Mathematics Professional Learning
Welcome to the Mathematics Professional Learning page. Here you will find a variety of offerings from progressions of learning in operations strategies, math manipulatives, best practices, diagnostic tools, and supports for all students.
Each module below walks through how strategies progress from early conceptual understanding through the standard algorithm. Modules are approximately one hour in length and can be completed in one sitting or in smaller parts. After completing a module, submit the questionnaire to receive your contact hour certificate.
If you have ideas for other offerings you would like to see, please email us.
Explore the Progressions
Understand why math instruction looks different today and how research-based strategies build deeper number sense and conceptual understanding (~1 hour).
Follow how addition strategies build from earliest understanding through the standard algorithm (~1 hour).
- Beginning Strategies
- Counting Up & Counting On
- Number Grids
- Doubles & Near Doubles
- Base Ten Blocks
- Open Number Line
- Compensation
- Making "Friendly" Numbers
- Partial Sums
- US Standard Algorithm
Follow how subtraction strategies build from earliest understanding through the standard algorithm (~1 hour).
- Models
- Counting Back (or Up)
- Number Grids
- Base Ten Blocks
- Open Number Line
- Compensation / Constant Differences
- Expanded Notation (Regroup)
- US Standard Algorithm
Follow how multiplication strategies build from earliest understanding through the standard algorithm (~1 hour).
- Models
- Repeated Addition
- Arrays
- Helper Facts & Doubling
- Area Model
- Partial Products
- Lattice Multiplication
- US Standard Algorithm
Follow how division strategies build from earliest understanding through the standard algorithm (~1 hour).
- Models
- Equal Groups
- Arrays
- Area Model
- Partial Quotients
- US Standard Algorithm
Contact
Jen Robitaille
Mathematics Specialist
Email: jennifer.r.robitaille@maine.gov