High School Mathematics - Making Algebra Accessible To All

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How do we improve students’ scores on high school standardized math tests?”

“How do we prepare our students to understand concepts vs. memorize facts and procedures?”

“How do we ready all students to think mathematically in a high tech work world?”

“How do we better challenge our most advanced students with rigorous 21st century instruction?

 

iRi’s High School Mathematics programs are best suited for teachers who are serious about attaining dramatic improvement in all students’ math confidence and performance to prepare for the demanding 21st century.

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Making Algebra Accessible To All

  • Understand the cognitive challenges inherent in teaching non- ‘dumbed down’ Algebra
    • Utilize innovative techniques to enhance students’ formal reasoning and logic skills
    • Develop students’ requisite abstract thinking for algebraic reasoning
    • Engage students in forming generalizations, manipulating symbols, understanding co-variations and relations, and numerically modeling real world situations
  • Develop lesson plans which connect your Algebra curriculum and classroom instruction to successful fulfillment of the standards without sacrificing subject content
  • Apply current pedagogical research to best practices, including use of graphs, mathematical models, and multiple representations of concepts
  • Discover tools to address difficult concepts, including the postulate of equality, polynomials, linear inequalities, correspondence, and continuity
  • Explore how to foster those cognitive functions that ensure efficient student thinking in Algebra, particularly attention to detail, precision/accuracy, conserving constancies, and relevant frames of reference
  • Build student confidence in math
  • Develop alternative assessments to precede annual standardized tests