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TOMT Today - Summer Edition Available Now!

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.

TOMT online SUmmer Editorial

Are you feeling burned out, spent, or nearly extinguished? Are you counting down the remaining days in the school year while wondering why each hour seems to languish? Are you exhausted by nine AM on a school day? Do you even dream about work?by Aleta Joy Doss, Sandy High School,
OCTM President

You are not alone.

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

The borrowers are tiny people that used to live underneath the kitchen floor, but were driven out of their home once they were discovered. Pod, Homily, and Arrietty find themselves outside and searching for a new home amidst all the dangers

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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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Grading with Content-Specific Rubrics NEW!

By Brandon Ashley

Increasingly, school districts and administrators are encouraging their faculty to use rubrics in their grading. And for good reason: well-designed rubrics set clear, transparent standards for what students are expected to learn and how they will be evaluated. Many of the example rubrics presented to faculty, however, are often designed to fit such a broad class of assessments that they become difficult to use for most day-to-day classroom activities.

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Creativity with Geometry Vocabulary

By Francie Bostwick

Teachers know that teaching geometry vocabulary is more effective if we teach it as it comes up in context when students have a need to know. I previously wrote an article on The Project of Learning Vocabulary (Jan/Feb 2021) which included student work and was inspired by high school math teacher, Aleta Doss, and her work on vocabulary projects with her students. As I’ve continued working on this, I now have students write five or more vocabulary words they found helpful as they reasoned with assessment questions. Each collection of five or more words is organized under the mathematical big ideas studied. Then students review their collection of words and choose a task to complete.