Making Connections
The Making Connection project is funded by a 4-year, $300K National Science
Foundation Distinguished Teaching Scholar award (no. 0525009, PI
William McCallum). It aims to establish a model for collaboration
between mathematicians, educators, and teachers, centered around
analysis of student work on algebra problems.
What we do
- Bring together mathematicians, educators, and teachers in
regional teams at a summer workshop to undertake a joint analysis
of school algebra problems and student work
- All participants look at and analyze the problems, teacher
participants collect student work from their own classes
- The summer workshop is a laboratory for developing a model for
collaboration between these three groups by focusing on concrete
examples
- Each team uses the workshop to develop instructional
materials and collaborative activities in their own regions
Workshops
Teams from Arizona, Georgia, and Montana studied work of middle school students on algebra. More
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Teams from Arizona, California, and
Illinois will study work of elementary school students on algebraic
thinking. More ...
The Problem Sets
Here are some of the problem sets that have been developed by Making
Connections teams and used in regional Making Connections
workshops. If you would like guidance on running your own Making
Connections workshop with these or other problems,
send us an email.
