Description: Are you a fan of Dan Meyer and Graham Fletcher? We've taken their existing 3 Act Tasks and transformed them into ready-to-use, teacher friendly lessons in a convenient slide show format. Come preview our work and you will leave with a collection of these lessons.
Description: Earlier research uncovers a multitude of “in the in-the-moment” motivating desires that accompany mathematical problem solving. These motivating desires evoke differing patterns of engagement and social interaction. In this presentation, we share our most current data (survey, individual interview, and focus group techniques) involving prospective K-6 teachers’ motivating desires as they work in groups […]
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: 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: This presentation will provide an overview of the mathematical questions that arise in decisions about the census, apportionment, redistricting, who gets to vote, how the vote takes place, how the votes are counted, and how the votes are tabulated. We will be looking back to the 2020 national elections and forward to the 2021 […]
Description: Are you looking for ways to help students be sense-makers rather than answer getters? Get ready to explore a rapid-fire selection of engaging tasks designed to ignite mathematical curiosity, spark reasoning and promote rich math discourse.
Description: My annual address about the state of mathematics education in NJ (and throughout the country) including thoughts about necessary and long overdue changes that need to be made in curriculum, instruction and assessment.
Description: Recognizing the increasing need for statistical/quantitative thinking and reasoning in today's world, NCTM’s Catalyzing Change identifies making sense of the world as a central purpose in teaching mathematics. How can we make this vision a reality in our classrooms and why is it important to do so? How can technology help?
Description: Participants will experience strategies that empower students to see mathematics through the lens of relationship building at a global level. Using shared activities, you will be guided to engage in an empathy challenge, investigate resources such as Harvard GSE's Zero Out of Eden, and Better World Ed. in order to better understand the connections […]
Description: Participants will learn why it’s important to acknowledge diversity, inclusion, multiculturalism, & create equitable conditions in the classroom. As they unpack the aforementioned terms, participants will engage in hands-on tasks to scaffold instructional strategies they can effectively & efficiently apply in their classrooms on the next instructional day.