Sessions - National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

We introduce an innovative online course, Teaching Mathematics to English Language Learners, designed for K-12 preservice and in-service teachers. Participants explore course activities of research-based ELL strategies through case studies and practices in diverse classroom situations. We will also share the responses and impact of the course.

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BIG Problems Become Small Problems When Mathematical Modeling Is Used

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This session will engage participants in solving non-routine problems through modeling. Participants will examine the use of tape diagrams, double number lines, percent tables, and the Cartesian coordinate plane to solve ratio and proportion problems. We will also examine why unit rates and scale factors are the best ways to solve proportions.

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Breathing Classroom Life into the Eight NCTM Teaching Practices

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We can summarize the eight Mathematics Teaching Practices in Principles to Actions as goals, tasks, representations, discourse, questioning, fluency, struggle, and evidence. This fast-paced, example-laden presentation will provide examples by which we'll model and discuss each of these critical research-affirmed practices.

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Coding Computer Games to Motivate Middle School Math Class

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We will share how we have used the free computer programming software Scratch from MIT to reinforce math concepts. By utilizing paired programming techniques, students create games that help them channel creative energy while coding games that use coordinates, quadrants, comparing, ordering, and logical thinking skills.

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Context in Content: The Purpose of Project-Based Learning in Mathematics

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This session will be a deep dive into the why and the how of project-based learning curriculum in mathematics. Topics will include: selection of state standards, project ideation and implementation, and exploration of actual exemplar as well as non-exemplar student project work.

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Pedro Merced, Manor New Technology High School

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Sarah DiMaria, Manor New Technology High School

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Defining Number Concept and Number Sense

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One district's journey to create a common definition of number concept and number sense leading to eNumeracy. The eNumeracy system can be used as universal screeners, benchmarkers, progress monitoring tools, and even diagnostics. This FREE system was locally normed to create a multi tiered system of support in K-3 elementary math.

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Fair Sharing the Decimal Way: Understanding and Connecting Decimals, Fractions, and Division

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Come see how using equal sharing problems with your students can help support their ability to SEE how decimals, fractions, and division are related. We will compare fair sharing problems solved "the fraction way" versus "the decimal way" and discuss key features of contexts and manipulatives that support decimal AND fraction understanding.

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Christy Pettis, University of Minnesota

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Aran W Glancy, University of Minnesota
Pamela Richards, International Center for Leadership Education

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Feedback as a Fractal: Developing a Toolkit for Effective Feedback

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For students, teacher feedback is critical for improving learning. Similarly, feedback from a coach is essential for improving teacher practice. Is there a correlation between the two? In this session, we share specific feedback tools that can be used by coaches and teachers to improve teaching and learning.

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Stephanie Slabic, Metamorphosis Teaching Learning Communities

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Antonia Cameron, Metamorphosis Teaching Learning Communities

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Framing Mathematics Instruction with the TQE Process

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The presenters will use classroom video to introduce the TQE process and how it can be used to frame mathematics instruction with (1) TASKS that promote thinking, prompt discourse, and reveal misconceptions; (2) QUESTIONS that advance understanding; and (3) EVIDENCE from the formative assessment process.

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Thomasenia Lott Adams, University of Florida

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Juli K Dixon, University of Central Florida
Edward C. Nolan, Towson University

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Harnessing the Power of 1:1 Classrooms: Integrating Devices to Support Conceptual Understanding

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Participants will be engaged in a discussion on how to support teachers in developing lessons that use technology to support conceptual understanding. This will include an activity in which leaders develop strategies for supporting teachers in this work by examining and providing feedback on lesson plans.

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Lorraine M Males, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

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Joshua R. Males, Lincoln Public School District

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Learning to Listen: Using Clinical Interviews for Professional Growth

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Come learn how we use clinical interviews to deepen our understanding of how students think about math. We will watch videos of interviews and analyze teacher learning from this process. You will leave the session with tools to implement and analyze clinical interviews with teacher teams in your school.

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Looking at Tier 1 Instruction and Tier 2 Interventions: Supporting Students Who Struggle

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With a focus on multitiered systems of support, classroom teachers seek ways to develop highly engaging Tier 1 instruction and Tier 2 interventions for students who struggle in learning mathematics. This session considers interventions and assessments using multiple strategies for learning number and operations and algebraic thinking.

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Navigating Professional Learning to Make Productive Mathematics Classrooms

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Improving mathematics instructions can overwhelm novice and experienced teachers and coaches. This session introduces the components of high-quality mathematics instruction in a memorable and compressed format. Participants will learn how TRU Math can help them reflect on instruction, set learning priorities, and organize professional learning.

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Problems Worth Talking About: Posing Purposeful Questions for Class Discourse

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Not all mathematics problems are created equal. In this session, we will share types of problem-solving problems that lend themselves to meaningful class discourse. We will focus on question posing as a first step to establishing the environment for discourse and share examples of teaching practices and student interactions from the classroom.

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Linda Venenciano, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa

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Seanyelle Yagi, University of Hawaii, Manoa
Fay Zenigami, University of Hawaii, Curriculum Research & Development Group

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Proportional Reasoning: Three Strategies to Spark Engagement

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Come experience three activities that engage students in concept development and practice of proportional reasoning: "poster problems," a "blank paper lesson," and a "big square puzzle." Takeaway lessons included!

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Shelley Stern Kriegler, Center for Mathematics and Teaching

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Cynthia Runje Raff, Center for Mathematics and Teaching

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Ramp It Up! with STEM

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STEM extends learning beyond the mathematics classroom. Learn the basics of creating, implementing, and assessing integrated STEM projects that are relevant to students. Participants will collaborate within grade levels to design and engage in a STEM lesson utilizing ramps to collect data.

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Katherine Elizabeth Hammonds, AMSTI-USA

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Susan Arnette, AMSTI-USA
Angela Williams, AMSTI-USA

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Teaching Probability on a Dime! (Well, Maybe "Two" Dimes!)

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Probability is introduced in grade 7 in the Common Core Standards. With just a few select models, picture strategies, and questioning techniques, you can help your students make sense of fundamental probability concepts. We will also discuss important concepts/skills from grades 4-6 that students must have to succeed in statistics and probability.

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Teaching Two-Way Frequency Tables: Fostering Mathematical Minds with Statistical Inquiry

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The CCSS asks students to investigate patterns of association in bivariate categorical data by creating and interpreting two-way frequency tables and constructing viable arguments. Attendees will deepen their knowledge of two-way tables in an engaging presentation and leave with conceptually driven lesson resources they can use with their students.

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Unleash the Mathematician Within: Crafting Rich and Interesting Problems

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Do you want to improve your ability to pose stimulating and thought-provoking problems that engage students in mathematical practices? We will learn how to unpack a standard exercise and turn it into a meaningful mathematical problem through the lens of the CCSS Standards of Mathematical Practice. Materials will be shared.

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Bridget Druken, California State University Fullerton

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Roberto Soto, California State University Fullerton

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Using High-Quality Tasks to Promote Meaningful Teacher Feedback

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In a classroom designed for learning, high-quality math tasks actively engage students and offer an opportunity for them to share their thinking and demonstrate understanding. Participants explore high-cognitive tasks and examine related student work to discuss feedback strategies to move learning forward.

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Sandra M Niemiera, University of Illinois

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Elizabeth Cape, University of Illinois at Chicago
Jennifer Mundt Leimberer, University of Illinois at Chicago

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Ensuring the Tasks in Our Curriculum Are Worthwhile

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How do we assure that the tasks we pose promote reasoning and problem solving? In this session, we take up this charge from Principles to Actions and consider ways to develop and use worthwhile tasks. Participants analyze typical tasks to consider their potential and revise tasks to provide for multiple entry points and solution strategies.

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Steve Vancil, David Douglas School District

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Paul Latiolais, Portland State University
Nicole Rigelman, Portland State University

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Formative Assessment: Monitoring YOUR Classroom Canvas with The Formative Five. YOU Can Do This!

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Participants will be engaged in the use of a palette of classroom-based formative assessment techniques. The Formative Five are used to guide and monitor planning and teaching. Everyday use of observations, interviews, show me, hinge questions, and exit tasks can make a difference. See how mathematics leaders have begun to use these techniques.

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Skip Fennell, McDaniel College

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Beth Kobett, Stevenson University
Jon Wray, Howard County (MD) Public Schools

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How to Tinker with the Algebraic Thinker

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This session will focus strategies to develop problem solving and generalization skills to prepare the early algebraic thinker conceptually for algebra. Weekly algebra readiness problem-solving activities will be shared. We will model the classroom climate and discuss strategies to implement these algebraic reasoning activities.

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Martin Briggs, La Porte Community Schools

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David Feikes, Purdue University Northwest
Mike Maesch, Michigan City Area Schools

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Making Connections from a Simplex Lock to the Binomial Theorem

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Making mathematics projects from real-life examples provides mathematical relevance for students. Using a simplex lock is a unique way to explore and study combinatorics. Participants will gain insights and unexpected discoveries, and they will be able to conceptualize the meaning of the binomial theorem.

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Math Task Makeover with Desmos Activity Builder

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Transform your classroom lessons with three Activity Builder veterans who will share best practices for building effective, ongoing math experiences. Whether you've used Activity Builder many times, or you're new to the game, there will be something for everyone!

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Robert Lochel, Hatboro-Horsham High School

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Jedidiah Butler, Heritage High School - Perris Union High School District
Michael Fenton, Desmos

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Our Algebra 1 Gradebooks Hold the Key to Equity & Access: Assessing Proficiency without Percentages

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Grading policies are overlooked as a leading cause of inequity, because the ways they disadvantage students are unintentional and hard to detect. Learn principles for creating assessment systems that measure algebra 1 proficiency without relying on percentages. Hear how teachers developed new practices that improved achievement and differentiation.

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Practices & Instructional Strategies That Strengthen Mathematics in Your Title I, Part A Program

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Learn how to design an effective Title I, Part A program around mathematics from a Washington State National Distinguished School. This session will address how to support the diverse needs of at-risk students using the Washington State Mathematics Menu of Best Practices and Strategies. This user-friendly resource provides a framework for using a multi-tiered system of support and data-driven conversations to identify and monitor student progress. Hear how one school used targeted professional development, family engagement, and extended learning time to effectively impact learning.

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Kristi Coe, Washington State Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction

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Stephanie Bolinger, Kent School District

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Success in Algebra Using Manipulatives!

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Discover how manipulatives can be used to help your students understand algebraic concepts such as integer operations, solving equations, polynomial expressions, and graphing. See how your students can benefit from a visual approach to algebra and learn how hands-on activities can help promote their understanding of algebraic concepts.

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Teaching Geometry to Girls through Powerful Computer Programs

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Girls tend to show lower performance and participation, as well as less favorable dispositions, than boys in geometry and computer use. This session will share ideas for using powerful software, especially Geometer's SketchPad and Terrapin Logo, to support girls' geometry skills. A handout with instructional tasks and resources will be provided.

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Heather Glynn Crawford-Ferre, State of Nevada Department of Education

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Lynda R. Wiest, University of Nevada, Reno
Stephanie Vega, Washoe County School District

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The Problem of Word Problems: Supporting Student Access

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"Decontextualizing" is a critical math practice, but how do we support students in accessing the mathematics in a situation? Rather than ripping the math out of the context, we can use the story as a way INTO mathematical thinking. In this session, we will examine questioning strategies you can use to move students from stuck to sense making.

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We Are Family: Ways African American Families Engage in Mathematics

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It has been documented that family engagement enhances student learning. We also know that different families engage with their mathematics students differently. Understanding how African American families engage with their student can provide a lens on how we can enhance our culturally responsive classrooms and thus increase equity and access.

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What Is in Your Lesson?

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Teachers are tasked to create lessons that include the CCSSM standards and the mathematics practices. But there are other standards to include. Too often students of African ancestry see no relevance in their lessons and see them as just doing some math. This presentation shows the salient features that would be included in a culturally relevant math lesson.

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You CAN Do Blended Learning

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Blended learning can happen in your classroom with a few clicks of your mouse! Using tools that are readily available, this session will show you how to successfully implement blended learning in your classroom with minimal planning time. Teachers will leave this session ready to tackle the idea of blended learning in their own classrooms.

