students' mathematical understanding will be shared. SSMA 2014 Annual Convention: Jacksonville, Florida Bridging Connections between Mathematics and Science Thursday Afternoon Sessions 3:00-3:50 #46 Naples #47 Pensacola A STEM Writing: What It Is and How to Teach It Are all lines straight? Byung-In Seo Jeremy Winters, Dovie Kimmins, Mary Martin, Teresa Schmidt CCSS, NCTM, and NSTA all say that students need to be able to communicate STEM What is a line? Do you have to qualify a line as knowledge. Secondary-level STEM teachers straight or not? In the Common Core Math feel that they have the responsibility to teach Standards both straight line and line are used. their students content-specific writing, but feel To answer questions, our research looked they don't have the tools to do this work. at the current uses and understandings of the Drawing from the findings of my research with term "line." Participants of the study ranged secondary-level mathematics students and from PK-12 preservice teachers to math from my experiences as a secondary-level majors. Findings and implications from this English/math/science teacher, I will give tools study will be shared. so that STEM teachers can do this work. Also, participants will try their hand at exercises from English/language arts class on STEM topics. #48 Pensacola B LOCUS Assessments: Implications for and Uses in Research and Teaching Douglas Whitaker, Steven Foti, Catherine Case, Tim Jacobbe The NSF-funded LOCUS project has developed assessments to measure conceptual understanding in statistics, different from the procedural knowledge commonly assessed. This session provides a brief description of the development of the assessments, which are aligned with the GAISE framework and CCSS-M, and a number of representative sample items. Since statistics is a tool utilized in scientific exploration, LOCUS has implications for research and teaching of mathematics and science. This session will also highlight how sample items can be used in professional development with teachers. SSMA 2014 Annual Convention: Jacksonville, Florida
students' mathematical understanding will be shared. SSMA 2014 Annual Convention: Jacksonville, Florida Bridging Connections between Mathematics and Science Thursday Afternoon Sessions 3:00-3:50 #46 Naples STEM Writing: What It Is and How to Teach It Byung-In Seo CCSS, NCTM, and NSTA all say that students need to be able to communicate STEM knowledge. Secondary-level STEM teachers feel that they have the responsibility to teach their students content-specific writing, but feel they don't have the tools to do this work. Drawing from the findings of my research with secondary-level mathematics students and from my experiences as a secondary-level English/math/science teacher, I will give tools so that STEM teachers can do this work. Also, participants will try their hand at exercises from English/language arts class on STEM topics. #47 Pensacola A Are all lines straight? Jeremy Winters, Dovie Kimmins, Mary Martin, Teresa Schmidt What is a line? Do you have to qualify a line as straight or not? In the Common Core Math Standards both straight line and line are used. To answer questions, our research looked at the current uses and understandings of the term "line." Participants of the study ranged from PK-12 preservice teachers to math majors. Findings and implications from this study will be shared. #48 Pensacola B LOCUS Assessments: Implications for and Uses in Research and Teaching Douglas Whitaker, Steven Foti, Catherine Case, Tim Jacobbe The NSF-funded LOCUS project has developed assessments to measure conceptual understanding in statistics, different from the procedural knowledge commonly assessed. This session provides a brief description of the development of the assessments, which are aligned with the GAISE framework and CCSS-M, and a number of representative sample items. Since statistics is a tool utilized in scientific exploration, LOCUS has implications for research and teaching of mathematics and science. This session will also highlight how sample items can be used in professional development with teachers. SSMA 2014 Annual Convention: Jacksonville, Florida
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