Come take a mathematical walking tour of parts of Boston! During the walk we will generate and solve mathematical problems, learn some history and see some of the city's sights! Must be able to walk four to five miles at a reasonable pace, climb stairs, and navigate uneven pavement.

Presentation Format: General Interest / All Audiences Session
Grade Band Audience: General Interest/All Audiences

Math and arts integration provides opportunities for students to deepen their conceptual understanding, increase fluency, and apply ideas. It engages a wide range of learners and supports the Standards for Mathematical Practice. Come and experience the joy of learning math through the arts.

Presentation Format: General Interest / All Audiences Session
Grade Band Audience: General Interest/All Audiences

Math Workshop is a structure for mathematics instruction that focuses on differentiation. Learn why it is a valuable vehicle for learning and how to establish routines and procedures that will allow student choice, meaningful small-group guided math, and engaging learning stations. Teaching mathematics just got easier and more fun for everyone!

Presentation Format: 3-5 Session
Grade Band Audience: PreK to 2, 3 to 5

Successful blended learning involves more than a mix of teacher-led and technology-based activities. It requires a blend of pedagogies to support the varied instructional needs of a rigorous curriculum that demands procedural fluency, conceptual knowledge, and application. Come see how to blend these elements and maintain mathematical coherence.

Presentation Format: 6-8 Session
Grade Band Audience: 3 to 5, 6 to 8

Higher expectations for student learning needs to be accompanied by the belief that everyone can learn. Learn how our district is working with teachers to address mindsets through the use of research and data with curriculum and professional development. Strategies, resources, and tools will be shared to work with teachers, parents, and students.

Presentation Format: General Interest / All Audiences Session
Grade Band Audience: 6 to 8, 9 to 12

Create “units” which connect textbook geometry to mathematical and nonmathematical fields so that we can deepen understanding of shapes, similarity, scale, and proof, as well as aid in the development of “visual strength.” Specific examples include selections from Euclid and Lobachevsky, as well as examples from chemistry, art, and literature.

Presentation Format: 9-12 Session
Grade Band Audience: 9 to 12

Mathematics is a cultural art developed over thousands of years by people from all parts of the Earth. Modern math textbooks and curricula often overlook this. This presentation will teach you how to incorporate discoveries from many cultures, including China, India, Egypt, and Babylonia, into the math topics you already teach.

Presentation Format: 9-12 Session
Grade Band Audience: 9 to 12

Enjoy TEXAS-SIZE hospitality & generosity! All receive a year's subscription for our Teacher's Choice Award Winning Daily Problem Solving Product! Play "A Minute To Win It" & enjoy other amazing games and ideas you'll use in your classroom Monday assuring students are Multiplication Masters, Fraction Fanatics & Vocabulary Victors! Y'ALL COME!

Presentation Format: Exhibitor Workshops
Grade Band Audience:

“What the heck is a rekenrek?” “What’s the game with a ten-frame?” “Where’s the math with a number path?” It’s easy to be overwhelmed with the amount of tools on the market! Let's revisit the best tools and how they impact young brains, discuss ways to increase math talk, and play engaging activities so we can make good lessons great!

Presentation Format: PreK-2 Gallery Workshop
Grade Band Audience: PreK to 2

Have trouble reaching struggling mathematics students? In today’s classrooms, mathematical knowledge is not enough; teachers must find creative ways to unlock potential in their students. In this session, participants will engage in classroom-ready, research-based strategies and hands-on activities to help tap the potential of struggling students.

Presentation Format: 6-8 Gallery Workshop
Grade Band Audience: 6 to 8

Roll up your sleeves and let’s get to work! Design the nuts and bolts of a PBL unit, and receive feedback on your plans. Learn design ideas and resources for creating your own projects, and building and sustaining a PBL culture in your classroom. Bring back to your school and community a product that addresses rigor, relevance, and relationships.

Presentation Format: 9-12 Gallery Workshop
Grade Band Audience: 6 to 8, 9 to 12

Come and engage in classroom-tested activities involving three aspects of statistical investigations: Gather and analyze experimental data from hands-on-tasks; use TI-84 programs to simulate sets of “big data” for these tasks; and finally, investigate the mathematical models that explain the patterns observed in both real and simulated data.

Presentation Format: 9-12 Gallery Workshop
Grade Band Audience: 6 to 8, 9 to 12

Moving the classic Battleships game to the mathematics classroom, we will explore some basic deductive reasoning and problem-solving strategies to solve Battleships puzzles. We will also look at how this puzzle type can be adapted to different grade levels and abilities. Come with an open and inquisitive mind and a sharpened (or mechanical) pencil!

Presentation Format: 6-8 Gallery Workshop
Grade Band Audience: 6 to 8, 9 to 12

If we want to find a model for a quadratic data set, we have the option of having our calculator perform QuadReg. This regression technique does not help students deepen their understanding of transformations or shed light on the graph of the resulting model. We will use linear regression to find quadratic models in an inventive way.

Presentation Format: 9-12 Gallery Workshop
Grade Band Audience: 9 to 12

Do you have questions on how to make it all work? Together we have answers and ideas on management, parents, homework, keeping your sanity, and more. Join others still in school, just starting, in their early career, or looking for help. Receive gifts, prizes, and good ideas.

Presentation Format: Preservice and In-Service Gallery Workshop
Grade Band Audience: Preservice and Inservice

Practical methods for teaching mathematics in inclusive classrooms can help today’s teachers reach all students. The presenters will share lessons, activities, and tools developed in a collaborative effort between special education and mathematics departments in order to provide K–12 teachers the strategies and support needed to teach effectively.

Presentation Format: General Interest / All Audiences Session
Grade Band Audience: General Interest/All Audiences

Wouldn't it be nice to have your students get everything right all the time? Not really! Teach your students to view making mistakes as powerful learning opportunities and create a classroom environment where persistence and perseverance through mistake-making are expected and appreciated.

Presentation Format: 6-8 Session
Grade Band Audience: 3 to 5, 6 to 8

Do you find the statistics standards from the middle school CCSS perplexing? dense? confusing? We’ll unpack the meaty parts of the statistics 6–8 standards and look at as some examples of how to make them come to life in the classroom. Topics will include variability in data, measures of center, measures of spread, and representative sampling.

Presentation Format: 6-8 Session
Grade Band Audience: 6 to 8

Achievement data indicates that rational and irrational numbers are difficult for most children (NAEP 2011; 2013). This session is specifically designed to provide lesson ideas on fractions, decimal fractions, and decimal expansions, and to help teachers build children's understanding of rational and irrational numbers, their properties, and number sets.

Presentation Format: 6-8 Session
Grade Band Audience: 6 to 8, Preservice and Inservice

Imagine a world that does not dislike fractions! Presenting fractions is the key to your student's success. This session will compare traditional to nontraditional strategies for simplifying, adding, and subtracting fractions. Did you know students can be taught to add and subtract fractions quickly in their heads without finding a common denominator?

Presentation Format: 9-12 Session
Grade Band Audience: 6 to 8, 9 to 12

In today’s data-driven world, students of all ages must be prepared to analyze real-world information to make better decisions about everyday life. This session will provide examples of high-interest contexts and strategies to engage students’ interest while building math skills and positive dispositions. Classroom-ready resources will be provided.

Presentation Format: 6-8 Session
Grade Band Audience: 6 to 8, 9 to 12

Math in Art, Technology, and History class is designed for students who are more interested in STEAM (the A stands for ART) than STEM. The class explores mathematics through units such as the Golden Ratio, Math and Music, Tessellations, Architecture, Fractals, Origami, the History of Numbers and Counting, and Computer Animation.

Presentation Format: 9-12 Session
Grade Band Audience: 9 to 12

Often we use timed tests and flash cards to "teach" math facts, a method that simply assesses and practices the facts that are known. So how do you teach math facts? Come learn several strategies for teaching your students math facts with manipulatives. We know that when students know their math facts fluently they are more successful at math in upper grades.

Presentation Format: PreK-2 Gallery Workshop
Grade Band Audience: PreK to 2, 3 to 5

What does it mean for students to be fluent with multiplication facts? How can we help them meet the facts goals of CCSSM? Through analysis of student work and video of classroom teaching, participants will explore and discuss effective multiplication fact strategies and meaningful practice opportunities that help children work towards mastery.

Presentation Format: 3-5 Gallery Workshop
Grade Band Audience: 3 to 5

Do calculators have a place in the elementary classroom? Of course they do! This session will assist teachers in rethinking how calculators might be used in grades 3–5 mathematics lessons. Every attendee will walk away with classroom-ready ideas that are student centered and inquiry based. Bring your technology and have "sum" fun!

