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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

In this edition of TOMTonline: 

  • Math and the SEED Survey
  • Aleta Asks
  • Jeremy's Got Problems

Check out the Summer TOMTonline here 

ODE-OCTM Math Webinar series : OCTM Shared Learning

Next Session: April 14th, 4-5pm PT Link for sign-up

Topic: "Using SEED Data to Strengthen Math Learning: Insights, Applications, and Collaboration"

Presenter: Joshua Rew

Sean Nank – Link to OCTM News to Hear his Session.

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. 

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More Articles to Read and Enjoy (Member pages unless noted)

2024 OCTM Math Education Award Winners

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


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