Discover how AI is revolutionizing math education! This session will showcase MiloAI, an AI-powered tutor leveraging GPT-4 to provide real-time, personalized math support. Gain practical insights, hands-on examples, and actionable strategies to enhance student engagement and learning outcomes in your classroom.
While students often begin school with a single, operational meaning for the equal sign, they need to develop an additional three meanings to be successful in creating and using equations in school mathematics. In this presentation, we provide a model for expert understanding of the equal sign and describe how to help students in each of the grade bands PK-2, 3-5, 6-8, and 9-12 move along the path to expert understanding. We illustrate this progression with tasks in each grade band that you can use to help your students improve their understanding of the equal sign.
With over 270 immersive films designed to create purpose for math, Core Curriculum is specifically designed to foster growth-mindset through student collaboration. Students learn new concepts, not only from their teacher, but from each other. With formative assessments that help teachers and students decide where and how to make improvements, and assignments that light up the mathematical part of the brain, Core Curriculum by MidSchoolMath is the antidote to students saying they are just “bad at math.” This session will provide a brief overview of Core Curriculum by MidSchoolMath, a recommended primary instructional material for grades 5 through 8.
Many cutting-edge early childhood classrooms are implementing constructivist techniques to support student development of mathematics concepts (Clements et al., 2023). Additionally, innovative curriculum producers have even begun centering their instructional scope and sequence around a constructivist approach (e.g., Singapore Dimensions). This is a powerfully beneficial mathematics instruction paradigm shift; however, work is far from finished. Sometimes, constructivist math teaching in the early years can lose its connection to the real world, which is essential for young minds. This presentation demonstrates how a 1st and 2nd-grade classroom centers constructivist activities around rich outdoor experiences. The presenters will share how their students engage in shared exploration of the real world, which leads them to inquiries that often necessitate mathematical answers. Presenters will highlight this integrated mathematics discovery as 1st graders collect and count insects, legs, and antennas, as well as 2nd graders who build life-size replicas of a variety of Utah birds and explore their wing beats and travel. Attendees will be actively engaged in this workshop through hands-on activities and leave with a toolbox of strategies to use mathematics as an inquiry-oriented way to understand rich experiences and the world around them.
