National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (2024)

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How do we tie together number representations to form consistent and deep understanding in our K–5 students? Come explore step-by-step kindergarten to grade 5 progressions from number paths to open number lines and from counting collections to place value disks. Receive free online links and handouts for counting and place value resources!

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Pre-K-2

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Purposeful Curriculum: Cultivating Coherence and Connections

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This fun and engaging presentation will emphasize a deep understanding of the distributive property, which will be applicable for students in grade 4 through algebra 1 (grade 9). Attendees will be able to easily assess each student's understanding of the distributive property, as well as quickly see if their students can factor a trinomial.

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6-8

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Teaching and Learning: Best Practices for Engaging Students

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Children must understand the language of math; therefore, educators should use precise language. We provide a language guide in five areas: counting, whole numbers, rational numbers, geometry, and measurement. We demonstrate how precise language contributes to improved conceptual understanding and promotes access and equity for diverse learners.

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3-5

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Teaching and Learning: Best Practices for Engaging Students

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Learn how multiple aspects of teaching quadratics are connected using the vertex form and transformational graphing. Participants will graph quadratics using vertex & symmetry, connect the vertex form to transformations, and learn a concrete and pictorial model for completing the square. Leave with a deeper understanding of the quadratics connection!

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8-10

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Purposeful Curriculum: Cultivating Coherence and Connections

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Strengthen your students' understanding of complex numbers and the complex plane in an engaging activity where they will create fractals. We will explore iterations of complex-valued polynomial functions and use technology to create Julia set fractals of these functions. An optional extension for a computer programming class will be included.

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10-12

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Tools and Technology: Using Technology to Effectively Teach and Learn Mathematics

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Participants will engage in a task from the Ratios and Proportional Relationships domain of the Common Core. They will dive into "What is proportional reasoning?" through experiencing a rich task and considering student work at different grade levels. Participants will also use the TQE Process (tasks-questions-evidence) and video to examine the task in a sixth-grade classroom.

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6-8

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Purposeful Curriculum: Cultivating Coherence and Connections

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Our goal as math teachers isn't to drill algorithms, it's to teach students to be problem solvers. This is especially true when working with students who view disengagement as the BEST option for handling uncertainty. We will share our lesson-study journey to shift our focus from teacher scaffolding to student-centered problem-solving strategies.

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General Interest

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Professionalism: Learning Together as Teachers

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This session focuses on using percentages to solve challenging tasks in manufacturing marketing. Participants will be provided with authentic, meaningful scenarios that ask students to answer questions, dig deeper, and model the situation mathematically. Classroom implementation ideas for the tasks, including Number Talks and TTLP, will be shared.

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6-8

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Mathematical Modeling: Interpreting the World through Mathematics

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Careful attention is needed if learners are to make sense of the number line as a representation for fractions. Current research with 3rd and 4th graders using the number line model for fractions will be shared to show how the number line can be a tool for applying and extending key fraction ideas including unit, partitioning, order and equivalence.

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3-5

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Teaching and Learning: Best Practices for Engaging Students

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This interactive session focuses on creating a classroom culture that requires active student engagement and participation. We will explore ways to get started, consider steps to raise and lower demand through varied types of questioning techniques, and highlight strategies to engage and empower students in meaningful mathematics.

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General Interest

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Teaching and Learning: Best Practices for Engaging Students

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We share a mathematical modeling course piloted twice at college entry level. The course places an emphasis on student actions of analyzing data, naming and/or interpreting variables, setting up and interpreting equations, interpreting and using the results of technology (e.g., linear fitting), and reading and writing scientific reports.

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Higher Education

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Emerging Issues and Hot Topics

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The Mathematics Education Trust (MET) supports teachers, schools, and students with funds for materials, lesson development, conference attendance, courses, professional development, technology, and action research. Learn what's available and how to apply. Hear tips for choosing the most appropriate award for you and enhancing your chances to win it!

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General Interest

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Professionalism: Learning Together as Teachers

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Using interactive manipulatives allows the teacher to model standards-based math concepts and provide practice sessions on almost any device. Learn criteria for effective selection of optimal sites, innovative use with accompanying manipulatives, problem-solving integration, assessment ideas, and strategies for equitable access.

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3-5

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Tools and Technology: Using Technology to Effectively Teach and Learn Mathematics

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In this presentation, technology-based mathematical tasks will be presented that utilize freely accessible tools (e.g., Desmos, GeoGebra). Different ways teachers can evaluate technology-based mathematical tasks will be shared, and strategies for implementing tasks to support students' learning will be discussed. Please bring a laptop or tablet!

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10-12

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Tools and Technology: Using Technology to Effectively Teach and Learn Mathematics

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The transition from high school to college is fraught with pitfalls for students that range from rising remediation in college to high school calculus as an expectation for college-intending students. This session will provide an overview of what we know and open a discussion of what needs to be done.

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10-12

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Purposeful Curriculum: Cultivating Coherence and Connections

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We will describe a partnership between a Title I elementary and two teacher educators, one in mathematics and one in special education. These professors partnered with pre- and in-service teachers to provide PD focused on basic skills. Number talks, games, PLCs, whole school contract. and strategy-based (non-timed) assessments will be shared.

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Pre-K-2

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Professionalism: Learning Together as Teachers

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How can students best visualize relationships between numbers? The number line! In this session, we will explore how the number line can be used throughout the elementary school years to support number sense. We will discuss strategies and create activities for teaching addition and subtraction, rounding, multiples, and fractions on a number line.

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Pre-K-2

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Teaching and Learning: Best Practices for Engaging Students

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Perform actions with technology and ask targeted questions to optimize student reasoning about mathematical implications. Explore dynamic activities with TI graphing calculators, GeoGebra, or Desmos that use multiple representations to connect algebra, geometry, and precalculus; promote conceptual thinking; and support CCSS and Principles to Actions.

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10-12

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Tools and Technology: Using Technology to Effectively Teach and Learn Mathematics

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Supporting students with diverse backgrounds is challenging. Starting with a broad overview of research, we will investigate structures to ensure every student can engage with content and practices. Examples include student-posed problems; low-floor high-ceiling projects; practice, pushing, pondering homework; and standards-based
assessments.

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8-10

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Teaching and Learning: Best Practices for Engaging Students

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Students need daily practice playing with numbers in order to build number fluency. A number routine, like counting circles, provides a safe environment for students to engage in mathematical discussions and build numeracy strategies. Come learn about counting circles and get started planning how to sustain this daily routine in your classroom.

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6-8

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Teaching and Learning: Best Practices for Engaging Students

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When working with fractions, students often believe they must memorize a new set of rules and procedures to be successful. However, the most successful students have a deeper understanding: fraction sense. Let's examine research-based strategies that will allow students to calculate with accuracy, efficiency, and understanding.

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3-5

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Teaching and Learning: Best Practices for Engaging Students

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Ever wondered what you ate that caused you to have food poisoning? Come and join an engaging STEM simulation for food poisoning adapted from the CDC while building your students conceptual understanding. See how ratios, two-way tables, and probability are applied to figure out the contaminant.

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8-10

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Teaching and Learning: Best Practices for Engaging Students

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Learn to use the formative assessment process in a fun, interactive activity-juggling! Participants will be introduced to the five steps of formative assessment, apply those steps to the pre-K–2 student's mathematical learning, and then plan next steps for instruction.

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Pre-K-2

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Assessment: A Tool for Purposeful Planning and Instruction

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In this workshop, the Framework for Engagement with Mathematics (FEM) will be presented. This research-based framework will be explored and illustrated via a range of engaging and hands-on mathematical tasks. Participants will investigate the tasks and discuss how they engage and provide opportunities for differentiation and assessment.

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3-5

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Teaching and Learning: Best Practices for Engaging Students

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Are you tired of being a lazy teacher? Participants will learn how to create rich mathematical tasks that meet the needs of every learner, establish a classroom culture centered around problem solving and student discourse, and promote the use of student modeling to represent real-world situations helping them make sense and understand math.

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3-5

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Mathematical Modeling: Interpreting the World through Mathematics

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Who invented the Calculus? Your students. Come experience several student-centered activities that will deepen your students understanding of vocabulary, theorems, and formulas. In this workshop, participants will play the role of the student to get a first-hand account of how to implement in your own classroom.

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10-12

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Teaching and Learning: Best Practices for Engaging Students

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LeWitt's Four-Sided Pyramid is located in the Sculpture Garden, a fifteen-minute walk from the convention center. Using photos, we will investigate patterns to find three sequences to determine the number of blocks in the sculpture. This challenging problem gives students an opportunity for meaningful mathematical discourse on a non-routine problem.

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10-12

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Purposeful Curriculum: Cultivating Coherence and Connections

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In our district, students with specific learning disabilities are provided instruction that allows them to create mathematical understandings by engaging with other students, motivated by curiosity, and with classroom discourse that is centered on students' ideas. We will share the philosophy behind our efforts and strategies we use.

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8-10

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Teaching and Learning: Best Practices for Engaging Students

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What are keywords anyway? Does circling and underlining really help students solve word problems? There is a better way! We will connect literacy strategies to increase students' comprehension and explore tasks that allow students to think their way to a solution rather than rely on faulty keywords, even for our youngest learners.

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Pre-K-2

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Teaching and Learning: Best Practices for Engaging Students

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Coaches and teachers will be lead through a rich mathematical task designed to ensure access for English learners at all levels. Presenters will facilitate discussion, sharing tips on how to support students by building background knowledge, using sentence frames, adapting word problems, and more!

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Coaches/Leaders/Teacher Educators

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Access, Equity & Empowerment: Teaching Mathematics with an Equity Stance

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Transform the questions in your textbook to higher-level questions and tasks today! Looking at the depth to which your standards require, how can you get the most from your students with a single question? Using the Common Core State Standards and their Standards for Mathematical Practice, we will create question prompts and tasks to engage your students.

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8-10

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Purposeful Curriculum: Cultivating Coherence and Connections

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Learn about MathMapper 6-8, a tool for organizing open ed resources and assessing student progress along learning trajectories. We describe a sixth-grade unit on ratios to share a model for building coherent curricula, evaluating materials, and supplementing them with quality activities. We show how this model leads to significant learning gains.

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6-8

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Purposeful Curriculum: Cultivating Coherence and Connections

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Work with different ways to solve quadratic equations, and connect these methods to create procedural fluency with conceptual understanding. Be part of a lesson on factoring, graphing, and completing the square that models asking productive questions and using evidence of student thinking to adjust instruction and to assess student progress.

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8-10

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Teaching and Learning: Best Practices for Engaging Students

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In this session, you will discover how coaches can empower teachers and teachers can empower students by focusing on NCTM's Principles to Actions' teaching practices. You will explore a set of coaching tools you can use to support teachers in connecting their teaching and students' opportunities to demonstrate the Standards for Mathematical Practice.

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Coaches/Leaders/Teacher Educators

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Professionalism: Learning Together as Teachers

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NSF, NEA, and Kennedy Center projects have used STEAM to reach diverse students. Our NSF-funded Project SMILES created 22 "interactive songs" for teaching intro statistics, and our approach applies also to other STEM courses. We share our guiding criteria, discuss field trials on engagement and effectiveness for learning, and discuss tips for use.

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General Interest

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Teaching and Learning: Best Practices for Engaging Students

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Do you need help teaching CCSS stats in grades 8–12? Would you like to see and participate in some activities that promote understanding the statistics standards? Come spend an hour with us to see activities that truly follow the Statistics Progression. Are you teaching the traditional way or following the integrated model? Either way we can help!

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8-10

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Purposeful Curriculum: Cultivating Coherence and Connections

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Make the teaching of statistics and probability topics interesting and engaging for students as they tackle real world investigations with "larger and messier" data sets. Bring your tablet or laptop and engage as we highlight how easy it is to get students hooked in as data scientists and use the free online dynamic statistics tool CODAP.

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8-10

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Tools and Technology: Using Technology to Effectively Teach and Learn Mathematics

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Why do teachers fall back to using abstract algorithms for multiplying fractions and decimals? Learn a progression of models and strategies for developing conceptual understanding of multiplication with whole numbers and apply those models and strategies to fractions and decimals.

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3-5

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Teaching and Learning: Best Practices for Engaging Students

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Participants will investigate mathematical models from current court cases to measure voter power through an interactive activity that can be adapted to use in a high school class. The models attempt to evaluate the "fairness" of redistricting proposals. Legal constraints will be highlighted. All students can become powerful and informed voters.

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10-12

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Mathematical Modeling: Interpreting the World through Mathematics

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Presenters in this session will model processes and strategies used by a university and a district to build teacher capacity for professional growth and advocacy in preparing culturally and needs-responsive teachers through mathematics education and Common Core State Standards implementation.

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Coaches/Leaders/Teacher Educators

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Professionalism: Learning Together as Teachers

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The session describes the work of a professional learning community to create classroom activities to solicit middle school students' views of mathematical strengths. Presenters will share the design process, students' initial responses, ways these responses shifted as students interacted with each other, and lessons learned to improve instruction.

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6-8

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Teaching and Learning: Best Practices for Engaging Students

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Are you looking for something new and exciting to spark student interest in geometry? Grab your most comfortable dancing shoes because in this session, participants will explore how folk dancing can be used to teach and reinforce geometric properties. All attendees will receive a packet of materials as well as digital resources.

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6-8

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Teaching and Learning: Best Practices for Engaging Students

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An increasing number of students are now receiving a significant portion of their math education online. There are both opportunities and challenges when teaching and learning mathematics in a virtual setting. Session participants will learn how Inquiry methods foster engagement and productive learning for students in an online environment.

