Professional development topics
From Thinkmath
Presentations
Videos for teachers
- Practicing skills video: mental mathematics
- Headline stories video: see also a developmental approach to word problems
- The Vedic mathematics of India and the Think Math! intersection model of multiplication
PowerPoint presentations for the professional development of teachers --- not for presentations to students
- Cross number puzzles: from sorting buttons in kindergarten to readiness for 8th grade algebra
- Multiplication and division: understanding the intersection and area models of multiplication and how they support the multiplication and division algorithms
- Decimals: zooming in on the number line to build deep understanding and competence with decimals
- Fractions: how children's language and logic and the number line can build intuition, deep understanding, and skill with fractions
- Developing mathematical language: Children's natural language, mathematical reading, word problems, building mathematical vocabulary
