We are a collaboration of professional mathematicians and statisticians and middle school mathematics teachers whose mission/vision is threefold:
- strengthen middle school math teachers problem-solving skills
- involve middle school math teachers in an ongoing dialogue about mathematics and statistics with colleagues and professional mathematicians and statisticians
- equip middle school math teachers to initiate more student-centered, inquiry-based pedagogies in their classrooms
Our ultimate goal is to help today’s students become flexible, creative and collaborative problem solvers in order to lead the U.S. in STEM-related fields in the future. To achieve this goal, we want to assist teachers and students to develop a deeper and broader arsenal of problem-solving techniques and to use them effectively to attack challenging problems. We believe this will impact middle school students’ problem-solving experiences, expertise, and enthusiasm mathematics, and ultimately transfer to higher student achievement in mathematics.
The Rocky Mountain Math Teachers Circle began in July 2010, with a week-long summer immersion workshop at which teachers and mathematicians formed a collaborative network which will further develop during the academic year. Participants in the workshop grappled with deep and interesting mathematics, as well as discussed middle school pedagogy
