ATOMIC Conference March 2025

Research tells us that vocabulary has to be explicitly taught to our students and they have to be given multiple opportunities to practice. Let us help all our students, but especially or ML students, by proving them with explicit strategies they can access but also providing them fun engaging game based activities to practice that vocabulary. In this session we will look over specific graphic organizers, review engaging games to use and participate these routines.

Did you ever wonder where the formulas for the sum of the first n counting integers, the sum of the first n odd counting integers, the sum of the first n squares and the sum of the first n cubes originated from? You are in luck; for this presentation will link algebra, geometry, discrete mathematics, calculus, history, and technology in one tidy package and view the connections among the disciplines with these rich summation formulas. The work presented here is amenable to a wide variety of grade bands ranging from middle school through university mathematics. Join us as we pursue this delightful journey.

In this session, participants will take a look at student performance data in school districts that have detracked. We will analyze this data and look for trends. There will be a discussion on how to set up your school course offerings to be equitable and to unlock the potential of all students. We will examine the impact your course offerings have on student outcomes. Finally, we will take a look at how you can use data to ensure all your students are appropriately challenged.

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.

In this engaging session, teachers will explore "Recovery Tasks" designed to help students connect multiple representations and concepts. Discover how these reconstruction activities can deepen student understanding and facilitate connections across mathematical ideas. Participants will engage with ready-to-use classroom tasks that promote critical thinking and problem-solving skills at the secondary level.

In this interdisciplinary workshop, discover activities that bring current events and top global challenges into the math classroom. Explore trends in the environment, global population and more using models, manipulatives and lively group work that build middle school math skills while exciting students about math connections to their lives and the larger world. Students gain practice creating and analyzing graphs, identifying mathematical patterns, working with probabilities and problem-solving strategies. Receive electronic lesson plans matched to state standards.