UCTM 2025 Conference

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.

Join fellow educators from the SEDC region for a dynamic networking session designed to foster collaboration, spark new ideas, and strengthen community ties. This informal gathering offers a unique opportunity to reconnect with old colleagues, meet new friends, and share insights with peers who understand the unique challenges and opportunities within our region.

Participants will engage with a variety of manipulatives that students would use in a math classroom using structures and routines that support learning. Ideas for how to set up routines and manage math manipulatives will be shared.

With 360° math, the teacher is no longer at a physical disadvantage, but able to see the most important thing in a math classroom...student thinking. Standing in the middle of the classroom, the teacher has a 360° view of every student working every problem on the walls. The framework works effectively with any curriculum and any set of standards. Walk away with the tools and inspiration to immediately improve math engagement and achievement.