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General Interest

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Teaching and Learning: Best Practices for Engaging Students

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Do your students protest "But this is math class!" when you ask them to write? Constructing viable arguments is just as important as accurate computation. We will discuss the difficulties students have, explore practices to elicit student language and learn how to adapt activities to your populations (including ELLs and students with disabilities).

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General Interest

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Access, Equity & Empowerment: Teaching Mathematics with an Equity Stance

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Rigor in mathematics includes a focus on concepts and procedures. It is widely acknowledged that to achieve rigor concepts should be addressed first. This is a challenge. Explore three critical components demonstrated as essential for achieving rigor in K–grade 12. Make sense of the three components through tasks, classroom video, and discussion.

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Coaches/Leaders/Teacher Educators

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Teaching and Learning: Best Practices for Engaging Students

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Do you see geometry content as extra, "only if you have time" activities? Presented by the author of Putting Essential Understanding of Geometry and Measurement into Practice for Pre-K–2, this session will highlight the connections between the Essential Understandings and the different grade levels using student samples and classroom video clips.

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Pre-K-2

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Purposeful Curriculum: Cultivating Coherence and Connections

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What can we make of a pendulum swinging from since NCTM's Agenda for Action was released until today? What lessons can we learn to guide us in the future? Is our progress commensurate with our efforts? These and other questions will form the basis of a dialogue about lessons learned from a front row seat in mathematics education for nearly forty years.

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General Interest

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Professionalism: Learning Together as Teachers

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Content tasks often have a format of giving "initial conditions" and asking for a computational result or interpretation from them. "Reverse tasks" aim to strengthen conceptual knowledge by giving a desired result and asking learners to construct appropriate initial conditions. This talk shares non-algebraic "reverse tasks" for future teachers.

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Coaches/Leaders/Teacher Educators

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Teaching and Learning: Best Practices for Engaging Students

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Are you teaching a course designed to bridge eighth-grade math content and algebra I? Although there are various ways to plan and teach the content, there are also misconceptions about the intentions of such a course. Come discuss content connections between a foundations course and algebra I and share strategies to make instruction count!

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8-10

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Emerging Issues and Hot Topics

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Assessments will be shared that will help teachers diagnose their students' understanding of place value. Manipulative uses for anchoring tens for the numbers between 11 and 20 and then numbers beyond 20 will help teachers prepare students for various alternative algorithms for addition and subtraction. "Number Talk" videos will also be shared.

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Pre-K-2

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Teaching and Learning: Best Practices for Engaging Students

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Participants will discover the complexities of learning to count by participating in a simulation of the learning to count process in order to develop a deep understanding of what is required for young children to learn this critical, foundational skill. Additionally, participants will leave with activities and routines for use in their classroom.

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Pre-K-2

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Teaching and Learning: Best Practices for Engaging Students

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This session will present an engaging lesson on volume of 3-D shapes to demonstrate/discuss strategies for creating active student engagement and rich mathematical discourse. This session will highlight the advantages and challenges of creating engaging task in the math classroom and provide tangible tenants for teaching math using engaging task.

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6-8

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Teaching and Learning: Best Practices for Engaging Students

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We will share two successful game-based strategies for introducing, teaching, and understanding proofs in a geometry classroom.

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8-10

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Teaching and Learning: Best Practices for Engaging Students

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When students struggle with comprehension, we do not tell them to circle characters' names or box the setting and expect this will make them good readers. So why do we think such procedures will make them good problem solvers? Join us to learn how to help students apply ideas and vocabulary from reading and writing to make sense of word problems.

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Pre-K-2

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Purposeful Curriculum: Cultivating Coherence and Connections

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Working in three grade band groups (K–2, 3–5, 6–8), we will create number lines using index cards, paper clips, and rope. For each number line, we will place numbers according to the development of number concepts, from basic recognition to operations starting with counting numbers, then fractions, and then rational numbers in general.

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Coaches/Leaders/Teacher Educators

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Professionalism: Learning Together as Teachers

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Why are integers so hard for students? In this burst, we will explore concrete ways to provide students with conceptual learning. Participants will experience hands-on activities for introducing integers to students and leave with resources and routines for their classrooms.

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6-8

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Teaching and Learning: Best Practices for Engaging Students

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Teaching preservice teachers to identify culturally responsive teaching techniques is challenging. To show true understanding of CRT and apply it is an ambitious task. The researchers focused on information and activities designed to cement knowledge and increase the likelihood that preservice teachers would actually use apply techniques.

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Higher Education

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Teaching and Learning: Best Practices for Engaging Students

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The first three Standards for Mathematical Practice emphasize the importance of sense making. Let's explore some writing tasks that are effective in developing students' ability to justify conclusions, evaluate the reasoning of others, communicate their thinking, and evaluate and reflect on progress. Example tasks and student work will be shared.

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Higher Education

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Teaching and Learning: Best Practices for Engaging Students

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As a Ted-Ed Innovative Educator, Cohort Three, my Ted-Ed project is #StudentsTeachingStudents. In this session, I will show you how my students created video lessons using Explain Everything, Stop Motion, and/or iMovie to teach their favorite concepts. Your students can create a bank of rich math lessons for flipped classroom, remediation, or enrichment.

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10-12

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Tools and Technology: Using Technology to Effectively Teach and Learn Mathematics

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Place value concepts are foundational to students' development of number sense, operations, algebraic reasoning, and beyond. This session focuses on developing an understanding of place value concepts through length and area where students use concurrent representations to investigate multi-digit numbers.

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Pre-K-2

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Teaching and Learning: Best Practices for Engaging Students

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Why is it so difficult for students to develop fluency in addition and subtraction? This session examines our work with a powerful mathematical model--the bead string. We will use video to explore & analyze a sequence of ten-minute mini-lessons that build students' ability to visualize and generalize the big ideas necessary to develop fluency.

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Pre-K-2

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Mathematical Modeling: Interpreting the World through Mathematics

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This session will look at assessments through the lens of standards based grading. Action-oriented formative assessments will be discussed as well as how evidence of mastery is identified through various forms of assessments. Participants will work in small groups to score assessments with a rubric and create rubrics for their current courses.

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10-12

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Assessment: A Tool for Purposeful Planning and Instruction

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Effective open-ended questions give students opportunities to be right and wrong in different, interesting ways. Desmos gives teachers the opportunity to easily collect and display student responses to these types of questions. This session explores how to use these types of questions in Desmos to drive instruction and improve feedback to students.

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8-10

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Teaching and Learning: Best Practices for Engaging Students

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How do we support fellow teachers to make sense of mathematics for teaching? Explore ways to structure planning and coaching opportunities to select and implement high cognitive demand tasks. Engage teachers to support students in high cognitive demand tasks through planning, implementation, and reflection to make sense of content with depth.

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8-10

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Purposeful Curriculum: Cultivating Coherence and Connections

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Discrete mathematics is full of interesting, fun, and challenging problems that provide rich opportunities for mathematical reasoning. Explore ways to incorporate discrete problems into your secondary classroom--including how they can support the learning of other topics (e.g., algebra) while also providing a fresh perspective about "what is math."

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10-12

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Purposeful Curriculum: Cultivating Coherence and Connections

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Students develop deeper understandings of number and have greater computational fluency when they build from concrete strategies to representational and abstract thinking. We will explore progressions of number talks centered around quantitative reasoning to advance the Standards for Mathematical Practice (SMPs) in our students.

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6-8

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Teaching and Learning: Best Practices for Engaging Students

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How can we know what our students know, and then use that knowledge to help them grow? Participants will examine tasks from Putting Essential Understanding of Geometry and Measurement into Practice for Grades 3–5 and analyze student work. The presenter will share the perspectives of an author, researcher, and fourth-grade teacher.

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3-5

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Assessment: A Tool for Purposeful Planning and Instruction

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The 2014 Kentucky High School Teacher of the Year will share how she develops and maintains a growth mindset to help all students succeed in her rural, low socioeconomic school. The strategies will focus on high expectations, student engagement, and an assessment system focused on growth to empower all students to achieve mathematical proficiency.

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10-12

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Access, Equity & Empowerment: Teaching Mathematics with an Equity Stance

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Student engagement is an important component of mathematical learning. High-quality games and engaging tasks are a powerful way to inspire mathematical thinking and discourse. Participants will engage in hands-on activities and rich tasks that ignite student learning and support alternative forms of assessment. Fluency is much more than facts!

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Pre-K-2

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Teaching and Learning: Best Practices for Engaging Students

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In this session, we will share ready-to-use activities that help students make sense of math by using Desmos to guide discovery and promote student engagement. We will also "pull back the curtains" and provide some helpful tips on using this tool so that you can build your own activities to promote critical thinking and conceptual understanding.

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8-10

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Tools and Technology: Using Technology to Effectively Teach and Learn Mathematics

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Many students' first exposure to the imaginary unit results from studying quadratic equations. This session puts a new twist on the study of complex numbers by connecting them to geometric transformations which sets the stage for deep connections to advanced topics such as the polar form of complex numbers, matrices, and vectors.

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10-12

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Purposeful Curriculum: Cultivating Coherence and Connections

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Coherent, cohesive, connected, sequenced, interleaved--each of these words is used to describe characteristics of a high-quality math curriculum. Are they all referring to the same basic idea? What clues are provided in the CCSSM, the Publisher's Criteria, and the Progressions? Why did the CCSSM stop short of explicitly defining coherence?

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Coaches/Leaders/Teacher Educators

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Purposeful Curriculum: Cultivating Coherence and Connections

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Are your daily routines helping students make sense of important mathematics? Explore routines that promise more bang for your buck, with higher returns in the realms of math practices, numeracy, and computational fluency delivered in small chunks of time. Number talks, Clothesline Math, and Which One Doesn't Belong are a few routines explored in this session.

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Pre-K-2

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Teaching and Learning: Best Practices for Engaging Students

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Are you looking for some activities to help your algebra students understand functions? Come to this workshop and engage in some movie-related experiments. You will collect data, convert data into multiple representations, and analyze the results. Questions that promote student discourse will be considered. Popcorn will be provided (for analysis).

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8-10

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Mathematical Modeling: Interpreting the World through Mathematics

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Develop rich tasks without sacrificing content by using design thinking, maker-space mentalities, and technology as ways to spark interest, dig deeper, and play with critical concepts. Hands-on activities engage students with sticky notes and play dough as well as coding and data collection. Take away resources that you can use now.

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8-10

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Teaching and Learning: Best Practices for Engaging Students

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Participants in this workshop will discuss these topics, share ideas, and come away with activities that lead to classroom discourse and community-building.

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10-12

8-10

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Teaching and Learning: Best Practices for Engaging Students

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Math modeling can help to foster curiosity and strengthen connections across topics. You will engage in the modeling process as you solve a problem whose optimal solution is inspired by nature and find that the solution lies in the structure of soap bubbles. We'll focus on the teacher role in supporting students in building proficiency in modeling.

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10-12

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Mathematical Modeling: Interpreting the World through Mathematics

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Description

Get ideas to help you and colleagues think deeper about social justice. Analyze lessons that end with actions to make a difference. The lessons will include both mathematics and social justice learning goals. The result is mathematics analysis that makes sense of community and world events deemed unfair. Get tips to build capacity at your site.

Lead Speaker

Audience

General Interest

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Professionalism: Learning Together as Teachers

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Description

New standards have led to renewed interest in the role of statistics in K-12 mathematics. Developing a coherent curriculum across the grades that provides a pathway to statistical literacy for all students presents both opportunities and challenges. This session explores these challenges and considers how they can be addressed in meaningful ways.

Lead Speaker

Audience

General Interest

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Purposeful Curriculum: Cultivating Coherence and Connections

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Description

Experience activities that you can do with students, both with and without technology, involving statistical representations, measures of spread and variability, normal curves, scatterplots, and linear regression. You will explore a variety of free online apps and websites that provide visual and dynamic representations of statistics concepts.

Lead Speaker

Audience

8-10

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Tools and Technology: Using Technology to Effectively Teach and Learn Mathematics

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This presentation is designed to help instructors teach students how to critically examine numerical data presented by politicians. Results of a qualitative study of deceptive numerical political claims will be shared. Six categories of deception were found as well as cues for recognizing them. Classroom-tested ideas for teaching will be discussed.

Lead Speaker

Audience

Higher Education

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Teaching and Learning: Best Practices for Engaging Students

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This presentation will highlight the ways in which secondary mathematics textbooks integrate technological activities into their curriculum. We will explore the ways in which technological tasks are embedded (or not) within the sequence of lessons and activities, and how the textbooks position these tasks to help students learn mathematical ideas.

Lead Speaker

Audience

8-10

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Tools and Technology: Using Technology to Effectively Teach and Learn Mathematics

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Ready to ditch the tricks but need to know the fixes? This session will explore common tricks and how to replace them with sound instruction. Learn how to make concepts stick through sense making and connections! Say buh-bye to rounding riddles, key words, and butterflies, and hello to a world where decimal points don't move (because they don't).

Lead Speaker

Audience

3-5

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Teaching and Learning: Best Practices for Engaging Students

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You learn through struggle, but, do you ever wonder at what point students go from productive to unproductive struggle? This session will highlight findings from a 12-week study of struggle in grades 3-5 bilingual classrooms during problem-based lessons. Learn to create space for struggle and strategies to retain productivity and maximize learning.

Co-Speaker

Lead Speaker

Audience

3-5

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Teaching and Learning: Best Practices for Engaging Students

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Graph theory is an important topic in discrete mathematics and an excellent low-threshold topic for mathematical reasoning. In this presentation, we discuss the use of the rich and relatable context of social network theory, using familiar social networks, for introducing graph theory. Activities and classroom examples will be shared and discussed.

