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: Utilizing student work live in class to leverage an error shows students that they can critique each other’s work in a safe, learning environment. Student can learn more from their errors than from listening to someone else’s lecturing of information.
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: Investigating mathematical relationships can be a wonderful experience but one that often does not resonate with students. Let’s explore some contextual situations such as ranking or predicting (will woman’s earnings catch up to men’s) that can motivate students to do mathematics and engage them in learning content from algebra to functions.
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.
Description: Fizz Buzz is a beautiful, low-floor high ceiling coding task that all learners can be successful with! Our coding solution is a portable, offline programming solution, overcoming access issues for students without devices or high-speed internet. Our solution provides a grades 7-10 menu-driven solution that bridges the elementary block coding solutions with more sophisticated […]