This Phase II project builds on the work of Project Pathways, a targeted MSP that identified attributes of professional development for secondary mathematics and science teachers that resulted in substantive and sustained improvements in student learning, as documented by student performance on district exams, state exams and research-based tools. The Phase II project leverages the research-based processes and tools that emerged in Phase I research to be highly effective for shifting teachers' instruction to be more inquiry-based and conceptually oriented.
Project Contributions
Professor Marilyn Carlson, from The Pathways Project at Arizona State University, discusses a programme that has proven effective in improving teaching of precalculus concepts, as well as students' chances of…
"Our project's findings from Phase I and II interventions provide two keys important for implementation of the Pathways curriculum (i) teachers must have a deep understanding of the mathematics they…
Posted by: Justin Hoffman . Classroom Rules to help engagement and learning practices with students
Posted by: Justin Hoffman . This student details her past experiences with mathematics in high school, and about her positive experience with the Project Pathways materials.
Posted by: Justin Hoffman . This five minute video highlights teachers using Project Pathways materials and their results, along with administrator feedback, and research results from the Project Pathways data.
Posted by: Justin Hoffman . Over the past five years I have sought to better understand student thinking and learning in the context of topics central to trigonometry, including angle measure, the unit circle, trigonometric…
Posted by: Justin Hoffman . This article reports findings from an investigation of precalculus students approaches to solving novel problems. We characterize the images that students constructed during their solution attempts and describe the degree…
Posted by: Justin Hoffman . While the unit circle is a central concept of trigonometry, students' and teachers' understandings of trigonometric functions typically lack connections to the unit circle. In the present work, we discuss…
Posted by: Justin Hoffman . Research has identified mathematical knowledge for teaching (MKT) as specialized knowledge that contributes to a teacher's ability to teach for understanding. This report discusses one teacher's (Claudia) MKT as she…
Posted by: Alan O'Bryan . Project Pathways is a Phase II targeted MSP that identified attributes of professional development for secondary mathematics and science teachers that resulted in substantive and sustained improvements in student learning,…