FOCUS:

Math teacher Janie MacIntyre used her McAuliffe

funds to see whether her success with Thinking

Maps could be replicated throughout Rocky Mount,

NC. MacIntyre, who teaches low-performing eighth-

graders, saw her students make the biggest gains in

the school.

USA TODAY March 4, 2002

“Teachers Make the Utmost of McAuliffe Funds”

JANIE MACINTYRE

2001 ALL-USA TEACHER FIRST TEAM

Using teacher logs of their Thinking Map use and

videotapes of their teaching, MacIntyre found

that the more the teachers used the maps, the

better their students did on the EOG’s. Overall,

developmental growth for low-performing

students quadrupled.

USA TODAY March 4, 2002

“Teachers Make the Utmost of McAuliffe Funds”

JANIE MACINTYRE

2001 ALL-USA TEACHER FIRST TEAM

“Quantifying what works is a big step in

improving the teaching profession and

improving instruction for all students, she

says. In academia, “If you don’t document it,

it didn’t happen.”

USA TODAY March 4, 2002

“Teachers Make the Utmost of McAuliffe Funds”

JANIE MACINTYRE

2001 ALL-USA TEACHER FIRST TEAM

Why we

study Math in School?

“Because it’s hard and we have to learn hard things at school.

We learn easy stuff at home like manners.”

“Because it’s important. It’s a

law from President Clinton and it says so in the Bible on the first page.”

“Because what would you do with your check from work when you

grow up?.”

“Because it always comes

after Reading.”

“Because you have to count if you want to be an astronaut. Like 10 . . . 9 . . . 8 . . . Blast

off!.”

K-3 Students

Why we

study Math in School?

“Because you could never find the right

page.”

“Because when you

grow up you couldn’t tell if you are rich or

not.”

“Because my teacher could get sued if we don’t, that’s what she

said. Any subject we don’t know - WHAM! She gets sued. And she

is already poor.

K-3 Students

Understanding Relationships

Bridge Map

Double Bubble Map

Understanding Processes

Flow Map

Multi-flow Map

Understanding Concepts

Circle Map

Brace Map

Bubble Map

Tree Map

MATH AND THINKING MAPS

2. Which of these figures has a circle for one of its faces?

A. cone

B. pyramid

C. cube

D. rectangular prism

EOG GRADE 3

2. Which of the following sets of numbers is in order from least to greatest?

A. 651, 649, 621, 599

B. 599, 621, 651, 649

C. 599, 649, 621, 651

D. 599, 621, 640, 651

EOG GRADE 3

Tree Map

Algebra

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