Jamie Mitchell is our first speaker this season that starts this Wednesday, Sept 10th at 8pm. He will be talking about "Hacking Assessment in the AI Age". 

Join the session online! Registration can be found on the MCIS site and the podcast preview interview is live now at talks.oame.on.ca/season-8  

The Quite St. Lawrence Mathematics Association (QSLMA) is having Dr. David Costello (of www.costellomath.com) answer that very question at their Fall Mini-Conference on Thursday, September 18th from 5 - 7:45pm in Duncan McArthur Hall at Queens University, Kingston.

The schedule includes the Keynote from 5-6pm, Grab&Gab Dinner from 6-7pm and then Breakout Sessions from 7-7:45pm (Spiraling Math Curriculum, Rekenrek's, AI in the Math Classroom, Creating Brave Spaces in Mathematics and Executive Functions in Math). There will be displays and door prizes too! 

Cost: OAME Members $30; Non-OAME Members $50; Queen's Education Students: Free

Register now at MCIS: https://mcis.oame.on.ca through September 14th.

For more information, email QSLMAPresident@oame.on.ca 

The Northern Ontario Mathematics Association (NOMA), in partnership with Code to Learn, is thrilled to welcome renowned Ontario educator Dr. Lisa Anne Floyd to Sudbury to lead this fall's mini-conference on coding in the classroom! 

Join us Saturday, September 27 either in-person or virtually for this full-day workshop. The in-person cost is $45 for OAME members and pre-service teachers ($65 for non-members) for the day, which includes a buffet lunch. Virtual attendees pay $20 for OAME members and pre-service teachers ($30 for non-members).

Learning will be focused on the grade 4-9 curriculum, but all educators are welcome to join us.

Register soon! Registration closes Saturday, Sept. 20. Visit https://mcis.oame.on.ca to register. Contact NOMA@oame.on.ca for more information.

OAME Golden (the Niagara Region chapter) is hosting Christine Suurtamm on October 2nd! Save the date, read over the conference information and then register on MCIS https://mcis.oame.on.ca 

The OAME AGM is coming up on Saturday, October 4. As an OAME member, you are invited to join the meeting to hear updates from our president and executive as we look ahead to a new school year. 

Watch your email this month for more information on how to connect to the meeting.

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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!

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

Cost (includes lunch):

$15.00 for OAME Members; $20.00 for Non-Members; $15.00 for ECEs and teacher candidates

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

The full program and registration package will be available in late September.

Registration will be at MCIS: https://oame.on.ca/mcis

For further details contact us at teams@oame.on.ca

Season 8 starts in September (see our first note above!). We have five webinars scheduled on topics such as assessment and AI, executive function, math therapy, neurodivergence, and Indigenous ways of knowing, all in the context of math. 

The webinars run on the 2nd 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 and the rest are members only. Please share with colleagues! Registration can be found on MCIS: http://mcis.oame.on.ca 

April 30 & May 1, 2026 at Fanshawe College, London, Ontario

Join us at OAME 2026 for a transformative exploration of math education under the theme "Let's Talk Math" Check out https://oame2026.ca for more information

Session proposals are now being accepted at oame.on.ca/mcis Potential presenters, please take the time to read over our presenter guidelines. 

More questions? Contact us at inquiries2026@oame.on.ca 

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explorAItion! returns! The collaborative virtual conferences explore the use of Artificial Intelligence in Ontario Education, running from September 2025 through April 2026 on a variety of evenings.

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.

The explorAItion! 2.0 conference is a collaborative effort of the member associations of the Ontario Curriculum Forum, of which OAME is a proud member.

Visit https://ecoo.org/exploraition-2-0/ for more information, dates, registration or to submit a proposal!  Use code exai2oame for half-off registration! 

Are you the life of the party -- or at least, can plan it so that everyone enjoys the party?

Why not plan OAME 2028 in Ottawa? 

We're looking for a Conference Venue Planner! Check out the Job Description 

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Add the phrase "CBC current events" (or some reasonable synonym) and chatOAME will incorporate linked CBC News stories from the past week in the context of your conversation should they fit (or create an activity based on a news article). No hallucinations or out-of-date articles; chatOAME is reading the recent news and generating its response with the article itself.

In this AI project, it's important that we ensure that responses you get from chatOAME are Ontario- (and Canada-) focused. We already use the Canadian Encyclopedia as a source, and now with the CBC News as a resource from which we can pull current events (including Sports, local Ontario, and Indigenous news streams), your local and regional environment are embedded in your word problems, activities and worksheets. The stories are filtered for elementary school responses, but still, always check for appropriateness for your classes by visiting and reading through the linked news story.

Add "WolframAlpha" (or just Wolfram) to your prompt and chatOAME will ask WolframAlpha to do the mathematical heavy lifting instead of OpenAI (WA is a mathematical answer system, not generative AI). Use if you have a sophisticated mathematical question or complicated mathematical representation, graph or image. 

We are also using a reasoning AI Engine now, so you will see at the very bottom of the window the steps it is taking as it works through creating your reply.

Have you read our summer update to chatOAME?  chatOAME Summer 2025