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
2006
Teams from Arizona, Georgia, and Montana studied work of middle school students on algebra. More ...
2007
Teams from Arizona, California, and Illinois will study work of elementary school students on algebraic thinking. More ...
2008
Teams from Arizona, California, and North Carolina will study work of high school students on algebra. More ...