Wondering how to build your thinking classroom when your secondary math students don’t seem ready? In this presentation we will model how to get started, outline teacher moves for building student autonomy, and discuss why this shift is challenging for both students and teachers. Situated in examples from teachers’ classrooms.
Advanced Algebra with Financial Applications is an alternative course for struggling students who need to take 3-4 years of math to graduate, and for whom Algebra 2 is a daunting task. Additionally, future CT high school graduates will be required to take a finance course, and this course can meet the standards for that course. Consequently. all math students can take it as an elective--it meets the needs of every single student.
The presenter, a co-author of the Connecticut Joint Position Paper on Equity in Mathematics Education, will begin the session by addressing two questions: how well is the assessment aligned to CCS-Math Standards (especially the Math Practice Standards) and how well is it aligned to the Equity in Mathematics Education Document? The second half of the session will consist of a roundtable discussion on these issues.
Use your computer or calculator to investigate patterns numerically, graphically, and algebraically and create linear, quadratic, and exponential models. Share the joy of discovering multiple ways of thinking about a problem. Try out some numerical explorations that lend support for common algebra rules such as exponent and log laws. Investigate some unexpected surprises using fractions, radicals, and imaginary numbers!
Students come to us with unfinished learning from prior years, yet the urgency to cover grade level content remains. Participants will experience classroom-ready tangible contexts that equip teachers to provide entry-points such that students can explore and make sense of Algebra content regardless of knowledge gaps.
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.
Have you only dipped your toe into the geometry features of computer and calculator technology? Jump in with both feet to learn constructing, calculating, capturing and conjecturing with dynamic geometry on all of the major computer and calculator technology platforms (Desmos, GeoGebra, TI Calculators). Learn to use these powerful capabilities for geometry class and beyond! Ready-made explorations, lessons, and projects will be shared.
In today's diverse classrooms, educators face the challenge of meeting the needs of all learners, particularly those who struggle with traditional instructional methods. In this session, we will model the implementation of the Building Thinking Classrooms framework in the high school setting, focusing on its effectiveness in engaging and empowering struggling learners in a co-taught classroom. We will highlight different strategies, based on research and experience, that help all students meet with success.
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.