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Algorithms: Past Success, Present Findings, and Future Implications Supporting Understanding & Fluency

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"Alternative algorithms"-ways that differ from the U.S. historically taught ways to compute-can lead to students understanding the elegance and interconnectedness of numbers and operations. Learn, confirm, and/or extend your thinking about the role of these algorithms in building a bridge between understanding and fluency.

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Cultural Competence: Equity Success Using Differentiation Embedded with Culturally Relevant Pedagogy

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Math teachers, especially in today's diverse society, must have skill at teaching in a culturally diverse setting. As math educators, we enable each student to relate course content to his or her cultural context. Culturally relevant teaching has been proven to be an effective form of pedagogy for students of all racial and ethnic backgrounds.

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Natalie Holliman, Little Rock School District

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Quintin Cain, Little Rock School District
Kelli Mack, Little Rock School District

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Developing and Assessing Addition Fact Fluency

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What does it really mean to be fluent with addition facts, and how is this idea reflected in CCSSM? Come explore how we can use strategies, games, and activities in meaningful ways to develop a trajectory for helping all students become fluent with addition facts, and consider ways to authentically assess fact fluency.

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Gina Kling, UChicago STEM Education and Western Michigan University

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Jennifer Bay-Williams, University of Louisville

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Embedding Formative Assessment within an Instructional Routine

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The thoughtful use of formative assessment has been shown to improve student outcomes but can be challenging to integrate into practice. Come experience an engaging and flexible instructional routine and then unpack the use of formative assessment strategies embedded within the routine.

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Fluency with Functions through Multiple Representations

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Just as elementary students should be able to perform simple operations without a calculator, secondary students should be flexible with simple functions apart from a graphing calculator. Strategies like card sorts, foldables, manipulatives, and the Rule of Four can help students develop fluency with linear, exponential, and quadratic functions.

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Gut Instincts: Developing ALL Students’ Mathematical Intuitions

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We've long misunderstood mathematical intuition, assuming it's innate rather than developed through high-quality learning experiences. As a result, students who haven't yet had opportunities to refine their intuitions are often denied access to meaningful math. We'll explore three teaching techniques that empower ALL students to grasp math intuitively.

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How Many Elephants Fit on the Moon? Using Technology to Address Ill-Structured Problems

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Learn to pose your own ill-structured problems for use in your own classroom, and discover how to address these problems using two freely available mathematics technologies (Wolfram|Alpha and Desmos). You will also learn how lesson development parallels the process of technology development and will be introduced to a platform for lesson study and sharing.

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Integer Operation Models That Matter

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Teaching students how to compute with integers is a pivotal point in math. Often we teach students how to model these operations but never make the connection between the models and their lives. This session will focus on modeling integer operations in a real-world context to help struggling students bridge the gap between concrete and abstract.

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Leveraging First-Year Teacher Experiences for Second-Year Growth

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After a year of "firsts" you have many things to celebrate and may have things you want to work on. In this session, we will reflect together on your first year of teaching and leverage those experiences to begin preparing for next year. Participants will explore strategies and ideas for incorporating classroom management, lesson planning, and meaningful student discourse into mathematics instruction.

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Making Fact Fluency Assessments Meaningful

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Looking to assess fact fluency more effectively than with timed tests? We'll focus on how to use homegrown comprehensive formative assessments to drive fact fluency instruction. Learn about our journey in this process, and leave with ideas for creating and implementing an effective fluency assessment practice in your classroom, school, or district.

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Probability beyond Bunko: Can You Improve the Standard Die?

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How do we engage students to understand probability beyond simple tosses of coins and dice? Can you modify the standard die to beat your partner in a roll-off? Would you rather take the sum of three 4-sided dice or the sum of an 8-sided and 4-sided die? Experience classroom-tested, engaging lessons that scaffold and provide access for all learners.

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Karajean Hyde, University of California, Irvine

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Janna Canzone, University of California, Irvine

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STEM Gives Meaning to Mathematics

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Engineering design in elementary classrooms develops habits of mind that increase achievement in mathematics. Learn how an integrated engineering curriculum can provide application for measurement and data collection concepts while fostering development of the Standards for Mathematical Practice.

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The Most Versatile Tool in the Elementary Mathematics Classroom: The Number Line!

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Explore the many ways a number line can represent mathematical thinking in the intermediate grades. Participants will engage in activities that use a number line for developing understanding of fractions, decimals, and whole numbers while connecting them to the eight teaching practices from Principals to Actions.

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Connie Phillips Conroy, Howard County Public Schools

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Denise Jamie Bogart, Howard County Public Schools

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Transform How You Think about Math and Molecules

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Looking to promote deeper understanding of transformational geometry? Take a look at Platonic solids and tilings of the plane through molecular geometry. Online and print resources from the UCLA Curtis Center summer institute will be given.

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Using Manipulatives to Deepen Understanding of CCSS Fraction Progressions

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Want to deepen your understanding of how the Common Core standards build the meaning of fraction? Come explore a variety of manipulatives to unpack key fraction concepts such as partitioning and iterating the whole, determining equal-size pieces, and modeling with different representations. Task resources will be shared.

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Alison Marzocchi, California State University, Fullerton

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Michelle VanderVeldt Brye, California State University Fullerton
Bridget Druken, California State University Fullerton

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"We Are Mathematicians": Building Mathematical Communities Based in Sense Making, Agency, and Joy

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How do we build communities of mathematicians in classrooms and throughout a school? This session explores how teachers, coaches, and students use problem solving, number-sense routines, and play to build communities in which everyone identifies as a mathematician and engages in mathematics as a joyful and empowering practice.

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Kassia J Omohundro Wedekind, Fairfax County Public Schools

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Mary Beth Dillane, Fairfax County Public Schools

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Changing Minds: Coaching for a Growth Mindset in Math

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Teachers' identities as math learners and their beliefs about the nature of mathematics play a critical role in shaping learning opportunities given to students and students' math mindsets. This session offers ideas and tools for using coaching as a vehicle to help teachers reflect on their unconscious beliefs and begin to adopt a growth mindset.

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Co-Teaching: Considerations and Practices to Ensure Success for All

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With purposeful planning and implementation, co-teaching is a powerful approach in meeting the unique needs of all learners in inclusive mathematics classrooms. We describe a PD model and lessons learned from a collaborative project with general and special educators focused on co-teaching, differentiation, and high-quality mathematics tasks.

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Kristin E. Harbour, University of Alabama

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Stefanie Livers, University of Alabama
Nicolette Nalu, The University of Alabama-AMSTI

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Connecting and Becoming Stronger Advocates through Affiliates

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The NCTM Affiliate Relations Committee supports affiliates in their individual and collective capacities to advocate for high-quality mathematics education. We respond to survey results and participants reflect on the strengths of their affiliate, and we develop one affiliate goal for the upcoming year and revisit their goals from the NCTM Leaders' Conference.

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Jean Sangmin Lee, University of Indianapolis

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Jill Sumerlin, Tillamook School District #9
Jeremy S Zelkowski, The University of Alabama

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Engaging All Learners through Project-Based Social Justice Mathematics (PB-SJM)

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This session will explore a PB-SJM framework that addresses Content Knowledge, Community Connections, Critical Inequity, and Change Agency. Participants will examine how PB-SJM was used in a middle school math classroom to engage students in meaningful math centered on societal inequities as well as ways to incorporate PB-SJM into their classroom.

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Geniuses Are Made Not Born: Fostering Productive Struggle and Growth Mindset in Mathematics

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Research is finding that talent alone cannot explain the genius phenomena and that intelligence can be altered. Join this session as we look at the impact of mindset on learning and explore resources and activities that BOOST brain power and foster and promote student motivation and productivity.

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Introduce Function Concepts and Linear Functions Geometrically(!) with Web Sketchpad

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CCSSM expects students to understand transformations as functions. With Web Sketchpad, our algebra students exploited this edict: they used geometric transformations to vary variables, experience domain, range, and rate of change, and to connect their learning back to algebra. Bring a tablet or laptop. Leave with student-ready activities.

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Scott Steketee, 21st Century Partnership for STEM Education

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Daniel Scher, KCP Technologies

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Looking at Upside-Down Classrooms: Turning Every Student into a Powerful Problem Solver

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One way to engage students in constructive struggle
is to turn teaching upside down. Instead of teaching
a procedure and then giving problems, consider
giving a good problem and using students' struggle
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use videos from across the grades to discuss how real teachers do this in their classrooms.

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Supporting Students as They Work with Bar Models

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Bar models (also called strip or tape diagrams) are a powerful visual tool for representing and solving math problems. But they can be challenging for students. Come to this hands-on session to explore a variety of strategies for scaffolding students as they learn to effectively work with bar models. Familiarity with bar models is assumed.

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The Redesign Common Core SAT: Getting Our Students Ready

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The Redesign of the SAT is Common Core–based. This session participants will hear ideas how to incorporate New SAT concepts into algebra, geometry and algebra 2 without losing time in our packed curriculums.

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“Noticing and Wondering” as a Vehicle to Understanding the Problem

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The practices of noticing and wondering can help all students generate mathematical ideas and make connections between them. Noticing and wondering pave the way for the development of other problem-solving strategies and support a classroom culture that gives every student a way to contribute mathematically and that treats math as a creative process.

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Do You "Read" Math? YES! . . . Through Literature

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Interesting literature is a natural hook for young adult learners who find math more engaging when embedded in real-world contexts. Learn how successful math teachers provide opportunities for students to engage in productive struggle as they solve the everyday math dilemmas of characters that they identify with in the text.

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Formative Assessment for Learning in a Precalculus Class: Helping Students Develop a Growth Mindset

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Formative assessment is a key element in the math classroom. In this session, participants will learn about the principles underlying effective formative assessment as well as specific strategies. In addition, participants will learn how to use formative assessment not only to assist in planning but also to help students develop a growth mindset.

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Google Maps and Desmos for Solving Systems of Linear Inequalities

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This session will highlight a 5E lesson implemented using Google Maps for solving systems of linear inequalities. We will incorporate Desmos to support student understanding, and we will demonstrate how to embed images generated by Google Maps into Desmos. Methods for distributing and collecting student work will also be presented.

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Colleen M. Eddy, University of North Texas

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Cheyenne Green, Sherman Independent School District
Sarah Smitherman Pratt, University of North Texas

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How to Get the Most Out of Short Writing Tasks

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Writing makes students' thinking visible to us. Let's explore what can make short writing tasks effective in promoting students' deeper understanding of mathematical ideas and providing important information to teachers. Example tasks, some student work, and ideas you can use will be shared.

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Sequencing Series in Calculus

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Students often miss connections that can lead to understanding series more fully. Building on tangent line approximations, students can calculate quadratic approximations, laying the groundwork for higher order Taylor polynomial approximations. Investigating approximations early and often can be integral in providing a framework for success.

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Wrangling Ratios

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This session will focus on building conceptual understanding of ratios using hands-on activities. We will also examine alternative ways to visualize and solve problems involving ratios using strip diagrams.

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Eileen Faulkenberry, Tarleton State University

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Melanie J Fields, Texas A&M; University-Commerce

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Connecting Geometry, Functions, and Data—with Modeling

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Want productive struggle? Try modeling. In these mini-investigations, we will see the whole cycle: students measure geometric figures, plot measurements as data, find functions to act as models, and connect those models to the original geometrical context. Free online tools make it practical. We'll also discuss assessment using real student work.

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Designing and Teaching Mathematics Courses for EC-6 Preservice Teachers

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As EC-6 mathematics curricula change, preservice mathematics courses must be updated to reflect the content that future teachers will be expected to deliver. This session will review the structure of the mathematics content and strategies used in courses for EC-6 preservice teachers and how they meet state and national mathematics standards.

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Does Technology Help with Any of This?

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Laptops, iPads, Chromebooks, BYOD. As our school's technology has evolved, so has our process for determining where, when, what technology we use. Find out what our process looks like now; what tech, apps, and more we use or don't use and why; and how we do all of this to meet our daily goals of collaboration, teamwork, and problem solving.

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Engaging Students in Mathematics with Culturally Responsive Stories

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What makes a story culturally responsive? Come find out and then listen to recent research on using these stories to engage students in multicultural classrooms. Participants will experience the evaluation process with several examples and are given resources for creating their own library of culturally responsive stories for mathematics.