Presentation Format: 3-5 Gallery Workshop
Grade Band Audience: 3 to 5

This presentation will focus on various instructional activities to enhance student learning of algebra 1. Come learn different ways to teach quadratics, exponentials, systems, lines, and everything Common Core! Attendees will obtain a plethora of lessons, links, songs, and activities to use in their classroom.

Presentation Format: 9-12 Gallery Workshop
Grade Band Audience: 6 to 8, 9 to 12

Integral defined functions can serve as an introduction to the fundamental theorem of calculus. Paper-pencil and technology activities focus on connections between these functions and the derivative function. Hands-on investigations designed to help students improve their conceptual understanding of the FTC and AP problems involving FTC.

Presentation Format: 9-12 Gallery Workshop
Grade Band Audience: 9 to 12

Black and white math takes on some color. Use contra dancing to get students out of their seats and learning to create composite transformations. Especially good for kinesthetic learners, students can learn to write, analyze, and perform a real dance built on math. Students can also analyze music and create 2-D art.

Presentation Format: 9-12 Gallery Workshop
Grade Band Audience: 9 to 12

Participants will be actively engaged in using algebra tiles to show operations on polynomials, algebraic multiplication, factoring, and completing the square. While using the tiles, teachers will learn how to help students transition from the concrete (manipulative) to the abstract (paper and pencil).

Presentation Format: 9-12 Gallery Workshop
Grade Band Audience: 9 to 12

Engage in integrated math and science activities that develop critical thinking skills while applying concepts of number sense, ratios and proportions, and scientific notation with science topics of earthquakes, landforms, and earth/moon/sun relationships. Participants will discuss ways to build constructive thinking in math and science.

Presentation Format: Preservice and In-Service Gallery Workshop
Grade Band Audience: Preservice and Inservice

NCTM's Principles to Actions calls for students to take a much more active role in learning math. This dynamic and inspirational session will illuminate what education research, science, psychology, and business has uncovered about the factors that impact intrinsic motivation. These factors are independent of culture, socioeconomic status, and race.

Presentation Format: General Interest / All Audiences Session
Grade Band Audience: General Interest/All Audiences

Learn how free resources from the U.S. Department of Education–funded Ready to Learn program can support the development of math skills in early learners. Experience Common Core–aligned resources that reinforce learning in school, at home, and in expanded learning settings. Hear the latest research on transmedia and early math skill development.

Presentation Format: PreK-2 Session
Grade Band Audience: PreK to 2

Come to this session to learn how to help your students engage in meaningful mathematics discussions. We will explore what happened when a second-grade teacher allowed his students to speak without first raising their hands during whole group instruction. Spoiler alert: The results were amazing! Video examples and practical advice will be shared.

Presentation Format: PreK-2 Session
Grade Band Audience: PreK to 2, 3 to 5

These visual components sit at the intersection of Common Core, Singapore Math, and now technology! Learn why this visual model for word problems is so powerful, try some problems from the simple to the complex, and investigate web-based programs and iPad apps that will help anyone incorporate this effective strategy into their classrooms.

Presentation Format: 3-5 Session
Grade Band Audience: 3 to 5

Students, including English language learners, benefit from lessons that are designed to develop concepts, vocabulary, and problem solving through structured student talk and collaboration focused on important, yet challenging and potentially confusing mathematics concepts and tasks. Explore a sequence of lessons that develop proportional thinking.

Presentation Format: 6-8 Session
Grade Band Audience: 6 to 8

Finding high impact math classroom techniques that enable Asperger’s students to succeed with little additional teacher preparation time required is difficult. We will discuss specific techniques, gleaned from teacher interviews, and the targeted manifestations that each addresses, from choosing and executing strategies to explaining and showing work.

Presentation Format: 6-8 Session
Grade Band Audience: 6 to 8

Gone are the days of lengthy and irrelevant word problems! Help your students learn to think critically and develop a common core of knowledge necessary for success in the future. Receive easy-to-follow guidelines and rubrics that will prepare you to indulge your students' needs to apply mathematics outside of the classroom.

Presentation Format: 6-8 Session
Grade Band Audience: 6 to 8

A common characteristic of good lessons worldwide is that students are intellectually engaged in solving and reasoning through rich mathematical problems. I will share several problems that I have seen during observations in Japan and have subsequently used in the U.S. I will also discuss some features I have found common among these rich problems.

Presentation Format: 6-8 Session
Grade Band Audience: 6 to 8, 9 to 12

Teachers are always looking for the "right" answers from students, often ignoring opportunities to generate learning from "wrong" answers. This presentation describes methods of building a culture of learning where students feel safe to share ideas, work, and questions inside the classroom.

Presentation Format: 9-12 Session
Grade Band Audience: 9 to 12

How can the Standards for Mathematical Practice of CCSSM be addressed within a standardized testing environment? How can innovative question types encourage reasoning, problem solving, and the recognition of structure? How can assessments help teachers build students’ mathematical proficiency? Come hear the answers to these questions and more.

Presentation Format: 9-12 Session
Grade Band Audience: 9 to 12

Developing a secondary methods course and integrated field experience is challenging. We will share our experience in taking on this challenge: what we are doing, how this has changed our methods course and field experience, what we've learned, and the benefits and continuing challenges of integrating these important components of teacher preparation.

Presentation Format: Preservice and In-Service Session
Grade Band Audience: Preservice and Inservice

Are blank stares all too familiar when you teach fractions? Grab those iPads, Chromebooks, and laptops, and start using Woot Math today for free. Woot Math’s adaptive solution is research backed, NSF supported, and proven to address the gaps in your students’ understanding. Come and see if our award winning solution doesn’t make you Woot! out loud.

Presentation Format: Exhibitor Workshops
Grade Band Audience:

How effective is the professional development at your school? In the age of the Internet, there is no reason that PD should be a waste of time. Come learn how you can support the development of your teaching practice as well your colleagues' practices through blog-studies and connecting with like-minded teachers. New teachers especially welcome.

Presentation Format: General Interest / All Audiences Burst
Grade Band Audience: General Interest/All Audiences

This session will describe a summative assessment in which middle school students create a comic strip. A rubric was used to evaluate the students’ depth of mathematical understanding displayed in the comic. The presenters will share the assignment, rubric, student work samples, and the effect of cartoons on students’ attitude toward mathematics.

Presentation Format: General Interest / All Audiences Burst
Grade Band Audience: General Interest/All Audiences

This session will demonstrate the use of landmark numbers in the primary grades through tasks adapted from the book series Teaching Student-Centered Mathematics by John Van de Walle. A progression will be explored as number relationships are developed. The activities will include number relationships from 5 to 1000.

Presentation Format: PreK-2 Burst
Grade Band Audience: PreK to 2

How can using proportional relationships and equivalent ratios help divide fractions? Can teachers really get away without saying "keep, change, flip"? Participants will learn how to teach students fraction division while refining their numeracy skills furthering the development of their understanding of proportional relationships and number sense.

Presentation Format: 6-8 Burst
Grade Band Audience: 6 to 8

Hear about one teacher's efforts to detrack mathematics courses at his urban middle school over a two-year period, both the challenges and the successes. Learn about the research base that supported this effort, the changes to instructional practice that accompanied the shift, and the outcomes for students that were realized.

Presentation Format: 6-8 Burst
Grade Band Audience: 6 to 8

How can teachers provide access to the Standards for Mathematical Practice? Differentiated assessments, developed using research-based Universal Design for Learning principles, are described. Strategies to increase access and engagement for students with and without disabilities on key Common Core math practice and content standards are emphasized.

Presentation Format: 9-12 Burst
Grade Band Audience: 6 to 8, 9 to 12

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.

Presentation Format: 9-12 Burst
Grade Band Audience: 6 to 8, 9 to 12

By connecting geometric concepts to real-world photos, videos, and technology, teachers can engage students and create meaningful and lasting learning experiences. I will present a variety of means by which teachers can incorporate architecture from around the world to create lessons that are exciting, multicultural, and student relevant.

Presentation Format: 9-12 Burst
Grade Band Audience: 9 to 12

Risk taking is an essential disposition of mathematicians, and a key component of a growth mindset. Students must leave their comfort zones to make conjectures, embrace challenges, persevere, and learn from mistakes. We’ll share several effective instructional strategies for creating safe learning communities and teaching mathematical courage!

Presentation Format: General Interest / All Audiences Session
Grade Band Audience: General Interest/All Audiences

Students often care more about grades and less about understanding mathematics because percent-based grading systems distract from key outcomes. Learn how teachers collaborated to turn standards into Novice-Expert rubrics that improved tests, lessons, and student performance. Hear how rubrics transform curriculum, grading, and rigor at any grade level.

