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The focus of the journal Mathematics Teaching in the Middle School (MTMS) is on intuitive, exploratory investigations that use informal reasoning to help students develop a strong conceptual basis that leads to greater mathematical abstraction.

 

StudentTeach

Start Student Teaching Successfully!

Be the best beginning teacher you can be! You’ve finished your methods courses; now what do you need to review before you get in the classroom?

 

Curriculum Focal Points–Related Resources
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Lesson ideas and activities
organized by Focal Point.
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An Agenda for Action
Recommendations for School Mathematics of the 1980s.

The historic document that started the standards movement
 
 MTMS March HL  THOUSANDS of Problems

Member access to problem archive of countless problems sorted by topic.
 
 MTMS Feb

Math Roots

Hands-on activities focused on conceptual understanding.

 

INCLUDES STUDENT ACTIVITY SHEETS!

 

New Teacher Highlights

Middle School New Teacher

Beginning your journey as a mathematics teacher? This volume has been created to help you reach your full potential as a mathematics educator. Resources cover professional growth, curriculum and instruction, classroom-level assessment, classroom management and organization, equity, and school and community.
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Weekly Problem


Small pieces of cheese are placed over each of twelve numbers on the face of a circular clock. A mouse eats the cheese over the number 1 and walks clockwise around the clock, eating every other piece of cheese. What number will be under the last uneaten piece of cheese?

Solution:
8. In the mouse's first trip around the clock, it eats the cheese on all the odd numbers. When it has eaten the cheese on number 11, the following numbers still have cheese: 12, 2, 4, 6, 8, 10. Remember, it must eat every other piece encountered. Therefore, after 11, it will eat 2, 6, and 10. The mouse is now on 10, and cheese remains on 12, 4, and 8. It will then eat the cheese on 4, leaving 8 and 12. It will skip 8 and eat 12's cheese, leaving 8 as the last number containing cheese.

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