Co-Speaker

Lead Speaker

Audience

10-12

Topics

Mathematical Modeling: Interpreting the World through Mathematics

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Description

Advance your students' number sense and reasoning skills in less than five minutes per day. Learn how to use warm-ups at the start of class to create positive math experiences and help students make sense of math. Engaging activities used as quick and easy warm ups will include SolveMe puzzles, Would You Rather…?, Estimation180, and more!

Lead Speaker

Audience

6-8

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Teaching and Learning: Best Practices for Engaging Students

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Traditionally, a trapezoid was defined as a quadrilateral with exactly one pair of parallel opposite sides, but the inclusive definition (at least one pair of opposite parallel sides) promises increased elegance and coherence. We will vigorously debate the pros and cons of these approaches and explore the nature of mathematical definition.

Co-Speaker

Lead Speaker

Audience

8-10

Topics

Purposeful Curriculum: Cultivating Coherence and Connections

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Description

In today's classrooms, elementary teachers are expected to cover a wide range of topics. In this session, participants will engage in activities that will help students understand volume of rectangular prisms as they learn about boats in an integrated mathematics, science, and engineering unit.

Co-Speaker(s)

Lead Speaker

Audience

3-5

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Emerging Issues and Hot Topics

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Description

Put your students thinking and learning center stage with 360 degree math. Get your students up, performing, solving, and persevering by livening up the environment with whiteboard surfaces, music cues, and visible random groupings. Untether yourself from the Doc Cam using Air Server and an iPad.

Lead Speaker

Audience

General Interest

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Emerging Issues and Hot Topics

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We will discuss deriving the quadratic formula so that students see meaning in the formula, and how that meaning applies to the roots, regardless of their nature. We will also share a vision of the graph in the Cartesian plane of a quadratic function with complex roots and the graph of its roots in a complex plane melded into a single graph.

Co-Speaker

Lead Speaker

Audience

10-12

Topics

Purposeful Curriculum: Cultivating Coherence and Connections

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Description

Learning to be an effective problem solver requires critical thinking and persistence. By engaging in non-routine tasks and using journals where students had ample time to learn and develop mathematical behaviors, they became reflective problem solvers. Come to learn how to create these authentic and easy-to-implement problem-solving experiences

Co-Speaker(s)

Lead Speaker

Audience

3-5

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Teaching and Learning: Best Practices for Engaging Students

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When focusing on Multi-Tiered Systems of Support, a goal is to develop highly engaging Tier 1 instruction and Tier 2 Interventions for students who struggle--particularly students with disabilities. This session considers interventions and assessments for learning number, operations, and algebraic thinking in grades 1-5.

Lead Speaker

Audience

3-5

Topics

Access, Equity & Empowerment: Teaching Mathematics with an Equity Stance

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Students lacking number sense? Learn how number talks develop fact fluency and number sense at the middle school level. Spark the confidence and ability to access grade level math at the full depth of the current standards.

Co-Speaker(s)

Lead Speaker

Audience

6-8

Topics

Access, Equity & Empowerment: Teaching Mathematics with an Equity Stance

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What are the essential concepts in algebra and functions that are critical for all students to learn that support a variety of rigorous high school mathematical course pathways? Come for an interactive, fresh look into how Catalyzing Change approaches the distinct and combined roles of algebra and functions in high school mathematics.

Co-Speaker

Lead Speaker

Audience

8-10

Coaches/Leaders/Teacher Educators

Topics

Purposeful Curriculum: Cultivating Coherence and Connections

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Description

Student interviews are a powerful tool for unlocking mathematical understandings and misconceptions. For preservice teachers, an interview allows them to see the creative ways (or not) elementary students solve mathematical problems as related to current and future classroom discussions.

Co-Speaker

Lead Speaker

Audience

Higher Education

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Professionalism: Learning Together as Teachers

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Description

Coding is a skill that is in high demand. But did you know it can also improve computational thinking, especially when applied to math problems? See how to promote critical thinking and boost engagement by using programming in your algebra and geometry classes. No prior programming experience is required.

Lead Speaker

Audience

8-10

Topics

Tools and Technology: Using Technology to Effectively Teach and Learn Mathematics

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Tune in to research masters Jensen, Marzano, Burns, and Van de Walle, as they validate current math standards providing greater focus on fewer topics. Learn games and hands-on activities to master multiplication & fraction concepts while building fluency, vocabulary, and problem-solving skills. Meet the needs of every child, every chance, every day!

Lead Speaker

Audience

3-5

Topics

Teaching and Learning: Best Practices for Engaging Students

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Dylan William (Embedded Formative Assessment, May 25, 2011) portends that "there are only two good reasons to ask questions in class: to cause thinking and to provide information to the teacher about what to do next." In this session, teachers will develop quality questions based on either a mathematical concept or specific task using strategies.

Co-Speaker

Lead Speaker

Audience

6-8

Topics

Teaching and Learning: Best Practices for Engaging Students

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Description

How can building a meter stick and estimating and then measuring the length of objects be used to develop place-value understanding with decimals? Join us for a hands-on, classroom ready activity called Meter Stick Decimals. The presentation will also include engaging games to support all types of learners with decimal concepts.

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Lead Speaker

Audience

3-5

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Teaching and Learning: Best Practices for Engaging Students

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Rather than viewing students by their deficits, use their cultural backgrounds and heritage to build upon the strong mathematical backgrounds they have already built. This session will have participants consider their own mathography and culture as well as connect to the backgrounds and cultures of the families and students they serve.

Co-Speaker

Lead Speaker

Audience

3-5

Topics

Access, Equity & Empowerment: Teaching Mathematics with an Equity Stance

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Planning for instruction, even when thoughtful and well-intentioned, too often yields haphazard results due to a lack of structure. This workshop shares our framework for partnering with teachers to develop unit learning progressions that have both deepened teachers' content knowledge and improved the conditions for authentic student learning.

Co-Speaker

Lead Speaker

Audience

Coaches/Leaders/Teacher Educators

Topics

Purposeful Curriculum: Cultivating Coherence and Connections

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Description

Mathematical Practices for AP Calculus provides a framework for integrating content with pedagogy. We will engage in three activities designed to get students communicating and connecting representations: graphing f from f', building new series from old, and an integration jigsaw. Techniques used were inspired by AVID Culturally Relevant Teaching.

Lead Speaker

Audience

10-12

Topics

Teaching and Learning: Best Practices for Engaging Students

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Description

The session leader will outline the stories of three classic children's books and present a complete lesson plan based on the story or characters; the plans will vary in math concept and grade level and copies of each plan will be available. Participants will then select different books from those provided and form groups to create and share lesson plans.

Lead Speaker

Audience

Pre-K-2

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Teaching and Learning: Best Practices for Engaging Students

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Description

Do you find it difficult to teach students integer operations without jumping right into rules and procedures? What if you had a way to build students' conceptual understanding instead? We will present a series of classroom-tested lessons designed to help develop students' reasoning and sense making through a context accessible to all learners.

Co-Speaker(s)

Lead Speaker

Audience

6-8

Topics

Teaching and Learning: Best Practices for Engaging Students

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Students develop many misconceptions about geometric figures throughout elementary school, and these misconceptions can cause confusion as the work grows more complex. Walk away with classroom-tested resources and strategies to combat, and even use, misconceptions to help students develop a firm understanding of geometric concepts in grades 3-5.

Lead Speaker

Audience

3-5

Topics

Teaching and Learning: Best Practices for Engaging Students

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Description

Done well, lesson study is the most effective professional learning structure to authentically transform math instructional practice. In this session, participants will learn what lesson study is as well as how to design and structure this recursive system of action research within varying school contexts, budgets, and schedules.

Lead Speaker

Audience

Coaches/Leaders/Teacher Educators

Topics

Professionalism: Learning Together as Teachers

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Description

The key to deep understanding is connecting to prior and future knowledge. Through rich tasks, we will explore the progression of linear functions from proportional relationships in grade 6 to interpreting linear models in grade 9, to comparing with other function families in higher grades.

Co-Speaker

Lead Speaker

Audience

8-10

Topics

Purposeful Curriculum: Cultivating Coherence and Connections

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Description

Using and connecting mathematical representations is one of the eight Mathematics Teaching Practices in NCTM's Principles to Actions. In this session, participants will explore different models for fractions (circles, paper folding, chips, and the number line). Sample lessons, student work, and interview data will document how the different models support students' fraction learning.

Co-Speaker(s)

Lead Speaker

Audience

3-5

Topics

Teaching and Learning: Best Practices for Engaging Students

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Description

Russian egg roulette is a probabilistic game that is a regular feature of The Tonight Show. The game is a compelling probability scenario that can be used to motivate the study of probability in the middle grades and high school. Come and observe Russian egg roulette, pose interesting questions, and investigate experimentally and theoretically.

Co-Speaker

Lead Speaker

Audience

8-10

Topics

Teaching and Learning: Best Practices for Engaging Students

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Description

Explore how to use number talks in the K-2 classroom as a way to help boost number sense, strengthen students' mental math strategies and fluency, and build discourse in the math classroom. Engage in number talks, learn about the need for number talks in primary classrooms, and leave with a plan for how to implement number talks in the classroom

Co-Speaker

Lead Speaker

Audience

Pre-K-2

Topics

Teaching and Learning: Best Practices for Engaging Students

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Description

How does a modeler leap from the real world to a mathematical model? How does one move from observation to equation? Practice mathematical modeling and learn what's needed to take that crucial step from the real world to the world of mathematics. Learn to translate from observation to equation and back again and leave thinking like a modeler.

Co-Speaker

Lead Speaker

Audience

10-12

Topics

Mathematical Modeling: Interpreting the World through Mathematics

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The tires on your vehicle, explosives, Pringles, and cosmetics are all tied to "the touch, the feel, the taste, and the fabric of our lives!" Come experience the modernization of cotton farming (you will pick cotton) and the relationship of the harvest tied to scatter plots and linear regression. Learn the insights of bringing tasks to life.

Co-Speaker

Lead Speaker

Audience

8-10

Topics

Teaching and Learning: Best Practices for Engaging Students

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Description

Math assessments, both inside and outside the classroom, include free-response questions. To ensure fairness and uniformity in the scoring of these questions, it is essential that test writers, including classroom teachers, follow best practices in writing scoring rubrics. Come learn how to design and create your own effective scoring rubrics.

Co-Speaker

Lead Speaker

Audience

10-12

Topics

Assessment: A Tool for Purposeful Planning and Instruction

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Description

English language learners sometimes struggle in math because the scaffolds that teachers use during reading instruction seem out of place next to math content. In this session, participants will learn strategies that build a culture of discourse in math class by scaffolding lessons using a variety of means of entry and previewing vocabulary.

Lead Speaker

Audience

3-5

Topics

Access, Equity & Empowerment: Teaching Mathematics with an Equity Stance

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Description

It's crucial to build a solid foundation of fractions using visual models, manipulatives, reasoning, and quality tasks. Participants will develop an understanding of fractions and examine student misconceptions. Feedback strategies to advance student learning will be discussed. Participants will make connections to the eight Mathematics Teaching Practices.

Co-Speaker(s)

Lead Speaker

Audience

3-5

Topics

Teaching and Learning: Best Practices for Engaging Students

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Description

How do you transfer the knowledge and skills implemented by some math teachers in a school system to ALL? One option is to identify where teacher practice is effective, develop and support those teachers as leaders, and create the structures for them to lead professional dialogues across the system. We will share our plan, process, and tools.

Lead Speaker

Audience

Coaches/Leaders/Teacher Educators

Topics

Professionalism: Learning Together as Teachers

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Description

Engage in experiences designed to develop a deeper understanding of fraction division. Examine the progression of fraction operations through the elementary and middle grades. Make sense of fraction division tasks through individual and group work, classroom video, and discussion. Explore tasks and ways to differentiate for use in your classroom.

Co-Speaker

Lead Speaker

Audience

6-8

Topics

Teaching and Learning: Best Practices for Engaging Students

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Description

Educators and parents may feel confident about noticing opportunities to promote literacy throughout the day. Can we use a similar approach in the classroom and beyond to promote math reasoning? This session will explore strategies and resources to surface math ideas and fuel mathematical discussions with early learners in any setting.

Co-Speaker

Lead Speaker

Audience

Pre-K-2

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Teaching and Learning: Best Practices for Engaging Students

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Description

You will design and construct a parachute for your Lego® man, video his descent, and plot his height as he falls. What's going to happen? Will he reach terminal velocity? Can you build a piecewise function to model his descent? What would the pieces be? Can this Lego® man intrigue you as he did my Math I students? Join the experiment and find out.

Lead Speaker

Audience

8-10

Topics

Mathematical Modeling: Interpreting the World through Mathematics

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Description

Sense making isn't something we can just tell students to do and assume it will happen automatically. How does sense making become part of the fabric of classroom culture? This session explores how the numberless word problem routine can be used to foster a classroom community where students are empowered to become sense makers and problem solvers.

Co-Speaker

Lead Speaker

Audience

3-5

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Teaching and Learning: Best Practices for Engaging Students

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Young students can engage in algebraic reasoning, when provided appropriate instruction. We will present sequences of function tasks that facilitate the development of algebraic reasoning across K-grade 5. We will also present videos of classrooms in which students have mathematically rich discussions around the task.

Co-Speaker(s)

Lead Speaker

Audience

3-5

Topics

Purposeful Curriculum: Cultivating Coherence and Connections

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Description

Whether or not I've taught lessons before, each time I plan and prepare, I draw on my years of teaching experiences to anticipate students' responses. I also benefit from ideas I scour from new publications, blogs, and Twitter. In this talk, I present the criteria that influence my choices and offer specifics to illustrate my process.

