What do we do when the students aren't present? Let's discuss managing absences, whether unplanned or pre-planned. What are the best strategies for limiting learning loss when the students are out of the classroom?
In this session, teachers experience a geometry lesson where students engage in a design challenge. Teachers will create a floor plan for the space based on different needs of the students. We will discuss how this lesson promotes mathematical thinking, as well as student reflection on inclusion.
This session explores routines where students analyze correct and flawed sample solutions to consolidate their mathematical thinking in Building Thinking Classrooms environments. By centering reasoning over answer-getting, errors become key tools for discussion, reflection, and deeper understanding.
Learn some effective ways to teach asynchronously online and how to move face to face tasks to a virtual environment. We will first look at the ways we use technology for teaching and then we will experience how to transform a few mathematical tasks into engaging online experiences.
In this session, we provide geometric definitions for all six trig functions and connect secants, tangents, and chords with the secant, tangent, and sine functions. From these definitions we use geometry (e.g., Pythagorean Theorem, similar triangles) to generate trigonometric identities.
More than just right triangles, this session will focus on many contributions from the Pythagoreans. This ancient group used visual representations to study and prove mathematics and many of their methods can be used in the classroom today to help students build understanding and connections.
Teachers try a high school geometry lesson designing mazes for elementary students. Teachers will use dilations and concentric polygons to sketch and construct a 3D model. We’ll conclude by reflecting on the experience, anticipating students' thinking and sharing experiences from real classrooms.
This session will encourage your creativity by showing how we can combine two high-quality and research-based instructional methods (Flipped Classroom and Building Thinking Classrooms) to benefit students and help them think critically about mathematics.
