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Website Evaluation Form Here

Here is the Website Evaluation Form (.docx):  WEB SITE EVALUATION Form

Apply for the ICTM Scholarship

The Illinois Council of Teachers of Mathematics gives scholarships each year. We have had WIU math majors will the scholarship. Apply! http://www.ictm.org/ictm-scholarships

Welcome Spring 2017 Math 304 Students

Welcome I welcome the spring 2017 Math 304 students. I look forward to working with you. Three Websites for This Course We use three websites for this course This one – has announcements and links. WesternOnline – has your grades and some things will be turned in here. Math 304 Resources Page – has links. …

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The CCSSM, and now the new SAT, have Moved the Needle

Introduction Two days ago I was at an excellent presentation on the new SAT test. It was at the WIU Mini Conference on Secondary Mathematics Teaching. For the second time in 3 years, I experienced, in one 40-minute presentation, a paradigm shift. I was very impressed by what I saw with the new SAT. I …

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Stick that in your head

Here’s a ‘quote’ I came up with on one of my runs one day. Someday I should turn this into a lecture. Perhaps uttered at the end of a class period: Stick that in your head, so that when you need it, you’ll have it. More fully: Stick that in your head, so that when …

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The Redesigned SAT: What Every Math Teacher Needs To Know

Upcoming ICTM Webinar on the SAT The Redesigned SAT: What Every Illinois Math Teacher Needs To Know 3:30 PM on Monday, May 16 The redesigned mathematics SAT is rolling out this spring, and will become common across Illinois in the next year. Do you know about its major changes? ICTM invites you to join Bill Trapp, Executive …

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Check out openmiddle.com

I like https://t.co/CnV6LGaZgB Example: https://t.co/NISNnmCYgo #Math #ProblemSolving https://t.co/tncHYXv8ao — Jim Olsen (@DrOlsen314) April 27, 2016 It does appear to be somewhat CCSSM-based.

Free Worksheets site – Kuta

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7 Websites Spring 2016

The websites for the Spring 2016 Math 304 students are http://hale123.weebly.com/ https://sites.google.com/site/mrcurlott/ https://burlingameblog.wordpress.com/ http://andrewschwarz25.weebly.com/ https://elijahcsimmons.wordpress.com/ https://misskielminski.wordpress.com/ http://kyledoesmath.weebly.com/

Verifying Trig Identities in the CCSSM

My question is below. Bill McCallum’s answer is here: From: “William (Bill) McCallum” <wmc@math.arizona.edu> To: “James R Olsen” <JR-Olsen@wiu.edu> Sent: Monday, March 28, 2016 8:06:34 PM Subject: Re: trig identities question   Jim, As you have noted, the identities explicitly required by the standards are limited. But the standards do not cover everything that STEM …

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