Lead Speaker

Audience

General Interest

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Emerging Issues and Hot Topics

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Description

Learn how to challenge strong mathematics students in mixed-ability, K-2 classrooms using rich mathematics tasks, task extensions, opportunities for student choice, and tiered activities. The importance of teacher moves to promote growth mindset and cultivate a classroom culture in which all students embrace challenge will also be discussed.

Lead Speaker

Audience

Pre-K-2

Topics

Access, Equity & Empowerment: Teaching Mathematics with an Equity Stance

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Description

How can we help students make sense of important statistical concepts like margin of error and P-value? By showing how these ideas connect to the statistical process: ask questions, collect data, analyze data, and interpret results. In this session, we will explore two engaging contexts that promote deeper understanding of statistical inference.

Lead Speaker

Audience

10-12

Topics

Purposeful Curriculum: Cultivating Coherence and Connections

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Description

Number lines are difficult conceptually for many students. Using learning progressions and conceptual connections within and across fractions, measurement, and data can increase accurate use of number line models. Ways to help students see and feel length units and use patterns to overcome errors will be illustrated and discussed by participants.

Lead Speaker

Audience

3-5

Topics

Purposeful Curriculum: Cultivating Coherence and Connections

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Are your students making sense of the mathematics they explore? Do they feel that mathematics is an inherently sensible endeavor? We'll look at ways in which students don't make sense of mathematics, consider why, and discuss strategies for making it a larger part of the expectations in your classroom.

Lead Speaker

Audience

General Interest

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Teaching and Learning: Best Practices for Engaging Students

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Description

Procedural fluency is a key aspect of math proficiency. Yet many students fail to develop fluency despite our best efforts. Connecting procedures to underlying concepts is essential for fluency. This session explores: "What is procedural fluency?" What tasks and strategies help students build fluency?" and "What common pitfalls should I avoid?"

Lead Speaker

Audience

General Interest

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Teaching and Learning: Best Practices for Engaging Students

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Money intrigues and motivates everyone--young and old. Who could have predicted that our common US $1 bill could have a multitude of arithmetic, geometric, and origami connections for students of all ages? Hear the amazing story behind this rectangle, what it has to do with radar and polyhedra, and when $1 can be worth much more than a dollar!

Lead Speaker

Audience

General Interest

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Teaching and Learning: Best Practices for Engaging Students

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Description

While mathematics and statistics prepares students to be college and career-ready, the past and the future indicate that other purposes for teaching high school math are equally important. Catalyzing Change is based on rethinking the purposes of high school mathematics and how we can as teachers begin to make them part of our work.

Co-Speaker(s)

Lead Speaker

Audience

10-12

8-10

Topics

Purposeful Curriculum: Cultivating Coherence and Connections

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Description

What does success look like in a co-taught math class? Have the power to see learning through the eyes of your students! When co-teachers collaborate to plan, teach, and assess, learning becomes visible. A focus on student learning makes invisible learning processes visible, and empowers the teacher/student learning team to reach desired goals.

Co-Speaker

Lead Speaker

Audience

General Interest

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Professionalism: Learning Together as Teachers

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Come learn how nine teachers collaborated and flourished as they stretched their learning and implemented inquiry based rich tasks with the help of a local college. The richness of teacher dialogue created an atmosphere of thought-provoking support. Tasks ideas, development, and planning tips will be shared, along with student work and video.

Co-Speaker

Lead Speaker

Audience

Coaches/Leaders/Teacher Educators

Topics

Professionalism: Learning Together as Teachers

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Description

Activities designed to transition precalculus students to the vocabulary, notation, and rigor of AP Calculus will be shared. Participants will explore strategies for introducing the four methods of relating AP Calculus solutions (graphical, numerical, analytical, verbal) into the precalculus curriculum as well as appropriate assessment techniques.

Co-Speaker

Lead Speaker

Audience

10-12

Topics

Teaching and Learning: Best Practices for Engaging Students

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To often algebraic procedures are whittled down to a flowchart or a gimmick. The Mathematics Teaching Practices include building procedural fluency from conceptual understanding. In this session, we will examine some of these procedures, explore tasks that help students build conceptual understanding, and discuss the connections between the two.

Lead Speaker

Audience

8-10

Topics

Teaching and Learning: Best Practices for Engaging Students

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The Locker Game is one of the most astonishing math activities your students will ever experience. We will develop strategies for "winning" the game and then use probability, combinatorial reasoning, and calculus to analyze these strategies. The results are stunning! This two- or three-day activity is great anytime but especially after an AP exam.

Lead Speaker

Audience

10-12

Topics

Mathematical Modeling: Interpreting the World through Mathematics

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Moving to a standards-based grading system in a school that uses a traditional model can be difficult. This session will explore ways to smoothly transition your students, parents, and perhaps even a few colleagues to a standards-based system while still working within your curriculum and school policies.

Lead Speaker

Audience

10-12

Topics

Assessment: A Tool for Purposeful Planning and Instruction

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Description

Having transitioned from a high school math teacher into a role supporting K-12, I have learned so much from elementary classrooms about how concepts in number and patterning develop across the years. Come explore how these powerful foundations, and classroom routines, can extend into high school level concepts of number, algebra, and functions.

Lead Speaker

Audience

8-10

Topics

Purposeful Curriculum: Cultivating Coherence and Connections

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Description

Conceptual understanding can be built from student problem solving with carefully scaffolded activities and routines such as Notice and Wonder. We will dive deep in doing math and looking at our own practices, followed by review of related student problem solving in order to understand and facilitate the development of mathematical practices.

Lead Speaker

Audience

6-8

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Teaching and Learning: Best Practices for Engaging Students

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During the session we will construct an origami box and discuss mathematical ideas that emerge from the construction of the box. We will explore the relationship between the dimensions of the rectangular sheet and the dimensions of the constructed box. We will also explore the volume of the constructed box using graphing technology.

Lead Speaker

Audience

10-12

Topics

Mathematical Modeling: Interpreting the World through Mathematics

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"I want to be an engineer." "I like math because it's easy." We will present lessons from six years of running Bridge to Enter Advanced Mathematics (BEAM), how to use a combination of enrichment (logic, puzzles, number theory) and foundations (the why of math) to challenge and support strong students in a low-income classroom.

Co-Speaker

Lead Speaker

Audience

6-8

Topics

Access, Equity & Empowerment: Teaching Mathematics with an Equity Stance

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"Why don't these kids know their facts?!" is one of the most common frustrations in math teaching. In this session, participants will learn the definition of fluency (it's more than just memorizing facts!), engaging strategies to support students in their journey to mathematical fluency, and opportunities for ongoing formative assessment of fluency.

Lead Speaker

Audience

Pre-K-2

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Teaching and Learning: Best Practices for Engaging Students

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Description

Two teachers can take the same idea for a lesson and experience vastly different results in class. This is often because one teacher taught from the full "stack" of questions and the other taught from just part of it. We'll look at the contents of that stack and learn how to put the full stack of questions to work in your classes.

Lead Speaker

Audience

General Interest

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Teaching and Learning: Best Practices for Engaging Students

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From logarithm tables to slide rule to graphing calculator to Desmos, the math classroom looks different than it used to. How much is too much? When does technology get in the way of content and when does it illuminate ideas? This workshop will explore ways we can determine when and how to use technology to help students learn.

Lead Speaker

Audience

8-10

Topics

Tools and Technology: Using Technology to Effectively Teach and Learn Mathematics

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This session will focus on work with a variety of interesting types of numbers, including abundant, deficient, perfect, semiperfect, friendly, weird, happy, vampire, untouchable, lazy caterer, narcissistic, and McNugget numbers. Session participants will share ideas for incorporating number enjoyment into standards-based lessons.

Lead Speaker

Audience

6-8

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Teaching and Learning: Best Practices for Engaging Students

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Teachers in K-grade 2 will play a variety of math games. These games are designed to help children develop a sense of whole numbers and represent and use them in flexible ways. Teachers will receive a packet of twenty games for developing number and operation sense, place value, basic facts, and whole number comparison, and computation.

Co-Speaker

Lead Speaker

Audience

Pre-K-2

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Teaching and Learning: Best Practices for Engaging Students

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A commonality for success in reading and mathematics is the need for students to construct meaning. Participants will explore familiar reading comprehension strategies to help students delve deeper into mathematical understanding. Join us as we investigate literacy connections that promote learning and inform instructional decisions.

Co-Speaker

Lead Speaker

Audience

6-8

Topics

Access, Equity & Empowerment: Teaching Mathematics with an Equity Stance

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Participants will learn WHY Math Workshop is a valuable model for instruction and HOW to establish routines and procedures that help get differentiated guided groups and learning stations up and running. Participants will gain a solid understanding of the different structures within Math Workshop and be able to see how it fits into a K-5 math class.

Lead Speaker

Audience

3-5

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Teaching and Learning: Best Practices for Engaging Students

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Struggling with problem solving? Would you like to help your upper elementary school students become better problem solvers? Model drawing could be the solution for you. Help students develop a visual context for word problems and build a bridge between concrete and abstract thinking when problem solving.

Co-Speaker

Lead Speaker

Audience

3-5

Topics

Mathematical Modeling: Interpreting the World through Mathematics

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Folding a crane is fun, but did you know that Origami can be used to do 'real math? Using paper, students can fold parabolas and other conics. Learn how paper folding can be a construction tool which enables finding solutions to quadratic and cubic equations. The folding serves as a hands-on motivation for students to then explore with math.

Lead Speaker

Audience

10-12

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Teaching and Learning: Best Practices for Engaging Students

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The Common Core Mathematics Standards, and many individual state standards, define congruence and similarity in terms of transformations and encourage teachers to integrate transformational reasoning in proof arguments. This session will discuss the rationale and potential advantages for this approach using several illustrative examples.

Co-Speaker(s)

Lead Speaker

Audience

8-10

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Purposeful Curriculum: Cultivating Coherence and Connections

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Algebra manipulatives provide an environment where students can make sense of two ways to solve quadratic equations: factoring and completing the square. Graphing technology allows students to link those approaches to quadratic functions. Using these tools and connecting these concepts makes the algebra come to life for all students.

Lead Speaker

Audience

8-10

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Purposeful Curriculum: Cultivating Coherence and Connections

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We share a pedagogical framework for introducing proof in secondary geometry. This framework includes a targeted, research-based list of sub-goals aimed at preparing students to productively engage with proof. Classroom teachers who have used the framework and associated tasks report on what they learned through a collaborative research project.

Co-Speaker(s)

Lead Speaker

Audience

Research

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Teaching and Learning: Best Practices for Engaging Students

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Join us for two STEM activities based on the picture books "Listen to Our World" and "The Most Magnificent Thing." Connect math and literature using manipulatives to classify animals into habitats and to engineer a pet transport. Progression through K-2 standards such as counting, graphing, using money, and measuring length will be emphasized.

Co-Speaker

Lead Speaker

Audience

Pre-K-2

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Purposeful Curriculum: Cultivating Coherence and Connections

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How can you start teaching math online and duplicate the rich interaction in your brick-and-mortar classroom with students around the globe? Learn best practices from teachers providing synchronous and asynchronous small-group instruction of calculus and financial algebra. Explore how to fuse cutting-edge technology and effective classroom methods.

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10-12

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Tools and Technology: Using Technology to Effectively Teach and Learn Mathematics

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Probability is often taught as its own end, but asking "what is the probability" isn't interesting when it has no purpose. In this session, probability will be put to important statistical purposes--making decisions that affect millions (really!) of people and winning games. Technology will be used to compute difficult probabilities.

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10-12

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Teaching and Learning: Best Practices for Engaging Students

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AP Calculus BC teachers often regard series convergence tests as one of the most challenging topics that they teach. Join your colleagues and engage in a rich discovery task that uses multiple representations of partial sums to develop procedural fluency with convergence tests from conceptual understanding.

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10-12

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Teaching and Learning: Best Practices for Engaging Students

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Explore six free apps that provide the means and models to explore essential questions, try out potential solutions, and justify results. Engage your students and integrate authentic technology in your lesson, and provide a platform for collaboration and inquiry. Discover how to access digital tools for inquiry and understanding.

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3-5

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Tools and Technology: Using Technology to Effectively Teach and Learn Mathematics

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Why do many of our students avoid graphing? See the power of exploring functions, solving equations, factoring, and the unit circle, by looking at how the equations and expressions relate to a graph. Expand student conceptual understanding through unique tasks that connect students mentally and physically to the math.

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8-10

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Purposeful Curriculum: Cultivating Coherence and Connections

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Ever wonder if a zombie apocalypse was exponential? This and other mathematical relationships will be explored in this session. Using a sandbox virtual environment, like Minecraft, as a BYOD support, this session will demonstrate its many uses as an Engage and Exploration tool. What can you do if students engaged for five more minutes each day?

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8-10

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Mathematical Modeling: Interpreting the World through Mathematics

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This session will explore what it means to be a culturally responsive teacher for students enrolled in an algebra I course for repeating ninth graders. This research focused on classroom relationships, communication of high expectations, and student engagement in learning activities, using a teacher action-research design.

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Research

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Access, Equity & Empowerment: Teaching Mathematics with an Equity Stance

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Applications of data mining projects have the potential to engage students in authentic global collaboration and mathematical inquiry to understand enviromental/global issues. An example is presented in which students in two different locations collaborate gathering data and making inferences as they present their findings.

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8-10

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Teaching and Learning: Best Practices for Engaging Students

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The development of a positive math identity is key to girls' success in STEM. This session will explore researcher-practitioner partnerships specifically designed to foster middle school girls' identity in math as a means of keeping them in the STEM pipeline and increasing their participation in STEM careers.

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Coaches/Leaders/Teacher Educators

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Access, Equity & Empowerment: Teaching Mathematics with an Equity Stance

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Children's literature, thoughtfully selected and meaningfully shared, can provide rich contexts for mathematics learning. Preschool and kindergarten teachers, join us to learn how to integrate picture books with math. You'll leave with a list of our favorite titles, simple station ideas, and concept-building lessons that you can try out on Monday.