Presentation Format: General Interest / All Audiences Session
Grade Band Audience: General Interest/All Audiences

For more than two decades NCTM, the National Research Council, and now the Common Core have called for students to learn mathematical processes, proficiency, and practices. What mathematical habits of instruction can help all students develop these powerful mathematical habits of mind—thinking, reasoning, sense making, and problem solving?

Presentation Format: General Interest / All Audiences Session
Grade Band Audience: General Interest/All Audiences

Success in mathematics is often measured by grades. Yet, some students receive high grades without really understanding the mathematics. This session will highlight several key teaching practices that encourage deep conceptual understanding as well as some practices that unintentionally support students' “thoughtless excellence.”

Presentation Format: General Interest / All Audiences Session
Grade Band Audience: General Interest/All Audiences

The Common Core calls for students to communicate their reasoning. Did you know they are expected to do so in writing? Come learn about writing connections between the math and English language arts standards, assessment expectations, and ways to construct quality prompts. We will share research results and strategies that you can implement in your own classroom!

Presentation Format: 3-5 Session
Grade Band Audience: PreK to 2, 3 to 5

To meet the rigor of the CCSS, classroom instruction should build conceptual understanding, increase procedural skill and fluency, and provide application of skills in real-world situations. This session will use Bloom’s Taxonomy and Webb’s Depth of Knowledge to adapt existing math problems to a higher levels of rigor and complexity.

Presentation Format: 6-8 Session
Grade Band Audience: 6 to 8

Tired of using phone-plan and gym membership word problems? We created a bank of word problems based on social issues and diversity that enhance algebraic concepts. Economic diversity, gender equality, and literacy rates are used to reinforce linear equations and solving equations and other algebraic concepts. We hope to spark change through algebra.

Presentation Format: 6-8 Session
Grade Band Audience: 6 to 8

What are the tips and trade secrets for engaging students in meaningful mathematical discourse? Is it magic? Smoke and mirrors? No way. Participants will explore teacher moves to encourage a classroom culture that values student discourse, persistence and effort, and participation and engagement for all students.

Presentation Format: 6-8 Session
Grade Band Audience: 6 to 8, 9 to 12

Too often, students arrive at a new math concept without the pre-skills necessary to engage in it. An Assess-Respond-Instruct cycle can help to prepare students by finding out what they know and don’t know, responding to learning needs, and getting ready for rich new instruction. Increasing ability to engage math leads to increased achievement.

Presentation Format: 6-8 Session
Grade Band Audience: 6 to 8, 9 to 12

Lois's students needed chances to practice their mathematical communication. Arlene's students needed chances to practice solving rich problems. The solution: Lois and Arlene's students both solved the same problem, and then Lois's students each mentored one of Arlene's. Come learn about the hows, whys, and what happened in this multinational project.

Presentation Format: 9-12 Session
Grade Band Audience: 6 to 8, 9 to 12

Students are often taught that complex numbers are solutions to previously unsolvable equations. This is historically inaccurate, and often unsatisfying to students. What are complex numbers good for? In this session we'll share problems that create a need for complex numbers, while drawing connections between transformations, geometry, and algebra.

Presentation Format: 9-12 Session
Grade Band Audience: 9 to 12, Higher Education

We use writing assignments, online surveys, and other feedback strategies to encourage self-monitoring and promote independent learning by struggling students as they transition from high school to college level mathematics classes. Details of these activities and the effects on course grades and other measures of achievement will be shared.

Presentation Format: Higher Education Session
Grade Band Audience: 9 to 12, Higher Education

Teaching geometry concepts such as surface area/volume and similarity/congruence in a climate of high stakes testing can be a daunting and challenging task. The Geometry Assessments for Secondary Teachers, an NSF-funded project, will report on its research results revealing what factors impact student achievement in secondary geometry classrooms.

Presentation Format: Research Session
Grade Band Audience: Higher Education, Preservice and Inservice

How can you support your students’ ability to explain and justify their thinking and critique the reasoning of others? This can seem difficult to develop, especially at the primary level. It doesn’t need to be! Come see what this looks like in the elementary classroom and get ideas and tools to support your own students’ work in this area.

Presentation Format: PreK-2 Gallery Workshop
Grade Band Audience: PreK to 2, 3 to 5

Get ready to experience engaging student-centered learning activities that transform arithmetic into opportunities for students to wrestle with real-world problem-solving situations, discover patterns, make generalizations, and justify solutions. Leave with classroom-ready activities and ideas that you can use immediately.

Presentation Format: 3-5 Gallery Workshop
Grade Band Audience: 3 to 5, 6 to 8

This workshop will focus on creating productive mathematical discourse and getting students to constructively argue. Explore activities connected to the Common Core requiring students to construct viable arguments, critique the reasoning of others, and use sense making. Focus on classroom implementation, student support, and free online resources.

Presentation Format: 6-8 Gallery Workshop
Grade Band Audience: 6 to 8

NCTM identifies eight instructional moves for teaching with equity. We will begin with examples of middle grades teachers applying these moves, followed by in-depth applications of a proportional reasoning unit. Participants will use easy-to-manage, inexpensive-to-prepare, hands-on activities to explore proportionality and connections to prealgebra.

Presentation Format: 6-8 Gallery Workshop
Grade Band Audience: 6 to 8

This session will focus on tasks that build conceptual understanding of ratios and proportion, thus preparing students for future work in linear functions. Participants will engage in ready-to-use activities for sixth- and seventh-grade classrooms, and will understand of the differences in the ratio and proportion content of these grade levels.

Presentation Format: 6-8 Gallery Workshop
Grade Band Audience: 6 to 8

Participants will experience various examples of how growing patterns modeled with toothpicks, two-color counters, and pattern blocks can be teamed with unexecuted number expressions to introduce and reinforce algebraic expressions to students in grades 3–9. Mathematical Practice 3 will be highlighted throughout the presentation.

Presentation Format: Preservice and In-Service Gallery Workshop
Grade Band Audience: 6 to 8, Preservice and Inservice

Come learn 28 (a perfect number) activities to promote student discourse and engagement that can also be used for informal assessment in any mathematics classroom in 6–12. Participants will participate in and learn numerous ways to turn any worksheet into an engaging activity.

Presentation Format: 9-12 Gallery Workshop
Grade Band Audience: 6 to 8, 9 to 12

Discover how to engage students in mathematical vocabulary to deepen their understanding of content knowledge and create meaningful learning. Come and experience this hands-on approach to teaching vocabulary through the lens of a student and leave with CCSSM vocabulary strategies that you can immediately implement in the classroom as a teacher.

Presentation Format: 6-8 Gallery Workshop
Grade Band Audience: 6 to 8, 9 to 12

Problem posing turns students and teachers into producers—not just consumers—of mathematics. Asking “what if . . .   not?” and changing just one element of a familiar task can open up new territory, inspire excitement, and lead to deeper analysis. Explore new problems based on familiar topics and see ways other teachers have handled them.

Presentation Format: 9-12 Gallery Workshop
Grade Band Audience: 6 to 8, 9 to 12

Group and partner activities to get students active and talking. Participants will find the volume of a solid of revolution, take a journey through a slope field, and work with an AP review activity. Ready to bring back to your classroom.

Presentation Format: 9-12 Gallery Workshop
Grade Band Audience: 9 to 12

Handheld technology coupled with inquiry-based learning helps students to better apply linear, quadratic, and exponential functions to their real-world applications. Participants are provided with classroom-ready, hands-on lessons that synthesize the Statistics, Functions, and Modeling strands of the Common Core State Standards.

Presentation Format: 9-12 Gallery Workshop
Grade Band Audience: 9 to 12

This session will discuss how the use of routines in the early childhood classroom can be used to exemplify the CCSS Standards for Mathematical Practice. Specific routines will be shared that connect to the various domains with suggestions for differentiation in order to allow routines to grow and deepen as the year progresses.

Presentation Format: PreK-2 Session
Grade Band Audience: PreK to 2

The common denominator approach can be used to compare any two fractions, but it is not always the most efficient strategy. Participants will develop alternative strategies for comparing fractions that draw upon number sense and reasoning, consider instances in which each strategy would be useful, and discuss how these strategies align to CCSSM.

Presentation Format: 3-5 Session
Grade Band Audience: 3 to 5, 6 to 8

Being able to recite the slope formula is not good enough. During this session we will examine concepts of rate, unit rate, and the constant of proportionality as they relate to slope—specifically, that the slope of a proportional relationship is equal to the unit rate. Further, we will model how to use similar triangles to derive the slope formula.

