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MathLab's design brings professional learning into the classroom

By Sara Morales and Terri Sainz

February 2017

Vol. 38 No. 1

Imagine teachers, administrators, and university mathematicians and staff learning together in a lab setting where students are excited about attending a weeklong summer math event because they are at the forefront of the experience. Piloted in three New Mexico classrooms during summer 2014, MathLab expanded into 17 lab settings over six locations during summer 2015 and was implemented again in 2016. The enthusiasm of all participants witnessed by the New Mexico Public Education Department has resulted in funding to support future events. MathLab is an innovative learning design from New Mexico State University’s Mathematically Connected Communities (MC2), a partnership of New Mexico educators that includes mathematicians, school leaders, researchers, and teachers. Aligned to Learning Forward’s Standards for Professional Learning (Learning Forward, 2011), MathLab began as

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Sara Morales (smorales@nmsu.edu) and Terri Sainz (tsainz@nmsu.edu) are project researchers for Mathematically Connected Communities (MC2) at New Mexico State University.

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