This Professional Development DVD for the Critical Thinking Approach to Mathematics by Melvin Poage fosters the improvement of math education; it contains a large number of clearly explained ideas, manipulatives, activities, and suggestions on Mathematics and the Teaching of Mathematics. As stated, the intention of this DVD is to foster improvement of math education; and to help instructors increase the amount of learning and understanding of mathematics in the classroom. The Critical Thinking Approach to Mathematics DVD will enable viewers to immediately implement strategies in their classrooms; it also has many ideas on the importance and the teaching of the mathematics language.

The DVD for the Critical Thinking Approach to Mathematics is ideal for fostering professional development for all math faculty.

Demonstrates successful mathematics teaching strategies that work; this DVD is a one-stop professional development and teacher training session. Open new doors for instructors and create new learning opportunities for students by using the ideas and strategies presented in this DVD. See how to promote creativity by encouraging students to express themselves by engaging them in tasks that require creative thinking and open-ended problem solving. This 120 minute DVD contains information and helpful tips on Mathematics and the Teaching of Mathematics.

Research has determined that, for most math students, the memorization of concepts without understanding is stored in the short-term memory and soon forgotten. Unfortunately, depending on memory as the main method for learning math has a very negative effect on students; increasingly, parents and teachers have found that a larger number of students now hate and despise math. This is not good for a student or the future of our country."

If you are serious about having students learn math, raise their grades in your classroom, or scoring higher on a test; it is time to look for new ideas, a possible new direction in teaching. This DVD on the Critical Thinking Approach to Mathematics is designed to help you find new ideas and directions to strengthen your instruction techniques. This DVD is a presentation where you will get, use, and understand math tools that will greatly improve your mathematical teaching. The right math tools can be a crucial part of the mathematics curriculum to reinforce problem solving and empower students. This DVD is designed to foster the teaching of critical thinking and problem solving, to facilitate learning and understanding.

OUR TOP PRIORITY IS TO HELP STUDENTS BE SUCCESSFUL IN MATHEMATICS. Critical thinking and problem solving are the main outcomes of understanding and understanding is the key to learning and retention.

In this DVD some ideas which we hope will be useful to math instructors will be presented. The goal of MTE is to improve math education by disseminating and sharing ideas about education that are contained in this DVD, you may use any idea presented, modify any idea, or create you own idea. The improvement of math education will happen only when we exchange and try out different and new ideas.

This DVD is about 120 minutes long divided into four parts:

Part 1 Introduction, Evaluation, & CSBM research,

Part 2 Curriculum, Content, & Reading in Learning Math,

Part 3 Buttonology & Critical Thinking, and

Part 4 Problem Solving, & Other Topics.