Presentation Format: 6-8 Session
Grade Band Audience: 6 to 8

In grades 7–12, CCSSM expects students to understand transformations as functions. This profound link allows students to build a transformation, drag its input (a point), describe the output's behavior, restrict the domain to a number line, and voilà!—end up with a linear function and its Cartesian graph. Leave with student-ready GSP activities.

Presentation Format: General Interest / All Audiences Session
Grade Band Audience: 6 to 8, 9 to 12

Many schools are now considering standards-based grading as a way to boost student achievement. How does it work? Should you switch? What are the real advantages and disadvantages? Hear a frank appraisal from two teachers who've used the system successfully.

Presentation Format: 9-12 Session
Grade Band Audience: 9 to 12

See innovative ways to assess student learning through hands-on applications, infographics, anonymous polling, collaborative work, and error analysis. Emphasis will be on both formative and summative assessments. Assessments from geometry and precalculus will be provided but can be adapted easily to other math content.

Presentation Format: 9-12 Session
Grade Band Audience: 9 to 12

The reasoning used in mathematical proof is based on linguistic and logical conventions that are rarely made explicit to students. Familiarity with basic logical principles can help resolve the mystery—both for what teachers say in class and for the mathematical tasks students are asked to perform by themselves.

Presentation Format: 9-12 Session
Grade Band Audience: 9 to 12, Higher Education

Many students are confused by the definitions, formulas, and procedures of statistics. As a result, the study of statistics may become a rote activity. The focus of this presentation will be on some of the software, apps, and websites that provide dynamic visualization of important concepts in statistics in order to reinforce meaning for students.

Presentation Format: Higher Education Session
Grade Band Audience: 9 to 12, Higher Education

In this interactive hands-on workshop we will be solving Algebra and Geometry problems with the HP Prime Graphing Calculator and brand new Wireless Connectivity Kit. See how schools are benefiting from this advanced technology and discover how you can send instant polls, send/collect data, create apps, view student screens and more!

Presentation Format: Exhibitor Workshops
Grade Band Audience:

In order for mathematics to make sense for students, they must build their own understanding through problem-based mathematics. Join us to examine the core differences between a problem-based approach to mathematics and direct instruction. Find out how teaching in a problem-based format increases understanding and also supports the Standards for Mathematical Practice.

Presentation Format: 3-5 Gallery Workshop
Grade Band Audience: PreK to 2, 3 to 5

We need parents to join in building student confidence in mathematics. We want parents to see that math is a part of daily life and share that with their children. Participants will have the opportunity to learn some engaging ideas for involving parents in activities with fractions and decimals.

Presentation Format: 3-5 Gallery Workshop
Grade Band Audience: 3 to 5

The foundation of mathematics is a conceptual understanding of our base-10 number system. Such groundwork includes identifying numerals used in base 10, connecting symbolic representations of the number 10 using both groupable and pre-grouped manipulatives, and switching bases to more fully understand the challenges students face in the classroom.

Presentation Format: 3-5 Gallery Workshop
Grade Band Audience: 3 to 5, Preservice and Inservice

Get ready to experience a task that shows how student expectations in statistics change as students move from middle into high school. Participants will engage in a hands-on activity that follows the progression of the CCSSM statistics standards. Leave the presentation with activities that are ready to be used immediately.

Presentation Format: 6-8 Gallery Workshop
Grade Band Audience: 6 to 8, 9 to 12

When working with recursive equations, students often have difficulty understanding what can happen in the system and in predicting long-term behavior. In this session, participants will get to try out several hands-on activities to use in class that will improve student understanding of equilibrium in recursive systems.

Presentation Format: 9-12 Gallery Workshop
Grade Band Audience: 9 to 12

Learn hands-on, conceptual lessons to help students understand what a quadratic function is. Activities, such as Spoon Launcher, Rolling Hot Wheels, and Packing Seats on an Airplane will engage even the most reluctant of learners. Activities include focus on math practices and academic language support. Lessons you can use next week!

Presentation Format: 9-12 Gallery Workshop
Grade Band Audience: 9 to 12

This session features the new (and free) NCTM materials to support and focus professional learning on the research-based teaching practices in Principles to Actions. Engage in analysis of effective mathematics teaching using video cases and resources from selected modules and then continue the conversation with colleagues back in your districts.

Presentation Format: PreK-2 Session
Grade Band Audience:

What instructional design elements help struggling students master Common Core State Standards? See how to implement the Department of Education’s recommendations for designing lessons that support high needs learners. Participants will experience evidence-based strategies and receive handouts summarizing the recommendations and listing resources.

Presentation Format: General Interest / All Audiences Session
Grade Band Audience: General Interest/All Audiences

NCTM’s Principles to Actions outlines a set of strongly recommended, research-informed actions for all mathematics educators. Learn how the leadership at two middle schools used this resource to move from “pockets of excellence” to “systemic excellence” in mathematics education.

Presentation Format: General Interest / All Audiences Session
Grade Band Audience: General Interest/All Audiences

What makes mathematics educators passionate? Join us and find out! Our ten mathematics educators 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 twenty slides that auto­ advance every fifteen seconds­ whether they’re ready or not. Featuring Robert Berry, Peg Cagle, Rafranz Davis, Annie Fetter, Darshan Jain, Dan Meyer, Eric Milou, Max Ray, Robyn Silbey and Ellie Terry. Emcee'd by NCTM President Diane Briars. Facilitated by Suzanne Alejandre and Stephen Weimar from The Math Forum @ Drexel.

Presentation Format: General Interest / All Audiences Session
Grade Band Audience: General Interest/All Audiences

Discussion of NSF-funded research to develop teaching strategies that simultaneously support ELLs’ language development and mathematical meaning-making through engagement in mathematical discourse focused on the key practices of argumentation, attention to precision, and expression of regularity in repeated reasoning.

Presentation Format: Research Session
Grade Band Audience: General Interest/All Audiences

What happens when a line bends? A shape begins! In this session we explore how to utilize mathematical discourse to enhance student understanding of mathematical concepts. From construction of the social environment to pedagogical considerations, we tackle the geometry standards through discourse, children’s literature, and innovative activities.

Presentation Format: PreK-2 Session
Grade Band Audience: PreK to 2, Preservice and Inservice

If your students like to innovate, model, tinker, and share, they will love coding for authentic learning in math. Take them beyond “The Hour of Code.” Learn how programming projects are set up as performance assessments aligned to CCSSM. Explore tools and project ideas, and hear student voices on growth, confidence, and interest in STEM.

Presentation Format: 6-8 Session
Grade Band Audience: 6 to 8, 9 to 12

Writing can support and enhance mathematics learning–and is essential to full implementation of the Common Core math standards. The Common Core literacy standards provide a framework for effective writing-in-mathematics practices. We will use the literacy standards to develop lessons and assignments that integrate writing and mathematics to support deeper learning.

Presentation Format: 9-12 Session
Grade Band Audience: 6 to 8, 9 to 12

Every continuous function is the derivative of another function. Even the ones that are not listed in a table of basic antiderivatives! We can integrate some derivatives, we can analyze the graphs of some derivatives, and we can use technology to help us define function values for other derivatives.

Presentation Format: 9-12 Session
Grade Band Audience: 9 to 12

Students struggle with word problems whether in elementary grades with a variety of whole number and fraction operations or the middle grades with ratio, proportion, and algebraic problems. This session will demonstrate the power of visual models to help students see mathematical relationships and solve even complex problems and applications

Presentation Format: General Interest / All Audiences Session
Grade Band Audience: General Interest/All Audiences

When students explore the number line, they begin to see what exists between whole numbers. Fractions are an integral component of building numerical reasoning, problem solving, and communication. This session focuses on enhancing students’ understanding of fractions by engaging them in discussions and tasks about why fractions are amazing!

Presentation Format: 3-5 Session
Grade Band Audience: 3 to 5

I did it—so can you! Join me while I share my journey as a middle school RtI leader. By building classroom culture, focusing on whole student approaches, utilizing research-based instruction, and developing schoolwide methods I was able to meet the needs of my highly diverse students.

Presentation Format: 6-8 Session
Grade Band Audience: 6 to 8

Students benefit from productive discourse in math. We will share strategies which incorporate practice standards and examples for grades 6–8 content: sticky note warmup, critique sheet, 4 color card matching, philosophical chairs, Socratic circles, and jigsaws. Leave with activities to use in your classroom on Monday.

Presentation Format: 6-8 Session
Grade Band Audience: 6 to 8

Analyzing worked examples, or sampling correct, incorrect, and/or incomplete solutions, can support learning of mathematical concepts, problem-solving transfer, and knowledge of problem-solving strategies. Worked examples support English language learners in particular by providing scaffolded opportunities for mathematical reasoning and communication.

