Welcome to Thinking Strategies for Mastering Math!

Who are we? 

Thinking Strategies for Mastering Math is a North Dakota based educational company providing on-site professional development math workshops for elementary teachers and support staff.

Why choose us for your professional development needs?

Simply put, we conduct the best professional development workshops and we have the track record to prove it.  Thinking Strategies for Mastering Math:

•   limits the scope of each workshop to specific NCTM standards thus insuring
    in-depth understanding of concepts and transfer of knowledge to the classroom;
   

•   guarantees the outcomes identified in each workshop description through
    research-validated methods and materials;
   

•   materials are field tested and mapped to Principles and Standards for School
    Mathematics, 2000, standards and expectations and are compatible with your math series;
   

•   increases student achievements, fits into the goals of NCLB, generates teacher
    enthusiasm, and changes attitudes towards the teaching and learning of mathematics;
   

•   gives participants professionally prepared material listed in workshop description;
   

•   offers graduate credit (Math 500), undergraduate credit (Math 400), and CEU's.
   

•   offers on-site workshops.

 

Who are the presenters?

Presenters are experienced classroom teachers who have presented workshops to over 11,000 teachers in the past 10 years.

 

What workshops do I have to choose from?

One Day Workshops:

 

 

1)  Place Value, Trading Process for Addition, Subtraction, Multiplication, and Division

 

 

 

2)  Naming, Describing and Drawing Two- and Three-dimensional Figures

 

 

 

3)  Estimating Measures and Measuring; Telling Time

 

 

4)  Writing Formulas;  Representing Numerical Patterns; Developing Formulas for

 

     Perimeter, Circumference, Area and Volume

 

 

 

5)  The Literature and Math Connection

 

 

 

 

 

Two Day Workshops:

 

 

6)   Mastering the Basic Facts of Addition and Subtraction by Mental Computation

 

 

 

7)   Mastering the Basic Facts of Multiplication and Division by Mental Computation

 

 

 

8)   Informal Geometry for Elementary Students, Part A and Part B

 

 

 

9)   Mathematics for Kindergarten Students

 

 

 

 

 

Design you own workshop:

 

 

We will help you design an in-service to meet your school improvement needs.  For example, forenoon dedicated to long division; afternoon drawing polygons.  Contact us by telephone or e-mail. 

  (For workshop fees click Workshops tab at the left.)