TEA Grant Website
Improving Student Achievement in Mathematics through
Professional Development Partnerships
TOOLS - Teaching of Ongoing Learning Strategies
Fractions - Proportion - Measurement
TEKS
TEKS - Subchapter A. Elementary, Grades 1-5
TEKS - Subchapter B. Middle School, Grades 6-8
TEKS - Subchapter C. High School
Fractions - on the TEKS Grades 3-8
- just those parts of the TEKS on fractions
Proportionality - on the TEKS Grades 3-8
- just those parts of the TEKS on proportionality
Measurement - on the TEKS grades 3-8
- just those parts of the TEKS on measurement
Resources for teachers
The 5E teaching/learning cycle (
ppt version
)
Designing a 5E lesson plan
(
ppt version
)
What is a Variable? - The multitudinal uses of a single term lead to confusion (
ppt version
)
Thinking Algebraically - an important component of the TEKS (
ppt version
)
A basic glossary of mathematics definitions
(a work in progress)
Problem solving strategies
Annotated bibliography for teachers
Proportionality
Proportionality - on the TEKS Grades 3-8
- just those parts of the TEKS on proportionality
Proportion, proportionality, and all that (
ppt version
)
Proportional reasoning - what's that?
Measuring the pyramids
- lesson plan idea (
ppt version
)
Miniature worlds
- lesson template;
Proportionality lesson ideas
Fractions
Fractions - on the TEKS Grades 3-8
- just those parts of the TEKS on fractions
What is a fraction? (
ppt version
)
Fractions resources
Fraction animation tools
Fraction books
(mostly elementary)
Fractions bibliography
Measurement
Measurement - on the TEKS grades 3-8
- just those parts of the TEKS on measurement
Understanding measurement?
- an encompassing concept (
ppt version
)
Measuring a basketball backboard
- a lesson plan sketch (
ppt version
)
The Pythagorean Puzzle
Similarity and Measurement
- studying similarity and finding missing dimensions.
Measurement of maps
- a vertically integrated lesson plan
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