Presentation Format: 6-8 Session
Grade Band Audience: 6 to 8, Preservice and Inservice

What makes a great assessment? High-quality assessment practices can inform both teachers and students on the progression of learning the content and process standards. Come experience “high-quality assessment processes” that exemplify the focus, coherence, and rigor of CCSSM. Analyze student work to learn how to guide further instruction.

Presentation Format: 9-12 Session
Grade Band Audience: 9 to 12

Engage your students in the modeling process by exploring data that represents the motion of a cycloid. We will demonstrate how to capture the data from a video and illustrate the geometric underpinnings that verify the model. Data will be shared in various formats along with a GeoGebra file that connects the algebraic and geometric concepts.

Presentation Format: 9-12 Session
Grade Band Audience: 9 to 12

Too often we hear the frustrated call—"I just don't understand any of this!" Come and learn effective strategies for training students to articulate their confusions about mathematical concepts and for differentiating developmentally appropriate challenges. Help your students build confidence and learn to communicate mathematically.

Presentation Format: 9-12 Session
Grade Band Audience: 9 to 12, Preservice and Inservice

Learn how tablets helped create an environment of reflection and growth while illustrating the Mathematics Teaching Practices in Principles to Actions. Integration of applications, field-based assignments, and assessment ideas will be discussed. Participants will leave with a wealth of ideas and possibilities to improve the self-reflection process for teachers.

Presentation Format: Higher Education Session
Grade Band Audience: Higher Education, Preservice and Inservice

The Common Core State Standards and other state standards emphasize statistics, particularly in grades 6-12. Effective implementation depends on teachers’ work in the classroom. This session presents the Statistics Education of Teachers recommendations, including the Mathematics Practice Standards under a statistical lens and grade-band examples illustrating the statistical thinking process.

Presentation Format: General Interest / All Audiences Session
Grade Band Audience:

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.

Presentation Format: PreK-2 Gallery Workshop
Grade Band Audience: PreK to 2, Preservice and Inservice

This workshop will explore practices that promote mathematical discourse in the elementary classroom. Learning experiences with fractions and measurement will be used to actively engage workshop participants in firsthand use of these practices.

Presentation Format: PreK-2 Gallery Workshop
Grade Band Audience: PreK to 2, 3 to 5

Participants will explore how they can make mathematics problem solving more accessible to children with diverse learning needs. They will investigate how context increases access to mathematics learning, use sense-making tools that support understanding across multiple grades, and make connections to the Standards for Mathematical Practice.

Presentation Format: Preservice and In-Service Gallery Workshop
Grade Band Audience: PreK to 2, 3 to 5

This hands-on workshop will engage participants in rich tasks that illuminate the Standards for Math Practice. While our focus will be on SMP 4, as we explore real-world problems through multimedia, participants will discover how many SMP's are involved when solving meaningful problems. Participants will receive resources and activities.

Presentation Format: 3-5 Gallery Workshop
Grade Band Audience: 3 to 5

Tape diagrams help children to represent complex problems found in CCSSM testing. Bar models, in particular, work for all learners to make sense of complex word problems. This session will focus on how to lead children from beginning stages of whole number operations through fraction operation modeling from second up through sixth grades.

Presentation Format: 3-5 Gallery Workshop
Grade Band Audience: 3 to 5

Participants will extend conceptually-based computational models found in elementary school to beginning algebra by using base-ten blocks to develop algorithms used by elementary students and then using algebra tiles to develop the analogous algebraic algorithms.

Presentation Format: 6-8 Gallery Workshop
Grade Band Audience: 3 to 5, 6 to 8

Knowledge of number and problem solving are key to mathematical success. Engage in an environment that promotes differentiation and reinforces and reinvests math concepts. Implementing a math workshop develops routines that foster cooperation and independence. We will share resources and strategies for implementation, accountability, and management.

Presentation Format: 3-5 Gallery Workshop
Grade Band Audience: 3 to 5, 6 to 8

This workshop will give teachers great lessons and tools to teach students about radians. We'll learn by rolling out radian number lines, building trig curves, doing measurement tasks, and examining radian angle measures in polygons. Teachers will be ready to teach the three radian Common Core standards, and they'll get to keep the set of radian scale protractors!

Presentation Format: 9-12 Gallery Workshop
Grade Band Audience: 9 to 12

NCTM's Principles to Actions calls for teachers to “Implement tasks that promote reasoning and problem solving.” In this session, we identify problem solving and reasoning in Smarter Balanced and PARCC released items. We will explore ways to modify textbook tasks to draw out similar practices. Please come ready to share your strategies as well!

Presentation Format: 9-12 Gallery Workshop
Grade Band Audience: 9 to 12

Investigate how transformations can be used as a unifying theme across the high school mathematics curriculum. Discuss and reflect how to effectively introduce transformations in both algebraic and geometric instruction. Activities developed for courses created as part of a university/school district collaboration will be shared.

Presentation Format: 9-12 Gallery Workshop
Grade Band Audience: 9 to 12

CCSS S-IC.5 asks students to use simulations to evaluate if two treatments are significantly different. Using an episode of Mythbusters, we will explore simulations to challenge their conclusion about contagious yawns. Simulations will be performed using cards, calculators, and software. A variety of other contexts for simulations will be provided.

Presentation Format: 9-12 Gallery Workshop
Grade Band Audience: 9 to 12

Girls tend to struggle with spatial skills, which can influence their performance in the STEM disciplines. Art is one effective medium for developing spatial skills. This session will provide instructional strategies, activities, and resources for helping girls (and boys!) develop spatial skills through multicultural art activities.

Presentation Format: General Interest / All Audiences Session
Grade Band Audience: General Interest/All Audiences

Our students come to class preprogrammed to receive instant answers to their math questions. Like a Google search, they expect us to provide a quick and simple answer. We will discuss how to improve student learning and achievement by not providing the neat, tidy answers they desire.

Presentation Format: General Interest / All Audiences Session
Grade Band Audience: General Interest/All Audiences

Students must understand fractions as numbers and learn to perform computations involving fractions. Modeling fractions in rectangular area models and on the number line creates this understanding, forming an arc of continuity beginning with the introduction of fractions in third grade and extending to division of fractions at the end of fifth.

Presentation Format: 3-5 Session
Grade Band Audience: 3 to 5

"The CCSSM standards say students should be able to compare ratios. My students can compare fractions, is that enough?" No! The ability to compare ratios is vital for the development of ratio reasoning. We describe a sequence of engaging comparison tasks that lead to deep ratio understanding.

Presentation Format: 6-8 Session
Grade Band Audience: 6 to 8

A negative times a negative is positive. That may be true, but does it make any sense? It can, in the right context. Learn how to use real-world contexts, well-designed tasks, chip and number-line models, and coordinate graphs to help students make sense of integer operations.

Presentation Format: 6-8 Session
Grade Band Audience: 6 to 8

Want your students to know what lies beyond the basic content, while still empowering struggling students? Participants will learn how to provide hints while modeling a problem-solving process and how to guide students beyond getting an answer to develop conjectures and consider special cases. Leave with warm-up activities and project ideas!

Presentation Format: 9-12 Session
Grade Band Audience: 9 to 12, Preservice and Inservice

The Common Core uses multiple models of fractions to help elementary students gain deep understanding of the concept and proficiency with skills. This workshop will explore the benefits of each model to help transform your teaching of fractions.

Presentation Format: 3-5 Gallery Workshop
Grade Band Audience: 3 to 5

This session will be a deep dive with the properties of multiplication, multi-digit x/÷, and the Standards for Mathematical Practice. Participants will investigate the conceptual meaning of these concepts through practice-rich tasks. This session will expose how these concepts are developed across grades. Resources will be shared.

Presentation Format: 3-5 Gallery Workshop
Grade Band Audience: 3 to 5

This session will examine the unfinished learning that your students may have in fractions. With the help of some Common Core resources, we will learn how to assess their knowledge of fractions and use these assessments to teach our grade level standards. We will also look at grade-level lessons that can be used to fill in the holes.

Presentation Format: 6-8 Gallery Workshop
Grade Band Audience: 6 to 8

This session will engage participants in three mathematical tasks that catalyze NCTM’s messages around reasoning and sense making while tapping a set of habits of mind closely aligned with the Standards for Mathematical Practice.

Presentation Format: 9-12 Gallery Workshop
Grade Band Audience: 6 to 8, 9 to 12

Learn how to use GeoGebra for statistical investigations and analyses. Participants will explore concepts, make graphical displays, compute statistics, do probability calculations, find regression lines, and carry out inferential methods (significance tests and confidence intervals). Please have GeoGebra installed in advance (www.geogebra.org).

