Below are slides from Paul Zachlin, our presenter, and then slides from the business portion & Deep Learning Series presentation.
Helping students achieve fluency with math facts can be a daunting assignment. Here are some games that might entice and enchant you and them to play with multiplication facts in an entertaining way. This folder contains instructions, several gameboards, and a read-me file — presenting a game called Tic-Tac-Toe Products that can be one more arrow in your quiver, hopefully a helpful one. Good for students learning their facts. Also good for older students reinforcing their fact fluency.
If you use these, please send us feedback.
Tic Tac Toe Products Resource Folder
The instructions and such are in the PDF files, the XLS files are gameboards.
“Connecting What We Teach to the World Around Us”
High School and Middle School Teachers - Gail Burrill (NCTM Past President, Math Specialist in Mathematics Education at Michigan State University) presented “Connecting What We Teach to the World Around Us”. Gail's presentation included many examples of the directive in Catalyzing Change in Middle School and in High School Mathematics to get students engaged in critical conversations involving real data. Her topics included the rise of carbon dioxide in the air, what "flattening the curve" in the pandemic crisis means and its ramifications, screening test results including false positives and false negatives, simulating the "Herd Immunity" of introducing one infective person into a community of 1000 susceptibles, rating NFL passing quarterbacks, and simulating the game of HOG regarding how many dice one should use.
(Slides below can be downloaded after clicking on the popout button.)
“Building Number Sense: Number Talks and Beyond”
Elementary Teachers - Join Jodie Bailey (OCTM Past President, K-5 instructional coach) for "Building Number Sense: Number Talks and Beyond". During this interactive session, we defined number talks, explore a 3 Act Task, and consider ways to connect these ideas to help our students develop number sense and fluency. Participants received a list of resources and ideas they can use with students.
(Slides below can be downloaded after clicking on the popout button.)
Peter Petto demonstrated several third-party additions to your teaching practice aimed at increasing student collaboration and participation whether in person or virtually. Watch a short demonstration and tour of ways you can use Desmos Activity Builder, Google Slides Jamboard, and more, to better navigate, control, and enjoy your classroom.
If you have resources to share, please send them to ppetto@ppetto.com — thanks!
Virtual Tool Box — Math Manipulatives - from Jo Walsh-Cobb
ASA Northeast Ohio AP Statistics Group — this group is currently meeting weekly at 4pm to discuss statistics, mostly APstats. Anyone interested in joining us should send an email to Samantha Fales <samantha.fales@nordoniaschools.org> to get the Zoom link.