Do you remember how you felt when you decided you were going to be a math teacher? Do you have moments when you feel frustrated or less excited than when you started on this journey? Join us in this session as we bring back the joy and beauty of learning and teaching mathematics through asset-based perspectives. The engaging, interactive activities in this session will provide immediate strategies and tools that will inspire and transform your math classroom!
Unleash the power of play in evaluating math skills. We will examine three levels of fluency and identify games that support all learners at all levels
Student proficiency on state assessments decreases as students transition from elementary school to middle school. ULEAD has done a variety of research on Middle School Mathematics and will share insights into what they have learned during their research.
Tuesday January 28, 2025 13:00 - 13:30 MST
Ballroom B
In this workshop, we will explore ways to use hands-on and visual models for understanding decimals and solving decimal problems. Participants will engage in these concepts through learning stations and consider how they can use similar activities in their classrooms.
This session will be an exploration of the origins of pi and its derivations and methods of approximation. We will also discuss uses of pi and activities for Pi Day.
Spent 19 years teaching mathematics at South Fremont High School in Idaho. Worked for 3 years as Implementation Manager for PowerSchool(SIS). Spent 3 years teaching 7th grade math at Adele C. Young in Brigham City and 15 years teaching math for University of Phoenix (online and local... Read More →
Wednesday January 29, 2025 09:45 - 10:45 MST
Ballroom B
Has it been a challenge to implement class discussions into your lessons? When you send students to work at vertical whiteboards, is it more of a disaster than a delight? Are small group activities in your classroom a stressful struggle or a teacher triumph? If you are struggling to implement some of these pedagogical moves into your teaching, establishing effective norms with your students may be helpful. Small group activities, class discussions, and working at whiteboards can be successful learning tools when we have established classroom norms that support our pedagogical goals. Join us as we share new research about how to establish norms in a mathematics classroom. Learn how to introduce norms, refine them, and reinforce them throughout the school year.
I'll be presenting on a portion of my master's degree, focusing on the use of digital manipulatives increasing mathematical understanding. I’ll present the resources my students had the most success with, the benefits of digital manipulatives over physical manipulatives, and the best free and paid resources.
The purpose of this session is to introduce participants to the interactive functionality of Equatio Mathspace, a digital learning environment designed specifically for use in the math classroom.
