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USA TODAY
March 4, 2002
“Teachers Make the Utmost of McAuliffe Funds”
JANIE MACINTYRE
2001 ALL-USA TEACHER FIRST TEAM
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 eighthgraders, 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.”
K-3
Students
“Because it’s hard and we have
to learn hard things at school.
We learn easy stuff at home like
manners.”
“Because it
“Because what
would you do with
always comes
Why we
your check from
after Reading.”
work when you
study
grow up?.”
“Because it’s
Math in
important. It’s a
School?
law from President
Clinton and it says
so in the Bible on
the first page.”
“Because you have to count if
you want to be an astronaut.
Like 10 . . . 9 . . . 8 . . . Blast
off!.”
K-3
Students
“Because
when you
grow up you
couldn’t tell if
you are rich or
not.”
“Because you could
never find the right
page.”
Why we
study
Math in
School?
“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.
MATH AND THINKING MAPS
Understanding
Concepts
Understanding
Processes
Understanding
Relationships
Circle Map
Flow Map
Bridge Map
Brace Map
Multi-flow Map
Double Bubble
Map
Bubble Map
Tree Map
EOG GRADE 3
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
Tree Map
Algebra
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GEAR-UP SCHOOLS
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