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High School Solutions: Think Differently about High School Math |
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We all know the problem: many students struggle with math—and teaching the same way we always have hasn’t worked for all students. Math Solutions professional development offers teachers a different way to view how students learn and shifts teachers’ instructional approaches to ensure that all students leave high school college and career ready.
Math Solutions provides teachers with practical tools to help their students make sense of math—and when that happens, engagement and understanding soar. As professional development specialists, we support teachers across the country with hands-on, real-world strategies and tools for teaching:
- Logical reasoning and problem solving
- Functions and modeling
- Numbers and quantity
- Algebra and geometry
Our programs are customized to meet your school’s needs and devoted to ensuring that all students pass high-stakes exams and leave high school college and career ready.
Ensure Success for High School Teachers and Students with Sustained SupportTeacher practice doesn't change overnight. When you partner with Math Solutions, we work with you to identify how best to structure professional development—from multiday courses, to virtual office hours, to ePD follow-up. Math Solutions also offers ongoing on-site and online coaching for individual teachers or groups. Coaching helps teachers continue to rethink, revise, and reimagine their math instruction by:
- Participating in shared lesson planning and demonstrations
- Developing deeper content knowledge
- Using collaborative analysis of student work to assess learning
Courses to Improve High School Math InstructionThe courses described below are just a sample of professional development options for teachers. We will work with you to provide a complete solution to meet your specific needs and goals.
About Teaching Mathematics: Reasoning and Sense MakingDeveloping students’ ability to reason is key to helping them learn and make sense of mathematics. This unique mathematics institute helps high school classroom teachers understand how students learn mathematics, explores ways to make math accessible for students, and focuses on problem solving in the strands of algebra and geometry. Participants engage in problem-solving activities and investigations that develop student understanding, and learn how to use contexts, manipulative materials, and graphing calculator technology to support learning. This course also models a variety of ways to organize the classroom, including whole-class, small-group, and individual learning. Course experiences are based on core student expectations for Algebra I, Geometry, and Algebra II. Grades 9–11.
Goals
This course helps participants:
- think flexibly about math content knowledge for the purpose of making math accessible for students;
- understand how students learn mathematics; and
- implement instructional strategies that promote thinking, reasoning, and making sense of mathematics.
Course Experiences
Participants will:
- examine engaging and accessible problem-solving activities and investigations that develop understanding;
- focus on problem solving in the strand of algebra with links to geometry;
- experience a variety of ways to organize the classroom—whole-class, small-group, and individual learning;
- identify and analyze strategies that develop students’ ability to reason and make sense of mathematics; and
- understand how manipulative materials can be used to support learning.
Resource Materials: Focus on High School Mathematics: Reasoning and Sense Making
Math Solutions for High School Algebra and Geometry TeachersIntroducing teachers to the current guidelines for mathematics instruction, this course presents teachers with the rationale for teaching mathematics through problem solving and using effective instructional strategies that promote thinking and reasoning.
The course focuses on the mathematical content and instructional strategies necessary for developing students’ algebraic and geometric thinking. Participants explore what is meant by algebraic and geometric thinking and learn strategies for teaching basic concepts necessary to be successful in Algebra and Geometry. Grades 9–11.
Goals
This course helps participants:
- strengthen math content knowledge for the purpose of making math accessible for students;
- understand how students learn mathematics;
- implement effective instructional strategies that promote thinking, reasoning, and making sense of mathematics; and
- identify lessons that promote students’ understanding of algebra/geometry concepts.
Course Experiences
Participants will:
- examine instructional tasks that build students’ understanding of algebra/geometry concepts;
- understand how manipulative materials, contexts familiar to students, and problem-solving experiences can be used to support students’ development of algebraic/geometric thinking;
- experience a variety of ways to organize the classroom—whole-class, small-group, and individual learning;
- identify and analyze strategies to help students see arithmetic, geometry, and algebra as connected topics integral to the study of mathematics; and
- experience a classroom atmosphere that stimulates and supports students’ learning of algebraic/geometric concepts and skills.
Note: In collaboration with the site host, course experiences will be designed to address specific needs, with appropriate supporting resources and length of the course.
Math Solutions . . . Solve the ProblemTMMath Solutions professional development services and courses are customized to meet your needs. Please contact us online or toll free at 800.868.9092 for a proposal based on your goals and objectives. Let us help you solve the problem. |
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“I see a change in me and how I teach—I have a completely different perception of math now, and of how my students are learning it. You know, I used to hate math. Now my attitude is totally different . . . now I say, ‘Math—I can do it!’”
Siu-Ling Chiu On About Teaching Mathematics, Part 1Teacher, Grade 3 Los Angeles Unified School District Van Nuys, California > Read other testimonials
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