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AMTE Member Bulletin Board
An Informal Space for AMTE Members
The AMTE Bulletin board is a place for AMTE members to share information about professional development opportunities or mathematics education projects (e.g., events, calls for participation in other professional organizations, resources). Posts are ordered by submission date (most recent first).
Submit a Post Submitted by: Richard_Rasiej
Posted: Mar 29, 2016
Recently, I began creating and developing the infrastructure for a new type of math contest called The SumThingsUp Challenge (inspired by The Flame Challenge of the Alan Alda Center for Communicating Science at the State University of New York at Stony Brook). In this contest, mathematicians will compete to answer questions that might typically be asked by curious 3rd, 4th
Submitted by: HLee
Posted: Mar 8, 2016
Teaching Statistics Through Data Investigations is a free online course with many resources for preparing middle and secondary teachers to teach statistics. Registration is free.
Submitted by: JLee
Posted: Mar 3, 2016
NCTM Affiliates Services Committee (ASC) will present a webinar on Tuesday, March 29th, 2016 at 4pm Eastern Time. Learn how to create an NCTM Student Affiliate from several student affiliate advisors and the resources to help support your student affiliate. There will opportunity for Q&A.
Submitted by: michelecarney
Posted: Dec 26, 2015
We are forming a group of individuals interested in synthesizing the literature on quantitative tools in mathematics education that can be used at-scale to examine student- and teacher-related outcomes. If you are interested in participating please complete this very short survey: http://tinyurl.com/hamxlyu.
Submitted by: JHiebert
Posted: Dec 8, 2015
The School of Education at the University of Delaware will host a working conference for U.S. faculty on mathematics preparation for K-8 teachers, June 6-8, 2016. All expenses (except two dinners) will be paid by a grant from the National Science Foundation.
Submitted by: ekrupa
Posted: Nov 20, 2015
The Department of Mathematical Sciences at Montclair State University will be hosting a webinar for its Ph.D. Program in Mathematics Education. It will be held on Tuesday, December 8th from 8:30—9:30pm.
Submitted by: FFennell
Posted: Nov 17, 2015
The House will formally vote to go to conference on an NCLB overhaul. Sen. Lamar Alexander is hopeful that lawmakers can get a compromise bill to President Obama by December. (The Hill)
Submitted by: RWieman
Posted: Nov 4, 2015
Announcing the launch of a web-based catalog for teacher educators (and others) searching for video examples of student thinking, teaching practices or other phenomena of interest to mathematics educators. We hope that this site will make your search for video more efficient, and that it will serve, in months and years to come, as a repository for our collective knowledge of video resources.
Submitted by: adfrankl
Posted: Oct 21, 2015
The Knowles Science Teaching Foundation (KSTF) is seeking two Program Officers for Teacher Development within the Teaching Fellows Program. KSTF seeks candidates with experience teaching math or science, passion for supporting early-career teachers, and a commitment to improving math and science education through investment in teachers.
Submitted by: TWilkerson
Posted: Oct 4, 2015
Share this virtual recuritment opportuniy with students who are interested in graduate studes with a focus in mathematics education (and other fields). We invite them to join Baylor University Department of Curriculum and Instruction graduate program faculty in a virtual recruitment session coming up October 15, 2015 from noon-4 p.m. CST.
Submitted by: MEllis
Posted: Sep 20, 2015
The Carol Malloy Research Symposium will be held on Saturday, October 10, 2015 to honor the legacy of Carol E. Malloy, Ph.D. While there is no cost to attend the Symposium, you MUST register through Laurie Norman (see below) so we can have a nametag for you and an accurate count both for seating and food.
Submitted by: FFennell
Posted: Sep 10, 2015
An early draft of the CAEP Elementary Standards will presented to the CAEPCon next week in Washington, DC. After that presentation I should be able to share the draft electronically.
Knowles Science Teaching Foundation is recruiting beginning Mathematics Teachers for the 2016 cohort
Submitted by: adfrankl
Posted: Sep 3, 2015
This is a great opportunity for beginning high school teachers. I think that sharing this can support us as MTE's to better support our teachers.
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Submitted by: burrill
Posted: Aug 27, 2015
Applications for travel grants are now available to attend the Thirteenth International Congress on Mathematical Education (ICME-13), to be held in Hamburg, Germany from July 24-31, 2016. Application deadline is September 30, 2015.