Come explore how the area model can support deeper student learning and thinking. We will discuss topics such as integer multiplication and division, fraction multiplication and division, up through polynomial multiplication, long division, and factoring, all with a BTC structure.
One size fits none. Stock your back pocket with high-leverage, equity-driven math routines that deepen understanding and create classrooms where every student feels valued, capable, and ready to engage.
Factoring—it’s a persistent struggle! Whether you find this topic essential OR too heavily emphasized, either way, this session is for you! Come experience original activities centering conceptual development and growth in the math practices designed to help students make sense of factoring.
Lesson ideas to promote curiosity, generate discussion, and build conceptual understanding with skill development. Ready to use prompts that range from visual to kinesthetic. Students will feel suspense, surprise, and experience why Algebra is useful for describing patterns in the world.
In this session, we engage teachers in design-based lesson that uses geometric shapes, symmetry, and rigid transformations to design a culturally responsive textile. We offer teachers a chance to experience how math can promote empathy between students and build community within the classroom.
This session explores my fundamental belief that rich mathematical activity starts when students are given opportunities to be designers and decision-makers, and not just describers and direction-followers. Like all professional development, it needs to be practical to our impeding work. We will spend time unpacking where vibrant math thinking comes from, what it feels like, and look at features of good prompts that invite this sort of activity into our spaces.
Explore ways to engage students in collaborative problem solving in the context of linear functions. We will share a real-world task that can support students’ functional thinking. Participants will explore the task, discuss student work, and reflect on how talk moves can advance student thinking.
Help students fall in love with Geometry as we travel the world exploring problems from historically and geographically significant locations. Collaborate on tasks that spark curiosity about mathematics beyond the classroom, leave with ready-to-use activities, and brainstorm new ideas with peers.
Explore new and old research-based methods for moving beyond paper-pencil testing. We will share our favorite formative assessment strategies that provide real-time information about student thinking to drive your instruction, as well as opportunities for feedback and self-reflection for students.
Striving beyond "right" or "wrong", this session equips educators with tools to foster student metacognition and reflection. With a focus on brain science, learn to shift focus from final products to thinking processes to deepen understanding, empower students, and build independent thinkers.
Many students get bogged down deciding which probability tool to use rather than focusing on the mathematics. This session explores how two-way tables can become the primary representation for two-variable probability, helping students develop stronger conceptual understanding and confidence.
Build functions using conversation hearts (great for February or any time of year) and help students represent and analyze linear and exponential growth and decay. The value of pooling data and the law of large numbers will also be explored.
This session will describe a one semester elective course, Global Mathematics, that helps students understand and critique the world while also experiencing wonder, joy, and beauty. This course engages students at every ability level through the study of the history of math from around the world.
I understand how a knight fork works; I still miss a few in my games. I'll talk about the gap between knowing and doing; between understanding an idea and having the fluency to apply it. I’ll share what learning chess has taught me about the nature of learning, and how it applies to math education.
Motivation isn’t magic – it’s designed. What if motivation could be built into your math classroom? Using Dr. Ilana Horn's Motivated as a lens, we'll examine how belonging, meaning, and autonomy fuel engagement and make productive struggle possible.
Implementing BTC is challenging- especially when traditional mathematics instruction is the norm. Through adapting a traditional textbook lesson, we will explore efficient strategies for creating engaging curricular thinking tasks
Embrace a human centered instructional practice: thinking first, then AI. We model AI as a "yes and" challenger students engage with after making thinking public. Let’s use AI for support/reflection/extension, ensuring technology deepens thinking, not outsources answers.
Empower students to persevere through struggle and fall in love with math! Explore how fostering a classroom community that values struggle builds student ownership and promotes critical thinking. Experience a math task with modeled "struggle" moves—and leave ready for Monday.
Students often learn procedures before developing intuition for the structures symbols describe. Through hands-on modeling, participants explore how structure, pattern, motion, and constraint strengthen spatial reasoning, problem solving, and mathematical understanding.
