Presenter
Henri Picciotto writes:
Please visit my Math Education Page, where I share much curriculum and philosophy, particularly about tool-based learning, and my Math Education Blog, where alas I post rather irregularly.
I have been involved in mathematics education since 1971, at every level from counting to calculus.
- I have been a teacher, a math specialist, and a department chair.
- I have written many books and articles, and edited the "Activities" department in The Mathematics Teacher.
- I have created software and video lessons, and been a presence on the Web.
- I am an authority on the use of manipulatives in secondary math education.
- I have spoken at conferences, been a consultant to schools (hundreds of workshops and presentations), and served on advisory boards for various projects.
About the project
"Escape from the Textbook" is a sharing and collaboration network for middle and high school math teachers who want to escape from the textbook for a lesson, a unit, or an entire course. Hopefully some of the 400+ members will attend this event!
While our schools are very different from each other (large and small, middle and high school, public and private), the challenges facing us are similar. The
Escape from the Textbook! network can help us take up those challenges through:
- networking with like-minded teachers
- sharing of successful approaches
- multischool collaboration groups that focus on specific courses or topics
- strategies on how to complement or replace textbook material
- assessment ideas
- different lenses to analyze curricular and pedagogical ideas
