Engaged learners are successful learners! This session will focus on engagement as a significant factor in fostering confident mathematical mindsets. With a focus on Universal Design for Learning, participants will explore how to weave the 5 Strands of Mathematical Proficiency into their instruction in order to create math moments that matter.
Our curricula, professional learning and peer-led community are all designed to center student discourse and advance classroom equity. Join us to learn how our K-HS materials make mathematics accessible for all and encourage student growth through problem-solving and hands-on learning.
In this session, participants will practice a series of problems they can use with students to build their conceptual understanding of simplifying algebraic expressions and solving equations. A series of problems from student lessons are included in the handout, beginning with problems that introduce algebra tiles. Algebra tiles are used throughout the rest of the problems to obtain the lesson objectives, including combining like terms, comparing expressions, and solving equations. Participants for this session will benefit from practicing the problems in teams while experiencing the facilitation and questioning in a student-centered classroom.
Can I use manipulatives and drawings in high school? Yes! The brain shifts from concrete to abstract thinking in late adolescence. Therefore, all students benefit from connecting concrete representations to abstract procedures. Join us in an interactive session to learn how to use algebra tiles and "quick-draws" for expressions, equations, modeling polynomial computation, and completing the square.
Instructional leadership matters. To help teachers create math moments that matter, we must prioritize creating systemic change. During this hands on workshop, coaches and leaders will consider the changes that could move the needle for student learning in math and formulate an action plan to lead the necessary changes.
“When are we ever going to use this?!” As math teachers, you have likely heard this familiar refrain. In this presentation, we will talk about how real people use math for making the world a better place. We will discuss how a focus on helping others (and the environment) might allow more students to connect with math, and we will share cases we have created based on interviews with real people about how they use math to make the world a better place. Cases are designed to be used in classrooms, beginning with artifacts and a notice/wonder structure to engage students and then digging deeper into the uses of math and how they benefit the world. We’ll solicit your feedback on the cases, and you’ll have the option to try them out in your classrooms this spring! Let’s work together to help more students see how math can be used to make the world a better place.
Partner talk and hands-on activities are critical elements of the number sense intervention. Students need to talk and hear others talk about numbers as much as possible to gain confidence, recognize relationships between numbers, and develop flexibility in using them. Attendee will experience an intervention number sense lesson and get a first peak at our Fractions intervention that is being launched in July 25
This will be an open discussion where I define Critical Race Theory, explain its use in education, and its particular relevance to mathematics education. Time will be provided for discussion and Q&A.