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Pre-K-2

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Teaching and Learning: Best Practices for Engaging Students

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Have you heard of high school math talks? Want to try them in your classroom? Come learn about this powerful tool to help your students share their math ideas and create a culture of math discourse. Hear advice and tips from teachers implementing math talks based on high school content. Bring your questions and curiosity to explore math talks.

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10-12

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Teaching and Learning: Best Practices for Engaging Students

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This session will provide research-based instructional practices that have proven to be effective with low-achieving Title I students in K-grade 12. Participants will be provided learning experiences that they will be able to use in developing effective practices for their low-performing students. A variety of instructional practices will be explored that cross over K-grade 12 and that are specifically targeted for English learners and cultural diverse student populations.

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3-5

Coaches/Leaders/Teacher Educators

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Professionalism: Learning Together as Teachers

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Now is the time to be aware of the myths surrounding women and mathematics and to address them in the classroom. Working for equitable treatment of all students as we debunk these myths requires gender-specific strategies such as types of questions, contexts of problems, makeup of small groups, and student-discourse oriented environment.

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General Interest

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Access, Equity & Empowerment: Teaching Mathematics with an Equity Stance

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Learn more about engaging your student in Math Modeling through participation in modeling contests. A panel of teachers will discuss their experiences with preparing students for and participating in contests. We will share examples of problems and information about a new faculty mentoring initiative that supports classroom-focused math modeling.

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10-12

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Mathematical Modeling: Interpreting the World through Mathematics

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Join us to learn how we sparked students' excitement in problem solving using challenging, yet accessible, unsolved mathematics problems! We will examine video clips and student work to illustrate how elementary and middle school students can engage with problems like the Graceful Tree Conjecture and the Frobenius Coin Problem.

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6-8

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Teaching and Learning: Best Practices for Engaging Students

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Mathematicians say mathematics is full of wonder, discovery, and curiosity. Most students use different words to describe it. I've studied the discipline of mathematics and the realities of math classes, seeking out colleagues who close the gap between the two. What can we learn from teachers whose students ask and answer their own math questions?

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General Interest

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Teaching and Learning: Best Practices for Engaging Students

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Harness math to tackle social justice! Participants will experience a project for eighth graders built around two-way tables (Common Core State Standard 8.SP.4) that explores homicide data and racial bias in capital punishment sentences. Participants discuss the promise and pitfalls of incorporating the topic of race into math class.

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6-8

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Access, Equity & Empowerment: Teaching Mathematics with an Equity Stance

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Traditional problems are typically assigned to provide students opportunities to practice a concept presented in class, or to assess their understanding. In this workshop, we will consider how technology tools like Google Docs, gMath, and Desmos can transform textbook exercises into interactive tasks to help student make sense of mathematics.

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8-10

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Tools and Technology: Using Technology to Effectively Teach and Learn Mathematics

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As students move from grade to grade, consistency in vocabulary, diagrams, manipulatives, and generalizations provides a common foundation from which to build new concepts and skills. This session focuses on ways in which schools can build a Whole School Agreement through a process engaging K–12 teachers and ideas that might be included in it.

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General Interest

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Purposeful Curriculum: Cultivating Coherence and Connections

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Even though we want students to be curious about mathematics and how it applies in our world, most students and adults believe math class is a place where they're given answers to questions they've never asked. Learn strategies for inspiring students to ask their own questions and techniques for assessing curiosity in math classes at any grade level.

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General Interest

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Teaching and Learning: Best Practices for Engaging Students

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In this inspiring and engaging session, we dive into five factors of professionalism that allow you to leave a magnified heartprint on your students and colleagues. We examine factors of work life happiness, burnout avoidance, the inequities we cause, elements of effective risk taking, and the deep wisdom of becoming a feedback fanatic. Join us!

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General Interest

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Professionalism: Learning Together as Teachers

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Deepen your understanding about what fluency is and how to best support it. Explore an approach for developing and assessing fluency that reflects the depth and goals of the CCSSM. Learn how using the three phases of mastering basic facts can increase your understanding of student thinking and empower you in designing next steps for instruction.

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3-5

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Teaching and Learning: Best Practices for Engaging Students

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Financial literacy is an important life skill, yet how are we fostering understanding in our youngest students? This workshop will give participants the opportunity to engage in tasks that help build a foundation for financial literacy in the primary classroom. Learn what material and manipulatives are available to support our littlest consumers.

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Pre-K-2

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Emerging Issues and Hot Topics

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Clothesline is an adjustable number line to develop number sense. Come join us in hands-on Clothesline activities that promotemathematical reasoning and debate. Together we will explore an understanding of variables, algebraic expressions, geometric relationships, and equations. You will leave ready toimplement activities tomorrow in your class!

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8-10

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Purposeful Curriculum: Cultivating Coherence and Connections

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Come explore a collection of puzzles that engage students in grade 3 and up in early algebraic reasoning. Through students' natural logic, they develop foundational algebraic habits of mind while exploring the puzzles. We'll watch interviews of students' solving and creating their own puzzles and discuss their thinking. Bring a laptop or tablet.

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3-5

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Tools and Technology: Using Technology to Effectively Teach and Learn Mathematics

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Mathematical modeling highlights the relevance of mathematics. Explore components of authentic modeling tasks used to demonstrate the importance and range of mathematics. Engage in tasks designed to enrich your knowledge of secondary mathematics concepts. Examine the math modeling process and how it can be used to help students make sense of math.

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10-12

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Mathematical Modeling: Interpreting the World through Mathematics

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Engage students in meaningful measurement activities that focus on identifying attributes of objects, unit iteration, different-size units, and comparing lengths. See how to use purposeful questions with these activities that promote student sense making. Come ready to play and learn!

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Pre-K-2

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Teaching and Learning: Best Practices for Engaging Students

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Many teachers, new and experienced, see math as a set of procedures. They teach students the steps to solve problems while paying little attention to the beauty and creativity of mathematical concepts. Learn how engaging students in building their understanding reaches all students, improves their learning, and has them leaving liking math!

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3-5

Pre-K-2

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Teaching and Learning: Best Practices for Engaging Students

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This workshop includes activities from a yearlong focus group for mainstream and ESOL teachers working towards developing ELLs' mathematics and language skills. Participants will learn about PD structures guided by WIDA LD Standards and explore instructional tools for language-mathematics integration to make mathematics accessible for ELLs.

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Coaches/Leaders/Teacher Educators

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Emerging Issues and Hot Topics

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Explore activities that can be used in an algebra 2 and precalculus that lay the foundation for strong conceptual understanding in calculus. Experience how paper ripping and the spread of disease supports infinite series and logistic growth. At first the activities give students an "aha" moment and later in calculus provide a point of reference.

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10-12

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Teaching and Learning: Best Practices for Engaging Students

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Come learn how a cognitively demanding real-world task such as the Seven Billion People Problem can promote productive struggle and help shape students' mathematical dispositions. Participants will explore the challenges of solving, choosing, and implementing worthwhile tasks, and engage in extensions to social studies, literacy, and music.

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6-8

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Teaching and Learning: Best Practices for Engaging Students

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Many students seem to lose number sense as they learn algorithms. Number talks encourage students to think flexibly and develop strategies that help them build number sense. Purposeful talk moves can take number talks to a higher level by helping students effectively communicate their reasoning as they share their strategies.

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Pre-K-2

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Teaching and Learning: Best Practices for Engaging Students

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Participants will use Desmos Activity Builder to transform a static worksheet into an interactive activity to promote an authentic integration of the Mathematical Practice Standards into the classroom. We will emphasize teaching methods to create a more equitable classroom experience while developing positive mathematical mindsets in students.

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Lead Speaker

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8-10

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Access, Equity & Empowerment: Teaching Mathematics with an Equity Stance

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Get ready to experience hands-on activities using coffee stirrers and chenille sticks to develop reasoning about two- and three-dimensional shapes and their attributes by making and testing conjectures. Attendees will receive literature selections, apps, and other resources that will enhance development of the concepts presented within the handout.

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3-5

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Teaching and Learning: Best Practices for Engaging Students

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Using diagrams, dynamic tools, and gestures engages students in mathematical practices. Students' visual representations of mathematical ideas are critical in clarifying their understanding, communicating their thoughts, and empowering them as learners. Come engage in middle grades activities that use and evoke multiple visual representations. BYOD.

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6-8

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Teaching and Learning: Best Practices for Engaging Students

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How do we begin supporting numeracy development? This session focuses on how students learn to compose and decompose whole numbers. We will view student video and discuss how to nudge their thinking towards fluent ways of computing, while focusing on gate-keeping concepts that hold students back.

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Pre-K-2

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Teaching and Learning: Best Practices for Engaging Students

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After completing a yearlong pilot of the Mobile Computer Science Principles program, I will share student work and the instructional strategies that were most effective to help students ranging from prealgebra to calculus levels create functional mobile apps. Particular focus will be placed on the power of visualization.

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8-10

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Tools and Technology: Using Technology to Effectively Teach and Learn Mathematics

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We share four concrete examples of classroom-tested inquiries that meaningfully integrate all areas of STEAM: designing a prosthetic arm for a kindergartner, a paleontology investigation, roller-coaster engineering, and creating a coat for a giant! Our discussion will focus on specific alignment to grades 3-5 CCSSM content and practices.

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Lead Speaker

Audience

3-5

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Emerging Issues and Hot Topics

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Project-based learning can be a way for students to learn rigorous mathematics while engaged in authentic, relevant challenges. Learn how to transition from problem-based to project-based learning. We share lessons learned from teachers trying to implement PBL for the first time and design ideas and resources for you to implement your own projects.

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10-12

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Mathematical Modeling: Interpreting the World through Mathematics

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Looking for ways to provide more student choice while operating in the Math Workshop model? Choice Menus are the way to go! During this session, participants will be introduced to a variety of choice menus aimed at meeting the needs of all your students. Join me to learn more and walk away with samples you can take back to your classroom!

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General Interest

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Teaching and Learning: Best Practices for Engaging Students

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CCSS promotes a transformation approach to congruence. Learn how to actively engage students in using transformations to prove SAS, SSS, ASA, and other important theorems. With freely available online activities, students construct, visualize, compose, and manipulate transformations; create proofs; and solve problems of congruence and similarity.

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Lead Speaker

Audience

8-10

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Tools and Technology: Using Technology to Effectively Teach and Learn Mathematics

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Students who identify mathematical structure find and use efficient strategies to solve problems. How can we helps students see the structure of mathematical concepts before we name it for them? Practical strategies that engage students in noticing structure will be modeled with specific details for implementation in the secondary classroom.

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8-10

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Teaching and Learning: Best Practices for Engaging Students

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Experience how expressions and equations grow through the middle school grades. Build a toolkit of sense-making equation-solving strategies that involve mental math and manipulatives. Experience activities suitable for practice, group work, or formative assessment that will engage students.

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Lead Speaker

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6-8

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Purposeful Curriculum: Cultivating Coherence and Connections

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This session will share about how a high school teacher uses mathematical modeling as a preassessment of students' content knowledge, mathematical dispositions, and motivation. Through mathematical modeling, teachers not only engage students in learning, but can also learn about the backgrounds of their students.

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10-12

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Assessment: A Tool for Purposeful Planning and Instruction

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Inclusion of mathematical modeling tasks in the classroom increases student engagement, conceptual understanding, and autonomy. Participants will investigate the characteristics of a rich modeling task and will practice transforming traditional textbook problems into open-ended tasks that encourage critical thinking and reasoning for all learners.

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Lead Speaker

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6-8

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Mathematical Modeling: Interpreting the World through Mathematics

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This session explores what mathematical thinking is and what it looks like in the classroom. Participants will use a reflection tool to analyze student data/evidence in a video and their own practice. We will discuss facilitating mathematical discourse (NCTM 2014) and instructional implications around MP 3, 7, and 8.

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Lead Speaker

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8-10

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Teaching and Learning: Best Practices for Engaging Students

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A performance task is any learning activity that asks students to perform to demonstrate their knowledge, understanding, and proficiency. These tasks provide opportunities for students to apply their learning in context. We will review examples of performance tasks from K-2 classrooms and explore how teachers can use them to guide instruction.

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Pre-K-2

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Teaching and Learning: Best Practices for Engaging Students

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This interactive session will highlight the results of a recent, national survey of early-career secondary mathematics teachers about the professional support they receive, the professional learning activities in which they engage, other factors that affect their effectiveness and growth, and their interest and likelihood in continuing to teach.

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Research

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Emerging Issues and Hot Topics

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Girls tend to prefer mathematics tasks that have real-world value, as well as particular topics that have been shown to engage them. In this session, participants will gain strategies and classroom ideas for supporting girls' mathematics learning through high-interest texts that serve their learning preferences.

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Lead Speaker

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3-5

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Access, Equity & Empowerment: Teaching Mathematics with an Equity Stance

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This session will focus on the design and implementation of a professional development series to improve mathematics instruction in early learning. Learn how teachers have worked to purposefully plan for rich mathematical experience and capitalize on the mathematical opportunities that routinely take place in early learning classrooms.

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Pre-K-2

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Professionalism: Learning Together as Teachers

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Student reflection in the math classroom can be a powerful tool. When handing back graded assignments, some students tend to shove their paper into their desk and it's never seen again. I'd like to end this cycle by empowering students to reflect on their progress, analyze math concepts, set goals, and monitor their own mathematical thinking.

