Eliciting student thinking is paramount to effective mathematics teaching and learning. Although one can use many strategies and techniques to promote student thinking, technology is one resource that is often underutilized. Whether it is the informed use of calculators or an interactive website, technology can be leveraged to promote mathematical…

The Common Core State Standards can be taught with Minecraft, an interactive creative Lego®-like game. Integrating Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (iSTEM) authors share ideas and activities that stimulate student interest in the integrated fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) in K-grade 6 classrooms.

To support students' development of concepts in mathematics, the use of technology is often encouraged (Common Core State Standards Initiative [CCSSI] 2010). Technology can contextualize learning and provide a meaningful setting for mathematical ideas. Most teachers are supportive regarding the use of technology to encourage learning and…

Technology permeates every aspect of daily life, from the sensors that control the traffic signals to the cameras that allow real-time video chats with family around the world. At times, technology may make life easier, faster, and more productive. However, does technology do the same in schools and classrooms? Will the benefits of technology…

In the technology-rich twenty-first century, students are required to actively construct their knowledge and collaboratively engage in problem solving by using such skills as adaptability, communication, self-management, and systematic thinking. In accordance with this necessity, science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education…

The author is a strong proponent of incorporating the Content and Process Standards (NCTM 2000) into the teaching of mathematics. For candidates in her methods course, she models research-based best practices anchored in the Standards. Her students use manipulatives, engage in problem-solving activities, listen to children's literature, and use…

Standards documents, such as the Common Core State Standards for Mathematics and "Principles and Standards for School Mathematics", expect teachers to foster mathematics learning by engaging students in meaningful mathematical discourse to expose students to different ways of thinking about and solving problems and positively influence their…

This article relates how a class of elementary preservice teachers used technology to share their thinking about a topic that is traditionally difficult to model and discuss--dividing fractions. One type of technology they used, a digital camera, was familiar to most students, but the other type, a SMART Board[TM], was relatively unfamiliar.…

This article describes ways in which technology-supported mathematical investigation can engage students with substantive mathematics. It focuses particularly on the ways in which the NCTM Process and Content Standards for the elementary grades can be supported by the use of interactive software such as The Geometer's Sketchpad. (Contains 6…

Although the nature of the research varies, as do concepts of angle, research in general supports the supposition that angle is a complex idea, best understood from a variety of perspectives. In fact, the concept of angle tends to be threefold, consisting of: (1) the traditional, static notion of two rays meeting at a common vertex; (2) the idea…

For the last several years teachers have been using counters and connected cube "trains" and creating base-10 block models to help students develop number sense and understand number concepts. It is described how ten-frame tiles could be more useful tool for building number understanding for many students.

Describes a unit of study focusing on tessellations to show students another view of mathematics. (Author)