Teacher Professional Development:

Supporting Mathematics in STEM Education

Overview

Teacher Eligibility

Participant Commitment

8th Grade and Alg 1 Objectives

Aggie STEMTAMU Mailstop 4232College Station, TX 77843-4232

Tel. 979.248.0653

aggiestem.tamu.edu

Supporting Mathematics in STEM Education (SMSE) is a Teacher Quality Grant Program funded by the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board. �e SMSE program:• Provides 100-110 hours of professional

development• Runs from 2/1/2016 through 2/28/2018

�e program has three strands:1) 8th Grade Mathematics and Algebra 1

(including Algebra 1 taught at the middleschool and at the high school)

2) Algebra 2 and Precalculus (also Mathemat-ical Models with Applications)

3) Dual-Credit Mathematics

To participate, teachers should �ll out the online application by January 1 for the �rst selection round. Applications will continue to be accepted until all openings have been �lled.

Application can be found at:

https://tamucehd.qual-trics.com//SE/?SID=SV_8Gp1Gmvt2gj14Cp

Grant Director:Dr. Sandra Nitesnite@math.tamu.edu

To be elligible, teachers must be currently teaching 8th grade math, algebra or geometry. Additionally, participants must meet one of the following:• Be uncerti�ed, emergency, or probationary

certi�cation• Teaching out of �eld or have not passed a

TExES 4-8 or 8-12 exam for his/herteaching level

• Alternatively certi�ed (or certi�ed before1999), in the �rst 5 years of teaching

• Teaching with less than 24 college mathcredits for middle school or less than 30college math credits for high school

• Other high needs identi�ed in application

Participants must commit to:• Take pre-tests and post-test as well as all

surveys and evaluations throughout the year• Provide student STAAR results with PEIMS

blotted out• Attend face-to-face sessions in College

Station and online sessions scheduled during the summer as well as during fall and spring semesters (see schedules at http://tinyurl.com/TQSMSE)

• Attend teacher conference w/ travel andregistration paid by grant

• Provide schedule for classroom observations• Cooperate with grant directors and THECB

to meet federal requirements

• Apply right triangle trig and the laws ofsines and cosines (A2.c3; P.c3B; P.c3E).

• Collect and analyze data, obtaining anappropriate functional model, includingtransformations, to represent the data(A2.c3; A2.c.8; P.c.2)

• Solve problems with vectors and parametricequations (P.c5D; P.c6B).

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Common ObjectivesParticipants will implement classroom activities and instructional methods that provide students opportunities to engage in critical thinking and make connections with prior knowledge and among topics at their current grade levels

Participants will be able to use concrete models to 1) engage students, 2) develop deeper understanding, and 3) connect concrete models to abstract ideas and algebraic manipulations.

Teachers will receive:• 100-110 hours of professional development

(certi�cate for CPE hours at the end)• Professional development materials and

Classroom ready activities• Professional development equipment and

supplies (dependent on which component;for example, drone, 3D printer, CBR, orCBL-calculator based laboratory)

• Stipend of at least $1000 for 100% participa-tion, pro-rated based on participation level

Alg 2 and Pre-Cal Objectives

• Create & interpret multiple representations of linear functions, concept of slope as rateof change, and proportionality (8.b4; 8.b5).

• Apply algebra in geometric contexts (A1.a1;A1.a6).

• Aanalyze and solve quadratic equations(A1.b.6G, A1.b10).

• Collect and analyze linear data, identifyingdomain, range, rate of change, zeroes, andfunction rule, including transformations(A1.c.2; A1.c.3)

• Recognize and apply polynomial, rational,radical, exponential and logarithmicfunctions and solve related equations andreal-world problems (Math 1314 LO2; Math1324 LO1; Math 2312 LO1).

• Apply graphing techniques (Math 1314 LO3;Math 2312 LO3)

• Apply calculus to solve business, economics,& social sciences problems (Math 1325 LO1).

• Apply right triangle trigonometry and thelaws of sines and cosines (Math 2312 LO6)

Dual Credit Math Objectives