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The award winning publication of "The Oregon Math Teacher" (TOMT) is going digital!  Now OCTM members can engage in content like never before through our new TOMT Online.  You will find articles from Oregon teachers and you can join in on discussions of the latest trends, challenges, and developments in mathematics education.

Featured Article

Features Exponentially Grow with Our New ONLINE TOMT!

by Aleta Joy Doss,
Sandy High School,
OCTM President

Print is a wonderful medium of communication. It arrives in your mailbox with the newly printed smell, and you can flip through the pages while enjoying coffee. Yet, the printedTOMT (The Oregon Mathematics Teacher) journals have their limitations. Words and pictures can convey many ideas, but withTOMTonline we can include videos, links, and much more.

With our new TOMT, multimedia online resources can be added anytime. Everyone can access the content at their convenience the instant it is uploaded.

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Math In Literature: "The Borrowers".  **NEW!** 

The borrowers are tiny people that live underneath the kitchen floor. They borrow what they need from the family they live with unbeknownst to them as they are never seen. Pod, Homily, and their daughter, Arrietty use all kinds of items to make their home comfortable.

Members can read more about the math in this book here

2024 OCTM Award Winners

Congratulations to the following OCTM award winners.  Click the link to learn more about these amazing Oregon math teachers.

Game With Math: Prime Climb

Overview: Prime Climb, as the box will tell you, is a beautiful, colorful, mathematical game and this is underselling it. This game will not only challenge your students’ abilities to do multi-digit calculations to get the coveted prime number 101. Prime cards can ruin, help, or hurt. With the thrill of bumping your opponents back to the start, Prime Climb will have your students thinking less about how they are doing math and more on whatis the best calculation to achieve a winning situation.

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INTRODUCING “ARGUING WITH DATA”.  **NEW!**

BY Russell Hanes

If you have heard about the Reproducibility Project or the Open Science Foundation, give yourself a pat on the back. If you have heard about the new statistics, give yourself two pats on the back. If not, don’t worry; sit back while I spin you a tale.

I was always interested in political topics, even in middle school. I thought data seemed amazing, and p-values quite magical, and wished my high school offered statistics. Social science seemed so cool I ended up pursuing a research-based master’s.

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A REFLECTION ON TOMT

Cut and Paste, Then and Now
by Patty Sandoz

TOMT journal belongs to the members of the Oregon Council of Teachers of Mathematics. From inception, TOMT has represented their views. TOMT has been going strong since the 1975 –1976 school year. I am proud to report that we have a complete collection of all the TOMT issues from inception. You can also access all the TOMT issues on the member’s side of the OCTM website, https://octm.wildapricot.org 

These TOMT journals don’t just happen. !ey get to each member because of thankless and endless hours of work in editing, soliciting, and production. It all begins with the editors. Why are editors at the genesis of each issue? Have you ever wondered what an editor does? What is the editor in charge of? Is the editor the punctuation/grammar/spellcheck police? A Google/Sandoz search indicates that an editor does some of the following, listed here in no particular order.  A Google/Sandoz search indicates that an editor does some of the following listed in no particular order:

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