Presentation Format: 9-12 Gallery Workshop
Grade Band Audience: 6 to 8, 9 to 12

This gallery workshop will model how to effectively use mathematical study teams during classroom instruction to support the teaching of the Common Core Standards for Mathematical Practice such as making sense of problems, persevering in problem solving, attending to precision, and modeling with mathematics.

Presentation Format: 6-8 Gallery Workshop
Grade Band Audience: 6 to 8, 9 to 12

Participants will evaluate sample arguments for the Sticky Gum Problem, accessible to middle grades through college-level learners and focused on reasoning/proof. From our evaluations, we will develop criteria for what counts as proof, and we will discuss how to facilitate a similar experience with students. Sean Yee will also facilitate the session.

Presentation Format: Preservice and In-Service Gallery Workshop
Grade Band Audience: Preservice and Inservice

The Common Core emphasizes the importance of students being able to explain their thinking and reasoning in mathematics. Learn how teachers can foster good mathematical communication among students through the strategic use of various forms of classroom talk. Leave with strategies and materials ready to use the next day in a classroom.

Presentation Format: 3-5 Session
Grade Band Audience: PreK to 2, 3 to 5

While iPads/tablets have many potential educational uses, the most powerful of these are creating and communicating. Both teachers and students can use whiteboard apps to create and access manipulatives or templates that support exploration of mathematical ideas. They can then communicate and confirm their understandings by creating video explanations.

Presentation Format: 6-8 Session
Grade Band Audience: 3 to 5, 6 to 8

This is a culminating activity to demonstrate mastery of the skills involved for constructing linear relationships. Each student creates a design with a variety of line segments that shows their knowledge of writing and graphing equations. There are multiple versions with different degrees of complexity depending on student ability and interest.

Presentation Format: 6-8 Session
Grade Band Audience: 6 to 8, 9 to 12

Have you marveled at the beauty of the Mandelbrot set but never understood how it is created? Have you wondered where complex numbers, binomial expansion, polar form, and DeMoivre’s theorem all combine to simply create the Mandelbrot set? We investigate how the fractal is interactively drawn in the Processing.org computer language.

Presentation Format: 9-12 Session
Grade Band Audience: 9 to 12, Higher Education

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.

Presentation Format: General Interest / All Audiences Burst
Grade Band Audience: General Interest/All Audiences

Mastering basic addition facts is essential and accessible to all students. Various activities will be shared showing how four essential number relationships and ten-frame games can help students master facts and also improve their understanding of place value.

Presentation Format: PreK-2 Burst
Grade Band Audience: PreK to 2

What happens when teachers use a rubric to assess student progress on problem solving at least once per quarter? Come hear the results of an action research project that focused on a rubric to score their students’ work on problem solving. Learn more about the parts of the rubric, the data collected, and the feedback given by teachers.

Presentation Format: 3-5 Burst
Grade Band Audience: PreK to 2, 3 to 5

John Dewey said, "We do not learn from experience; we learn from reflecting on experience." Having students reflect on assessments encourages true understanding. Reflecting helps to set goals, guide instruction, and student growth. Reflection makes learning stick. When students learn how to reflect and have time to reflect, student achievement increases.

Presentation Format: 3-5 Burst
Grade Band Audience: 3 to 5, 6 to 8

PEMDAS doesn't work. Students misuse it as a step-by-step guide to simplifying expressions regardless of how clearly their teachers have explained the process. We will demonstrate three different and highly effective ways to teach the order of operations without PEMDAS. We will ELIMINATE most common student errors by eliminating Aunt Sally.

Presentation Format: 3-5 Burst
Grade Band Audience: 3 to 5, 6 to 8

Every year, one middle school celebrates "I Love Math Day" on February 14 to build positive math community since 2006. In this session, you will learn what you need to start building positive math community and how you prepare activities.

Presentation Format: 6-8 Burst
Grade Band Audience: 6 to 8

Looking for a way to engage your students? In this session learn to leverage the power of free 3-D geometry software (SketchUp) to engineer, design, and create a model you can touch. Transformational geometry comes to life when students are allowed to dream!

Presentation Format: 6-8 Burst
Grade Band Audience: 6 to 8, 9 to 12

Tasks to promote problem solving and reasoning abound, but how can we make problems accessible to all students? How can we blend hands-on approaches with technology? What are some of the best ways to get students to construct viable arguments and critique the reasoning of others? Answers to these questions based on experience will be shared.

Presentation Format: 9-12 Burst
Grade Band Audience: 9 to 12

A balanced math program builds students’ computational skills. Mental math is a critical skill, yet often does not receive the attention it deserves. This session will show strategies to strengthen students’ mental math capacity. These practices give students the opportunity to develop effective computational strategies based on number sense.

Presentation Format: General Interest / All Audiences Session
Grade Band Audience: General Interest/All Audiences

As outlined in Principles to Actions, teaching is the non-negotiable core to ensure all students learn mathematics at high levels. However, effective teaching must be supported by certain conditions and structures. This session will examine the five essential elements of effective math programs and link them to effective practices and action steps.

Presentation Format: General Interest / All Audiences Session
Grade Band Audience: General Interest/All Audiences

A fast-paced, hands-on application of research and brain-based strategies to build number sense in pre-K–1 learners. Participants will use sample manipulatives, research-proven games, math talk, and exemplars of number sense strategies that build a strong number sense for conceptual understanding and procedural fluency in young children.

Presentation Format: PreK-2 Session
Grade Band Audience: PreK to 2

How can you help students assess and monitor their understanding? How can you help students see success and growth? How can you hold students accountable for demonstrating proficiency with all course content? See how you can use self-assessment, cover sheets, and retakes as tools to make assessment an integral part of the learning process.

Presentation Format: 3-5 Session
Grade Band Audience: 3 to 5, 6 to 8

Explore how developing student’s capacity in nonstandard or inquiry-based problems can foster the skills described in the Common Core’s mathematical practices as well as other important learning traits such as perseverance, accountable math talk, critical thinking, as well as the ability to identify, and connect to the underlying big ideas.

Presentation Format: 6-8 Session
Grade Band Audience: 6 to 8

Fluency with fractions has been identified as the most foundational skill for learning algebra. Even after excellent instruction, many students will still struggle with fraction concepts. Join us to learn about fractional fluency interventions that help middle school students overcome their difficulties with fractions.

Presentation Format: 6-8 Session
Grade Band Audience: 6 to 8

In this session, participants will learn instructional strategies that support English language learners in middle school math while promoting critical and creative thinking through the NCTM process standards. Teachers will experience engaging activities they can take and use with their students right away that support content and skill development.

Presentation Format: 6-8 Session
Grade Band Audience: 6 to 8

Students can code and decode messages using linear functions and their inverses. This type of cryptography is very exciting and accessible to algebra students with a simple introduction of modular arithmetic. Learn how to do this with your students and see what students from an actual algebra classroom were able to do. TI-Nspire will be used.

Presentation Format: 9-12 Session
Grade Band Audience: 9 to 12

Logarithms are one of the most dreaded, and least meaningful, topics in the high school curriculum. Logarithms would make more sense if we helped students understand why logarithms were invented, how they were useful for simplifying computations, and how they continue to be useful in statistics.

Presentation Format: 9-12 Session
Grade Band Audience: 9 to 12

How do students visualize, construct, and reason geometrically? Using ideas from Driscoll's Geometric Habits of Mind (2007) as a foundation for activities and thinking, the presenter will share ways college students built their framework for developing geometric habits of mind and understanding mathematics.

Presentation Format: Higher Education Session
Grade Band Audience: 9 to 12, Higher Education

Humanizing mathematics teaching implies emphasising mathematical processes as against the products, that is making mathematics activity based. This research evaluates the structure of four textbooks in use in secondary schools for humanized teaching of geometry.

Presentation Format: Higher Education Session
Grade Band Audience: 9 to 12, Higher Education

Experience a systematic approach to teaching basic facts that encourages reasoning while building fluency. Counting tapes with multiple markers and unique array flash cards builds concepts and connections between x, ÷, and fractions. Designed for use schoolwide in classrooms and after school. Materials provided.

Presentation Format: 3-5 Gallery Workshop
Grade Band Audience: 3 to 5

We will explore what it means for students to develop a conceptual understanding of multiplication of fractions, examine factors that aid or hinder the development of this understanding, and explore ways to help students understand multiplication of fractions. Research results that have been put into practice will guide our explorations.

Presentation Format: 3-5 Gallery Workshop
Grade Band Audience: 3 to 5, Preservice and Inservice

How do we take our students beyond procedures and surface-level understanding of percent? Come stretch elastic to understand the concept of percent as defined by CCSSM. Participants will be engaged through the use of manipulatives, hands-on activities that are classroom ready, as well as discourse strategies to support language development.

