Short videos show how the lessons work in a real middle school classroom.
The Learner Teachers, after taking the lessons back to their own classes, return to the studio to discuss their experience and learn new assessment techniques. Workshop Guide Shannon C de Baca leads viewers through the series, discusses classroom management strategies, relates each topic to the NCTM standards and real-world applications. Throughout the series, students discover mathematical principles on their own so they can remember and apply them in other situations. The teachers discover what makes similar figures similar and how a scale factor affects side lengths, angles, perimeters, and areas when figures are enlarged or reduced. In Practice .