Air Date: Not
Currently Scheduled
Subject: Mathematics/Problem Solving
Grades: 4-12
Length: 7 episodes @ 20 minutes
Distributors: W.W. Norton Co.
School Record Rights: Life of Lease
The Challenge of the Unknown is a series of 7 films about math and problem solving complete with comprehensive teaching materials. The series is designed for use in elementary/secondary math and science classrooms. The goal is to show math in a new light to help students understand how to solve complex problems. The films illustrate key problem formulation processes we all use, and show people wrestling with a wide range of problems in the real world. The problem solvers use math as a tool: it makes their tasks easier. Comedy segments interspersed with documentary segments demonstrate how problems cannot be solved by someone who is not thinking but is just pushing ahead, trying to force the problem to yield an answer.
1 Situation/Where Am I?
2 Information/What do I do?
3 Restatement/Haven't I seen this?
4 Outcomes/Where am I going?
5 Management/What do I do next?
6 Estimation/Am I close?
7 Argument/Am I right?
LIFE BY THE NUMBERS
Air Date: Not Currently Scheduled
Subject: Math
Grades: 4-6
Length: 7 episodes @ 60 minutes
Distributors: PBS
School Record Rights: 6 years
Website: www.pbs.org/wqed/lifebythenumbers
This series proves that math is all around us, and that contrary to popular belief math is an exciting, organic phenomenon that influences us every day. Hosted by Danny glover.
101 Seeing is Believing:
From IMAX films to modern art and virtual reality, math helps define space and present visions of the world. Examples of math at work include special effects in movies and renaissance paintings.102 The Numbers Game
Sports and math have long been tied together-batting averages, golf, handicaps, odds at the racetrack, even the geometry of the baseball diamond. In the push to run faster, jump farther and reach for the limits of the athlete's body.103 Patterns of Nature
Math helps biologists solve puzzles, including why zebras have stripes instead of spots.104 Chance of a lifetime
Statistics help people predict everything from the weather to the roulette wheel.105 Shape the World
Centuries before Columbus, the Greeks used math to determine the size and shape of the planet.106 A New Age
Math is a bigger part of everyday life than most people realize. Math tames the vast amount of information available to us today.107 Making a difference
Educators, researchers, and parents explore new ways to make math make sense. Math education looks very different from what it used to be.
Air Date:
Monday mornings, 4/1/02 - 4/8/02
Subject: Math
Grades: 6-9
Length: 12 episodes @ 20 minutes
Distributors: GPN
School Record Rights: Life of Lease
Website: www.mathinthemiddle.org
Multidimensional approach to teaching integrated math is a multi-faceted resource that provides an integrated approach to enriching middle-school math. Featuring pre-algebra concepts, the thematic units will engage your students. Effective, practical way of achieving the NCTM goal of teaching math concepts as part of an integrated curriculum. Real world math examples enhance a problem-based approach to middle school math.
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Air Date:
Monday mornings, 3/11/02 - 3/18/02
Subject: Math
Grades: 6-9
Length: 12 episodes @ 20 minutes
Distributors: GPN
School record Rights: Life of Lease
Website: www.mathinthemiddle.org
A multidimensional approach to teaching integrated math is a multi-faceted resource that provides an integrated approach to enriching middle-school math. Featuring pre-algebra concepts, the thematic units will engage your students in math learning. Piloted across the country, this curriculum enhancement series delights teachers with its effective, practical way of achieving the NCTM goal of teaching math concepts as part of an integrated curriculum. Real world math examples enhance a problem-based approach to middle school math.
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Air Date:
Monday mornings, 2/4/02 - 2/25/02
Subject: Math
Grades: 4-6
Length: 20 episodes @ 15 minutes (plus 2 additional videos for
teachers/parents)
Distributors: PBS
School Record Rights: Life of Lease
Website: http://gpn.unl.edu
The series as a whole brings math into the grades 4-6 classroom in ways
that are fun for both the students and the teacher. As hosts of a call-in
math show, Maria Lopez and her parrot field calls from kids and adults
who have math dilemmas.
Click HERE for episode descriptions.
MATHEMATICS: WHAT'S THE BIG IDEA?
Air
Date: Not Currently Scheduled
Subject: Professional Development/Math
Grades: Adult
Length: 8 episodes @ 60 minutes
Distributors: CPB/Annenberg
Record Rights: 1 year
Website: http://www.learner.org/channel/workshops/math/
K-8 teachers of mathematics will contemplate intriguing questions about math and student understanding during this eight-part workshop series. Each workshop offers motivation and tools to teachers who want to explore new ways of teaching. In addition, viewers will hear from educational experts and classroom teachers around the country.
Click HERE for episode descriptions.
Air
Date: Not Currently Scheduled
Subject: Professional Development
Grades: 3-8
Length: 24 lessons of varying lengths
Series Distributor: PBS
Website:
http://idahoptv.org/learn/mathline/mathline.html
Algebraic
Thinking Project
The Algebraic Thinking Math Project (ATMP),
features video lessons modeling the teaching of algebraic concepts, shows
how these concepts can be developed across the grades, and provides a
forum for discussing issues related to algebraic thinking in grades 3-8.
Elementary
School Math Project
The Elementary
School Math Project (ESMP), for teachers K-5, features video lessons modeling
the teaching of mathematical concepts; shows how these concepts can be
developed over time in the classroom; and provides a forum for discussing
issues relating to teaching in the elementary school.
Middle
School Math Project
The Middle School
Math Project (MSMP), for teachers 5-8, features video lessons structured
on the NCTM content standards and mathematical issues that are specifically
related to the middle school student.
High
School Math Project
The High School
Math Project: Focus on Algebra (HSMP), for teachers 7-12, features a functions
approach to algebra through lessons based on active learning, problem-solving,
analysis, reasoning and communicating.
PRINCIPLES & STANDARDS FOR SCHOOL MATHEMATICS: VISION TO REALITY
Air Date: March
4, 2002
Subject: Math, Professional Development
Grades: Adult
Length: 60 minutes
Distributors: PBS
School Record Rights:
Principles and Standards for School Mathematics, released by the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM) in April 2000, presents a vision for improving mathematics education with the goal of helping students become both competent and confident in mathematics. This video features the writers of the Standards commenting on the major areas of emphasis for each of the grade bands pre K-2, 3-5, 6-8 and 9-12. In addition, the video contains footage of actual teachers implementing lessons that illustrate the Standard’s key points for content and teaching strategies. This video is the result of a collaborative effort between PBS MATHLINE and NCTM.
Air
Date: Not Currently Scheduled
Subject: Mathematics
Grades: 3-5
Length: 1 @ 30 minutes
Distributors: PBS
School Record Rights: 1 year
Join this exciting four-part adventure about two teen sleuths, Max and Keisha, who discover the presence of an alien below New York City. As they try to make contact with the alien, they are confronted with a series of mathematical challenges that test their knowledge of these content standards recommended by the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics:
Part 1: Coordinate graphing
Part 2: Measurement and geometry
Part 3: Number patterns
Part 4: Fractions
Developed for classroom
use, XY Encounter provides elementary and middle school teachers with
an engaging context in which to motivate students in mathematics. The
adventure may be viewed in its entirety, or each part may be revisited
separately as it aligns with the curriculum. An accompanying guide provides
educators with additional suggestions for utilizing the video.