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.
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.
In this K-2 math session, teachers will explore the use of 10-Frames to strengthen students' understanding of one-to-one correspondence and number sense in a base-ten system. Participants will learn strategies to help students visualize numbers(aka "subitizing"), build fluency with basic addition and subtraction facts up to 20, and develop a deeper grasp of place value. Through hands-on activities, teachers will discover techniques for guiding students toward mathematical proficiency using 10-Frames as an effective tool for foundational math skills.
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.
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.
