Bob Lochel is a math teacher from suburban Philadelphia who has been a teacher for 2
5 years. He is most interested in effective technology integration in math classrooms, and developing lessons which challenge all learners to think mathematically. He is an officer in his local NCTM affiliate, ATMOPAV (the Association of Mathematics of Philadelphia and Vicinity), is a Certified Desmos Presenter, and was selected for the Siemens STEM Academy through Discovery Education. Bob organizes a math club at his high school, facilitates a number of math contests, and is a track and field official.
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Dear Bob,
As a proponent of math education in the United States, we need your help to promote our nationwide math competition by blogging or posting about it on your blog/forum.
As you probably already know, despite the fact that the US spends the most money on education per capita, our students are ranked 25th globally for math proficiency. The MATHCOUNTS Foundation is a nonprofit dedicated to improving that statistic. MATHCOUNTS’ third annual “ Math Video Challenge” is a math competition for 6th to 8th graders that encourages student innovation as they create and star in their own math videos, thus exciting them to pursue higher education in math.
As the webmaster of MathCoachBlog, we are asking you to help support this effort by mentioning us in your next blog or forum post or promoting our logo with a link to the site. So far this contest has gathered over 500
submissions and millions of views on the videos. Our goal this year is this year is to do even better. With your help, we are confident we will reach this goal.
For more information on MATHCOUNTS or the Math Video Challenge, visit our webpages at mathcounts.org and videochallenge.mathcounts.org/math-camera-action.
Respectfully,
Jake Byrnes