Welcome to the 2025 Annual Meeting and Conference of the Associated Teachers of Mathematics in Connecticut! The first half hour of our program will include welcoming remarks, updates from ATOMIC, and the presentation of awards and grants including the Mari Muri Award, the Robert Rosenbaum Award, the Charlene Tate Nichols Pre-K - 8 Award, the Albina Cannavaciolo 9 - 12 Award, Steve Leinwand Teaching Grants, and Professional Development Grants. Please join us!
Monday March 24, 2025 8:00am - 8:30am EDT
Ballroom
Several months ago, while reading Street Data, I was called up short with the sentence: “Equity work is first and foremost pedagogical.” I’ve not read another word in the book having been consumed by the implications of this sentence. In this talk, we will look at some of these implications with practical and accessible examples to challenge ourselves to shift our teaching of math in ways that significantly enhance equity and access.
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.
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.