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Coaches/Leaders/Teacher Educators

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Assessment: A Tool for Purposeful Planning and Instruction

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The Smoky Mountain Math Teachers' Circle is an encouraging, collaborative community of mathematics educators which gathers regularly to explore rich mathematical tasks. Discover how some teachers have been able to transfer these experiences into their own classrooms and make math engaging for their students through exciting hands-on activities.

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6-8

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Professionalism: Learning Together as Teachers

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Looking for ways to bring STEAM into your classroom? Symmetry is a natural bridge between math and the arts. In this session, learn strategies for teaching symmetry in early childhood and leave with classroom activities connecting art and symmetry. Learn to introduce students to symmetry in art around the world and implement tech-based activities.

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Pre-K-2

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Teaching and Learning: Best Practices for Engaging Students

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Experience activities designed to get students moving as they master math content. Explore how incorporating movement engages students, deepens understanding, increases motivation, and improves fluency. Learn simple techniques for creating your own math motion activities. Leave with ideas to get your students moving and learning.

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General Interest

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Teaching and Learning: Best Practices for Engaging Students

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This session will explore creative ways to promote discourse in the elementary mathematics classroom. Participants will examine a sweet cookie metaphor to name and describe tools and structures for math talk. They will have the opportunity to devour a math task much the same way they might attack a plate of cookies.

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3-5

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Teaching and Learning: Best Practices for Engaging Students

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In higher education, we also encounter many students who possess a fixed mathematical mindset. This session will outline strategies to encourage growth mindsets in select general studies math courses and math support services. We will share our research findings and discuss bridging opportunities between high school and college math classrooms.

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Audience

Higher Education

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Access, Equity & Empowerment: Teaching Mathematics with an Equity Stance

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Want a better answer for why students have to learn proofs? This session will present tasks involving universal statements that help develop a need for proofs. Video clips and data from a design experiment will be shared to show conversations that can occur during the tasks to promote proofs as a way of knowing why a conjecture is true.

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8-10

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Teaching and Learning: Best Practices for Engaging Students

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Muffins and Math are morning workshops that invite parents to learn and play games that can help build number sense and fluency. Come learn how one school increased attendance by offering translators for native languages.

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Pre-K-2

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Access, Equity & Empowerment: Teaching Mathematics with an Equity Stance

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Come hear how the "butterfly trick" taught by a colleague confused our students and how we resolved it. The progression of comparing fractions will be discussed along with reasons why tricks can be harmful to students in later classes. Specific research-based strategies, not tricks, will be shared to provide a coherent path for students.

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3-5

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Purposeful Curriculum: Cultivating Coherence and Connections

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Progressive formalization is a curriculum design theory that helps students mathematize informal experiences into formal mathematics. Participants will explore activity sequences that guide students to deeper understandings of the meaning and structure of algebra equations and see how this theory forms a research base for Principles to Actions.

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6-8

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Teaching and Learning: Best Practices for Engaging Students

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Probability problems are challenging enough when they involve straightforward analysis of outcomes and their respective likelihoods. When chance events are "conditioned," the analysis, thinking, and modelling of outcomes can catalyze misconceptions and lead to great opportunities for critique and debate. "What do we know, and "WHEN did we know it?"

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8-10

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Mathematical Modeling: Interpreting the World through Mathematics

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Lesson plans are the road maps teachers use to guide their classroom instruction and student learning. By working to plan a lesson around the research-informed 5E instructional framework, participants will learn key questions to ask themselves as they collaboratively plan for instruction and reflect on the decisions they make during planning.

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Coaches/Leaders/Teacher Educators

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Professionalism: Learning Together as Teachers

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Multiple classroom-tested engineering design briefs will be shared that correlate to grades 4-6 mathematics standards. Learn how classroom teachers can use STEAM to support learning of fractions, geometry, probability, measurement, and more. Materials will be provided for participants to try one or more design challenges.

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3-5

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Teaching and Learning: Best Practices for Engaging Students

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Experience how investigations can empower your students to think about linear and quadratic relationships through generating and graphing data about themselves and exploring puzzle and visual patterns to unlock algebraic thinking. There will also be a opportunities to engage in problem solving, reasoning, and using structure through the tasks.

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8-10

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Teaching and Learning: Best Practices for Engaging Students

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Do data science in your classroom! Students will plumb huge datasets, construct visualizations, organize messy data, use technology to focus on what's important, make arguments . . . and stop the epidemic! And save lives!--and more. Free web-based software and materials. Good for APCSP. Developed with support from NSF. Bring laptops!

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10-12

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Tools and Technology: Using Technology to Effectively Teach and Learn Mathematics

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Make problem solving and assessment come alive by combining GeoGebra and GoFormative. We will solve and assess rich, open-ended, and powerful geometric problems involving parallelograms, congruence, and similarity, and the Pythagorean theorem. Presenters will share premade files and projects, so bring your own device to follow the activities.

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Lead Speaker

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10-12

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Tools and Technology: Using Technology to Effectively Teach and Learn Mathematics

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This session is about creating a workshop-style classroom where students can learn at their own pace and support each other. The participants will go through several activities to experience the process from a student's perspective.

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10-12

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Teaching and Learning: Best Practices for Engaging Students

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This session describes a professional development program designed to improve mathematics instruction for English learners. Partnering with school districts, the presenters offered grant-funded courses to establish practice-based PLCs with teachers (both mainstream and ESOL). Participants will learn about frameworks, resources, and tools to address both mathematics and language standards.

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Lead Speaker

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Coaches/Leaders/Teacher Educators

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Access, Equity & Empowerment: Teaching Mathematics with an Equity Stance

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The practice of "claim, evidence, reasoning" is popular in science and the humanities. Curious how my students could apply this practice to argumentation in math, I reinvented, studied, and refined my approach to teaching descriptive statistics. Now my students don't just calculate--they predict, analyze, argue, and defend. Learn how I did it.

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10-12

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Teaching and Learning: Best Practices for Engaging Students

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Starting with a problem does more than just engage students--it provides an opportunity to develop mathematical practices, deepen conceptual understandings, and strengthen procedural skills. This session will provide specific examples of instructional tasks relating to number sense, operations with whole numbers, and fraction concepts.

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3-5

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Teaching and Learning: Best Practices for Engaging Students

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If children are to engage in problem solving with tenacity and confidence, good questioning by teachers during conferrals should engender learner excitement and ownership of ideas, while simultaneously be challenging enough to support further development. Video of conferrals in action will be used for examination and analysis.

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General Interest

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Access, Equity & Empowerment: Teaching Mathematics with an Equity Stance

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Engage with a project that focuses on the statistical problem solving process and that we use to structure our statistics unit and provide motivation for students. Examine student work and consider how this and similar projects can advance students' abilities to answer statistical questions in a unit that might subsequently take less time!

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6-8

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Purposeful Curriculum: Cultivating Coherence and Connections

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In this presentation, we will look at examples where attention to precision goes beyond correct answers. Teachers and students have to be precise in their language, vocabulary, and examples. Participants will also learn about a writing strategy that will help their students write effectively and precisely when defending their answers.

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6-8

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Teaching and Learning: Best Practices for Engaging Students

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Too often, pre-K math activities focus on rote recitation and memorization. This session will present strategies for helping young students move far beyond counting and number recognition. Learn fun, engaging methods for introducing challenging math concepts in ways that can both teach and reinforce the more basic skills.

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Pre-K-2

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Teaching and Learning: Best Practices for Engaging Students

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Students may have multiple strategies, but do they understand how various strategies relate or know when using each is best and most efficient? Explore tasks and games that support students in making connections among multiple addition and subtraction strategies so they become flexible, strategic problem solvers.

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Pre-K-2

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Teaching and Learning: Best Practices for Engaging Students

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No need to fear negative numbers! During this workshop, a variety of kinesthetic, tactile, and visual integer games will be shared. Activities include simulated mini golf, Bingo, an integer ops line dance, a Cauldron card game, Jeopardy, and Concentration. Participants will receive a CD containing files for all the activities and much more!

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6-8

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Teaching and Learning: Best Practices for Engaging Students

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How do teacher teams make connections between content, process standards, and NCTM's Mathematical Teaching Practices? Intentional lesson design and reflection are the keys to unlocking this question. Explore tools and strategies within instructional rounds to create and reflect upon lessons that promote mathematical understanding.

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Lead Speaker

Audience

Coaches/Leaders/Teacher Educators

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Professionalism: Learning Together as Teachers

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Empowering students begins with helping teachers develop conceptual understanding and broaden their toolbox of strategies. We will share how we worked with coaches and teachers to develop a more robust understanding of fractions, how that work was supported in the classrooms, and the impact on student learning.

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Lead Speaker

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3-5

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Professionalism: Learning Together as Teachers

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How do we help elementary education majors recognize their role in developing a growth mindset in their students and in preparing the foundation for more rigorous reasoning? How do we help them appreciate and understand the connections between geometrical concepts? This course conquers both challenges through active learning.

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Higher Education

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Teaching and Learning: Best Practices for Engaging Students

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Teaching is a profession under siege. Some legislators and policymakers are devaluing and defunding teacher professional development and collaboration. This session shares sensible ways in which teachers can reclaim the profession through action research collaborations and advocacy using data from the Milwaukee Master Teacher Partnership.

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Lead Speaker

Audience

General Interest

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Professionalism: Learning Together as Teachers

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When students learn arithmetic they begin with contextual problems, build their own strategies, and generalize them. How can that happen when the content is algebraic manipulation? We'll use student work on problems that make sense to students to explore how students' creative solution methods can be generalized to abstract algebraic procedures.

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Audience

8-10

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Teaching and Learning: Best Practices for Engaging Students

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An exciting project engaged over 70 teachers across the state of Hawaii to "Desmos-ify" their lessons. Learn how effective pedagogy, combined with the purposeful use of Desmos, changed teachers' mindsets for designing lessons and increased student engagement and understanding. Teacher-created resources ready for classroom use will be shared.

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Lead Speaker

Audience

8-10

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Tools and Technology: Using Technology to Effectively Teach and Learn Mathematics

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Experience classroom-tested, engaging lessons to help students understand how functions and equations are related. We will use concrete objects to model a linear function and interpret the meaning of solving in this context and also see how Desmos can be used to relate exponential functions to the solutions of the equations represented by them.

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Lead Speaker

Audience

8-10

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Purposeful Curriculum: Cultivating Coherence and Connections

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We will discuss our involvement in Mathematics Partnership Grants collaborating with teachers in Wisconsin. We will demonstrate how to create escape rooms in the classroom to engage students in mathematical discourse and emphasize the Standards for Mathematical Practice. Examples of mathematics escape rooms will be included.

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Lead Speaker

Audience

8-10

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Emerging Issues and Hot Topics

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CCSSM HS Geometry clusters include "Understand Congruence in Terms of Rigid Motions" and "Prove Geometric Theorems." But the standards don't tell us how to approach these proofs using transformational assumptions. This session will address this deficiency by providing new assumptions, updating some definitions, and discussing some proofs.

Co-Speaker

Lead Speaker

Audience

10-12

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Emerging Issues and Hot Topics

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How do teachers help students develop strategies to make reasonable estimates? Do we make the connection to computation? In this session, participants will learn how to engage students and spark curiosity by intentionally selecting estimation tasks and activities that can turn into launching points for instruction.

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Lead Speaker

Audience

3-5

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Teaching and Learning: Best Practices for Engaging Students

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Our Math for America Master Teacher Fellowship has given us the opportunity to create a two-year Pathway to Calculus Curriculum that has done wonders for our AP program. We will share our sequencing of topics, lessons, and questioning techniques that have helped students feel more prepared and excited to take on AP Calculus.

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Audience

10-12

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Purposeful Curriculum: Cultivating Coherence and Connections

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ALL learners should have access to rigorous, high-level mathematical content in an environment where risk-taking, deep conceptual understanding, and growth mindset are the norm. We will share lessons learned from our journey to reconceptualize the upper elementary math program and shifts we made to empower teachers and students as mathematicians.

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Lead Speaker

Audience

3-5

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Access, Equity & Empowerment: Teaching Mathematics with an Equity Stance

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Literature can provide the context for rich tasks and opportunities for children to engage in high levels of mathematics. This session will focus on engaging in literature-based rigorous tasks and analyzing student work. Participants will leave with strategies and tasks designed to develop reasoning and problem-solving skills with their students.

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Lead Speaker

Audience

Pre-K-2

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Teaching and Learning: Best Practices for Engaging Students

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The reality is not every concept we teach has a real-world application, and we cannot create a three-act math task for every lesson. In this session, learn what essential elements are necessary for promoting inquiry and see what active learning looks like for abstract topics. Use the strategies presented to overhaul a current lecture-based lesson.

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Audience

10-12

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Teaching and Learning: Best Practices for Engaging Students

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Through a university partnership, we collaborated on lesson study within a summer professional development project and during the school year. The lesson study focused on introducing proof in secondary geometry, a topic with many known challenges. We share the process we engaged in and what we learned about student thinking, and we discuss next steps.

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Lead Speaker

Audience

8-10

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Professionalism: Learning Together as Teachers

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Let's move lesson study from being just an engaging activity to a system of improving classroom instruction throughout a school. We will look at how to identify a Problem of Practice, work with a lesson template to focus collaboration, and utilize a debriefing protocol to help teachers see themes beyond just the single lesson.

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Coaches/Leaders/Teacher Educators

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Professionalism: Learning Together as Teachers

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Would you rather have questions students struggle to answer or answers that students struggle to question? Using depth of knowledge as our lens, we will ask open-ended problems to analyze student errors, differentiate misconceptions, and move beyond a limiting correct/incorrect mindset, all while discussing how student thinking informs our teaching.