Presentation Format: 6-8 Gallery Workshop
Grade Band Audience: 6 to 8

Experience full-filled activities that will have your students hooked on modeling! The presenter will engage participants in gathering real-world data and representing it graphically and algebraically. Come see how to take classic problems and find and represent the math hidden beneath the surface! Resources will be shared.

Presentation Format: 9-12 Gallery Workshop
Grade Band Audience: 6 to 8, 9 to 12

Every song’s melody can be expressed as a series of integers, each of which represents the number of musical half-steps above or below the first note in the song. Using various basic math and music technologies, we will create discrete graphs that we can transform horizontally and vertically—just like composers and synthesizers do!

Presentation Format: 9-12 Gallery Workshop
Grade Band Audience: 6 to 8, 9 to 12

How can we support the ELLs in our classroom while engaging all of our students? Join us to find out! We'll share twenty research-based activities, developed in our years of implementing the SIOP model. By making your own Graffiti Wall, Quizzes Without Questions, and more, you"ll discover fun ways to help all of your students experience mathematical success.

Presentation Format: 9-12 Gallery Workshop
Grade Band Audience: 9 to 12

Some math topics can be emphasized, and teaching practices justified, all in the name of preparing students for high school. We'll classify and critique some typical responses to "What do students need for high school?", discuss more promising answers to this question, and explore activities that will truly help our students succeed in math class.

Presentation Format: Preservice and In-Service Gallery Workshop
Grade Band Audience: Preservice and Inservice

Providing access to mathematics for ELLs requires more than good instructional strategies. This session will focus on guiding principles and instructional strategies that are imperative to use if ELLs are to have access to high-quality mathematics, develop the mathematical practices, and enhance their language skills.

Presentation Format: General Interest / All Audiences Session
Grade Band Audience: General Interest/All Audiences

Elementary students’ ability to efficiently structure space within a rectangular array helps make connections to a variety of mathematical concepts. If we provide context and mitigate the representation of a composite unit, then we can assist students in developing this crucial understanding.

Presentation Format: PreK-2 Session
Grade Band Audience: PreK to 2

Real-world problems do not occur in aligned units. Knowledge of multiple concepts may be needed to solve the problem. Also, students often see mathematics concepts as unconnected. This session will demonstrate how multiple concepts can be integrated into one task, while providing opportunities to engage in several of the CCSS mathematical practices.

Presentation Format: 6-8 Session
Grade Band Audience: 6 to 8

This session will focus on the common methods which are used to detect outliers and influential points in data sets. Paticipants will use examples along with technology to determine the equation of the regression line, and then plot the regression line with and without the influential point(s) being included in the data set.

Presentation Format: 9-12 Session
Grade Band Audience: 9 to 12

Four understandings essential to teaching the statistics content in the Common Core will be explored. These include the difference between statistical thinking and mathematical thinking, the role of variability, the difference between sample variability and sampling variability, and what it means to “rule out chance.”

Presentation Format: 9-12 Session
Grade Band Audience: 9 to 12

It is a widespread belief that to be good at math means to be fast at computation. But this belief may do more harm than good. While computational recall is important, it is only part of a comprehensive mathematical understanding. This session will provide lots of hands-on activities for a K–2 teacher to use immediately in their classroom.

Presentation Format: PreK-2 Gallery Workshop
Grade Band Audience: PreK to 2

Are you looking for a recipe to develop rigorous Common Core tasks to feed your students? If so, come to this session where participants will use iPad apps to build rigorous real-world tasks. This hands-on session will build and develop rigorous tasks for any classroom setting. Learn from teachers and math coaches who have been implementing these for the past four years.

Presentation Format: 6-8 Gallery Workshop
Grade Band Audience: 3 to 5, 6 to 8

During this hands-on workshop, the presenter will present appropriate activities for teachers to implement in their algebra 1, geometry, algebra 2, or a personal finance class for grades 9–12. Content will be real-life application of Common Core standards. Activities will include group projects, software programs, and individualized life skills project.

Presentation Format: 9-12 Gallery Workshop
Grade Band Audience: 9 to 12

Participants will experience study team and teaching strategies that showcase discourse, while working with the mathematical content of functions. Participants will be actively engaged in using these strategies and experiencing how to bring the Standards for Mathematical Practice to life in their secondary level classroom.

Presentation Format: 9-12 Gallery Workshop
Grade Band Audience: 9 to 12

Hiebert and Grouws (2007) use the term productive struggle to refer to the “effort to make sense of mathematics, to figure something out that is not immediately apparent." This session will focus on ways to foster a productive struggle climate and tone in your classroom.

Presentation Format: 6-8 Session
Grade Band Audience: 6 to 8

Focus your teaching on the three main pillars of problem solving, communication, and critical thinking/reasoning to help all students achieve success in mathematics. During this session, participants will unpack and discuss teaching strategies that build students' tool kit enabling them to become mathematically literate citizens.

Presentation Format: General Interest / All Audiences Session
Grade Band Audience: 6 to 8, 9 to 12

This presentation describes a highly effective and engaging algebra 2 lesson on natural logarithmic functions using the context of forensic science. Students walk into a crime scene in which they must take temperature measurements on a dead body (potato), and use them to determine the time of death. Handouts, insights, and examples will be provided.

Presentation Format: 9-12 Session
Grade Band Audience: 9 to 12

In this exploratory hands-on workshop we will be solving Calculus problems with the HP Prime Graphing Calculator and Wireless Classroom Network. Discover how this new technology elevates student learning and experience it yourself: send instant polls, send/collect data, create apps, view student screens and more!

Presentation Format: Exhibitor Workshops
Grade Band Audience:

Very often math teachers struggle to find great problems with appropriate applications and science teachers struggle to find great problems that involve significant math principles. Our "The Mathematics of . . ." courses bridge that gap with coursework that improves content knowledge in a truly integrated math/science K–12 classroom. Come and see!

Presentation Format: General Interest / All Audiences Session
Grade Band Audience: General Interest/All Audiences

Number routines are a common and valuable practice in the primary grades, but what about the elementary and middle grades? Join us as we discuss how to initiate a daily "Math Meeting" in your third- to fifth-grade classroom. You can set the stage for critical discussions and concept application in your classroom with just a few minutes each day.

Presentation Format: 3-5 Session
Grade Band Audience: 3 to 5

While sharing a collection of complex tasks that support the CCSSM Standards for Mathematical Practice, we identify specific planning and teaching practices that enhance teachers’ capacity for engaging students of all abilities.

Presentation Format: 6-8 Session
Grade Band Audience: 6 to 8

This session will focus specifically on one of the eight effective teaching practices identified in Principles to Actions (NCTM, 2014)—facilitating meaningful mathematical discourse—and provide suggestions on how to help teachers develop the capacity to engage students in productive discussions.

Presentation Format: Preservice and In-Service Session
Grade Band Audience: 6 to 8

Transitioning to a role supporting elementary teachers provided me one of my most powerful learning experiences. Sense making of numbers, especially visually, not only gave me a deeper understanding of number, but also of algebraic thinking. Come explore the powerful conceptual links between number and algebra, both with technology and without.

Presentation Format: 6-8 Session
Grade Band Audience: 6 to 8, 9 to 12

In the age of CCSSM we are challenged to get students involved in high-interest problem solving, and explorations. We will share several high school problems that challenge students to engage in mathematics and create models. Strategies for fitting high-interest topics into the curriculum will be discussed. Explore tipis, tornadoes, and transformations.

Presentation Format: 9-12 Session
Grade Band Audience: 9 to 12

Scored discussions provide a method to model, measure, and improve the math discourse in the classroom. Adopting a structure successfully used in English and history classrooms, scored discussions measure students’ ability to productively participate in the problem-solving process. Participants will practice scoring, and leave with templates to use.

Presentation Format: 9-12 Session
Grade Band Audience: 9 to 12

There is a plethora of children’s books that address all areas of the curriculum with engaging stories and whimsical illustrations, along with accompanying lesson plans. Math in literature has exploded! How about literature in math? What if our students approached math in a way similar to literature? What if they became the authors?

Presentation Format: PreK-2 Gallery Workshop
Grade Band Audience: PreK to 2

Too many of our students lack conceptual understanding of fractions even after studying them for several years! Before they can understand fractions, they must understand partitioning. We will explore contextual problems that develop and build on children's understanding of partitioning, fair shares, and the meaning of fractions!

