| Consider Speaking in Chicago! |
By Patricia Trafton - November 29, 2016 | 2017 Chicago Regional Conference & Exposition
Plan now to present at one of the premier mathematics professional development opportunities of the year while enjoying the winter holiday season by coming to the Windy City, Nov. 29–Dec. 1, 2017.
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| Number Talks in the Middle Grades: Focusing on Student Reasoning |
By Cory Bennett - January 12, 2017 | 2017 Annual Meeting and Exposition
Number talks are ideal in supporting procedural and conceptual understanding of mathematics but implementation in the middle grades is different than elementary grades due to the nature of the content. |
| Formative Assessment: Monitoring YOUR Classroom Canvas with The Formative Five |
By Francis (Skip) Fennell, Beth McCord Kobett, and Jon Wray - March 30, 2017 | 2017 Annual Meeting and Exposition
Our efforts for the past 3+ years have been focused on addressing the important role of formative assessment and its everyday classroom connection to planning and instruction. |
| BYOSW - The Task |
By Max Ray-Riek - March 24, 2017 | 2017 Annual Meeting and Exposition
I hope you can join me on Friday, April 7, at 11:30 a.m. at Session 424: BYOSW: How Bring Your Own Student Work Can Revolutionize Teacher Collaboration. |
| Double Duty: Program Committee and Presenting |
By Andrew Stadel, Christina Tondevold, and Carl Oliver - March 17, 2017 | 2017 Annual Meeting and Exposition
Three 2017 Annual Meeting Program Committee members give insight about the sessions they are presenting in San Antonio. |
| If Math Is The Aspirin, Then How Do You Create The Headache? |
By Dan Meyer - March 14, 2017 | 2017 Annual Meeting and Exposition
I'd like you to think of yourself for a moment not as a teacher or as an explainer or a caregiver though you are doubtlessly all of those things. Think of yourself as someone who sells aspirin. |
| Don't Underestimate Your Students: Differentiate Successfully by Asking Richer Questions |
By Marian Small - March 8, 2017 | 2017 Annual Meeting and Exposition
A teacher’s instinct for supporting struggling students might be to ask more directed and simpler questions involving less thinking. But we have discovered that the opposite is actually the way to go. |
| Implement and Reflect on Challenging Mathematical Modeling Tasks to Engage and Empower ALL Students |
By Farshid Safi and Aline Abassian - February 23, 2017 | 2017 Annual Meeting and Exposition
In order for us to engage our students in authentic, worthwhile tasks that empower ALL students, mathematical modeling represents a powerful exercise to better understand and solve real, relevant and often times messy problems. |
| We Are Family: Ways African American Families Engage in Mathematics |
By Desha L. Williams and Cheryl D. Pappy - February 16, 2017 | 2017 Annual Meeting and Exposition
As African American mothers, we engaged in conversations with African American families to see whether a counter-narrative existed, because, we knew it existed in our own homes. |
| Ignite! We'll Enlighten You and We'll Make It Quick |
By Suzanne Alejandre - January 26, 2017 | 2017 Annual Meeting and Exposition
An Ignite talk "ignites" people – each speaker is not telling their "whole" story but just enough to get the juices flowing. |