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Lead Speaker

Audience

6-8

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Assessment: A Tool for Purposeful Planning and Instruction

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This presentation will focus on strategies and activities that can increase student engagement, collaboration, and learning in a math classroom. Participants will be introduced to ideas and resources that can easily be adapted and used in class. We will share experiences that have worked (and not worked) in our classrooms. Bring a device!

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Lead Speaker

Audience

10-12

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Teaching and Learning: Best Practices for Engaging Students

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Students uncover big ideas about place value as they create varied models and discuss connections between them. Setting these experiences in problem contexts allows students to connect real to abstract and make sense of plac- value concepts. Explore sample tasks and gather ideas for designing rich math experiences that highlight these connections.

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Audience

Pre-K-2

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Purposeful Curriculum: Cultivating Coherence and Connections

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Challenge your students to sample a population of their choosing--pick a population, make inferences, and document their work in social media-- then watch what happens. Learn how to implement this simple challenge as a formative assessment, and how to use the results as a fun way to assess their statistical knowledge later.

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Audience

8-10

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Assessment: A Tool for Purposeful Planning and Instruction

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How do outliers affect regression lines? What does it mean to be 95 percent confident? What affects the shape of a sampling distribution? In this session, we will participate in several engaging activities and explore free online applets that help students visualize and understand statistical ideas.

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Lead Speaker

Audience

10-12

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Tools and Technology: Using Technology to Effectively Teach and Learn Mathematics

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Join us to learn how we include grade-level instructional planning meetings in a field-based project for elementary preservice teachers. The meetings are an integral component in the process of developing and analyzing their implemented math lessons. We will share details about the project, the structure of the meetings, and resulting outcomes.

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Lead Speaker

Audience

Higher Education

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Professionalism: Learning Together as Teachers

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Rigorous goals, well-aligned classroom assessments, and high-quality feedback are keys to success. During this session, we review classroom assessments to determine alignment with the depth and rigor of the standard assessed. Additionally, we will analyze the feedback given to students on the assessments. Sample assessments will be provided.

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Audience

Coaches/Leaders/Teacher Educators

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Assessment: A Tool for Purposeful Planning and Instruction

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Aligning formative and summative assessment strategies with curriculum expectations is a key component to enacting a valid and reliable assessment system. Workshop participants will be taken through a process to build an assessment plan for either a course or a unit of study using Understanding by Design (Wiggins and McTighe 2006) as a framework.

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Audience

10-12

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Assessment: A Tool for Purposeful Planning and Instruction

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This workshop is for teachers who want to teach math more equitably but don't know where to start or how to keep growing. Participants will explore, define, and design experiences in order to teach math with, for, and about social justice. This will be done by exploring historical data, attendees' own stories, and freely available resources.

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Lead Speaker

Audience

3-5

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Access, Equity & Empowerment: Teaching Mathematics with an Equity Stance

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Much of the foundation for statistics is introduced in grade 6 and not revisited until algebra I. In this session, we will scaffold through dot plots and box & whiskers plots to help students "bridge the gap" and make sense of measures of center and spread. We will also use hands-on, exploratory tasks to analyze, compare, and contrast data sets.

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Audience

8-10

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Purposeful Curriculum: Cultivating Coherence and Connections

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Do teachers look to you for guidance on which standards, topics or depth they should be teaching? How much would your teachers benefit from learning how to work collaboratively to make these decisions as a team? In this session, we will explore ways to develop teacher teams' abilities to interpret and vertically articulate the CCSS standards.

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Lead Speaker

Audience

Coaches/Leaders/Teacher Educators

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Purposeful Curriculum: Cultivating Coherence and Connections

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We will present some novel origami and compass/straightedge activities, with handouts available, for immediate use in the classroom. These are explorations that lead to generalizations or proofs but can be adapted to various levels. Participants are encouraged to attend if they teach geometry, precalculus, or math electives.

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Lead Speaker

Audience

8-10

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Teaching and Learning: Best Practices for Engaging Students

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How do students' learn to reason abstractly and quantitatively in K-2? In our session, we will share two models (the bead string and the 100s frame) and specific ten-minute math routines that build big ideas in early number. We will also share video to illustrate how these concrete tools can become, over time, tools for students to think with.

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Lead Speaker

Audience

Pre-K-2

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Teaching and Learning: Best Practices for Engaging Students

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Explore effective routines like number talks, 3-Act Tasks, Data Day, KenKen and more to enhance content knowledge and implement the PtA instructional practices. Learn about a plethora of digital resources through NCTM and elsewhere to support instruction regardless of your core program.

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Audience

3-5

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Teaching and Learning: Best Practices for Engaging Students

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Embrace students' natural curiosity with STEM lessons that integrate mathematics across subjects in your primary classroom to heighten student engagement. Participants will take part in hands-on STEM activities that transformed teachers' classroom culture to emphasize access and agency for all students.

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Audience

Pre-K-2

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Teaching and Learning: Best Practices for Engaging Students

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Looking for a way to get families excited about playing math games together? Come and learn about our format for an organized, hands-on night of math fun. We will share with you games and activities for all grade levels from K-3 and how we structure the night to be interactive for the whole family!

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Lead Speaker

Audience

Pre-K-2

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Teaching and Learning: Best Practices for Engaging Students

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In this session, we will practice the use of manipulative models, tape diagrams, double number lines, ratio tables, and graphs with ELL students and those with math learning gaps as a way to model and solve a variety of ratio, rate, and percentage problems. You will compare and contrast representations, share experiences, and discuss options for teaching.

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6-8

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Teaching and Learning: Best Practices for Engaging Students

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How can we assist students in cognitively engaging in solving word problems? This session explores the structure of the Common Computation Situations (tables 1 & 2 in CCSSM) by interacting with various tools in processing the 24 situation subtypes. Participants will leave with ideas to help students truly understand the structure of math situations.

Co-Speaker

Lead Speaker

Audience

3-5

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Purposeful Curriculum: Cultivating Coherence and Connections

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How can we foster habits of mind and appreciation of mathematics through game play and proof writing? Variations on the game Nim teach the essentials of investigative discovery and metacognition. This multilayered puzzle allows multiple levels of entry and depth. This activity is one of several from a teacher-designed inquiry-based proofs curriculum.

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Lead Speaker

Audience

10-12

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Teaching and Learning: Best Practices for Engaging Students

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New standards in math and science require students to think deeper about how concepts are applied to solving problems. This session is meant for teachers who don't know how to get started with STEM. Learn how to bring STEM into your high school math classes in ways that help engage and excite students.

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Audience

10-12

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Emerging Issues and Hot Topics

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Talking, and listening to others talk about their thinking, helps all of us better understand and build on our thinking. In this session, three elementary educators will share strategies and examples of how young students learned to talk and listen in meaningful ways about mathematics.

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Lead Speaker

Audience

Pre-K-2

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Teaching and Learning: Best Practices for Engaging Students

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Students caught in a cycle of failure indirectly communicate their struggle with questions such as "When am I ever going to use this?" Come learn strategies that empower you to help students break free from this cycle as you identify common indicators and decide how to target your efforts to re-engage every student in active learning.

Co-Speaker

Lead Speaker

Audience

6-8

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Access, Equity & Empowerment: Teaching Mathematics with an Equity Stance

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In this session, we will explore the three principles of how students learn math based on research from the National Research Council and connect these principles to the math teaching practices from Principles to Actions. Participants will look at classroom examples from K-5 and 6-12 and walk away with a tool for lesson planning based on the principles.

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Lead Speaker

Audience

General Interest

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Teaching and Learning: Best Practices for Engaging Students

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Student-led family math nights, newsletters, parent conferences, and take-home lessons--all with a focus on the growth mindset--help families see that math is for everyone. The presenter, a math educator and mother of eight, shares creative approaches and humorous anecdotes that are sure to help you empower even the most math-phobic families.

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Audience

3-5

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Access, Equity & Empowerment: Teaching Mathematics with an Equity Stance

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This session will focus on the design and implementation of a professional development series to improve mathematics instruction in early learning. Learn how teachers have worked to purposefully plan for rich mathematical experiences and capitalize on the mathematical opportunities that routinely take place in early learning classrooms.

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Lead Speaker

Audience

Pre-K-2

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Professionalism: Learning Together as Teachers

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By using student work as the center of classroom discussions, students have something to talk about and teachers know where to focus their questions. Rather than concentrating on only one practice at a time, this session will help teachers implement all of the teaching practices at once while simply paying attention to the last one on the list.

Lead Speaker

Audience

10-12

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Teaching and Learning: Best Practices for Engaging Students

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The purpose of this presentation is to demonstrate the use of Polygraph, a program developed by the designers of Desmos® and how it can be used by English language learners (ELL). Consistent with mathematical tasks that go beyond merely memorizing vocabulary and pronunciations, Polygraph requires students to participate in mathematical discourse.

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Lead Speaker

Audience

8-10

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Tools and Technology: Using Technology to Effectively Teach and Learn Mathematics

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Improving literacy in geometry begins with an emphasis on understanding the vocabulary used. An effective way to achieve such understanding is through the use of hands-on activities. In order to give tangible meaning to geometric terms, a simple paper-folding activity will be used in the presentation illustrating over eighty terms and concepts.

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6-8

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Teaching and Learning: Best Practices for Engaging Students

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How do we implement a challenging curriculum with high expectations for every learner? This session will explore methods and resources for making math accessible to all, specifically students with disabilities and emerging bilingual students.

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Audience

6-8

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Access, Equity & Empowerment: Teaching Mathematics with an Equity Stance

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Participants will be introduced to an inquiry framework for teaching mathematics, in the context of Taylor Series, that starts the learning conversation with generative questions. These questions are the inquiry seeds out of which grows lots of rich mathematical fruit, including patterns, theorems, and habits of mind.

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Lead Speaker

Audience

10-12

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Teaching and Learning: Best Practices for Engaging Students

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Motivate English learners in algebraic reasoning by fostering productive struggle, language development, and exploring visual pattern tasks. Participants will anticipate the ways students will solve pattern tasks, consider how to support students' learning without taking over the thinking for them, and interrelate social and analytic scaffolding.

Lead Speaker

Audience

6-8

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Access, Equity & Empowerment: Teaching Mathematics with an Equity Stance

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Curious about math workshop, guided math, or small-group math instruction? Learn how it can transform K–5 math instruction, and help you reach all learners and keep them engaged. Learn tips, tricks, and concrete ideas for getting started with math workshop. Attendees will leave with a complete, classroom-ready lesson that can be used immediately.

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Audience

Pre-K-2

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Teaching and Learning: Best Practices for Engaging Students

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Ever get the sense that math class is last to the party when it comes to change? That modern-day Ferris Buellers are scheming to avoid algebra class across the nation because class is stifling and irrelevant? Learn eight ways to evolve a traditional class into a modern class rooted in deeper learning, and well, fun. Make your class legendary.

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Audience

General Interest

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Teaching and Learning: Best Practices for Engaging Students

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Professional development is changing; one form is volunteerism in studying math content and pedagogy related to current work. An example is Saturday Academy for Mathematics (SA4M) organized in Oxford, Mississippi. How to set up an academy, how to manage it, and how to encourage teachers as learners will be discussed. The focus of SA4M is for K-4 teachers.

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Lead Speaker

Audience

3-5

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Professionalism: Learning Together as Teachers

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Rich mathematical conversations with high school students are possible! Beyond the "show and tell" or the separate presentation of solutions, we will explore and compare different discussion "moves" to enable every student to draw connections between their solution and other student's solutions as well as key mathematical ideas.

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Audience

8-10

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Teaching and Learning: Best Practices for Engaging Students

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Come experience a precalculus activity that guides students to create piecewise-defined function models for analyzing the federal tax structure of the U.S. and the economic incentives offered to low-income citizens through the Earned Income Tax Credit. The models help students become informed citizens who can debate ways to improve tax policies.

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Audience

10-12

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Mathematical Modeling: Interpreting the World through Mathematics

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Good differentiation in mathematics does not replicate tracking within the classroom, focus on fluff without substance, or resemble a three-ring circus. Examples from real classrooms will illustrate how discovering and attending to student readiness, interest, and learning preference can promote growth, reveal hidden talent, and increase motivation.

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Audience

6-8

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Access, Equity & Empowerment: Teaching Mathematics with an Equity Stance

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Join this session to discover the new beautifully simple and powerful GeoGebra Graphing Calculator and Geometry apps with their many capabilities to foster student-centered and discovery-based learning. We will show classroom-tested activities for function graphing, equation solving, and geometry in high school. Bring your own device!

Lead Speaker

Audience

8-10

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Tools and Technology: Using Technology to Effectively Teach and Learn Mathematics

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In classrooms designed for learning, student engagement increases when presented with cognitively demanding tasks, rich discourse, and meaningful feedback from peers and teachers. Participants solve cognitively demanding tasks, examine student work to identify understandings and misconceptions and identify feedback to increase student engagement.

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Lead Speaker

Audience

3-5

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Teaching and Learning: Best Practices for Engaging Students

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How can effective number talk routines be adapted to meet the needs of secondary classrooms? Explore strategies and resources for implementing math talks in grade 6 algebra. See how math talks can provide opportunities for students to communicate and justify mathematical ideas, reasoning, and arguments within a concise, organized classroom structure.

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6-8

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Teaching and Learning: Best Practices for Engaging Students

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Modeling and proof are highlighted in Catalyzing Change as ways to enhance essential concepts across content areas where students can see themselves as capable of doing meaningful mathematics and statistics. We give examples of how modeling and proof can be used to empower students to think and use tools they have learned in new contexts.

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10-12

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Mathematical Modeling: Interpreting the World through Mathematics

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Origami is an art form that is ubiquitous in nature, yet fundamentally linked to mathematics and science. Participants will examine and produce some of the basic folds that are foundational to modern engineering developments including solar arrays, bulletproof shields, automobile airbags, and surgical instruments.

