NWOAME invites everyone to a free virtual session tonight, Tuesday, October 7, on a live Zoom presentation from 7:30pm – 9:00pm. You can still  register for the talk, Zoom link and/or recording by emailing Maria Casasola at mscasaso@lakeheadu.ca

The topic is Evaluation of Problem Solving in High School Mathematics: Examples of Tasks on the Theme of Climate Change and is open to all.

More information at this link. 

Season 8 has started! 

On Wednesday, Oct. 8th at 8pm, host David Petro talks with Chad Harris on Neurodivergence building on his OAME 2025 talk "Wait, what was I learning? Shedding light on Neurodivergent Experiences in the Classroom." 

More info at this link and you can register at MCIS: http://mcis.oame.on.ca  

Want a sneak peak? David has a podcast chat with Chad earlier:  Talk 72: Wait, what was I learning?  

The webinars for Season 8 will run on the second Wednesday of every month at 8pm, with a podcast preview coming out on the first of the month. September's webinar is open to anyone on the OAME website. Share with colleagues! Registration can be found on MCIS: http://mcis.oame.on.ca 

Great math discussions don’t just happen; they’re planned with care and led with heart. When students feel heard, supported, and a true sense of belonging, the conversation comes alive.

We’re thrilled to welcome Dr. Elham Kazemi as this year’s OAME Leadership Conference. A masterful speaker and widely respected leader in mathematics education, Dr. Kazemi brings inspiration, insight, and deep practical knowledge to this work.

She’ll help us explore how storytelling and intentional facilitation can support meaningful, inclusive math talk, and how we, as math leaders, can guide and sustain this in our schools and systems.

Join us on Wednesday, November 5 at 7pm for a virtual session that will challenge, refocus, and inspire our work as math leaders across Ontario.

Register at: https://mcis.oame.on.ca

$25 for OAME/AOEM Members 

$40 for non-Members

$10 for B.Ed. Students (use code BEdStudent at checkout)

A certificate of participation for this OAME/AOEM Professional Development will be sent afterwards.

Flyer: OAME Leadership Conference - 2025 - Dr. Elham Kazemi.pdf

Teach fractions with confidence. Join Tara Flynn and Shelley Yearley for a lively, hands-on session grounded in more than a decade of work with Dr. Cathy Bruce -- free, and free dinner! Explore the 8 Core Concepts that make fractions click at any grade. You’ll leave with ready-to-use activities, precise language, and clear representations that centre unit fractions and strengthen understanding. Whether you’re new to the classroom or a seasoned pro, you’ll walk away with practical strategies to engage learners and demystify fractions from early primary through secondary.

Tuesday, October 21st 5:30pm-7:30pm - free dinner included!

Register at this link. 

Two in-person locations running simultaneously:

1) St. Dominic SS, 955 Cedar Lane, Bracebridge

2) St. Joseph's SS, 243 Cundles Road East, Barrie 

Join the Toronto Educators Association for Mathematics (TEAMS) for their 27th Annual Mini-Conference for elementary and secondary mathematics teachers! This year's keynote address will be “Planning for Variability: Rethinking Instruction and Assessment in Mathematics,” by Jordan Rappaport, Equity and Inclusive Education Consultant, York Region DSB.

There will be workshops, exhibitors’ displays, lunch, and door prizes! Keynote, session descriptions and more info at this link.  

Saturday, October 25, 2025 -- 9:30 am – 12:30 pm

$15.00 for OAME Members; $20.00 for Non-Members; $15.00 for ECEs and teacher candidates (includes lunch!)

Brebeuf College School, 211 Steeles Ave. E., Toronto.

Registration on MCIS, our conference system: https://oame.on.ca/mcis

For further details contact teams@oame.on.ca

OAME was proud to host a booth at the Count Me In educator conference on August 27, 2025, at OISE hosted by the Mathematics Outreach Office at the University of Toronto. This free, one-day professional learning event brought together more than 200 educators to explore new ways of making mathematics more engaging, inclusive, and accessible for all students.

The Count Me In program is designed to reduce math anxiety in the classroom and to build confidence for both students and teachers.

