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Welcome to ATOMIM's Becoming Math Online Book Study!


Hopefully, you had an opportunity to join us at a Dine & Discuss. If not, that's okay, too. To participate in the online forum, you must be a member of ATOMIM.


Our rules here are simple: Keep it professional and respectful. Take a moment to read through others' comments. Use the reply option if you have a question or comment on someone else's post. We can make this an interactive space - an ongoing conversation - and get the most out of our learning together.


Each Thursday, we will post two prompts for that week's chapter. You may choose which prompt to respond to. It's okay to go back to previous weeks if you fall behind. The posting schedule is below. You can find all of the chapter prompts here. We've also linked each chapter below to the corresponding page on Tracy's website. And if you have a twitter account, feel free to tweet using the hashtag #becomingmath and include @mainemath.


9/28 - 10/25 Welcome to the Book Study

11/2 - 11/8 Chapter 1: Breaking the Cycle

11/9 - 11/15 Chapter 2: What Do Mathematicians Do?

11/16 - 11/22 Chapter 3: Mathematicians Take Risks

11/30 - 12/6 Chapter 4: Mathematicians Make Mistakes

12/7 - 12/13 Chapter 5: Mathematicians Are Precise

12/14 - 12/20 Chapter 6: Mathematicians Rise to a Challenge

1/4 - 1/10 Chapter 7: Mathematicians Ask Questions

1/11 - 1/17 Chapter 8: Mathematicians Connect Ideas

1/18 - 1/24 Chapter 9: Mathematicians Use Intuition

1/25 - 1/31 Chapter 10: Mathematicians Reason

2/1 - 2/7 Chapter 11: Mathematicians Prove

2/8 - 2/14 Chapter 12: Mathematicians Work Together and Alone

2/15 - 2/21 Chapter 13: "Favorable Conditions" for All Math Students


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  • Week 13: Discussion Question (just one option)

    14 Feb 2018 3:41 PM | Anonymous member (Administrator)

    We will send you a more formal feedback form at the end of the month, so for now let's just consider this prompt:


    This is a great spot to do some journaling, reflecting, and discussing. How has the experience been? What have been the overarching themes of your work throughout this journey? What ideas are you lingering over still? Going forward, what specific goals will you be working on?

  • Week 12: Call to Action (Option 2)

    09 Feb 2018 7:22 AM | Anonymous member (Administrator)

    This chapter includes a lot of specific strategies including using vertical, nonpermanent surfaces (pp 321-323), visibly random grouping (pp 323-324), promoting cross-pollination (pp 327-330), and sparking debate (pp335-338). Choose an area of focus and a strategy from this chapter and try it out a few times. Tell us about your plan and then come back and tell us how it worked out.

  • Week 12: Discussion Question (Option 1)

    09 Feb 2018 7:20 AM | Anonymous member (Administrator)

    Do your students think they have to be right in order to talk? Do you? What can you do to welcome partially formed thinking? (p 314)

  • Week 11: Call to Action (Option 2)

    01 Feb 2018 4:35 PM | Anonymous member (Administrator)

    Spend some time with the bulleted list on p. 284. Identify a specific goal to work on in your practice (for example, working on your poker face or asking follow-up questions). Try your goal in your teaching for two weeks, then come back and write about how it went.

  • Week 11: Discussion Question (Option 1)

    01 Feb 2018 4:34 PM | Anonymous member (Administrator)

    Consider the architect's work versus the draftsmen's work from the Halmos quote (pp 303-304). What thinking does it spark in you? Are you pushing your students to be more like the architect or more like the draftsman?

  • Week 10: Discussion Question (Option 1)

    25 Jan 2018 4:30 AM | Anonymous member (Administrator)

    What do you make of the argument that counterintuitive or paradoxical math is a motivator for proof?

  • Week 10: Call to Action (Option 2)

    25 Jan 2018 4:30 AM | Anonymous member (Administrator)

    Choose a strategy (Choral Counting, Open Number Sentences, True/False Number Sentences, Always/Sometimes/Never) and try it out. Plan with colleagues, if possible. Be deliberate about your choices; make sure they reflect your mathematical goal for the lesson. How did it go? Share.

  • Week 9: Call to Action (Option 2)

    17 Jan 2018 5:50 PM | Anonymous member (Administrator)

    Choose seven questions (224-226), one from each category, and write them somewhere you'll see them while you teach. What questions did you choose? Try using them in your teaching for a week. What did you notice? Share.

  • Week 9: Discussion Question (Option 1)

    17 Jan 2018 5:50 PM | Anonymous member (Administrator)

    Discuss the opening passage about intution. What caught your ear? Any surprises?

  • Week 8: Call to Action (Option 2)

    12 Jan 2018 4:52 PM | Anonymous member (Administrator)

    Think about models you teach. Do your students currently see connections among them? What might you take from Becky's Example (191-193)? Try it, what did you learn?

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