Date	Topic of the Day	Teaching Practice	Teaching Theory (Lead Discussion)
9/10/03	Jackie Hart What to do when student jobs interfere with study.	Russ Booth Adding polynomials	Heidi Burgiel NCTM Standards for middle and high school
9/17/03	Erin Murphy How can we make IEP students feel less singled out?	Steve Self Video: ASCII, Binary and Hexadecimal number systems	Mary Parlato Differentiating Instruction for Advanced Learners in the Mixed-Ability Middle School Classroom Mapping a Route Toward Differentiated Instruction
9/24/03	Joseph Murphy Control in the Classroom	Erin Murphy Quarts, Pints, Crackers and Rates	Linda McNeilly Learning Mathematical Symbolism: Challenges and Instructional Strategies
10/1/03	Mary Parlato Tracking and Parental Involvement in Tracking	Decio Matos The Octal Number System	Russ Booth My Calculator is Broken; It Says the Log of [-1] is ...
10/8/03	Erin Costello What do you do when everyone fails the test?	Erica D'Ambrosio Logic matrices.	Erin Murphy Using Cooperative Learning to Improve Reading and Writing in Mathematical Problem Solving
10/15/03	Steve Self "No Child Left Behind"	Joseph Murphy Creating and Interpreting Stem and Leaf Plots	Sarah Arruda Teaching Reading in Science and Mathematics
10/22/03	Erica D'Ambrosio Should you take extra time to review a topic if your students "don't get it" the first time?	Rebecca Taylor Quadratic Equations and Graphing Calculators	Decio Matos Math Education at Risk
10/29/03	Russ Booth What do you say to the parents?	Jackie Hart Die Rolling and the Normal Distribution Curve	Rebecca Taylor Watch your Language! Recommendations to help students communicate
11/5/03	Special guest star Kevin Curry RiverNet Watershed Program	Sarah Arruda Measure, compute and compare surface area and volume.	Erin Costello The Japanese Education System: A Case Study Summary and Analysis Jackie Hart Schools Piling on Too Much Homework, Psychologists Say Homework: Too Much of a Good Thing?
11/12/03	Rebecca Taylor Unsupportive administration Dan Mastrogiacomo Are IEP's too common?	Mary Parlato Combinations of Ice Cream Toppings
11/19/03	Decio Matos Changing the SAT's.	Erin Costello Interactive Math: Discovery of the Pythagorean Theorem	Dan Mastrogiacomo Can Math Recovery Save Children before They Fail? Educators Urge Parents to Bolster Girls' Interest in Math and Science
11/26/03	Thanksgiving	Thanksgiving	Thanksgiving
12/3/03	Sarah Arruda	Dan Mastrogiacomo	Joseph Murphy Mathematics instruction for secondary students with learning disabilities. Erica D'Ambrosio The Case Against Block Scheduling
12/10/03	Discussion of final projects.	Discussion of final projects.	Steve Self "Learning and Mathematics: Hiebert and Wearne, Teaching by K. Ann Renninger"