Developing Mathematical Ideas (DMI): Patterns, Function, and Change

By Deborah Schifter, Virginia Bastable, and Susan Jo Russell

Developing Mathematical Ideas is a staff development/teacher education program designed to help educators think through the major ideas of K–8 mathematics and examine how children develop those ideas. The goal is to engage teachers in a process of inquiry—into mathematics; into learning mathematics; into students' mathematical thinking, in general, and the thinking of one's own students, in particular. In a DMI seminar, teachers discuss print and video cases, explore mathematical questions, investigate the mathematical thinking of their own students, analyze lessons from innovative curricula, and read and discuss essays about related research.

In this module, discover how the study of repeating patterns and number sequences can lead to ideas of functions, learn how to read tables and graphs to interpret phenomena of change, and use algebraic notation to write function rules.

Contact Info: Katherine Caruso (1-800-225-4276 x2543)

Project Website: Teaching to the Big Ideas (TBI)

Published by: Pearson Education Order Info

Price: $22.97
ISBN: 1428405194
DVD

Price: $36.97
ISBN: 1428405208
Casebook

Price: $40.47
ISBN: 1428405216
Facilitator's Guide

Facilitator's Package

Price: $101.97
ISBN: 1428405240
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