Thursday, November 4

High School Level Meeting

Join your high school math colleagues to discuss pertinent issues around math standards, curriculum, instruction, or assessment. The AMTNYS High School Level representatives, Scott Monuteaux and Kristen Joseph, will be providing updates and facilitating open conversations and sharing across the group during this time

Unplugged Activity: Building the Seeds of Algebraic Thinking

This presentation will focus on how young children were engaged in hands on activities that promoted algebraic thinking. Participants will be engaged with unplugged activities that promote computational thinking and they will be challenged to think about how these activities promote early algebraic thinking.

How Science Simplifies and Supercharges Elementary Math Teaching and Learning.

Science has evolved astronomically since 300 BCE. Yet, little has changed in the way we explain mathematics to children since Euclid's 'Elements' appeared in English in 1570. At an elementary level, numbers describe counts and measures of quantities. Basic operations then help explain and predict relationships between those quantities. So, what happens when we reconnect primary-level math foundations with modern laws of science? The answer has profound implications for both curriculum designers and teachers. Why? We can simplify and supercharge elementary mathematics teaching and learning!

The presentation slides on how science can help math teachers can be downloaded from

https://archive.org/download/2021-jonathan-crabtree-amtnys-slideshow/2021-JonathanCrabtree-AMTNYS-Slideshow.ppsx

The video of my talk can be downloaded and uploaded to the conference website from

https://vimeo.com/643415219/66b61f3c9b and

https://archive.org/details/How-Science-Simplifies-Math-Teaching

Both the video and slides are also available at

https://podometic.in/AMTNYS-TALK/

Integrating Art into the Middle School Math and Algebra 1 Curriculum

In this session, a portfolio of math-related art projects will be shared. Assignment instructions and rubrics for the projects will be provided. Samples of completed work will be shown. We will also moderate a brain storming dialogue where participants will be encouraged to share their ideas and experiences with art-based math instruction.

Women in Math

The panelists will share their detailed experiences as women in math. Each panelist will present their favorite "woman in math", discuss their connection with her, as well as describe her life. A historical presentation of several notable women in math will commence the program.

Using Systematic Variation to Support Student Learning in Mathematics

A challenge of teaching mathematics is that students may not learn what we intend from the examples we introduce. Some overgeneralize irrelevant features, and others do not recognize underlying principles. Variation theory, developed by Ference Marton and others, focuses on contrast and comparison to help students develop understanding. Participants will review basic tenets of variation theory, consider examples used for learning about writing in Calculus, and will apply principles of the theory to construct examples for their own mathematics classes.

Middle Level Meeting

Join your middle level math colleagues to discuss pertinent issues around math standards, curriculum, instruction, or assessment. The AMTNYS Middle Level representatives, Taryn Nole and Hannah Wawrowski, will be providing updates and facilitating open conversations and sharing across the group during this time

Share and Tell: Grades K-5

Come share ideas, activities, and lessons with other teachers. Even if they are germs of ideas, we want them as well. We will take participants' ideas and discuss how they can be adopted or adapted. Even if you don't have ideas but want to hear what others have, come as well. Anyone who wishes can send electronic materials to robert.rogers @fredonia.edu but don't feel obliged, just come and join the fun!

Canvas - Tool for Instruction

Have you tried Canvas? Are you curious about it? How can the LMS Canvas facilitate online learning and communication with students? Curious about student reaction, trials and ongoing tribulations? Just want some time to discuss and explore? A laptop may be helpful if you want to create and work on your Canvas page.

Build Great Lessons by Launching, Hinting, Justifying & Extending Good Problems

We will start with common content like factoring, integers, exponents, and linear-equations and then demonstrate how to construct a great lesson based on an engaging problem. Having participants develop hint cards will be a focus of this session. We will discuss ways to launch a class with a problem, prepare for student difficulties with hint cards, and close by considering how our problems may be extended.

Building on Surprises and Misconceptions

Many years ago, the concepts of constructivism, not treating students as “empty vessels”, and confronting misconceptions, came into general use. The author has realized the wisdom of these approaches when teaching gen-ed math courses, courses in which students often are weak, afraid, and believe that math has no connection to their lives. The author will present examples from her teaching different courses on challenging topics such as iterative improvement of estimates, mathematical induction, margin of error, and object oriented programming.