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Engaging the English Language Learner to Grasp Growing Sequences

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Support language development and productive struggle, and motivate the English language learner in algebraic thinking by examining growing pattern tasks through well-planned interrelated social and analytic scaffolding. Simultaneously engaging in mathematical discourse focused on the key practices of argumentation, structure, and regularity.

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Enhancing Calculus with Modeling and Technology

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Modeling problems help engage students in learning and reinforcing important calculus concepts. Technology such as Geogebra and spreadsheets provide students with the power to understand these problems, develop models, and see calculus in action. Classroom-tested problems and solutions will be shared.

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Fraction (or Fractured?) Understanding

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Did you know that using a limited number of visual models for fractions hinders students' abilities to internalize and generalize fraction concepts? Explore four different representations of fractions and why each is so critical. Learn how different types of models provide different perceptual features and therefore serve different purposes.

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Give Your Classes a Global Perspective

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The mathematics of the Colosseum and the Sydney Opera House. The lighting of the Olympic torch. Discussing international issues using mathematics. Students need to be aware of the world around them, and this burst will provide examples of simple ways of adding a global perspective to your regular lessons.

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Increase Your Students’ Mathematical Communication with a Writing Checklist and Google Classroom

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Learn how to create online writing activities and use peer-to-peer and instructor feedback to improve conceptual understanding through a student-centered writing checklist. Three writing components are stressed: correct answer, correct mathematical reasoning, and complete explanation. Sample work from a unit on solving equations will be shared.

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Let's Be Detectives: The Search for Rules, Patterns, and Understanding with SMP 7 & 8 in the Early Years

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Come and learn what structure and regularity in repeated reasoning looks like in the early childhood math classroom. After the sharing of specific activities, tasks, and student work, you will leave this burst with a clear understanding of SMP 7 & 8 as well as routines and activities you can start using tomorrow!

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Mistakes Are Expected, Respected, and INSPECTED! How Do We Inspect Mistakes Productively?

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Many teachers are changing their minds about the role of mistakes in learning. This session goes beyond setting up a safe classroom environment. Strategies will be shared for highlighting mistakes as a TOOL for making connections to mathematical structure. Don't correct mistakes! Figure out why they make sense and how they can help deepen learning!

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More Than Meets the "Line"

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Finding the equation for the line of best fit is just the beginning. Why do we always stop working on a best fit problem when we find an equation? Should we care about the slope and y-intercept? Let's explore the value of determine the line of best fit and what it tells us when analyzing and interpreting data in context.

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More Than Resources: The Internet and Deliberate Practice

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Social media has made it easier than ever to share high-quality resources; Visual Patterns, Estimation 180, and three-act tasks are just a few examples. While sharing resources is useful, this session will focus on using free Internet-based resources to foster deliberate, reflective practice and develop skills that make us better teachers.

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Principles for Building and Using Effective Digital Tasks

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What do the most powerful digital math tasks have in common? What teacher moves allow students to get the most out of any lesson? In this session, we'll consider answers to these questions and use the Desmos Activity Builder as a lens for exploring the intersection of computers, teaching, and math.

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Promoting Classroom Discourse through Open Middle Problems

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Who is doing the math in our class? Who is doing the talking? In this session, we'll get students talking about problems, not telling answers. Bring a troublesome lesson along, and we'll transform those standard problems into opportunities to explore student thinking and deepen student learning.

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Questioning Strategies to Deepen Mathematical Understandings

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Students learn more when they are the ones talking, explaining, and teaching. Learn questioning strategies that will encourage your students to communicate with you and with one another, and you will see their mathematical understandings deepen.

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Revoicing: What Do Your Students Know?

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Revoicing student ideas can stifle classroom discourse or it can enhance it. Come watch a brief video of a lesson and participate in a lively discussion about enhancing mathematical discourse. Leave with practical tips you can use on Monday!

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Simple Machines Design Challenge for Middle School Science and Math Students

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This challenge is an interdisciplinary group project where students investigate the history and physics of simple machines; design a new machine; and construct, test, and evaluate peers' designs. It provides students with the opportunity to incorporate inquiry, equations, construction, and graphical representations all in one unit.

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Stuck on a Professional Island? Let Social Media Be Your Boat

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Feeling isolated by choice or circumstance? In this session, we will provide resources and outlets that you can utilize to build your own boat and sail off your island. Learn to use social media, education websites, and an instructional coach to meaningfully collaborate with people and build a PLN inside and outside the walls of your school.

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The Architecture of Thomas Jefferson: Integrating Math, Science, and History

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We use Jefferson's drawings as a springboard into our interdisciplinary curriculum that combines geometry, environmental science, and U.S. history. The lessons ask students to analyze the geometry present in classic architecture, relate it to familiar structures, and take a Google Earth tour of some of the first buildings to dot the colonial landscape.

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Using Design Thinking to Drive STEM PBL

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You will experience how math, science, and technology teachers put students in the driver's seat through a human-centered design project. Participants will step in and out of the design-thinking process to understand how student empathy and curiosity can drive learning, while integrating multiple disciplines and addressing national learning standards.

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Zach Strother, Mount Vernon Presbyterian School

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T.J. Edwards, Mount Vernon Presbyterian School
Robin Mathews, Mount Vernon Presbyterian School

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Using MTMS in the Classroom

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An editorial panel member will demonstrate various ways that Mathematics Teaching in the Middle School can be used by middle school teachers. Come find how feature articles and departments in this NCTM resource can be used to enhance your teaching, your understanding of mathematics, and effective use of formative assessment strategies.

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What Are Statistical Models, and Why Do I Need Them?

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Mathematical models connect math to the physical world. Statistical models serve the same purpose, and they provide a more thorough description of the behavior of the data under study. Learn how math models describe the structure of a relationship, and how statistical models make them more thorough. Examples, activities, and resources will be provided.

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"HELP! My Students Are Counting on Their Fingers!": The Truth about Fluency and How to Achieve It

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Fingers play a critical role in early numeracy. Are you thinking "Okay, but why are my students STILL using their fingers?" Why do kids get stuck in the finger zone? How can you move them out of it? What is fluency and how is it related to fingers? Learn strategies that emancipate kids from fingers and reveal that there is more to math than counting!

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Calculated Change: Social Justice in the Math Classroom

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Would you like to put more activism into your math classroom? We will explore meaningful, relevant questions in math class to impact student learning and create experiences that will follow students throughout their lives. Participants will learn how to help students become equipped to understand the challenges they will face in the future.

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Crane Crazy with Transformations

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Are your students not remembering the rules you teach them about transformations? Give students ownership to these rules by allowing them the opportunity to investigate, collaborate, and utilize the appropriate tools to experimentally verify the properties of transformations. Come learn how to integrate literacy and origami to teach transformations.

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Dare to Dive Into Data

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Dive into activities that provide opportunities to collect, organize, represent, and interpret data. Attendees will engage in hands-on activities that promote understanding of data with an emphasis on data representation and identifying measures of center and variability. Classroom-ready activities will be provided.

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Financial Literacy in the Primary Grades: The Importance of Investing in the Future Early!

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Financial literacy is an important life skill, yet how are we fostering understanding in our youngest students? Participants will have the opportunity to actively engage in tasks that help build a foundation for financial literacy in the primary classroom through the incorporation of mathematical standards and practices all relating to real life.

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Lindsay A Gold, University of Dayton

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Johnny Ashurst, T3 National Instructor
Derek Sturgill, Ohio University

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Oh, The Places You'll Go -- Or Will You? An Adventure in Probability That Keeps On Going . . .

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Experience the MoMath Rosenthal Prize lesson – we'll stand together and let coin flips lead us forward or back. See how investigating this Random Walk leads students to deep understanding and fluency with probability. alk away with a series of lessons that reach each student – and probability and statistics standard – in grades 6–8 and beyond.

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Proportional Reasoning: The Building Blocks of Linear Thinking

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Not all linear relationships are proportional, but all involve proportionality. What learning contributes to this understanding? Our charge from NCTM is to engage students in making connections among representations to deepen understanding of concepts and procedures. Come explore what that looks like with proportionality related to linearity.

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Raisins, Ropes, and a Whole Lot More: Six Activities to Open the Door!

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During this fast-paced workshop, you will engage in hands-on activities intended to open the door to specific mathematics content and processes. Content spans several core topics in grades 9–12, and we focus on several mathematical teaching practices. Try these activities and take with you ideas to adopt, adapt, and implement in your classroom!

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Visual Tools; When, Where and How to Help Students Achieve Number Sense

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This hands-on session will unravel the sequence of many teaching tools that can be used to support young students in learning number sense. Activities will be explored as we take a look at a variety of tools including ten-frames, 100s charts, number paths, and lines. The progression is designed to deepen mathematical understanding and reasoning.

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What Do You Notice? What You NOTICE Affects How You Teach

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As teachers, we only see what we know to look for. What should you pay attention to? How do you really know if students are learning? Where do you look? What do you see? What does it mean? What decisions are made because of what you see? In this session, we will discuss the implications of professional noticing and use video to hone our skills.

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Deb Porcarelli, AIMS Center for Math and Science Education

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Richard Thiessen, AIMS Center for Math & Science Education

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Who Thinks, Learns! The Top 5 Strategies Used to Engage High School Students in Critical Thinking

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Critical thinking with high school students is possible! By experiencing rich tasks, we shall explore several strategies that develop the intellectual engagement of our students thru productive struggling. Together we shall create our list of top 5 strategies and implement them in our classrooms next week through the rich tasks that we experienced!

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Bit by Bit, Putting It Together: Composite Area Activity and Coherent Standards

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Put your knowledge of composite area together, bit by bit. Participate in this action-packed activity to solve the cost of planting seed in a field. Be motivated to encourage student participation through looking up prices on-line and using a virtual GeoBoard. Learning progressions and standard will be emphasized. Come see our portable IWB.

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Deana L. Deichert, Montgomery County Community College

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Tashana Howse, Daytona State College
Mercedes Sotillo Turner, Full Sail University

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Got GAFE? Using Free Google Apps for Education to Increase Students' Understanding

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If your school is, or is going to be, a GAFE school, unleash the power of Google to increase students' understanding every day! Discover how to give every student a voice in the classroom without increasing your workload. Create a formative assessment that grades itself and provides useful, detailed feedback to both the teacher and student.

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Incredible Math Tasks!—Catalyst for Effective Formative Assessment

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In this hands-on session, we will explore how to use worthwhile math tasks as catalyst for gathering evidence of learning. Examine student work and videos to explore how tasks, paired with the NCTM Teacher Practices and questions, promote student engagement in the Standards for Mathematical Practice. Leave with 200+ tasks you can use Monday morning!

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William J Barnes, Howard County Public School System

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Jennifer Novak, Howard County Public School System

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Inquiry-Based Learning: What Do I Ask Next?

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Questioning is a powerful tool used as a guide to promote students' mathematical understanding. Inquiry-based learning relies on questioning to advance students' thinking, but teachers are often left with generic questions in pre-designed lesson plans. Questioning strategies that harness the full potential of inquiry will be examined.

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Kristin Hartland, Middle Tennessee State University

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Matthew Duncan, Middle Tennessee State University
Melanie Haupt, Smyrna High School

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Mathematics Lessons as Stories: Engaging Learners with Plot Twists

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Teachers regularly observe students' aesthetic reactions to literature, but how often are moments of surprise or intrigue evident in math classrooms? This presentation will explain how the Math Story Framework was used to plan and teach a grade 5 volume lesson with a plot twist. It will show participants how to use it as a planning tool.

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Mathematics Teacher Development in Finland: Lessons Learned from a Joint U.S.-Finnish Workshop

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Mathematics educators from the U.S. and Finland gathered in Helsinki, Finland, for two days to learn about major initiatives and challenges in each countries' educational system and how preservice teacher preparation and in-service/teacher development efforts address or are affected by them. We share insights and learnings from the exchange.

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Janine Remillard, University of Pennsylvania

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Katie Hendrickson, Code.org
John William Staley, Baltimore County Public School

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Taking Action: PtA Tools for High-Leverage Mathematics Teaching in Elementary Education

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Engage in activities showcasing the effective teaching practices in Principles to Actions. This session features the new NCTM book Taking Action: Implementing Effective Mathematics Teaching Practices in Pre-K–5. Each high-leverage practice is studied through elementary classroom artifacts, including discussing rich tasks, analyzing narrative and video cases, and analyzing samples of student work.

