Blogs and Listservs of Interest Craig Morgan Haddon

Blogs and Listservs of Interest Craig Morgan Haddon Township Public School PCMI 2007

Troubles With Anti Reform Factions? Michael Goldenberg blog "Float Like A Butterfly, Sting Like An SOB" AN ISLAND OF RATIONALITY IN THE INSANITY OF THE MATH WARS

Topics Covered This Year Let's Debunk Some NYC-HOLD Nonsense (Part 1) Open Letter to Dr. Martin Brooks regarding Ridgewood, NJ What Does Liping Ma REALLY say? When Is A Topic No Longer Vital For The Curriculum? Asking Good Questions In Math Class, Part 1 Math Anxiety: Where Does It Come From?

Links Available Also Blog also contains links to these sites: * Buckminster Fuller Institute * COMPASS CENTER * Cut-The-Knot * Gene's Corner * GRUNCH * Library of Virtual Manipulatives * Math Learning Center * Math Revolution * Mathematically Sane * NCTM * PULSE * Show. Me. Center * Sparkle Pony blog * The Math Forum * This Is Mega. Mathematics * Wash. Math. com

Jerry Becker-Math News Listserv List serv-sends messages about learning with a basic slant toward math Access listserv on Math Forum Write to this email address to sign up jbecker@siu. edu JERRY-P-BECKER-BIG-L@listserv. siu. edu

A Book To Investigate The idea of open-ended problems is not radical or unique to American mathematics education reform. Jerry Becker and Shigeru Shimada edited an excellent volume entitled, The Open-Ended Approach: A New Proposal for Teaching Mathematics. It explores many examples of quite challenging and engaging problems from Japanese K-12 math classrooms that illustrate what is meant by problems with more than one reasonable or valid solution. And there is clear evidence from the TIMSS videos taken in Japan that such problems are used regularly in ordinary middle school lessons. It seems almost obvious that a nonroutine problem, even one drawn from quite typical mathematics content, can fit this criterion.

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