Make the Mathematical Language Routines a Routine

The session will address one essential element in meaningful mathematics - mathematical language routines that help not just the English language learners, but also students who need a little more as a scaffold to understand and connect. Attendees will explore these routines and some resources that can be used in their classroom right away. An interactive session where attendees can share their experiences and conversations that will enrich their experience. Some templates (digital) will be shared for attendees to use immediately.

How to Pinpoint Proficiency and Monitor Progress and Growth

How do we know when our students have reached proficiency towards skills? What do we do when they are proficient? What do we do when they are not proficient? Please bring a device. Any type will work - IOS, Android, tablet, laptop.

Elementary Level Meeting

Join your elementary colleagues to discuss pertinent issues around math standards, curriculum, instruction, or assessment. The AMTNYS Elementary Level representatives, Julianna Palomba and Toni Gamils, will be providing updates and facilitating open conversations and sharing across the group during this time

Integrating Computer Science in Math Lessons

With hundreds of thousands of jobs going unfilled each year and the need for workers in these fields increasing, the need to expose our students to fields of computer science is enormous. In this session, you will be given ideas on how to insert CS topics such as simple programming, AI and cyber security into middle and high school math lessons. BYOD - Chromebook, Laptops or tablets will work for all demonstrations.

Teacher Actions to Encourage Productive Struggle and Reasoning with Ratios

Building a classroom community that promotes and supports productive struggle begins with establishing norms and selecting tasks that encourage students to make sense of math. This session addresses teacher actions that can be used to access students’ prior knowledge and apply multiple strategies to engage students in productive struggle when exploring middle school tasks targeting ratio and rate reasoning. Participants will leave with ready-to-use tasks supported by research-based strategies that empower students to overcome challenges and engage in meaningful problem-solving.

Student-Centered Learning In a Pandemic… and Beyond!

Teaching during a pandemic is not for the faint of heart! Discover how a teacher radically shifted his instruction to meet the social, emotional and academic needs of his students utilizing self-paced learning. Why should all students be on the same page at the exact same time when we know our students process things at different paces? Let's explore how we can reimagine our classroom to allow them to be truly student-centered and one where a teacher is more of a facilitator.

Differentiated Instruction in Mathematics

Differentiated Instruction is a frame work or philosophy for effective teaching that involves providing different students with different avenues to learning. This session will delve into many forms of differentiated instruction and apply them to topics in middle and high school. Differentiation means tailoring instruction to meet individual needs. Whether teachers differentiate content, process, or the learning environment, the use of ongoing assessment and flexible grouping makes this a successful approach to instruction.

Give Your Factoring Lessons the Makeover Your Students Need

I realized that even students who could factor quadratics lacked flexibility to apply their skills to related concepts. I developed these lessons building on prior knowledge all students hold and saw dramatic growth in student learning and practice. Give your students a strong foundation and let them build connections that last while making connections to completing the square, polynomial division, and graphing. I will share my experiences and lessons with participants, so bring your device.

Lessons from Math Camp

"I would rather do a few things well than many things poorly."

That has been a motto of George Reuter's teaching for years, and nowhere does that come through better than when he's working with kids at a (Covid-online) math camp. The principles of teaching at the IDEAMath Camp describe good teaching for anyone. We will discuss what makes math camp teaching different from traditional classroom teaching where the teacher is primarily a dispenser of knowledge and the students are passive recipients. We will also discuss what makes the camp environment a Petri dish for mathematical discovery.

Building Mathematical Agency in K-12 Students Through the Use of Routines

Mathematics routines are purposely structured activities that help students develop problem solving skills through meaningful practice. Routines encourage mathematics discourse, sensemaking, and equity in the classroom while providing access for all learners with differing prior knowledge and unique experiences. In this session we will share how mathematics routines can be utilized in K-12 mathematics classrooms to build mathematical agency in students. All participants will need a computer or tablet to access and engage with materials for this session.