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DeAnn Huinker, University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee

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Victoria Lynn Bill, University of Pittsburgh

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Time's Up on Timed Tests . . . How to Teach Multiplication Facts for Understanding

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Learn how to develop automaticity and mental math skills with multiplication and division facts. We will explore strategies that assist students in developing their conceptual understanding of these concepts. Participants will leave with activities, games, and assessments that can immediately be implemented into their classroom routines.

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Kristin Alyssa Hilty, Staff Development for Educators

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Eliza Sorte Thomas, Staff Development for Educators

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Wait . . . We Didn’t Do an Example Like THAT!

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Students tend to be very good at studying, memorizing steps, and just plain doing rote calculus. But what happens when you ask them to think about a concept they've learned about at a much deeper level? I will use specific examples from my own classroom experience that lead to deeper student understanding of critical topics in calculus.

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Analyzing Variation Can Help Us to Make Estimates and Decisions: It's More Than Just a Random Thing

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The field of statistics arose because there is variability everywhere in our lives--in population characteristics, in measurements, in sampling, whenever and wherever data are produced or collected. Participants will explore patterns in variability in data (both given and that they produce) to make decisions and estimates under uncertainty.

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Building Mathematics Learning Communities Using NCTM Professional Development Guides

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Participants will learn about the characteristics/stages
of a professional learning communities, the Professional
Development Guides on the NCTM website, the
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Guide, and the decisions a facilitator needs to make in
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Developing an Understanding of the Number Line through Measurement Concepts

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The number line is a ubiquitous counting tool often used to compare and compute with numbers. In this session, we will consider often overlooked measurement concepts, such as generalized units of volume, mass and length, and how they provide a foundation for the number line critical to its use as a mathematical tool.

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Seanyelle Yagi, University of Hawaii, Manoa

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Linda Venenciano, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa
Fay Zenigami, University of Hawaii, Curriculum Research & Development Group

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Executive Function: What Is it? Why Should Mathematics Teachers Care?

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Frustration, disruptive behavior, and shying away from challenges are a few of the harmful side effects when intentional targeting of the development of executive function is absent from PK–3 math instruction. What is EF? What does it look like? How can YOU help students develop these skills? Join us to explore the "how" and "why" of EF!

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Food for Thought: Hands-on and Edible Geometry Using Formulas

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Deepen students' knowledge of area, circumference, volume, and surface area with hands-on activities from this session. Some activities even have tasty treats. Use circular paper folding and make pop-up prisms to bridge from two-dimensional to three-dimensional geometry. Leave with many activities to use in your classes on Monday.

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Incorporating Multiple Tools in Geometric Constructions

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Geometric constructions can be created with a variety of tools and methods to provide a visual representation of geometric concepts. Participants will use a Mira, patty paper, and GeoGebra to construct triangle centers. The incorporation of multiple tools emphasizes the relations among ideas and helps learners understand the concepts.

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Las Matemáticas en Nuestras Aulas: Bilingual Strategies in Secondary Classrooms

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In this workshop, participants will have the opportunity to experience the use of Spanish and English languages as resources to make mathematics accessible to emerging bilingual students while keeping tasks at a high level of cognitive demand. Las facilitadoras modelarán las estrategias didácticas basadas en ejemplos reales de aulas de clases en temas matemáticos de secundaria como ser razones y proporciones, porcentajes, geometría, entre otros.

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Making It Happen: Engaging All Students, Especially Those Who "Hate" Math

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For too many students, mathematics means confusion, failure, heartache, and feeling like a "dummy." Rather than risk failure or looking dumb, they simply choose not to "play" the game of school. In this workshop, participants will learn to use strategies of an equity pedagogy framework for engaging all students, especially those who "hate" math.

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Mathematical Action Technologies: Moving beyond the Hype of Flipping, Clickers, and IWBs

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As described in Principles to Actions, mathematical action technologies engage students in "doing" mathematics, building mathematical practices. Participants will explore their potential for transforming the high school mathematics classroom in contexts from algebra, geometry, and statistics. Participants are encouraged to bring their own devices!

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Minecraft Math: Making Geometry and Measurement Come Alive

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Learn how to incorporate the popular game, Minecraft, into volume and surface area lessons the students will enjoy and remember. Participants will be challenged to explore the mathematics of cubes, rectangular prisms, and cylinders using manipulatives and nets. Attendees will leave with templates to bring back to their classrooms.

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Kim G Moore, Texas A & M University- Corpus Christi

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Faye Bruun, Texas A & M University Corpus Chris
Christine Price, Corpus Christi ISD

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Questions, Discourse, and Productive Struggle: Integrating Three Effective Teaching Practices

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Questioning, mathematics discourse, and productive struggle are important components of mathematics classrooms that support reasoning and sense making. In this session, we will use mathematical tasks, video clips, written cases, and student work to investigate how teachers can prepare for and support deep student thinking and engagement.

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Structuring Mathematical Tasks to Engage Students in Productive Struggle

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How do you support students while doing challenging tasks? Do they work hard or give up? We will explore ways to structure tasks to engage your students in productive struggle and deepen their mathematical understanding. Redefine the role that effort and struggle play in learning mathematics and discuss strategies to build student perseverance.

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Christine Dawn Roberts, Tulare County Office of Education

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Nicholas Lopez, Dinuba Unified School District

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Virtual Cookies: Free Virtual Resources to Increase Participation, Discussion, and Collaboration

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Learn how to use virtual tools that increase participation, discussion, and collaboration in any classroom type or grade level. Virtual Cookies explored include: Poll Everywhere, Kahoot, Quizizz, Socrative, Plickers, Padlet, Wikispaces, Bubbl.us, Desmos, and Google Drive. Bring an electronic device.

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A Monumental Task: Connecting Washington, D.C., across the Curriculum

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Imagine your students have been contracted by Washington, D.C., officials to design and create a new monument. They will draw on their knowledge of American figures and events to create a proposal that details their vision, rationale, and LEED Certified design drawn using SketchUp, culminating in a narrated Google Earth tour and a constructed scale model.

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Activities to Connect the Mathematical Practices for AP Calculus in Your Classroom

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The redesigned AP Calculus curricular framework puts Mathematical Practices (MPACs) in the forefront. We will focus on connecting concepts, using multiple representations, and communicating mathematical ideas through group activities. Activities will include a search for f (using f'), honeycomb volume, and a tangent line walk.

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Adopting New Math Books? Start by Selecting an Effect Textbook Analysis Toolkit to Inform Your Work!

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Explore the recently updated NCSM/NCTM Curriculum Analysis Toolkit for evaluating instructional materials and new supporting resources: Look For guides to focus reviewers on critical textbook features and Textbook Analysis Professional Learning Activities to build a shared vision of effective textbook design among members of review committees.

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Be Careful What You Ask For! Questions that Probe for Conceptual Understanding.

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Conversations for learning are crucial for developing understanding. Students who can verbalize mathematical ideas and engage in their classmates' ideas are building a sure foundation for their understanding. This session will outline the types of questions teachers can pose to tease out rich classroom discussions that lead to procedural fluency.

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Changing the Rhythm of Math Class: Using Educational Songs to Cultivate Learning and Community

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We'll discuss (and demo!) best practices (informed in part by our NSF grants) for creating and using educational songs for grades 8–14 mathematics/statistics. We address perceived barriers and hesitations by sharing low-risk, high bang-for-the-buck strategies, resources, and tips for finding, writing, and using songs aligned to learning objectives.

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Lawrence Lesser, The University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP)

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Dennis Keith Pearl, Pennsylvania State University
John Weber, Perimeter College at Georgia State University

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Construction Junction, What's Your Function?

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Constructions are the foundation for all geometry, motivate proof schema, and provide rich connections between shapes studied. Experience thought-provoking constructions that move student thinking beyond the basic constructions to deep relationships. Constructions, either low or high tech, are tactile ways for students to develop connections.

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Dynamic vs. Static Assessment: A Growth-Mindset Perspective

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Assessment should inform teaching. It should be continuous, pick up data on mathematical growth and development, and provide information about the "zone of proximal development." This session will examine powerful ways to craft formative assessments to provide teaching implications that ensure resulting positive growth mindsets in learners.

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Cathy Fosnot, Professor Emerita CCNY, Catherine Fosnot & Associates: New Perspectives

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Janan Hamm, Mathematics in the City

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High-Impact Games and Meaningful Mathematical Dialog

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High-quality games are a powerful way to engage young minds, develop understanding of multiplication, and encourage problem solving and mathematical discourse. Participants play and analyze games designed to deepen students' conceptions related to multiplication and identify strategies leading to meaningful dialog in the classroom.

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Elizabeth Cape, University of Illinois at Chicago

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Jennifer Mundt Leimberer, University of Illinois at Chicago
Sandra M Niemiera, University of Illinois

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Just Give Me the Facts--But with Understanding Rather Than Gimmicks!

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Fluency is more than memorization of isolated basic facts. Students need to see connections between facts. They need visual models to help form a "mind picture" that connects to a thinking strategy. This session will utilize easy-to-make visual aids and games that help students to master the basic addition and subtraction facts--with understanding.

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Math Talk M.V.P's (Most Valuable Points): Setting the Stage for Successful Math Talk

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Fostering a safe and productive math talk community in which students are the sense makers and teachers are the facilitators is not always as easy as it sounds. Where does one begin? Utilizing research and best practices with practical elementary experience, you will get practical tips to increase student explaining, questioning, and justifying.

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Principles to Actions & Interventions: High-Quality Mathematics Education for ALL Students

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Learn how to establish clear goals and focus learning, use tasks to nurture reasoning and problem solving and help your students make connections among mathematical ideas. Create an intervention environment that facilitates discourse, with genuine questioning and builds fluency through a conceptual understanding. Apply the research, take action!

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Putting a Positive Spin on Negative Numbers

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No need to fear negative numbers! During this session, a variety of kinesthetic, tactile, and visual games will be shared. Activities include simulated mini golf, Bingo, an integer ops line dance, Jeopardy, Concentration, and a Cauldron card game. Attendees will receive a CD with an electronic version of all activities and more!

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Smarter Together! Getting All Students Participating in Challenging Mathematics

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Most classrooms have students who are reluctant to engage in mathematics tasks along with students who are over-eager and tend to take over. In this hands-on session, we will explore tasks and strategies for helping students engage in mathematics tasks in ways that encourages the participation and learning of everyone.

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Transformational Geometry via GeoGebra: Animated Explorations

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Make transformations come alive with GeoGebra; learn to use sliders, matrices, and complex numbers to demonstrate the concepts of similarity and congruence using animation. Presenters will share premade files and projects to illustrate these ideas in the classroom. Bring your device with GeoGebra to follow the activities.

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Roberto Soto, California State University, Fullerton

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Armando Martinez-Cruz, California State University, Fullerton

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What Does Domain Have to Do with It?

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Why is domain important? Why do I have to teach it? Why do students have trouble with this concept? And, then there is the range. The participants in this session will learn some strategies for helping students understand and master this important concept in algebra and beyond. Help your students be masters of the domain (and the range)!

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What Is an Infinite Series and Why Should I Care?

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What is an infinite series and why are they important? Students work with them, but do they understand what the things ARE? Combine history with arithmetic, analysis, technology, and symbolic representation to develop a visceral understanding of what a series is and why they are ever so cool, including the tricky ideas of error and convergence.

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A Whole New World: Powerful High School Math Talks

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How can we build a classroom environment where high school students can't wait to share their thinking? Learn how math talks can be used in high school with high school content to engage students in thinking and talking about math and to build number sense. Participate in math talks, hear classroom tips, and leave with math talks for your students.

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An International Perspective on Modeling: Implications for What We Teach

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How do you make mathematics more meaningful and relevant for students? Modeling! During this session we will share activities, strategies, and research from around the world on modeling. The session will highlight perspectives from mathematics educators and researchers presented at the 2016 ICME conference in Hamburg, Germany.

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John William Staley, Baltimore County Public School

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Kyndall Brown, University of California
Katie Hendrickson, Code.org

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Beyond Caring for the Mathematics: Building Caring Mathematical Relationships with Students

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Math can produce feelings of anxiety and inadequacy. In focusing on math learning, we often overlook relational dimensions of instruction. The session will support teachers in identifying ways students are framed mathematically, examining classroom interactions, and strategizing ways to build strong relationships with underserved students.

