Mathematics Education for Today

What are the essential questions for your students to understand? How do you best use the wealth of curriculum materials at your grade levels to achieve genuine mathematical understanding and application? What other resources are easy to integrate? How do you expect your students to show that they truly get it? How do you know when your students are truly thinking and learning? Where do you find the time to improve your mathematics instruction? These questions and others will be answered during our interactive time together.

Dr. James Carlovsky graduated from Martin Luther College in 2002 with an elementary and secondary degree in Math. He is married to Kathryn Knickelbein and they are blessed with five children, aged 10-19. In 2010, he received his Master of Science in Education from Martin Luther College with an Instruction emphasis. He completed his Ph.D. in Math Education from the University of Minnesota in 2019, where his study was particularly interested in moments of student thinking in the classroom.

James gained teaching experience from his years as a principal and upper-grade teacher at St. John's, Sparta, to serving as the Curriculum Coordinator, math instructor, and coach at Kettle Moraine Lutheran High School in Jackson, WI. He currently serves at MLC as a professor of Mathematics and Instructional Technology. He is an MN-licensed elementary and middle school math teacher. James feels that education begins with relationships within the classroom between instructors, students, and our Savior. He has a love for expert teaching that he prays is contagious to his students-in-training. He feels that math needs to be experienced and explored.