally designed and made available for teachers."

[September 23] Tag Game: dmt writes, "I think a fun game for younger students would be to play "tag" with the runners and have the students determine at what starting positions and step size the runners will intersect or "tag" each other (while running in the same direction)."

[September 7] Tutorial software for high school algebra: FByrne adds to a discussion, "I think this software will be helpful. It's called Brain Power Math and allows teachers to easily create e-learning assignments in algebra and other areas of math."

Glenys, Suzanne, and Patty
at our Institute 2008