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Lead Speaker

Audience

10-12

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Purposeful Curriculum: Cultivating Coherence and Connections

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Participants will investigate one district's vetted digital resources and tools for growing math knowledge, analyzing and responding to students' mathematical ideas, fostering positive attitudes toward continued professional learning in math, and building professional networks to support and sustain continuous growth and learning.

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Lead Speaker

Audience

Coaches/Leaders/Teacher Educators

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Professionalism: Learning Together as Teachers

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The ratio table is a powerful tool for students to shift from additive thinking to multiplicative, master the distributive property, partial products/quotients, and proportional reasoning by exploring multiplication/division/fraction real world problems, crafting multiple solutions within contexts, and providing proofs of students' own thinking.

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Audience

3-5

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Access, Equity & Empowerment: Teaching Mathematics with an Equity Stance

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Learning requires connections to prior experiences, yet students from underrepresented populations are more likely to experience tasks that are disconnected to their daily lives. In this session, participants will explore culturally rich children's literature and identify opportunities to develop rigorous tasks that align to pre-K–2 math standards.

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Lead Speaker

Audience

Pre-K-2

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Access, Equity & Empowerment: Teaching Mathematics with an Equity Stance

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Participants will engage in active math lessons and learn how to use learning objectives to create anchor tasks that spark student interest and allow students of all levels to build on prior knowledge, explore concepts with concrete materials and engage in productive discourse to deepen conceptual understanding with a focus on problem solving.

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Lead Speaker

Audience

3-5

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Teaching and Learning: Best Practices for Engaging Students

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Co-teaching is an instructional model where two teachers share responsibilities of teaching all students. Participants will learn how algebra teachers are using standards-based instructional videos and other online resources as virtual co-teachers to support student learning, both in and out of the classroom.

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8-10

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Tools and Technology: Using Technology to Effectively Teach and Learn Mathematics

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How does knowledge of expected value affect a game show contestant's "best choice"? How have differing prize values and rules changed the game over the years? Come use various dynamic technologies to explore, play, and simulate with a recent Millionaire contestant.

Lead Speaker

Audience

8-10

Topics

Mathematical Modeling: Interpreting the World through Mathematics

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Students struggling in mathematical problem solving may be using inefficient counting strategies rather than additive strategies. During this session, we will explore a variety of additive strategies, ways of using manipulatives to develop deeper understanding, and strategies for moving from concrete to abstract representations.

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Pre-K-2

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Teaching and Learning: Best Practices for Engaging Students

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Sometimes looking to the past is the best way to move forward. Come experience the "Mathematical Tug-of-War"--a rich task that has been engaging students in the SMP for over 25 years. We'll also engage with other "oldies but goodies"--tasks that have been around for years, but encourage student reasoning, visualization, and creative thinking.

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6-8

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Teaching and Learning: Best Practices for Engaging Students

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We will explore how video-conferencing technology can be used between classrooms in different social contexts. When students were engaged in a collaborative project, they improved proportional reasoning through a rich discussion across multiple classrooms. To illustrate this strategy, we will show setup, tasks, classroom video, and discussions.

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Lead Speaker

Audience

6-8

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Tools and Technology: Using Technology to Effectively Teach and Learn Mathematics

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We all know that counting and cardinality are important in K-2, but what about coding? During this session, you will be exposed to how coding is appropriate for K-2 students and how it can be integrated into your daily lessons to increase number sense and create a game atmosphere. Classroom clips and lesson resources will be shared.

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Pre-K-2

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Tools and Technology: Using Technology to Effectively Teach and Learn Mathematics

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We will begin by sharing some "real-world" problems from middle school mathematics textbooks. Then we will lead a discussion of the authenticity of the problems. Next we will share a framework for authentic real-world problems. Finally we will share some authentic real-world examples and how we were guided by the framework in developing them.

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Lead Speaker

Audience

6-8

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Purposeful Curriculum: Cultivating Coherence and Connections

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Have you ever said, "I want to shift to problem-based lessons, but the time and expertise needed to create and implement them is daunting"? In this session, we walk participants through a Launch-Explore-Summarize lesson format and share strategies to shift practice towards effectively implementing tasks that promote reasoning and problem solving.

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Lead Speaker

Audience

General Interest

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Teaching and Learning: Best Practices for Engaging Students

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Making sense of decimal concepts and operations requires strong connections with fractions and place value. Join us as we explore fraction and decimal multiplication using concrete and visual models, connected to written work, and grounded in problem solving. Classroom-ready presentation materials will be included.

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3-5

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Teaching and Learning: Best Practices for Engaging Students

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Using 3,000-year-old ancient Indian techniques, participants will learn experientially through kinesthetic, aural, visual, and mental concentration methods used for learning proficiency of the foundational skills of subtraction, addition, and multiplication as tools for development of full human potentiality within Indigenous communities.

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Lead Speaker

Audience

Coaches/Leaders/Teacher Educators

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Access, Equity & Empowerment: Teaching Mathematics with an Equity Stance

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Ever question how to effectively work with teachers to deliver one, authentic STEM unit of study for your students? Worried about losing too much time? The presenters will explain how a collaborative summer experience translated into a year long, curricular experience for their students . . . and how you can make STEM more than just an acronym.

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Lead Speaker

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10-12

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Emerging Issues and Hot Topics

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Dissertation study found that levels of personal teacher growth mindset positively correlated to value-added growth. Recommendations, situated within my experience as a RtI facilitator and math support specialist, to be addressed. Participants will be polled via personal devices to conceptualize study results and to ground practical recommendations.

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3-5

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Access, Equity & Empowerment: Teaching Mathematics with an Equity Stance

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Improving students' problem-solving abilities is a major objective of Common Core and state standards, and model drawing is a powerful tool that students can use to attack complex problems. Come investigate methods of teaching and assessing tape diagrams for those persnickety word problems, and explore interactive model drawing technology.

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Lead Speaker

Audience

3-5

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Teaching and Learning: Best Practices for Engaging Students

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Effective educators seek opportunities to engage all students in grade-appropriate instruction through the use of response strategies. Response strategies can assist in creating student-centered classrooms that encourage independent and collaborative thinking. Participants will learn how to implement and create tools to increase student engagement.

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3-5

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Teaching and Learning: Best Practices for Engaging Students

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Children love to play games. Participants will explore how to support the development of young mathematicians through purposeful play using manipulative-based games. The focus will be on the Standards for Mathematical Practice and the content domain of Number & Operations in Base Ten, including number sense, computation, and estimation.

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Pre-K-2

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Teaching and Learning: Best Practices for Engaging Students

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Should we encourage struggling learners to "just memorize the rules" or focus on conceptual understanding? Workshop participants will engage in discourse, dig into activities, and share ideas about how to assist struggling learners to become active participants in their own learning and to believe that, they too, can learn mathematics.

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6-8

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Teaching and Learning: Best Practices for Engaging Students

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Are you a mathematics leader looking for techniques to actively engage your preservice and in-service participants in mathematical thinking, reasoning, and reflecting? This lively session will engage participants in discovering specific strategies that can be applied to a variety of mathematics topics to enrich all professional learning experiences.

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Lead Speaker

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Coaches/Leaders/Teacher Educators

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Professionalism: Learning Together as Teachers

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Effective mathematics teachers do not concentrate on misbehavior, they support positive participation. Participants will engage in activities that they can use to identify, clarify, and teach specific mathematical behaviors, behaviors that lead to classrooms where students productively engage with mathematics and with each other.

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Lead Speaker

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6-8

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Teaching and Learning: Best Practices for Engaging Students

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It is well known that Kryptonite robs Superman of his powers. In the same way, invalid fraction comparison strategies can rob students of the power of fraction fluency, zapping students' strengths for future work with proportional reasoning and algebra. This workshop focuses on tasks to prevent the development of these invalid strategies.

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3-5

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Teaching and Learning: Best Practices for Engaging Students

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The number line is a powerful model for students. It can be integrated throughout many math strands as a natural way to think about number relationships. In this session, we will explore hands-on activities using the number line. Come discover how you can use a number line and meter stick to find fraction and decimal equivalencies and more!

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Lead Speaker

Audience

3-5

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Teaching and Learning: Best Practices for Engaging Students

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Choosing purposeful, differentiated tasks can allow all students to build addition concepts that foster procedural fluency. Come see classroom video of students engaging in additive tasks that elicit student thinking and support all students' development. We will share ways to interpret students' behaviors based on research of student thinking.

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Pre-K-2

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Teaching and Learning: Best Practices for Engaging Students

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If math is a toolbox, students leave with faulty wrenches or trade critical thinking time for mastering tools time. What could happen if we prioritized tools that highlight foundational ideas and attack myriad problems? I will share the GEMA Table I have used in algebra 1 and 2 and help participants incorporate powerful tools into their practice.

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10-12

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Purposeful Curriculum: Cultivating Coherence and Connections

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"Google it." "Find it on YouTube." This is what this generation has grown up with. Everything that is known is available to them from their smartphones. So how should we teach them? Play on their field and make a video, but play by your rules and hold them accountable for it. A flipped class session for all from rookies to advanced.

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10-12

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Teaching and Learning: Best Practices for Engaging Students

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In this session, participants will examine GeoGebra tasks and discuss ways that they can cultivate the varieties of expertise outlined in the eight Standards for Mathematical Practice. Participants should have some familiarity with GeoGebra. Bring your own GeoGebra-loaded device.

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10-12

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Tools and Technology: Using Technology to Effectively Teach and Learn Mathematics

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Dive deeper into mathematical models like open number lines and area models and see how they build place value understanding and mental math strategies and lay the foundation for key algebra concepts. Leave with practical strategies for helping all students compare and connect representations while integrating the SMPs into instruction.

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3-5

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Purposeful Curriculum: Cultivating Coherence and Connections

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In this session, teachers will examine evidence from grades 3–5 classrooms of children thinking algebraically. They will explore the criteria for designing tasks used in these classrooms, how these tasks reflect core algebraic thinking practices, their connections to arithmetic, and their alignment with the Common Core Mathematical Practices.

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Lead Speaker

Audience

3-5

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Purposeful Curriculum: Cultivating Coherence and Connections

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Participants will hear research-based interpretations about how students use their fingers and the appropriate next steps for an equitable mathematical experiences. Watch class videos to know how to choose additive tasks that are differentiated based on the value of the addend to empower the child to develop the concept of number and addition.

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Lead Speaker

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Pre-K-2

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Access, Equity & Empowerment: Teaching Mathematics with an Equity Stance

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Collaboration among teachers promotes ongoing professional growth and learning, yet there is not much said about virtual collaborations that extend to our foreign counterparts. This presentation discusses an online collaborative experience between math teachers from Guam, Japan, and China, involving the bilateral sharing of mathematical pedagogies.

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Coaches/Leaders/Teacher Educators

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Professionalism: Learning Together as Teachers

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Explore the connections between Cuisenaire rods, bar models, fraction equivalence, and part to whole relationships. We will use Cuisenaire rods and bar models to transition from concrete representations of fractions to concrete representations of one-step equations. Bar models and strategic problems are used to help develop algorithms.

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Audience

6-8

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Teaching and Learning: Best Practices for Engaging Students

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During this session, playful mathematical routines such as counting collections, quick images, number talks, clothesline and "which one doesn't belong" will be shared, with photos and video clips showing how K-2 teachers are using these routines. The number concepts that students develop while engaged in these routines will be highlighted.

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Pre-K-2

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Teaching and Learning: Best Practices for Engaging Students

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Teachers from different grade spans rarely get to talk to each other, making it hard to provide coherence for students. Hear how our lesson study network of K-12 schools provides a structure for collaboration around vertical articulation across all grade spans. Activities include exploring research themes, lesson plans, and videos from our schools.

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General Interest

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Professionalism: Learning Together as Teachers

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Many students are intrigued by the Olympic sport of figure skating. We use skaters' on-ice paths as a context for students to model & describe 3-D artwork in a 2-D plane. We engage students in thinking about scaling, circular circumferences, and distance-rate-time as they "choreograph" figure skating moves. Sample student work is included.

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Lead Speaker

Audience

8-10

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Mathematical Modeling: Interpreting the World through Mathematics

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To understand mathematical modeling, you need to experience mathematical modeling. How can we estimate the number of fish in a pond with a sample? How can we test our model using hands-on simulation or technology? What assumptions does our model have? Come explore the capture-recapture method to estimate the total number of fish in our pond.

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10-12

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Mathematical Modeling: Interpreting the World through Mathematics

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During this burst, the speakers will share how they purposefully incorporated meaningful mathematics into their scientific explorations in nature. Specifically, the speakers will share how they helped their early childhood students to collect, represent, and analyze metric and U.S. customary measurement data in an outdoor classroom.

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Lead Speaker

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Pre-K-2

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Teaching and Learning: Best Practices for Engaging Students

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In a series of small cognition lab studies using eye tracking software, we developed and validated a self-report tool to measure math anxiety of children in grades 5-12, examining the effects of math test item design on the working memory and math anxiety.

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General Interest

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Emerging Issues and Hot Topics

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Self-regulation is a self-directive process by which learners transform their mental abilities into academic skills (Zimmerman 2002). This session will explore best practices for goal setting and monitoring progress, study strategies to attain goals, and self-evaluation methods.

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Lead Speaker

Audience

10-12

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Assessment: A Tool for Purposeful Planning and Instruction

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What happens when you teach a mathematics skill to students one day and they come back the next day and have forgotten it? Providing students with meaningful tasks supports opportunities to engage students as they grapple with mathematical ideas and relationships with CPA. Come join us as we work on titillating tasks!

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Lead Speaker

Audience

Pre-K-2

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Teaching and Learning: Best Practices for Engaging Students

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