Description: Participants will explore a multi-dimensional approach to teaching math in general and special education classes. Participants will leave the session with tools and strategies that will encourage student self-discovery.
Description: Show students real-world applications for their emerging math skills and connections to other disciplines with hands-on activities that use data sets on wildlife habitat, land and water use, population and more. Build students’ skills in working with fractions, ratios, large numbers, growth patterns, measurement, and data analysis.
Description: Do your students struggle to engage in mathematical discussions? Instructional routines provide teachers and students with well-defined structures that support students’ shared sense-making. In this interactive workshop we will demonstrate how to introduce and facilitate routines so that students are supported in being successful.
Description: The quarantine has nudged educators to plan Flexible Learning Models to include teachers, students and parents in effective mathematics instruction for the uncertain Fall 2020. We will engage minds through online tools that provide immediate, interactive, adaptive feedback resulting in understanding, rather than in memorizing whole numbers and fraction concepts. This session will model […]
Description: Advanced Algebra with Financial Applications and Hands-On Statistics are two math credit bearing curricula that can be used as alternatives to algebra 2 and precalculus. Both have only an Algebra 1 prerequisite, can receive 3rd/4th year math credits, and are motivating, relevant curricula that engage struggling students.
Description: Explore the importance of counting in PreK through 2nd grade classrooms. Learn about assessments that can be used to identify counting strengths and weaknesses in students. Learn about activities to support counting, number sequence, and recognition that you can easily implement in your classroom.
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Description: Looking for ways to help students master multiplication facts, so they do not rely on repeated addition or skip counting? Learn visualization strategies that use arrays and properties of multiplication to help students learn their facts with conceptual understanding. The how-to’s of monitoring and assessing fluency will also be discussed.