OAME engaged teachers in conversations about the importance of mathematics as the foundation of problem-solving and critical thinking, and how math helps students better understand the world around them. We also highlighted connections between math, science, technology, and STEM learning, and shared resources available through OAME.

The Count Me In team is now preparing to launch a series of online Community Learning Opportunities which will meet quarterly through the school year to continue supporting educators throughout the year. For more information or to sign up, visit this Community Learning and In Person Interest Page.

The Gazette, OAME's quarterly journal, is expanding our team of article reviewers and would love to have you join us! If you're interested in playing an important role in shaping the content we publish by providing feedback on submitted articles, we encourage you to sign up. As a reader, as a writer, as a mathematics educator, this is a great opportunity to deepen and broaden your view of all three activities. Contact gazette@oame.on.ca for more information.

Sandra Jean Price and Lori Yee, co-chairs of the OAME's 2025 Annual Conference, wanted to extend a thank you to all the participants, presenters, volunteers and committee members for the wonderful success that the conference turned out to be. It couldn't happen without Ontario's mathematics community coming together, and we hope to see you again in London in 2026.

On Saturday, September 27th, educators from across northeastern Ontario (and even further afield virtually) joined Dr. Lisa Anne Floyd at Laurentian University for a day-long coding workshop for teachers.

Participants experienced coding both in Scratch and using micro:bits, and explored resources aligned with teaching and assessing coding expectations in the Ontario mathematics curriculum. Stay turned for more learning opportunities throughout the school year!

October 25th starting at 10am -- this session of the Fields Math Ed Forum is on Doing mathematics through problem-posing. Teachers and students will share their perspectives on mathematical problem-posing from students; participants will collaborate to construct problems that students might constrict and discuss how to facilitate; lastly, we will hear about current research on the topic, particularly problem-posing based learning methods. 

Registration link: Fields Institute Personal Portal: Login 

There is a special lecture after the Math Ed Forum. Writing Math: Perspectives from Authors and Educators is an event that aims to bring together leading authors — mathematicians, educators, and journalists — who are shaping how mathematics is written for and shared with the general public. Through short talks, a fireside chat, and a lively panel discussion, participants will explore the art of translating complex ideas into engaging stories for wide audiences.

More information at this link.

explorAItion! has its next evening of sessions on October 22nd! The virtual conference explores the use of Artificial Intelligence in Ontario education, running from September 2025 through April 2026.  Check out October's schedule here.

Each evening will offer a selection of 30- and 60-minute workshops between 7 – 9 pm. Workshops will be recorded so that registrants can access the entire proceedings during and following the explorAItion! 2.0 series.

Visit https://ecoo.org/exploraition-2-0/ for more information, dates, registration, or to submit a proposal!  Use code exai2oame for $30 for all live sessions and/or their recordings - that's half-off registration! Proposals are open for the Spring sessions if you have something to share! 

Two updates on chatOAME, our AI chatbot free for members under MEMBER LINKS on www.oame.on.ca !

1) Make a Word Document with Equation Editor-ready math from any reply by clicking the small Word icon in the upper right corner of every reply. 

2) chatOAME 💗 Desmos! Any time there's an important equation, function or table of data, you'll see a Desmos icon - click on the icon and it will open up a Desmos graph containing the function or scatterplot ready for you!

Updates roll onto chatOAME almost every week driven by user feedback. Have other ideas how chatOAME will serve you better?  Let us know! oame.ai@oame.on.ca 

The OAME2026 Annual Conference will be held on April 30 and May 1, 2026, at Fanshawe College in London. The theme of the conference is Let’s Talk Math. It will be both an in-person and virtual conference. For further details about the conference, please visit www.oame2026.ca or contact us at inquiries2026@oame.on.ca. Follow us on Bluesky and Instagram @oamelearns.

Are you ready to share your knowledge, skills and expertise to the K to 12 mathematics community? We are open for both in-person and virtual session proposals at oame.on.ca/mcis. Session proposals close on November 1st. Before entering your proposal, please review the presenter guidelines here.