Today's episode is a real treat! We have an interview with Tamara Shaw about mathematics education. Tamara is currently a special education teacher with Weber School District. She spent 5 years in between teaching assignments as a math coach and has also spent the past 8 years developing curriculum and teaching teachers about common core math, best practices in math instruction, and math pedagogy with the Utah State Office of Education. She has an undergraduate degree in psychology, graduate degree in middle school mathematics, an elementary math endorsement, and a special education mild/moderate endorsement.

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Tamara also has shared some great resources for everyone! Check them out!

https://www.illustrativemathematics.org

http://www.k-5mathteachingresources.com

http://achievethecore.org

https://learnzillion.com

http://www.corestandards.org/Math/Practice/

https://illuminations.nctm.org

http://www.mathedleadership.org/ccss/itp/index.html

Progressions Counting and Cardinality Document: http://bit.ly/2asGzPq 

Progressions Geometric Measurement Document: http://bit.ly/2aePJgc

Progressions Number and Operations in Base Ten Document: http://bit.ly/2aer48y

Progressions Geometry Document: http://bit.ly/2a4NMR1

Progressions Measurement Data Document: http://bit.ly/2a7gbGP

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