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Coaching toward the Principles to Actions Effective Teaching Practices

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NCTM's Principles to Actions describes eight effective teaching practices. This session will explore a collection of tools and strategies that coaches can use to support teachers in making connections between effective teaching practices and students' opportunities to demonstrate the CCSS Standards for Mathematical Practice.

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Cultivating Mathematical Affections through Service Learning

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This session will examine the benefits of service-learning projects in mathematics. Service-learning projects engage students in integrating their conceptual understanding of math with the practical functioning of their local community. Ultimately students gain deeper content knowledge and a deeper appreciation for the role math plays in society

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FUNdamentals of Inverse FUNctions

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Come explore inverse functions. Develop the concept of inverses through hands-on activities and Desmos Activity Builder. Teachers will actively participate in lessons on inverse functions while focusing on using the Standards for Mathematical Practice. Experience inquiry-based, learner-centered, collaborative activities.

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Christine Lynne Larson, South Dakota State University

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Sharon Vestal, South Dakota State University

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Student Errors, Mistakes, Wrong Answers—OPPORTUNITY RETHINK!

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Student errors in your class? Though our brains grow from making errors, how can teachers help students embrace errors as powerful ways to enable explicit refinements in thinking? This presentation offers insights and practical strategies for teachers that want to turn errors into great opportunities for student learning.

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Develop Meaning by Connecting Multiple Strategies

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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? Learn how to support students in making connections among multiple addition and subtraction strategies so they become flexible, strategic problem solvers.

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Jennifer Mundt Leimberer, University of Illinois at Chicago

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Elizabeth Cape, University of Illinois at Chicago
Sandra M Niemiera, University of Illinois

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Early Elementary Algebraic Reasoning Development for Students Receiving Intervention Support

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This workshop's objective is for participants to discuss struggling K–2 students' learning progressions when engaging in inversion and compensation tasks. Discussion will center on students' algebraic reasoning as related to number development. Participant engagement with these tasks and video analysis of students will connect to student learning.

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Beth Loveday MacDonald, Utah State University

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Jill Ashby, Utah State University
Kristy Litster, Utah State University

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Excited to Think!: Interactive, Inquiry-Based STEM Activities to Engage Students

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Try some hands-on, inquiry-based STEM activities! We will launch a ball, model the bounce with an equation, predict where to place a baseball glove to catch the ball, and try it! Bring your singing voices, as we will use an oscilloscope to discover properties of sinusoidal curves. Learn to integrate coding (Lego Mindstorms, Sphero, etc.) with math.

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Fractions on a Number Line: Making Sense of Strategic Benchmarks

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We will share number line tasks that we have developed over the last four years asking students to extend and reinforce key ideas of fractions as a number. This session will share student work and the research-based touchpoints that help third and fourth graders make sense of the unit, partitioning and equivalence on the number line.

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Debbie Monson, University of St. Thomas

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Sue Ahrendt, University of Wisconsin-River Falls
Terry Wybert, University of Minnesota

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Lesson Study Processes and Tools That Support Teacher Learning

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This session provides an overview of our approach to lesson studies focused on deepening students' mathematical understanding and discourse. We describe the process, tools, and techniques that supported teacher learning. Participants analyze artifacts from a lesson study cycle and discuss ideas for capacity-building and sustainability for the work.

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Nicole Rigelman, Portland State University

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Amy McQueen, David Douglas School District
Karen Prigodich, Centennial School District

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Let’s Play Number Sense Games for K–Grade 2!

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In this session, teachers of 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.

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Marvin Harrell, Emporia State University

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Tiffany Hill, Emporia State University
Nancy Smith, Emporia State University

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Measuring in the Round: A Concrete Introduction to Radians

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Participants will work in groups to construct a measuring tape whose unit is one radius of their chosen circle. They will use their tape to mark angles of various sizes around a circle whose center is at the origin on graph paper. Then using the tape and the marked circle they will construct graphs of the sine, cosine, and tangent functions.

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Pattern Blocks: The Forgotten Tool In Middle School!

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Join us for explorations in middle school geometric concepts! We will use pattern blocks to dig deeper into understanding relationships among angles, lines, and dilations. This session will include lesson plans for immediate implementation.

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Jennifer Argue Moffett, CMAT/Private Consultant

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Jennifer Hagman, CMAT
Silvia Llamas-Flores, CMAT

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Playing to Deeper Thinking: Creating a Maker-Space Mentality (Algebra I to Precalculus)

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Stitching together low- and high-tech activities allows us to create maker‐space experiences for students where play engages them in a deep thinking search for the why before practicing the how. Experience hands-on activities from rulers, Post-it notes, popcorn, and play dough to Python, Scratch, and Desmos. Take away resources that you can use now.

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Revolutionize Your Math Class One Open-Ended Question at a Time!

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Participants will walk out of my session with engaging resources that will help them change their classroom. A classroom where students ask most of the great open-ended higher level questions of each other. A classroom where productive struggle, critical thinking, problem-solving, and math practices are used by ALL student populations daily.

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Taking Trig to Task

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The transition from the static perspective of right triangle trig ratios to the dynamic perspective of circular trig functions, and from measuring angles in degrees to measuring angles in radians, can generate roadblocks and misconceptions. In this session, we will examine a sequence of tasks that reveal, rather than obscure, trigonometric ideas.

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Transforming Ordinary into Extraordinary: Motivate, Engage, and Challenge Every Student

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Are you tired of the same classroom routine? Join us to learn 10 ways to transform ordinary assignments into engaging activities. Receive examples, instructions, and templates to create your own versions of Lucky Buckets, One & Why, Fix the Flaw & Fly, Can You?, and Topic Triominoes. Get your students moving, talking, and thinking mathematically.

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Using GeoGebra to Support Student Learning During Problem-Solving Tasks

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Did you know you can create GeoGebra applets on your smartphone? Come learn how to design problem-solving tasks that use GeoGebra to scaffold student learning! Workshop participants will design their own task and create a dynamic GeoGebra applet they can use with students. Bring your own smartphone, tablet, or laptop.

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Amdeberhan Tessema, MTSU

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Jeremy F Strayer, Middle Tennessee State University
Lucy Watson, Middle Tennessee State University

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We're in This Together! Supporting Students' Collaborative Learning in the Mathematics Classroom

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Why do collaborative math lessons fall apart? This workshop is designed to introduce participants to classroom norms and task design principles that support students' collaborative participation and persistence in the math classroom. The audience will use complex instruction design principles to adapt tasks they can take back to their classroom.

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Changing Teacher Practices: Transforming Teaching 101 to PD 101

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How can we use best practices in teaching to inform our professional development design? What elements form effective professional development, and how do they relate to lesson planning, formative assessments, and human nature? Come join us as we learn together and leave with a plan of action for your future professional development design.

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Conceptualizing Polynomials

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Spending too many weeks on factoring? Frustrated that students go out to the garden when you ask them to find roots? Come learn how students have collaborated to go beyond procedures to conceptually understanding how data, equations, roots, factoring, complex numbers, and more can actually connect together as one mathematical reality.

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Creating Communities of Learners: Math in Art, Technology, and History

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We will discuss a math in art, technology, and history class designed for students who desire something other than the typical math path. The class explores mathematics through units such as the Golden Ratio, music, tessellations, architecture, fractals, origami, and the history of numbers and counting, the Rubik's Cube-the fun things you've always wanted to teach!

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Integrating Algebraic Thinking in Elementary Math: The Power of a Routine

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Using CGI research, learn how a 15-minute routine helps develop deep understanding in algebraic thinking while engaging ALL students. In this session, we will share classroom-tested routines and the power of recording student thinking in order to support students and make mathematical connections through their explorations with numbers.

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Melissa Canham, Downey Unified School District

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Glenda Martinez, Downey Unified School District

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K–8 Teacher Preparation: What Are the Unchangeables?

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If the K–8 mathematics curriculum is based on Common Core or another trend, teacher preparation continues. What are the constants in a program that allow flexible prospective teachers with enough knowledgeable to teach effectively while preparing for future changes? Two different perspectives are offered with foci on content and methodology.

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Math during Recess: Strengthening Number Sense through Teacher-Guided Play

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Children love to play and they LOVE when the teacher joins in! Teacher-guided play at recess provides children with a comfortable, non-threatening environment to participate in genuine applications of math concepts outside the classroom. Ideas for games to play and engaging learners during recess are shared during this hour of play!

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Principles to Actions with Dynamic Math Tech

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"Mathematical action technology influences not only how we teach but also what we are able to teach." With this statement from NCTM, we now must dig into what features of the technology specifically influence teaching and learning. Come to learn how and why to use tech for specific learning goals.

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Promoting Productive Discourse = Deeper Mathematics Learning

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Participants will engage in activities that promote mathematical discourse and discuss how these support deeper learning for all students. Resources for tasks that support discourse and ideas for classroom discourse norms will be shared.

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Mark Ellis, California State University, Fullerton

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Carolee Koehn-Hurtado, UCLA
Cathery Yeh, Chapman University

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Strategies to Support Purposeful and Intentional Student Math Talk

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Explore strategies for structuring and guiding young learners in discourse with children's literature as the springboard. Participants will examine strategies such as, PEER, Wh-prompts, CROWD, and a Reader's Guide to engage young children in purposeful and intentional "math-talk" discussions to reflect the CCSS mathematical practices.

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Tactical Escape: A Great Math Challenge

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We will discuss our involvement in two Mathematics Partnership Grants collaborating with mathematics teachers in Wisconsin. We will showcase how we used an escape room challenge to engage students, emphasize the Standards for Mathematical Practice, and promote mathematical discourse. Examples from the escape rooms and student work will be included.

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Ashlee LeGear, Hudson School District

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Kathryn Ernie, UW-River Falls
Erick Hofacker, University of Wisconsin-River Falls

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Taking Action in Middle School: Implementing Effective Mathematics Teaching Practices

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This session will engage teachers in activities that support the development of the Principles to Actions Effective Mathematics Teaching Practices in the middle school. These activities will include engaging in rich mathematical tasks, discussing cases of teaching, and analyzing classroom artifacts including student work. Activities are drawn from the new NCTM publication Taking Action: Implementing Effective Mathematics Teaching Practices in Grades 6–8.

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Teaching Math for Social Justice in the Elementary Classroom

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How do you infuse teaching for social justice in the elementary math classroom? We provide examples of cross-curricular lessons (social studies and science) that were taught in two bilingual classrooms (second and fifth grade) around critical water access. Participants will receive examples of the problems and activities developed for these lessons.

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Technology to Visualize Senior Mathematics Concepts: Tools to Transform Learning

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Mathematical action technologies, as referenced in Principles to Actions, offer us rich opportunities for reasoning and sense making to develop conceptual understanding through visualization and making connections. Bring a device and let's explore what this can look like in the classroom, and also consider the implications for assessment.

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What Is Active Learning for Mathematics in Higher Education?

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A quickly growing number of college math courses are using active learning. What does this look like in practice? How does this impact K–12 students and teachers? I will describe various active learning environments and discuss preparing K–12 students for active learning college courses, with connections to the Standards for Mathematical Practice.

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BYOSW: How Bring Your Own Student Work Can Revolutionize Teacher Collaboration

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Principles to Actions encourages us to use student thinking to inform instruction. Before NCTM's annual meeting we'll post a task on this session's page at meetings.nctm.org; during the session we'll analyze our own students' work on the task; and afterwards implement instruction we plan together. Participate in any or all parts of this ongoing PD.

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Discovering Rules: Making Sense of Fractions through Investigations

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While we may have studied fractions as a series of rules, we recognize that just memorizing those rules does not mean that our students are proficient with fractions. Through hands-on explorations, we will explore investigations that help our students discover the rules for themselves and build an understanding of why they work.

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Division: Let’s Help Students Make Sense of It

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Division is often troublesome for both teachers and students. This session will develop way to address both partitive and quotative division situations with understanding so that proficiency towards with the standard, traditional U.S. algorithm is enhanced with connections between whole number division and division with fractional quantities.

