We have three of the greatest
mathematics conferences in the country right here every year in
Asilomar, Palm Springs and Seaside. For more information please
click on CMC Conferences
The State Board of Education voted in July to have all 8th graders take the Algebra 1 California Standards Test. URGENT: Please click here to read more about this action and responses from educators, and--most importantly--to have your voice heard. We have undertaken a survey of opinions and will share the data with the State Board, Superintendent Jack O'Connell, and the CA Dept of Education.
 Our Mission
The California Mathematics Council believes that all students have the
capacity to become mathematically competent and confident when provided
a rigorous and challenging mathematical program supported by high
expectations.
The California Mathematics Council is committed to:
- promoting professional activities that will ensure continual improvement towards excellence in the teaching of mathematics
- communicating with educators, parents, the public, and
legislative bodies concerning issues related to teaching rigorous,
challenging mathematics; and
- increasing the diversity of the membership of the California
Mathematics Council and the diversity of leadership in mathematics
education at the local, state, and national levels.
The Mathematics Adoption Toolkit
is designed to support the selection of instructional materials for grades K-8 core programs, Algebra Readiness, and Intervention, and can also support a grades 9 – 12 adoption process. While all adoptions are serious business in education, this adoption is a key factor for schools and districts challenged to meet required levels of proficiency for all students by 2014.
The Mathematics Adoption Toolkit is the result of collaborative efforts between the mathematics subcommittee of the California County Offices of Education, the California Department of Education, and the California Mathematics Council. It builds upon the adoption process of social science and science and sets the stage for the language arts adoption.
The tools posted here for your use are:
- A Toolkit PowerPoint (click) presentation used to provide an overview of the adoption process.
- PDFs of the toolkit which include the facilitator guide, worksheets, and directions to carry you through the process.
- A link to the website (click here) with on-line worksheets that can be completed by individuals on the adoption committee. With the website use, the results are automatically compiled and can be used for decision making and for the final report.
- A list of (click) County Contacts: County Office of Education contacts that can provide additional support in preparing for and/or conducting the adoption of mathematics materials.
Using Mathematics Concepts as Scaffold for Academic Language
Download a pdf of the PowerPoint presentation by Harold Asturias, his 2006 Keynote address at the Asilomar Mathematics Conference.
In this presentation, Harold makes a connection between Mathematics Education and Literacy Education as a framework for developing mathematics academic language, particularly with English learners. He discusses these key points:
- goals of mathematics and literacy education;
- features of academic language;
- specific academic language proficiencies English learners need;
- differences among skills, concepts, and problem solving;
- language, culture, and mathematics issues embedded in the wording of problems we present to students.
Mathematics Festival for Schools & Math at Home
CMC has developed new Mathematics Festival Programs which
can be taken to your school for parent outreach as well as
teacher professional development and student involvement. Check
out
the site and book your school's participation now! And in a
realted matter, read
about our booklet, available to all, in our Mathematics for
Parents column. 25,000 copies, in English and Spanish, were mailed to
all CMC members and to every public and private school in the
state.
The POW!
It started right here!
CMC
is proud of its history, a history that includes a strong tie with
Problems of the Week. The venerable POW or P-O-W was started right here
in California by Lyle Fisher, Past-president of CMC and CMC-North, Bill
Medigovich, long time treasurer for CMC and CMC-N, and Dale Seymour. At
the time they were working at St. Mary's College, Moraga, with Bro. Alfred Brousseau, also a Past-president of CMC and CMC-N.
The
PoW shows that there's much more to math than the two-page spread of
problems, each of which can be solved in two minutes. It has caught on
all over the country and around the world, and has been exported to
many other subject matters, such as the S-O-W, the Squiggle of the Week
which connects art and creative writing.
CMC has
developed a position on high-stakes Testing. Go to our Issues for Parents and Teachers page for added information. Please read and
consider it carefully.
Find out more About Us in an overview of our history, sections, conferences, publications, teacher awards and more!
Fulbright Memorial Fund Teacher Program (FMF)
In existence for over ten years, FMF sends 600 educators annually to Japan
to take part in an educational and cultural study visit. The
deadline for the FMF competition is early December. Check the FMF website for additional information.
TEACHER EDUCATORS NOTE:
Online Mentoring Project—The Math Forum @ DrexelThe goal of the NSF-funded Online Mentoring
Project, is to create a dynamic online environment for
pre-service teachers to mentor students in grades 3-12 using the Math
Forum's Problems of the Week (PoW). This is a unique opportunity for
pre-service teachers to focus on how students think about math before
they face the complexities of the classroom.
A beta version of the Online Mentoring Guide (OMG) is now available
for use and is free to higher education faculty interested in using it
with their students. Mathematics and science educators are also invited
to collaborate with the Math Forum by reviewing and contributing to a
revision of the OMG and by contributing mentoring resources to the
Guide (e.g., research articles and Web resources).
PoWs Available on-line to Teachers
The MathForum, headquartered at Drexel U, offers a series of PoWs to
teachers at five levels, from Fundamental and Pre-Algebra through
Pre-Calculus.
For information, visit The MathForum.
George PolyaWe
are extremely pleased and honored that our ComMuniCator journal was
chosen to publish the transcript of a class taught by George Polya.
Great pains were taken to transcribe the filmed class accurately, and
then to edit it for a written article, without changing any of the
flavor of the original. We are pleased to post this important, timeless
document. It is now also available on audio tape in Polya's own voice..
Please go to our Publications page.
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