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50 Years of ERIC
50 Years of ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is celebrating its 50th Birthday! First opened on May 15th, 1964 ERIC continues the long tradition of ongoing innovation and enhancement.

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What Learner-Centered Professional Development Looks like: The Pilot Studies of the InterMath Professional Development Project
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Orrill, Chandra Hawley – Mathematics Educator, 2006
In recent years professional developers have reached a consensus about what constitutes effective professional development, referred to in the literature as "learner-centered professional development." InterMath is a professional development project that was developed to address the recommendations for high quality professional development for…
Descriptors: Mathematics Teachers, Faculty Development, Professional Development, Middle Schools
An Analysis of the Use of Graphical Representation in Participants' Solutions
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Bleich, Laurel; Ledford, Sarah; Orrill, Chandra Hawley; Polly, Drew – Mathematics Educator, 2006
InterMath participants spend time in workshops exploring technology-rich mathematical investigations and completing write-ups. These write-ups include a written explanation of their problem solving process, screen captures of files that they generated while completing the investigation and links to these files. This paper examines the use of…
Descriptors: Investigations, Problem Solving, Workshops, Teaching Methods