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Equitable Mathematics: Integrating Language and Mathematics Instruction

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This session provides an overview of our approach to teacher professional learning focused on mathematics content and pedagogy and explicit language instruction. We describe the process, tools, and techniques that support teacher learning. Participants analyze student artifacts and discuss ideas for classroom implementation.

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Nix the Tricks

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Being a mathematics student is about critical thinking, justification, and using tools of past experiences to solve new problems. Students who approach every topic as a series of steps to memorize are not learning math. In this session we will explore how to replace some popular tricks with teaching for understanding.

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Promoting Higher Level Depth of Knowledge in High School Math

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Come explore strategies and tasks that inspire students to develop deeper conceptual understanding in high school mathematics. In particular, we will examine strategies to provoke discourse and bump up the Depth of Knowledge in algebra, functions, and geometry through the integration of analysis tasks, open questions, and open middle problems.

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Simple Machines: It's That Simple

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These lessons show how simple it is to infuse STEM concepts into curriculum, and it is so simple that kindergartners and even preschoolers can learn and do STEM. The attendees will leave the session with lesson plans for the entire simple machines unit. Participants will engage on one of the lessons during the session.

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Melissa Sheffer, Student

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Jason Petula, Millersville University
Aneshka Szczesny, Student-Millersville University

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Tea, Guinness, & Crop Yields: The Many Faces of Statistics

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Statistics has worn many faces throughout history. Framing statistics within a historical and contextual perspective provides new opportunities in which students can read about and investigate topics. Participants will walk away with a series of online resources to use as well as authentic STEAM integrations taken from a well-known piece of literature.

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The Power of Unit-Fraction Quantities for Building Children’s Understanding

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Unit fractions (1/n) lie at the heart of the mathematics of fractions. Story problems involving these quantities build children's understanding of relationships between a unit fraction and 1. Come explore children's understandings by viewing and discussing children solving problems and consider how these problems enhance fraction instruction.

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D'Anna Pynes, University of Texas at Austin

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Susan B Empson, University of Missouri
Gladys H Krause, University of Texas at Austin

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Wacky & Wild Workstations for Prekindergarten–Grade 2

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Learn how to incorporate low prep/cost, engaging standards-based workstations related to number relationships, operations, and algebraic reasoning. While incorporating thinking, problem solving, student accountability, and fun, participants will interact with a variety of activities and games from a student perspective. A QR code and link will be provided.

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Algebra Tasks That Promote Reasoning and Problem Solving

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This session will provide participants the opportunity to experience three approaches for adapting tasks, to adapt concrete tasks for their classrooms, and to give feedback on tasks that have been adapted. The focus of the session will be on adapting everyday algebra I and algebra 2 tasks to promote reasoning and sense making.

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Language Effects in K–2 ESL Students Receiving Mathematics Intervention Support

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This presentation will discuss the effects of a mathematics intervention support on young English language learners' (ELLs) abilities to operationalize number. In particular, we will discuss the relationship between language instruction and algebraic reasoning development.

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Marialuisa Di Stefano, Utah State University

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Kristy Litster, Utah State University
Beth Loveday MacDonald, Utah State University

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Motivating Students through High-Level Problem Solving Using Models in a Collaborative Setting

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Sarah Schaefer will explain how to use models and other strategies to solve challenging word problems from the original Singapore Math® program: Primary Mathematics. Workshop participants will learn how to increase student achievement while persevering and making connections between mathematical content and NCTM's Mathematics Teaching Practices.

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Smarter Balanced: Lessons Learned from Writing Performance Tasks

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As a classroom teacher, nothing informed my assessment writing more than developing items for Smarter Balanced. Come hear about the lessons I learned regarding rigor, expectations, and instructional implications. Whether you're a classroom teacher or a supporter of teachers, you'll be able to help students better understand performance tasks!

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The Answer Still Matters . . . Eventually

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Effective teachers engage students in productive struggle as a way to develop mathematical thinking and learn new content. We sometimes say, "It's not the answer that matters, it's the process." But the answer does matter, even as we focus on the struggle. How can we slow down the race to answers and use the journey as a vehicle for learning?

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Using the Desmos Calculator to Analyze Student Photographs and Pictures

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Most students enjoy taking photographs of their friends, surroundings, and objects in the world around them. Additionally, many are budding artists. But, how often do they analyze the mathematics behind their images? Participants in this session will learn how to use the Desmos calculator to analyze the underlying equations and geometric figures.

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Stephanie H. Cooperman, School District of the Chathams

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Neil D. Cooperman, Millburn High School

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Algebra Experiments: Engaging Students through Exciting Applications of Exponential Functions

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Are you looking for some hands-on activities to help your algebra students understand exponential functions? Come to this workshop and engage in experiments that simulate real-world situations. You will collect data, convert the data into multiple representations, and analyze the results. Questions that promote student discourse will be considered.

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AP Calculus Framework: Discovering Integral Defined Functions and FTC Using Technology

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Analysis of functions defined by integrals is a learning objective of the calculus framework. The connections between these functions and their derivatives will be explored using paper and pencil and technology activities. Hands-on investigations designed to help students improve their conceptual understanding of AP problems involving FTC will be included.

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Engaging Students with Great Questions, Fun Simulations, and Free Technology

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Is it possible to smell Parkinson's disease? Is flipping a coin really a fair way to decide which team gets to be on offense first? Participants will answer these questions with simulations that allow students to make sense of statistical inference. Hands-on physical simulations are introduced first, followed by simulations with (free!) technology.

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Douglas Tyson, Central York School District

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Jason Molesky, Lakeville Area Public Schools

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Evaluating Students’ Digital Work: Same as Print?

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Educators have spent decades learning how to evaluate student work in a print environment with physical manipulatives. As classrooms turn more to digital environments, teachers must learn how to interpret and evaluate students' digital artifacts. BYOD and join us to examine how student work changes in response to their use of digital manipulatives.

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Mary Ellen Dairyko, University of Chicago

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Catherine Donaldson, McGraw-Hill Education
Carla Strickland, UChicago CEMSE

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Interesting Ideas, Manipulatives, and Activities for Teaching Geometry

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Participants will use hinged mirrors, rubber bands, patty paper, paper plates, and other manipulatives, as well as investigations to develop geometry concepts such as similarity and triangle congruence, transformations, central angles, polygons, area, and more.

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Lessons on Adding and Subtracting Integers: Developing Understanding through Context

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Do you find it difficult to teach students how to add and subtract integers without jumping right into rules and procedures? Do you wish you had a way to build students' conceptual understanding instead? We will present a series of classroom-tested lessons designed to develop students' reasoning and sense making around these integer operations.

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Delise Andrews, Lincoln Public Schools

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Julie M Kreizel, Lincoln Public Schools
Anne Schmidt, Lincoln Public Schools

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MathLabTM: Building Conceptual Understanding of Exponential Functions in Algebra 1

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Building a conceptual foundation of exponential functions can be engaging and informative. Starting with a simulation of the spread of a disease, participants will collect, graph, and make predictions from data; compare linear, doubling, and tripling models; and culminate the workshop with analyzing actual data from the 2014 Ebola epidemic.

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NCTM Resources for New and Early Career Teachers

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Along with key journal articles, NCTM offers a range of resources, lessons, tools, and tips that can be helpful for those training to be teachers and those early in their careers. Find out how your NCTM membership can help you even more!

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Chonda Long, National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

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Kristin Keith, National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

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Parachuting into Practices: An Integrated Elementary STEM Lesson

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Come be an aerospace engineer and use your math and science knowledge to design a parachute that will land on another planet! Find out how an integrated elementary math, science, and engineering lesson can foster student engagement, meet many of the CCSS mathematical practices, and lead to a meaningful learning experience.

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Supporting Algebra Learners through Modeling Investigations of the (Extra)ordinary

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Come investigate mathematics with burger basket liners, odd-shaped containers, and other everyday contexts. Modeling can help make algebra accessible to a range of students. Multiple representations, varied solution methods, and class discourse will be discussed as ways to support student understanding beyond formulas and exercises.

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Fay Zenigami, University of Hawaii, Curriculum Research & Development Group

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Linda Venenciano, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa
Seanyelle Yagi, University of Hawaii, Manoa

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When O.A. and My BFF, the Number Line, Met in Kindergarten

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Come learn how the my BFF, the number line and O.A. met and work together. Learn how to integrate manipulatives to develop a conceptual understanding of the O.A. standards while using a number line. Participants will learn how to address all K-2 O.A. standards. Everything is hands-on! Come ready to play with my BFF and O.A.

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Best Practices in Writing and Using Assessments

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Math assessments are used for a variety of purposes, both inside and outside the classroom. To make the most of these assessments, it is essential that test writers (including classroom teachers) follow best practices to ensure the fairness and validity of their tests. Come hear about best practices for measuring what students know and can do.

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Robin K O'Callaghan, Educational Testing Service

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Daniel Klag, Educational Testing Service

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Fascinating Sets of Numbers: Nurturing Number Sense through Number Enjoyment

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This session will focus on work with a variety of fascinating sets 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.

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Get a Move On: Movement-Infused Math for Preschool and Kindergarten

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Kids learn best when their brains and bodies are active. Integrating movement with math subtracts stress, adds fun, and maximizes brain function. Join us to learn the research behind movement in the classroom and over twenty games and activities to pump up the movement in your math lessons.

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Get to Know the Research Companion to Principles to Actions

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We will provide an overview of the newly released research companion to Principles to Actions. The thirteen chapters were co-authored by practitioners and researchers, and they lend insight into the research base behind Principles to Actions as well as providing classroom applications.

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Hands-On Operations: Using Manipulatives for Understanding of ALL Four Operations

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Come use place-value manipulatives to understand and practice addition, subtraction, multi-digit multiplication, and long division algorithms for whole numbers and decimals. Learn how to help all learners master the move from concrete to the representation to the ultimate abstract algorithm with a deep understanding of regrouping and place value.

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Number Sense: Bring It Back through Strategy Sharing!

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Do you find a lack of number sense to be the leading concern of teachers? Our math specialist team will share how we've utilized the book Making Number Talks Matter by Cathy Humphreys and Ruth Parker to bring number sense back to the classroom. Learn what number talks are and how to implement them to build and strengthen students' number sense.

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Alissa Murray, Madison County School District

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Jennifer Fillingim, Madison County Schools
Elizabeth Wells, Madison County School District

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Productive Strategies to Support Students’ Engagement in Productive Struggle

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Engaging students in tasks that involve reasoning and problem solving is essential for developing the conceptual understanding, procedural fluency, and productive habits of mind they need to prepare them for their futures. In this session, we'll investigate strategies to increase students' willingness to engage in challenging tasks and to use these tasks to advance the learning of the entire class. We'll also identify common pitfalls to avoid.

Puzzles: The Poetry of Logical Ideas

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If you are a lover of logic, come in. We will engage in a series of logic puzzles to demonstrate the mathematical practices embedded within. Multiple math strategies will be uncovered as we deconstruct Kakuro, KenKen, and a variety of other logic puzzles. Puzzles have the power to transform your classroom in a fun and entertaining way. Come and play!

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Student Portfolios in Mathematics

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Portfolios have been part of my classes for more than 25 years. Although the prompts and structure have evolved, my belief in their overall value endures. Portfolios hold a teacher accountable to provide a range of learning opportunities and offer students a way to express their strengths, weaknesses, and feelings about math in a variety of ways.

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Taking Action in High School: Implementing Effective Mathematics Teaching Practices

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The session will engage teachers in activities that support the development of the Principles to Actions Effective Mathematics Teaching Practices in high school. These activities will include engaging in rich mathematical tasks, discussing cases of teaching, and analyzing classroom artifacts including student work. Activities are drawn from the new NCTM publication Taking Action: Implementing Effective Mathematics Teaching Practices in Grades 9–12.

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The Math Practices! Objectively Speaking, Writing Math IEPs Using the Math Practices

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How are needs of struggling learners and students with IEPs addressed in math classrooms? Howard County, Maryland, schools use a transformative tool created in partnership with math and special education teachers and leaders. Learn how one tool has shifted IEP goals from low-level skills to high-cognitive-demand processes. Finally, a tool that unites us!

