A Teachers' Circle Summer Workshop was held at the University of Arizona June 16-20, 2008. This workshop supported teachers in their development of problem solving skills. A major theme is to find creative strategies to incorporate interesting, rigorous problems into the existing school curriculum. The sessions were led by exemplary educators and mathematicians from the Tucson area as well as visiting professor, Dr. Marta Pecuch-Herrero from Arizona State University.
Teachers experienced sample problems and received hand-outs and resources based on the material covered in their workshop sessions. Focused discussions were held to determine solutions to perceived obstacles and to offer support in teacher quests to improve mathematics instruction.
