Author Archives: Bill McCallum

Here’s a note from Al Cuoco: Friends, For the past two years, we’ve been working with support from the MA department of education to create a course for high school teachers that helps them implement the Standards for Mathematical Practice. … Continue reading →

Grant Wiggins has a great post about the dangers of breaking the standards down into statements of the finest possible grain size: This problem of turning everything into “microstandards” is a problem of long standing in education. One might even … Continue reading →

Once every few months or so I receive a message about the following standard: 6.G.2. Find the volume of a right rectangular prism with fractional edge lengths by packing it with unit cubes of the appropriate unit fraction edge lengths, … Continue reading →

I just attended in interesting talk at the Joint Math Meetings in San Diego about a project started by Sybilla Beckmann, the Mathematics Teaching Community. It’s a place where you can post and answer questions about all aspects of mathematics … Continue reading →

One of the enhancements in the last release of Illustrative Mathematics was making the site crawlable by search engine bots. As a result, you can, for example, google “illustrations for A-SSE” and get direct links to the tasks that illustrate … Continue reading →

Because of this morning’s spam comments on the forums, I have changed the rules so that you have to be a registered user of the site to post a topic or comment.

The most recent upgrade to Illustrative Mathematics brings a number of improvements, the most visible of which is a searchable index of the illustrations, which is visible to all users, registered or not. In addition, registered can now add tags … Continue reading →

Now that I’ve moved the blog to a private hosting company, you can register to become a subscriber to the blog using the links on the right. This offers a bit more than the email subscription that has been available … Continue reading →

If you have questions about the standards, please ask them in the forums (you can also always access this from the menu bar above). The old thread with questions is here, but it is no longer possible to add comments. Before … Continue reading →