Developing Mathematical Thinking
DMT Institutes & Classes
DMT - Understanding the Principles of Probability & Data Analysis
Spring 2007
2 Credits through Boise State University
Understanding the Principles of Probability & Data Analysis: Each participant will investigate lessons within their school’s chosen curriculum to see how it addresses students’ understandings and misconceptions of probability & data analysis and compare those tasks to similar tasks in other curricula. Each will create curricular tasks for the semester as well as an assessment instrument booklet focusing on their students’ mathematical thinking and development related to probability & data analysis.
Developing Mathematical Thinking of Number
Spring 2007
2 Credits through Northwest Nazarene University
Developing Mathematical Thinking of Number: This class is similar to the first DMT Summer Institute on Number. It is for teachers who did not attend the first institute or who feel they need a refresher course.
DMT - Understanding the Principles of Number
Spring 2005
Professional Education In-Service Credit for MATH-ED 553 sec. 2802 (cannot be used towards college credit)
2 Credits
Understanding the Principles of Number is part of the 8 credits per year that are offered to DMT teachers, but is also offered to non-DMT teachers. This course is 2 credits and is offered through the Math Department at BSU. The class will be taught by Dr. Margaret Kinzel, a professor in the Department of Mathematics. It is a content course, with the intent of increasing teachers' understanding of number sense issues. This course will extend teachers’ knowledge of mathematics as it relates to number and number sense. Teachers will think about and discuss deeper issues related to basic elementary content.
DMT - Learning Community on Number
Fall 2004
Professional Education In-Service Credit for ED-CIFS 553 sec. 2859 (cannot be used towards college credit)
Workshop Credit for ED-CIFS 594 sec. 1650 (can be taken for college credit)
2 Credits
Teachers will work in teams at their school to design problems, give the problems to their students, and collect & discuss students’ strategies. Each participant will write weekly summaries about how students in their classroom solved the problems designed by the team and turn these into their school liaison. The final project will be a paper describing what they learned about designing mathematics problems dealing with number and what they learned about the different strategies their students used to solve those problems.
Developing Mathematical Thinking of Number Institute
August 2-6, 2004
The Developing Mathematical Thinking (DMT) of Number Institute is based on a professional development program called Cognitively Guided Instruction (CGI). It is for teachers of kindergarten through sixth grades. CGI helps teachers understand their students’ mathematical thinking which correlates to improvements in students’ mathematical understanding and problem solving skills.
Before the Institute teachers went through the Scenarios for Teaching Mathematics.
The DMT project is based at Boise State University and is funded by an Idaho Department of Educaion MSP grant and the Micron Foundation.