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Joyce Eileen Agness, Howard County Public Schools

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William J Barnes, Howard County Public School System
Kym Craig, Howard County Public Schools

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The Probabilities of “Wheel of Fortune”: A Contestant’s Perspective

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How does a contestant's expected value change from spin to spin? How does English language letter frequency affect player strategy? How many "safe" spins can one expect to make before going bankrupt or losing a turn? Come explore, play, and simulate with a recent Wheel contestant.

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Transformations at the Heart of Connections and Creativity in STEAM

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Transformations play a central role in modern mathematics, though they are sometimes tucked into a relatively isolated corner of the K–12 curriculum. Through a sequence of "snapshots" we will offer examples of tasks, questions, and suggestions for encountering transformations at a range of levels and a variety of contexts.

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Understanding Sampling Variability

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Statistics students often confuse the sample standard deviation and the standard deviation of the sample mean. This can lead to serious errors in reasoning. This session explores some of these errors and looks at examples and activities designed to eliminate this confusion and help students develop their understanding of sampling variability.

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Using Digital Tools to Give Every Student a Voice

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Simply put, we value student thinking. Technology tools that help us gather, examine, and share students' mathematical thinking inform our instruction and help create a growth-mindset classroom culture. Bring a tablet or laptop, and be ready to wear your "teacher hat" and "student hat" as you experience strategies to try in your own classroom.

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Build Fluency During Intervention with a Powerful Pair: Visual Representations and Discourse

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Representations help students build a deeper understanding of math concepts and procedures. Our goal is to get students to switch to the abstract fluently. How we get there is the KEY! This session will show the power of engaging students in mathematical discourse and instructional strategies to build fluency.

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Connecting the “M” in STEM

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Love the idea of STEM, but don't know how to make it relevant to your mathematics classroom? In today's classroom, teachers must find creative ways to integrate STEM while engaging their students with relevant content. In this session, participants will engage in classroom ready, hands-on, authentic STEM activities that have a mathematical focus.

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Margaret Mohr-Schroeder, University of Kentucky

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Christa Jackson, -
D. Craig Schroeder, Fayette County Public Schools

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Got Division? Building Procedural Fluency from Conceptual Understanding

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This session focuses on the teaching of division in grades 3–5 and spotlights building procedural fluency through conceptual understanding. We will explore strategies based on place value, properties of operations, and the relationship between division and multiplication. We will also explore rectangular arrays and area models.

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Sorsha-Maria T. Mulroe, Howard County Public Schools

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Claudia Eckstrom, Howard County Public School System
Kelly Healey, Howard County Public Schools

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Let's Talk! Assisting Struggling Learners to Successfully Engage in Mathematical Communication!

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Learn practical activities for K–8 that assist struggling learners to communicate their thinking and deepen their understanding and enjoyment of math. Explore how you can foster communication through strategies that develop math vocabulary and build student confidence with mathematical discourse. All activities are ready to implement for Monday!

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NASA’s Scale of Discovery: Applications for Ratios, Conversions, and Scale

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Come explore the applications of ratios, fractions, conversions, and scale with hands-on, standards-aligned STEM activities. Engage with examples from aeronautics, space, and our universe as you apply scale to distance, time, size, and models. Learn how problem-solving skills get a spacecraft from the planning stages to its destination.

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Powerful, Active, and Engaged Mathematics Professional Learning!

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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 session will provide specific strategies that can be applied to a variety of mathematics topics to enrich and magnetize your professional development for long-term impact!

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Rethinking Groupwork: How Groupworthy Tasks Truly Promote Collaborative Learning

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Groupwork provides opportunities to learn communication and collaboration skills, but how can we ensure all students are engaging with the content during groupwork? Groupworthy tasks provide structures needed for students to participate equally with the content and practice such social skills. Learn how to incorporate them in your instruction!

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STEM Integration: Math, Meet Biology!

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Join us for two hands-on, inquiry-based activities integrating mathematics in a biological context. Sort a set of images using the powers of ten and design a scale model of an E. coli's DNA. Art, science, and math intersect in an activity merging coordinate geometry, symmetry, and biotechnology skills. NGSS practice standards will be demonstrated.

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Lindsey Herlehy, Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy

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Karen Togliatti, Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy

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Teaching Logic & Proofs through Games & Number Theory

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Discover the underlying structure of mathematical concepts through a highly engaging hands-on activity to teach the essentials of the mathematical process of investigative discovery and metacognition: observation, conjectures, analysis, revision, proof. We use this activity amongst many others to teach mathematical reasoning and proof writing.

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Andrea Kung, Urban Academy Laboratory High School

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Gabriella Weisberg, Humanities Preparatory Academy

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“Crowdsourced Algebra”: Achieve Generalization through Crowdsourcing

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Encourage students to be active participants with these algebra activities. We'll explore both no-tech and high-tech methods for "class-sourcing"-take part in the human inequality number line, be a piece in the binomial theorem jigsaw, explore visual approaches to exponential growth and see how Desmos Activity Builder can invite class discussions.

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Get Your Students Talking: Introducing Debate to the Math Classroom

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What is the value of 0/0? Is there a better order for Order of Operations? Is math invented or discovered? Embracing these questions leads to new and better understanding of mathematical concepts. Watch a demonstration debate, learn how to structure safe, meaningful debates in your math class, and then introduce the fun of arguing to your students.

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Lesson Study: It's Not Just about the Lesson!

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In Oakland Unified School District, site math teams use lesson study to engage around CCSS content and practice standards. Come experience essential components of a lesson study cycle using a research theme, lesson plan, and video from one of our sites. Discussants include lesson study researchers Dr. Akihiko Takahashi and Dr. Catherine Lewis.

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Courtney Ortega, Oakland Unified School District

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Mary Reed, Oakland Unified School District

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Let's Talk Numbers, Shall We? Our Journey to Building Number Sense

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Are your students lacking number sense? Do you struggle to teach the standards due to re-teaching algorithms? Our math specialist team will share how we've utilized the book Making Number Talks Matter by Cathy Humphreys and Ruth Parker. Learn what number talks are, how to implement them, and how they build and strengthen students' number sense.

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Making Sense of Trigonometry in Geometry Class through the Unit Circle

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In this session, we will explore an alternative approach to introducing trigonometry in geometry using the unit circle. This approach calls upon a number of mathematical standards, develops students' sense of angle measure and trigonometric functions, and has historical precedence.

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Matching an Effective Strategy to the Language Level of ELLs

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Using three cognitively demanding math tasks written in Korean, Spanish, and British English, we will show various strategies that help English language learners make sense of mathematics. Each problem will place participants in the shoes of ELLs at high, intermediate, and beginner levels of English proficiency.

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MMMMM: Making Math More Meaningful with Models (Grades K–2)

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Making Math More Meaningful with Models: too often we push our students directly to abstract algorithms without first giving students the prerequisite experience with models such as empty number lines, number bonds, arrow method, area model, and so on. Teachers will learn how to use these models to make math meaningful for their students.

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Quality Questioning for Formative Assessment in the Mathematics Classroom

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What is quality questioning? What is formative assessment? How can quality questioning be used effectively to formatively assess your students? Attend this session to find out how you can ask the best questions to determine what your students know and what they don't know!

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Still Fighting the Good Fight: Standing Up for Equity In Mathematics

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Are you hoping to detrack your schools? Come ask us about our next chapter: San Francisco has worked for three years to implement a board policy that detracks math through the end of tenth grade. Using research and our own data, we frame this as a social justice issue and instructional opportunity. Together, we will reflect on learnings and next steps.

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Supporting Productive Struggle in Mathematics Classrooms

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This session will focus on what productive struggle is and how to support it in the classroom. Video and text-based examples will be used to illustrate ways to support productive struggle. Participants will discuss general principles for supporting student's productive struggle that can be applied in their own classrooms.

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Unpacking the Magic of the "tan" Button: Developing a Conceptual Understanding of Tangent

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It is time to move past the magic of the tangent button on your calculator. We will discuss a way to develop a conceptual understanding of tangent (and the rest of right triangle trigonometry!) before jumping to the calculator. Participants will have a chance to engage in an activity that will connect similar triangles to tangent.

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Joshua R. Males, Lincoln Public School District

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Lorraine M Males, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

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Ways to Help Students Overcome Their Math Anxiety

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We will look at steps for teachers to help their students deal with their anxiousness in math class. These steps are parallel to steps used by some psychologists in overcoming other fears. These will be steps that can be done by any teacher.

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Writing Counts

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"Students need opportunities to sink their teeth into the marrow of math"-Wendy Ward Hoffer. Learn how discourse and writing help students grapple with their problem-solving processes. Experience structures and strategies designed to engage students in the process of thinking deeply about math which will assure their understanding.

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Ignite! We’ll Enlighten You and We’ll Make It Quick

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What makes mathematics teachers passionate? Join us to find out! Our 10 classroom teachers, representing kindergarten through high school, will light up the room with fresh ideas in math teaching and learning. Each speaker gets five minutes to talk about whatever ignites their passion, using 20 slides that auto advance every 15 seconds-whether they're ready or not!

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Bringing Computational Thinking into Elementary Mathematics

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A research team at the University of Chicago and the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign has been developing an online resource for elementary mathematics teachers to use to bring more computational thinking into their mathematics classes. Come and learn how you can use this resource to help bring CS to all!

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Andy Isaacs, University of Chicago

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Cheryl Moran, University of Chicago
Kathryn Rich, University of Chicago

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Dealing with Diversity: Math Games for Engaging All Learners

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Are you looking for engaging, hands-on activities for CCSS concepts that help your students gain competence and confidence? Participants play games that incorporate the use of cards and dice, and will learn ways to differentiate instruction to meet the needs of EDL, ELL and RTI students. Strategies for fact fluency, PV, and assessment will be shared.

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Developing Algebraic Thinking through Problem-Solving Activities

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This session focuses on hands-on and minds-on algebraic thinking activities that can be used to transform real-world problems into learning experiences that develop students’ abilities to use multiple representations to conjecture, justify, and make generalizations. Leave with classroom-ready activities and ideas to challenge all your students.

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Experience-First Statistics: Using Activities to Promote Statistical Thinking

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The Common Core emphasizes statistics early and often. For AP Statistics or any class wishing to incorporate statistics, there are many activities that can be done to help students develop deep understanding of concepts. We will explore three such activities: understanding r-squared, interpreting confidence intervals, and a basic hypothesis test.

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Getting Struggling Math Students to Mathematize Their World and Engage Them in Meaningful Procedures

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Students who struggle with computation rarely learn to appreciate math in their worlds. They have a difficult time seeing themselves as mathematicians capable of doing math. In this session, you will explore activities aimed to get students to mathematize the world around them while developing computational skills within a meaningful context.

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Going beyond Number Talks

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Are you using number talks in your classroom to develop fluency through the flexible use of computational strategies? Teachers in K–grade 5 will learn how to build upon their number talks routine by creating lessons that allow their students to investigate and build a deeper understanding of the mathematics behind those strategies.

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Hands-On Activities + Technology = Mathematical Understanding through Authentic Modeling

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Inquiry-based learning coupled with handheld technology empowers students to apply linear, quadratic, and exponential functions to real-world situations. Participants are provided with classroom-ready lessons that use and connect multiple mathematical representations and synthesize the Statistics, Functions, and Modeling strands of CCSSM.

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Hands-On Geometry for Deeper Understanding for All Learners in Grades 3–5

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We will investigate two- and three-dimensional components of geometry by exploring polygons and polyhedra and their properties through hands-on activities that lead to deeper student understanding. Attention will be given to differentiating the lessons for special education through gifted populations. Van Hiele levels will be addressed as well.

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Marguerite M. Mason, The College of William and Mary

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Samuel Rhodes, The College of William and Mary
Eric W. Shippee, The College of William and Mary

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Helping Students Become Proportionally Correct: Just Cross-Multiplying Is a Thing of the Past!

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Students may be able to write and solve proportions without reasoning proportionally. They need to do more than just cross multiply. We will introduce essential understandings related to proportional reasoning by examining student thinking. Participants will engage in activities for middle school students designed to develop these understandings.

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Dovie Louise Kimmins, Middle Tennessee State University

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Jeremy Winters, Middle Tennessee State University

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It's Not Just a Careless Mistake!

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Often students dismiss their errors as careless mistakes, instead of opportunities for learning. In this session we will examine student errors in a number of different strands (Number and Operations, Algebra, Geometry), identify the source of the mistakes, and plan instruction to remediate or even avoid these errors altogether.

