Description: Learn about Nearpod, an interactive platform that provides opportunities for teaching and learning mathematics in a fun interactive way, with embedded explorations, simulations, formative assessment, and many more features in live and self-paced settings.
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: Effective teaching of mathematics facilitates discourse among students to build shared understanding of mathematical ideas by analyzing and comparing student approaches and arguments (NCTM Teaching Practice). This session will examine mathematical tasks that focus on procedures with connections and doing mathematics. Tasks that have high-cognitive demand are complex enough to give students something to […]
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: 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.
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: 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.