All 2017 Workshops Filled
All of the seats in all four of our workshops this summer have been filled. We are excited to be welcoming 95 teachers from 37 different school districts this summer. We have grown a lot since our...
View ArticleBerks Workshops Next Week!
We’re excited that our first summer workshops will be starting Monday 6/26! Twenty Pennsylvania teachers will be coming to Penn State Berks for Math as a Second Language. Participants: You should have...
View ArticlePMI@Berks Day 1 (6/26/17)
We are off to a great start for PMI at Berks. We have 22 participants from 7 districts, with every grade level from Kindergarten to 6th represented. This evening’s homework is as follows: Read...
View ArticlePMI@Berks Day 2 (6/27/17)
Another great day for math and education! The link to the video we watched today is here: http://veritasium.com/education/the-uncomfortable-effort-of-thinking/ Homework: Read: The article distributed...
View ArticlePMI@Berks Day 4 (6/29/17)
It’s hard to believe our week is almost over. For Friday: Read: Principles to Actions sections on “Facilitate Meaningful Mathematical Discourse” and “Pose Purposeful Questions,” pages 29-41. Do:...
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PMI@Berks Week 1 Completed
We had a great PMI workshop last week at Berks campus. We are hoping to do it again in 2018, so tell your colleagues. Group picture at the lion statue Talking math and liking it. A typical...
View ArticleReturner Session for University Park
Fran Arbaugh will be leading sessions for past PMI participants at University Park on Wednesday 7/26 and Thursday 7/27. Most of the time will be directed toward classroom practices, with some math...
View ArticlePMI@UP Day 7
This morning we dug deep into the question “How can we tell a pattern will always hold?” by revisiting the Snail problem, and then exploring the “Even and Odd” activity in Block 1. In the afternoon we...
View ArticlePMI@UP Day 8 2017
We started the day with meeting the returning participants. We then moved to reviewing the homework at our tables. We proceeded to discuss some student work on the Hourglass Problem, and then the...
View ArticlePMI@UP 2017 Day 10
What a full two weeks! And yet there always seems to be more to do. We started the morning with the post-assessment and beliefs survey. The analysis of that data will be shared later this summer. We...
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Summer 2017 Summary
Summer 2017 was the biggest year yet for PMI! PMI’s growth since its first workshop in 2013. Totals account for that summer’s workshops, accrued over all sites. 2016 involved 3 sites, 2017 involved...
View ArticleIn Memoriam: Ken Gross
I write today to commemorate the man who inspired the Pennsylvania Mathematics Initiative: Kenneth I. Gross. Ken passed away in September, after a long life of mathematical and education...
View Article2017 Year In Review
2017 has been the biggest year so far for PMI. One-day workshops at Penn State Berks. March 9 and 10. 32 participants total from across 9 school districts Facilitated by Andrew Baxter and Hartono Tjoe...
View ArticleAnnouncing the 2018 Summer Workshops
We are excited to announce the 2018 Summer Workshops. Math as a Second Language (Week 1). July 16-20, 2018. University Park. Algebraic Thinking and Proportional Reasoning (Week 2). July 23-27....
View ArticleBrandywine August 2018 Workshop
We are happy to announce that we are offering a 3-day workshop at Penn State Brandywine in Media PA. Participation is free, and lunch is provided, but there are only 25 seats. Participants will be...
View ArticlePMI 2018 Kick-off
This post is just to say that this is the place where we will be posting summaries of each day’s topics and the homework for the next day.
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Blog Recap: Week 1 Monday (7/16/18)
A great first day! We started with introductions, along with welcome messages from Mark Levi and George Andrews. We then jumped into our first problem, the Star Spangled Banner Problem. Participants...
View ArticleDaily Recap: Week 1 Wednesday (7/18/18)
Another fantastic day! We began with the name game, with a total of 210 names said. We then shared our solutions to the Caterpillar problem, listing 4 different formulas and ideas for more. We then...
View ArticleResources for problems
The following is a (partial) list of rich problems Illustrative Mathematics: https://www.illustrativemathematics.org/ (many rich tasks, keyed to CCSS codes) Graham Fletchy’s website:...
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Daily Recap: Week 1 Thursday
We began by revisiting the “brownie” homework from Tuesday night, which called for us to critique student responses in light of “the whole.” This made us sensitive to the issue accounting for “the...
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