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Math in Your Feet: Moving Bodies Are Learning Bodies

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We know kids love to move-there is a developmental imperative at play that can't be ignored. How can we harness this innate playfulness in ways that move our students, literally, toward conceptual understanding of elementary math? Learn how the whole, moving, dancing body can be a tool for doing and learning mathematics in deep and engaging ways.

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Math Workshop: Guided Math & Beyond

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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 & 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.

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Some Solid Ideas for Learning Geometry: Engaging Activities for Middle Grades Students

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Geometry, often overlooked in middle school mathematics, can allow students to engage in mathematics as it relates to the world around them. This workshop provides a series of connected activities to build students' understanding of spatial relationships necessary for all students to solve grade appropriate real-world problems involving geometry.

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Take Some Random Walks—on a Hexagonal Island with Dice, on a Number Line with a Calculator, & More!

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We will take random walks on a hexagonal board with dice, and we'll take simulated walks on a number line and on circular boards using graphing calculators. We'll learn about and see the huge variety of outcomes of such walks, from short to very long. Take these classroom-tested hands-on activities back to your students!

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Patricia Baggett, New Mexico State University

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Andrzej Ehrenfeucht, University of Colorado

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The Rewards and Challenges of Standards-Based Grading

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Implementing a standards-based grading system within a school culture based on points accumulation presents significant challenges, yet there are a variety of rewards for making it happen. In this presentation, we discuss our own successes and failures when we committed to putting SBG into practice.

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Matthew Grinwis, Downingtown Area School District

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Michael Manganello, Downingtown Area School District

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Thinking Critically about Statistical Inference: Playing Cards and Drinking Water

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Difficulties understanding the underlying concepts of hypothesis testing can lead to incorrect conclusions regarding the outcome of a statistical study. This workshop will focus on some of these difficulties and provide activities for helping students better understand the difference between a correct and incorrect conclusion from inference.

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Using Learning Maps to Reimagine Instruction and Redefine Assessment

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We will use concept maps to show how knowledge of functions develops. Our learning map models display alternate pathways students may take to construct understanding of prerequisite and target concepts. Built-in formative assessment tools help teachers identify knowledge gaps and revise instruction to meet learning outcomes.

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Angela Broaddus, University of Kansas

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Nicki Lindner, University of Kansas
Lindsey Weiland, University of Kansas

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Using Simulations to Make Inferences: Come Learn How!

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In this workshop, participants will increase their understanding of using simulations to make inferences through engaging in hands-on, classroom-ready tasks. Participants will also learn about appropriate teaching strategies, students' misconceptions while using simulations, and technology resources. Bring a laptop if you can!

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Jeremy F Strayer, Middle Tennessee State University

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Jennifer Lovett, Middle Tennessee State University
Amber Matuszewski, Rutherford County

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Wait—What? Multiplication Is More Than Just Equal Groups?

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Conceptual understanding of multiplication begins before students formally learn to multiply. Let's examine activities to demonstrate the learning progression of multiplication that can be immediately used in your classroom. We will engage in tasks and explore models designed to facilitate students' development of multiplicative reasoning.

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Actively Engage Students in Content and Practices with Interactive Simulations

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Interactive simulations are flexible tools for teaching content while also fostering engagement, reasoning, modeling, and sense making. Learn how to incorporate simulations into your classroom, facilitate inquiry-based activities, and engage students in mathematical practices. Take home new ideas and lessons you can implement immediately.

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Challenging Precalculus Alternative Assessments Using the Free Online Desmos Calculator

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Learn about two major precalculus projects that will transform your students and help them to learn and to understand what they are doing. There is a "huge" difference between "doing" mathematics and "understanding" mathematics. Come learn how to make that happen. If possible, bring your laptop or smart device to begin to experience this yourself.

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Neil D. Cooperman, Millburn High School

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Stephanie H. Cooperman, School District of the Chathams

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Evening the Playing Field through Development of Facts Fluency

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Students lacking their math facts? Learn effective strategies to build number sense and fact fluency at the middle school level that are easy to implement and time friendly, giving all students access to grade level math. Leave with strategies to develop students' mental math skills and ability to attend to structure that you can use the next day.

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Exploring Issues of Power, Privilege, and Opportunities to Learn Mathematics

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Participants will learn to foster meaningful conversations with preservice teachers on issues related to power, privilege, and social justice in mathematics teaching. Traditional (e.g., annotated bibliography of scholarly articles) and nontraditional (e.g., BuzzFeed quiz, video clips) resources for facilitating these conversations will be provided.

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Harry Tyrone Washington, Millersville University

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Erin Moss, Millersville University of PA

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Fluency, Discourse, and the Standards for Mathematical Practice

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Fluency doesn't just happen! Let's consider together how the Standards for Mathematical Practice can enhance mathematical discourse and support students' development of mathematical fluency. How do purposeful questioning and the use of multiple representations strengthen discourse and support productive struggle?

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Journaling: A Tool for Developing Mathematics Identity

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Multiple studies have shown that when students reflect on their thinking and emotions in mathematics, especially through writing, they experience greater success. Math journal prompts and protocols support positive classroom culture as well as identity development. Teachers will leave with new tools they can use in their classroom.

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Kemble Briskey Schnell, west linn wilsonville school district

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Kasi C Allen, Lewis & Clark College

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Juicy Tasks to Nourish Students' Mathematical Reasoning

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Participants will learn the characteristics of what we refer to as "juicy tasks" that engage young mathematicians in making sense of profound mathematics, allow a range of reasoning strategies, and build on students' daily experiences. We will discuss strategies for identifying and creating juicy tasks for teachers' own classrooms.

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Cathery Yeh, Chapman

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Mark Ellis, California State University, Fullerton
Carolee Koehn Hurtado, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) Mathematics Project

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Making Modeling Meaningful: Finding and Adapting Tasks for Grades 3–5

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Where do we find interesting and mathematically rich modeling tasks for the elementary grades? Learn about finding and adapting tasks that will engage all students in the process of mathematical modeling. You will leave with activities to try in your classroom and tools to create tasks that draw on your students' knowledge and experiences.

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Mary Alice Carlson, Montana State University

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Erin Farrell, Bozeman Public Schools
Kimberly King, Bozeman Public Schools

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Noticing and Wondering: A Feedback Approach for Collaboration

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How can we shift our feedback after teacher observations from feeling evaluative toward a more inviting conversation about math teaching? Join me to learn about a language structure for inquiring about and discussing math teaching, practice this structure with short cases and video, and identify some lenses for guiding observations and feedback.

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The Connectivity of Mathematics to Science in Elementary School

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Creating lessons across mathematics and science can be a way to promote positive dispositions about mathematics. Planning and implementing engaging lessons that connect STEM concepts can be challenging. Come and learn more about the connectivity of mathematics to science and explore example of thematic integration of science in mathematics.

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Susan J. Cooper, Florida Gulf Coast University

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Elif Safak, Florida Gulf Coast University

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Does This Algorithm Make Me Look Fat? Addition and Subtraction in K–Grade 5

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Teachers and students need a deep command of place value, properties of operations and the relationship between operations for success in common core. Participants will trace the path of addition and subtraction vertically from K to 5, building the standard algorithm using the continuum of concrete–pictorial-abstract.

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Effective Teaching Practices in Linguistically Diverse Classrooms

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During this workshop, participants will have the opportunity to experience examples of teaching practices in classrooms where multiple languages are spoken while keeping high expectations and high cognitive demand. Scenarios and videos of real classrooms will be posed as teaching challenges, and participants will discuss possible solutions.

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M. Alejandra Sorto, Texas State University

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Alexander Rasche, Texas State University
Brittany Webre, Texas State University

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Encouraging Productive Struggle Using “What-If-Not” Problems in Geometry Class

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High school geometry students are typically exposed to proofs of the Pythagorean theorem. In this session, we will use Brown and Walter's "What-if-not" strategy for formulating new problems when the conditions of the Pythagorean theorem are not met, leading to deeper understanding of the original theorem.

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Pinecones + Beaver + Compass = Narnia? Nope, Math!

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Do you ever think about how you can use your schoolyard to help students better understand math? Experiential education uses the natural world to teach essential math concepts. Participants will work in small groups to explore model lessons, then will have time to reflect on how they may use experiential education strategies in their own classes.

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Together Is Better! Using the Modeling Cycle to Connect Secondary Math and Science

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Connecting math with science through modeling! Participants will be mathematicians as scientists. You will gather data, identify a pattern in the data, originate a mathematical model that is both descriptive and supports the underlying pattern, and defend claims and justify reasoning of the model. You will leave with materials to use in class.

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Flipping Calculus: A High School Educator's Experience

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Participants can learn more about flipped learning while I share my experiences about completely flipping AP Calculus AB. I will explain how I structure my class, how I create my materials, and what students and I see as the benefits and drawbacks of this format. Experienced flippers are invited to share ideas based on participant discussion.

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Learning Cycles and Mathematical Practices in the Classroom Math Talk Community

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A nurturing math talk community has learning cycles that advance student thinking as students explain methods using their own math drawings. We will discuss such cycles and how they support differentiation but also learning by all. Participants will discuss how videos show the mathematical practices and coaching by students and teachers.

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Using the Concrete-Representational-Abstract Technique to Teach Algebra to Students Who Are Struggling

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Participants attending this session will learn how to teach introductory algebra to struggling students by implementing the concrete-representational-abstract technique. Specifically, individuals will learn how to use manipulatives and hands-on activities for teaching algebraic expressions and solving equations at the concrete and pictorial level.

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Joseph Sencibaugh, Webster University

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Brennen Almus, Webster University
Brooke Callan, Webster University

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Computational Thinking in School Mathematics: It's Elementary!

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We will share three activities that connect computational thinking with elementary school mathematics, including the geometry of polygons, fractions, and number stories. We will show how using Scratch programming and "unplugged" activities will help engage students to work collaboratively and productively.

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George Reese, MSTE at University of Illinois

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Wendy Maa, Kenwood Elementary School
Carla Strickland, UChicago CEMSE

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Desmos + Algebra 1 = Deep Understanding x Fun

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Learn how we used the online graphing calculator Desmos to make our algebra 1 students look more deeply into linear equations and linear inequalities. Students were able to dive deeper into understanding the "why" behind the concepts. We will provide the projects, samples, and rubrics we used.

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Stacy Remphrey, Unionville-Chadds Ford School District

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Glen Lewis, Unionville-Chadds Ford School District

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Logarithmic Earthquake Project: An Algebra 2 Project with Real Applications

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We will discuss the ins and outs of a project on earthquakes that ties into the logarithms unit of algebra 2 as well as on issues facing society today. We'll show examples of student work and how to differentiate the project. Attendees will walk away from the session with a shared Google folder with all materials needed to implement the project.

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Tanisha Fitzgerald-Williams, Notre Dame High School

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Beverly Heigre, Notre Dame High School

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Twelve Creative Activities for the Middle School Math Teacher

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This session will focus on sharing twelve instructional strategies and activities that teachers can immediately implement in their classrooms. The strategies will include templates and lesson plans of hands-on activities that help students build strong, conceptual understandings of course content.

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Samuel Rhodes, The College of William and Mary

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Marguerite M. Mason, The College of William and Mary

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Using Number Talks to Transform Instructional Practice

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Participants will practice number talks as students. Experiences of the presenter using number talks to transform teaching practices will be shared.

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An Innovative Online Course for Math Teachers: How to Teach ELLs

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BIG Problems Become Small Problems When Mathematical Modeling Is Used

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Breathing Classroom Life into the Eight NCTM Teaching Practices

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Coding Computer Games to Motivate Middle School Math Class

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Context in Content: The Purpose of Project-Based Learning in Mathematics

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Defining Number Concept and Number Sense

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Fair Sharing the Decimal Way: Understanding and Connecting Decimals, Fractions, and Division

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Feedback as a Fractal: Developing a Toolkit for Effective Feedback

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Framing Mathematics Instruction with the TQE Process

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Harnessing the Power of 1:1 Classrooms: Integrating Devices to Support Conceptual Understanding

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Learning to Listen: Using Clinical Interviews for Professional Growth

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Looking at Tier 1 Instruction and Tier 2 Interventions: Supporting Students Who Struggle

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