SCHEDULE:
8:00-9:00
Registration, Exhibits, Continental Breakfast
9:00-9:50
10:00-10:50
11:00-11:50
11:50-12:45
Lunch, Professional Discussion & Exhibits
12:50-1:40
1:50-2:45
Keynote, Closing & Certificates
Nora Ramirez: Critical Conversations-What's Your Role?
Session I: 9:00-9:50
Angela Hodge
Northern Arizona University
Audience: 6-12, Post- Secondary
ROOM 201
Making learning active through TACTivities
In this session, I will show how you can make any mathematics class more active and engaging for students through the use of TACTivities. I will share what TACTivities are, how to create TACTivities, and answer questions on using TACTivities in the mathematics classroom.
James Smith
University of Arizona
Audience: General
ROOM 201A
Smarter Together: Bringing Complex Instruction into the Classroom
Complex Instruction (CI), a mathematics teaching mindset, that builds routines of collaboration and equity in the classroom. This presentation will introduce strategies and ways of looking group work in mathematics to move the classroom towards the mantra: We are smarter together.
Kim Thomas
Moon Valley High School
Audience: 9-12
ROOM 211
Exploring the Finance App - Quantitative Reasoning in High School
Buying a car. Buying a house. Paying for college. Your TI-Nspire CX (and the T-84) can help you make financial decisions. Financial literacy is usually a major component of most quantitative reasoning courses. Come and explore a few financial problem-solving situations that can be incorporated into any mathematics course using the technology already in your students' hands.
Janelle Chisholm
No Teacher Left Behind PD
Noteacherleftbehindpd@hotmail.com
Audience: 3-5
ROOM 221
Multiply and Divide Decimals Using Ratio Tables
Come and see how to solve real-world decimal problems quickly and easily using ratio tables. Your students will LOVE this strategy and you will too!
Session II: 10:00-10:50
Heather Lindfors-Navarro
TODOS: Mathematics for All
Audience: 3-5
ROOM 201
Rosy's Rule: A Student's Demonstration of Coherence!
Explore the power of letting go and how it resulted in the teacher becoming the student! Participants will be guided through the thought process of a 5th grader who developed her own algorithm for multiplication of decimals, deepening the learning of her peers and the instructional strategies taught.
Sara Pearson
Mathematics Standards Coordinator
Maricopa County
sara.pearson@mcesa.maricopa.gov
Audience: K-5
ROOM 201A
Developing Fluency Through Number Talks
In this session participants, will learn how to support students in developing fluency through Number Talks. Number Talks help students develop flexibility with numbers and help students build accuracy and efficiency in the strategies they choose. Participants will participate in a number talk, then investigate the steps to developing and implementing successful number talks in the elementary classroom.
Melissa Beal
Sahuarita High School
Audience: 6-12, Post- Secondary
ROOM 211
Student Reflections on Learning Mathematics
We will discuss ways to help students reflect on learning and encourage meta-cognition. I will share tasks used that require students to evaluate their understanding of mathematics and the learning process. We will discuss the roles of reading and writing in the mathematics classroom to develop productive habits of mind.
Jane Gaun
Flagstaff USD
Audience: General
ROOM 221
Testing is Over, Now what?
Professional often feel restricted in their instruction due to "preparing for the test". How can you and your students use the post-testing time to break out of your comfort zones and explore new approaches to mathematics while still moving students forward in their learning.
Session III: 11:00-11:50
Dan Kennedy
Rincon High School/TI T3
Audience: 9-12
ROOM 201
Sliders - Where's the Beef?
The use of sliders helps make instruction dynamic and allows for student discovery, deepening student engagement and understanding. (Technology: TI-Nspire and Desmos)
Kelly Hawley
Franklin Phonetic School
Audience: 6-8
ROOM 201A
Lego your confusion of like terms
I will show your how to use Lego's to teach combining like terms in your class. Like terms are such an abstract concept, and this will put a concrete spin on it! Lego's help to ease the struggle and make it more fun than confusing.
Carrie Burdon
Vail School District
burdonc@vailschooldistrict.org
Audience: General
ROOM 211
Number Talks: 15 min to Number Sense and Fluency
Imagine a math discussion with no right answer and no wrong answer, a discussion where every voice is heard and all ideas considered. Number Talks is a daily 5-15 min math discussion for students of any age. Come experience a variety of talks and find out how to develop your students’ number sense and procedural fluency from a deeper level of understanding. You will leave having fun talking numbers!
Suzi Mast
Arizona Department of Education
Audience: K-5
ROOM 221
Uncovering Student Thinking with Visual Mathematics
How can we assist students to show us their thinking through drawings, representations and models? This session will provide teachers an experience with visualizing mathematical learning in grades K-5. Join us as we follow a progression of learning through number operations to find out what visible student thinking looks like.
Randi Cutler
Paradise Valley USD
Audience: General
ROOM 236A
Utilizing Sports Statistics to Teach Your Entire Math Curriculum and then some!
See your students become more engaged in class when you connect math concepts with sports. Fractions, ratios, measurement, geometry, probability, and more can all be practiced using sports statistics. Use youth, college, or professional sports to liven up your classroom. During this session you will see how different sports can be used to teach a vast array of math standards. Participants will learn how to set up football math in their classrooms so they can begin using sports right away. One-third of the class will be spent creating your own sports/math connections and activities. You will walk away from this training energized and ready to PLAY BALL!! Oops! I mean PLAY MATH!!!
Session IV: 12:50-1:40
Elizabeth Lugosi
University of Arizona
Department of Mathematics
Audience: General
ROOM 201
Applying active learning methods
In order to improve the results of students in undergraduate college algebra and business calculus classes, I encourage my students to solve exercises in groups and explain the solution on the board for the whole class. I minimize non-interactive lecture-style teaching, instead I involve students in the thinking processes.
Veronica Carlson
Moon Valley High School
Audience: 9-12
ROOM 201A
Get to Know the TI-Nspire CX
In this interactive session, participants will explore hands-on activities, utilizing graphing technology that make it possible for students to learn, practice, and discover mathematics, which enable students to be engaged and empowered in algebra and geometry classes.
Nora Ramirez
Arizona Association of Teachers of Mathematics
Audience: 3-5
ROOM 211
Math Centers for 3rd- 5th Grades – YES!
Experience engaging centers designed with the standards in mind. Walk away with new resources.
Betsy Mays
Paradise Valley USD
Audience: 6-8
ROOM 221
Absolute Zero
Learn how to play a fun integer focused card game that reinforces operations with integers and the concept of opposites. Participants will also receive a copy of 4 Things All Teachers Should Do When Teaching Integers So Students Will Remember containing a plethora of free integer lessons and activities.