Join us for a transformative session on creating equitable and thinking-centered math classrooms. We'll delve into the unique challenges faced by Black female students and explore strategies to foster growth mindsets, encourage meaningful conversations, and build inclusive learning environments. Leave with actionable steps to empower all students to thrive in math.
This presentation will introduce practical discourse protocols to enhance students' deep understanding of mathematics. These strategies foster a classroom environment where students actively participate in discussions, challenging and building upon each other's ideas. By building on the knowledge and strengths of all students, these protocols will help to build a culture where all students feel that they belong in math class. Join us in redefining mathematics learning, making it an active, engaging, and deeply enriching experience for all students.
Participants will have the opportunity to actively engage in a diverse array of hands-on activities, utilizing Bar Models and Visual Number Talks, Bars and Dot Models, throughout the session. These activities are designed to delve into the intricate connections between numeracy and literacy, showcasing how these two essential skills intertwine and complement each other in the realm of problem-solving.
Technology has quickly learned how to solve the most complex math problems. So what is left for us humans to do? In this interactive session, we will explore 5 ways to keep students engaged in the math classroom and prepare them to thrive in the 21st Century. Participants will leave with actionable steps to take toward implementing effective: - Standards-based grading - Inquiry based learning - Collaboration and communication - Problem solving - Analysis of various solution pathways
Using video and student work samples on three topics (multiplication, data analysis, and algebra), participants will be actively engaged in analysis of the math ideas being generated by students in multi-diverse settings. Evidence is presented that learning is progressive and developmental in nature best depicted as a complex network of pathways comprised of strategies, big ideas, and models. Transmission in most cases does not develop this required thinking. Professional learning and student achievement results from two districts are provided as further evidence.
Participants will discover how to leverage Smarter Balanced interim assessment blocks to implement targeted strategies for improving student understanding. Participants will learn how to access student results, identify misconceptions, and use Tools for Teachers.
This session leverages the power of SEL to support and grow students’ problem-solving achievement in math. Students who are still growing self-management or executive functioning skills often avoid or abandon tasks that challenge them, despite their capability. Together, we’ll discuss practical ways to cultivate emotional intelligence, critical thinking, and productive struggle within your math classroom. Leave with ready-to-use lessons and strategies to build a classroom environment where students are engaged and empowered to develop their perseverance in math challenges.
What does it mean to elicit and use evidence of student thinking? How do we create an inclusive learning environment where all our students are comfortable sharing their thinking? We'll discuss teacher moves and routines that will make it easier to capture student thinking from your students and discuss how teachers can use student thinking to make instructional decisions on-the-spot in the classroom more effectively.
Having students develop conceptual understanding is critical to better engage students and help them see the relevance of learning mathematics, but how can we do this? Come explore ways to build conceptual understanding for a variety of topics. Walk away with some strategies that you can utilize immediately!
This presentation explores how AI can revolutionize math education by enhancing, not replacing, traditional teaching methods. We'll demonstrate AI's potential to provide personalized practice, instant feedback, and creative problem-solving approaches. Discover how AI tools can free up educators' time for more meaningful student interactions and help develop critical thinking skills. Learn to harness AI's power to make math more engaging, accessible, and relevant for all students.
If we want students to see themselves as mathematically capable, then we need to give students time to think and space to work with classmates’ ideas. We will share short engagement routines you can implement into tomorrow’s lessons to radically elevate student voices and shift the authority in your classroom.
Math is a powerful tool for navigating our world, and we need to let students in on that secret! In particular, issues of fairness pervade our society - from income inequality, to the availability of healthy foods, to gerrymandering, to FDA recommendations. Join us to learn about these mathematically rich, fairness-focused problems, do some math, and become familiar with the Math Teachers’ Circle 4 Social Justice community which supports teachers in building capacity with math for social justice.
Engaging, inquiry-based lessons with low-cost materials can be easy to implement! The two educators from Connecticut selected to attend the Museum of Mathematics’s Rosenthal Prize Summer Institute will share highlights of three movement-based low-floor, high-ceiling lessons they sandboxed at the institute and have tried with elementary, middle, and high school students. From their experiences teaching these award-winning lessons, they will share lessons learned, resources to use the free lessons, and advice for creating environments that foster community and wonder.
Students share rich ideas during discussions and capturing these on the board honors them as mathematical thinkers. Learn to model unique ways of recording ideas, helping students connect their talk to writing. By modeling metacognition, you encourage autonomy, reflection, and understanding of the problem-solving process. This approach fosters equity by addressing diverse learning styles, helping students identify gaps in understanding and become confident, independent learners. Create an inclusive classroom where every voice is valued. Apply these strategies to any curriculum!
Algebra is the gateway to higher-level mathematics and STEM careers, but many students struggle with the transition to algebraic thinking. Problem strings offer a structured yet flexible approach to help students recognize patterns, understand operations, and develop mathematical reasoning - the foundation for that transition while simultaneously developing fluency. This interactive session will support participants to understand big ideas critical to the early development of algebra. Participants will take away actionable strategies and resources for incorporating problem strings into their instruction.
We know we should make our students persevere through problem solving, but how do we know what meaningful problem solving looks like? What resources will drive our students to think more deeply? How do we create problems that lead students to productive struggle and the transfer of mathematical ideas? In this workshop a curriculum coordinator and math league problem writer will lead teachers to investigate challenging problems and helpful techniques for creating questions and tasks to facilitate meaningful mathematical rigor.
This fast-paced, example-laden and interactive discussion will make the case that, for far too many students, high school math is an inequitable, underperforming mess and that the status quo is simply no longer acceptable. We will look at a range of specific suggestions for making the case for change and for making long overdue changes in what and how we teach these four years of mathematics.
