Mathematics

This project, a research collaboration with the University of Wisconsin and State University of New York at Buffalo, investigates how students of different ages develop an important cluster of geometric ideas—patterns, units and repetition, transformations, and symmetries—in classrooms where students use specially designed software integrated with other learning experiences.

This large-scale research and technical assistance project investigates the nature of elementary and middle school principals’ knowledge and beliefs about mathematics learning and teaching and the effect of these beliefs on the principals’ practice of classroom observation and teacher supervision.

EDC in collaboration with partners in education, youth media and business, is creating a youth-produced, Web-based media series and companion educator materials on science and engineering careers, targeting girls from underserved groups (minority populations, youth of low socioeconomic status and those with disabilities). The Girls Communicating Career Connections (GC3) project’s media series—short video segments produced by middle school aged girls—will capture the inquiry-based learning experiences of girls, as they investigate what it means to be a scientist or engineer.

EDC is developing, testing, and publishing Linear Algebra and Geometry, a modular curriculum for high school capstone courses that features three semesters worth of topics in linear algebra and its applications.

EDC is developing a series of 11 online modules focused on targeted topics in the Louisiana Algebra 1 Comprehensive Curriculum where there is a need to strengthen teacher’s content knowledge and instructional practices, and improve student achievement on the Algebra 1 End of Course exam. EDC’s EdTech Leaders Online program is also providing online facilitator training to Louisiana math teachers to offer these online workshops the math teachers across the state.

EDC is developing a series of model online workshops in math, English Language Arts and science for the eight state E-Learning for Educators collaboration funded by a five year U.S. Department of Education Ready to Teach grant. These workshops will offered throughout the eight state consortium (Alabama, Delaware, Kentucky, Mississippi, Missouri, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania and West Virginia) and will be used in large-scale experimental research on the impact of online professional development which involves elementary and middle school teachers in each of the states.

CLLC staff presented a one-week summer institute sponsored by the Massachusetts Department of Education in July 2007. The course addressed the patterns, relationships, and algebra strand of the Massachusetts Mathematics Curriculum Framework placing particular emphasis on the content priority variables, equations, and non-linear functions.