Please join us this October 7–8 at the 2016 Annual Meeting of the Illinois Council of Teachers of Mathematics (ICTM). Several LTEC team members will be giving talks and our fearless leader (read “PI”) Andy Isaacs, will be honored with the Max Beberman Mathematics Educator Award.
Read the entire post...Last June, we prepared a poster for presentation at the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) Annual Conference in Denver, CO1.
Israel, M., Pokimica, J., Wherfel, Q., and Reese, G. (In preparation). Integrating computer science into elementary mathematics: A cross-case analysis of classroom implementation. ↩
What’s in a name? When we proposed our project to NSF in early 2015, we called it “Learning Trajectories for Integrating K-5 Computer Science and Mathematics.” Although the name wasn’t the greatest, it was reasonably descriptive and apparently good enough for NSF. But once we were funded and got going, we decided we wanted a better name, one that would express the larger program of work in which the project is embedded. After some ado, we came up with “Learning Trajectories for Everyday Computing” (LTEC). We’d like to explain the thinking behind this name.
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In the last 3 posts we talked about our different approaches to building learning trajectories (LTs). This third and final approach acknowledges the work being done by dedicated teachers in mathematics classrooms all over the country.
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