Presentation Format: 3-5 Gallery Workshop
Grade Band Audience: 3 to 5

TODOS Mathematics for ALL collaborated with Texas Instruments to adapt lessons to include English language development strategies and technology. These lessons provide access to high cognitive demand tasks in proportional reasoning to ELLs in middle school. This session will highlight one of six lessons integrating language, math, and technology.

Presentation Format: 6-8 Gallery Workshop
Grade Band Audience: 6 to 8

The 2013 runnerup Rosenthal Prize project uses constructions as an entrée to such beauty as number sets, cardinality, and geometry. Participants complete the project with guidance as needed, discuss typical student challenges, and possible extensions. This can be either an introductory unit or a capstone project, depending on the need.

Presentation Format: 6-8 Gallery Workshop
Grade Band Audience: 6 to 8, 9 to 12

Using design principles articulated by Realistic Mathematics Education, participants will learn about and use various visual models that promote algebraic reasoning with patterns, generalization, and functions. We will also examine the connections between these models to explore ways to support students' reasoning, insight, and skill.

Presentation Format: 6-8 Gallery Workshop
Grade Band Audience: 6 to 8, 9 to 12

Engage in hands-on factoring activities using algebra tiles, an area model, the X-Box, AC, and Slip-Slide Methods, and a functional approach using graphing calculators. Improve your understanding of different methods and make connections between them and the roots of related quadratic functions using a new transformational approach to factoring.

Presentation Format: 9-12 Gallery Workshop
Grade Band Audience: 9 to 12

What are ten-frames? How do they work? Developing number sense and using the ten-frame tool help students to visualize decimal quantities and their values. Attend this session and experience first hand how students would learn to use the ten-frame tool to extend their number sense from whole number understanding to decimal numbers.

Presentation Format: 3-5 Gallery Workshop
Grade Band Audience: 3 to 5

A forum for discussion of gender equity issues that should be a priority for the ICME 13 conference in Hamburg, Germany, in 2016. The speaker is co-chair of the Topic Study Group: Equity in Mathematics Education (Including Gender) and is interested in participants’ views of critical issues that should be addressed relative to gender equity.

Presentation Format: General Interest / All Audiences Session
Grade Band Audience: General Interest/All Audiences

One-size-fits-all, whole-group approaches are largely ineffective in differentiating for today’s diverse classrooms. You'll leave this session with strategies for giving targeted instruction at each student's level. Join us to learn how to use menus, tiered lessons, and small groups to meet the needs of all learners.

Presentation Format: PreK-2 Session
Grade Band Audience: PreK to 2

Having difficulty engaging all learners in mathematics? Struggling to differentiate for varying abilities and learning styles? Follow one urban elementary school's journey from low student engagement and "probationary status" to high engagement and "meeting expectations"—all through the use of math workstations!

Presentation Format: 3-5 Session
Grade Band Audience: PreK to 2, 3 to 5

This session highlights advances, produced by the Center for Improving Learning of Fractions and funded by the Institute of Educational Sciences, regarding assessment and design of effective interventions for students who struggle with fractions. Three presentations illustrate the assessments, interventions, and implications for CCSSM.

Presentation Format: 3-5 Session
Grade Band Audience: 3 to 5

Students’ understanding of complex fractions provides them with a foundation for understanding fraction topics such as division. Come explore strategies and problems to help students represent situations with complex fractions, and learn instructional techniques to help them develop these ideas through modeling.

Presentation Format: 6-8 Session
Grade Band Audience: 6 to 8

Students learn how to use ratio tables and tape diagrams in the Ratios and Proportional Relationships domain of CCSSM. Then what? In this interactive session, we will explore how these tools can be used to build procedural fluency from conceptual understanding in other content domains, including the Number System and Expressions and Equations.

Presentation Format: 6-8 Session
Grade Band Audience: 6 to 8

Have your students become Algebra Artists by using free Desmos online graphing software to create drawings from algebraic equations and inequalities. Inspire your students to think deeply and holistically about graphing as they create beautiful images. Practice and pedagogy are discussed with plenty of student creations as illustration.

Presentation Format: 9-12 Session
Grade Band Audience: 6 to 8, 9 to 12

This project develops and researches mathematics materials based in the culture and mathematics of Native American people for integration into undergraduate courses. These materials are classroom ready and have been piloted. Topics include number theory, geometry, statistics, and education. Lessons, data, and analysis will be shared.

Presentation Format: Higher Education Session
Grade Band Audience: Higher Education, Preservice and Inservice

Meeting Common Core expectations in kindergarten will be difficult for underprepared children. Watch and discuss video of kids playing (and play yourself) developmentally appropriate mathematics games that address early childhood content standards and motivate pre-K children to make sense of problems and build problem-solving persistence and stamina.

Presentation Format: PreK-2 Gallery Workshop
Grade Band Audience: PreK to 2

Are you looking for resources that meet students’ needs in understanding fractions? Are you struggling to find tools that make sense of fractions? This interactive session will share ideas to help build understanding of fraction sense. Key ideas: “What is the whole/part/fraction?”, unit fractions, and various tools needed to build understanding.

Presentation Format: 3-5 Gallery Workshop
Grade Band Audience: 3 to 5

Data analysis is proving to be a critical twenty-first-century skill. Middle grades students need to effectively organize, represent, and draw conclusions from data. This workshop will share a variety of problems to teach students these skills and challenge their thinking about what numbers tell them.

Presentation Format: 6-8 Gallery Workshop
Grade Band Audience: 6 to 8

Creating tasks that are meaningful to our students is somewhat of an overwhelming task. How do we spark student interest? Come experience meaningful tasks like: Can you really make money just wearing a shirt? As we do the math, we will collaborate with others to learn simple steps to craft your own meaningful tasks.

Presentation Format: 9-12 Gallery Workshop
Grade Band Audience: 6 to 8, 9 to 12

Participate in some fun, quick activities to engage you and your students. Discover how simple things like M&M’s, toothpicks, paper plates, patty paper, rope, movement, and singing will spice up your teaching and help your kids retain what they learn. Wrap your brain and hands around several activities including the Trig hand jive.

Presentation Format: 9-12 Gallery Workshop
Grade Band Audience: 9 to 12

The topic of residuals shows up in many state standards, including Common Core. But what are residuals? Why is it important to understand and use them? What information do residuals provide that other statistical data do not? Come to this session and find out and leave with a classroom-ready activity.

Presentation Format: 9-12 Gallery Workshop
Grade Band Audience: 9 to 12

Participants will interact with engaging, classroom-ready, high-level mathematical tasks aligned with the Common Core standards. Discussions will include how tasks build students’ current knowledge, allow for multiple entry, connect with student interests, and require active participation. Participants will discuss development of high-level tasks.

Presentation Format: 9-12 Gallery Workshop
Grade Band Audience: 9 to 12, Preservice and Inservice

In this session, participants will study mathematical investigations based on contemporary news and media that align with CCSSM. Much of the time in the workshop will be devoted to solving problems and aligning the content with CCSSM. The importance of investigations, and the qualities of good and bad investigations, will be discussed.

Presentation Format: 9-12 Gallery Workshop
Grade Band Audience: 9 to 12, Preservice and Inservice

Sound familiar? If you are a math teacher, then you have no doubt heard this question countless times throughout your career. Why should your students learn math? Looking for some new, fresh responses? Join us for some reflection and laughter as we role-play a slew of serious and humorous responses to this million-dollar question.

Presentation Format: General Interest / All Audiences Session
Grade Band Audience: General Interest/All Audiences

This session explores ready-to-use activities that integrate authentic economic applications into high school mathematics courses. Participants will take part in hands-on activities that develop understanding of economic concepts such as diminishing returns, supply and demand, profit maximization, and marginal profit.

Presentation Format: 9-12 Session
Grade Band Audience: 6 to 8, 9 to 12

Getting middle schoolers actively engaged in learning math is important. But what does that really mean? This presentation will discuss three aspects of active learning in mathematics and activities that get students intellectually active, socially active, and physically active will be shared.

Presentation Format: 6-8 Burst
Grade Band Audience: 6 to 8

A successful math club needs engaging math tasks, puzzles, activities, and especially games! This program will provide hands-on activities with intrinsically interesting math topics, and also give the format of a popular math club. We will discuss what makes a math activity "fun" for students, and how to select activities for your club.

Presentation Format: 6-8 Burst
Grade Band Audience: 6 to 8

Inquiry-based learning is foundational to our elementary mathematics methods course, yet our preservice teachers' prior experience with mathematical inquiry in elementary settings is typically thin. Field Fridays provide contexts and support for immersing our PSTs in mathematical inquiry with children during the methods semester, thus anchoring their learning.

Presentation Format: Preservice and In-Service Burst
Grade Band Audience: Preservice and Inservice