Frequently Asked Questions

Free! You will actually receive a stipend for participating in the entire workshop.

• Attend sessions in both segments of the conference

• Select and attend a session during each time slot

• Actively engage during all sessions

Note: University of North Carolina at Charlotte faculty and graduate students are all invited to attend the workshop. However, due to NSF funding rules, they will not be able to receive a stipend.

We do expect participants to attend both weeks of the workshop. In order to receive the full stipend, attendance for the duration of the workshop is expected. However, we do realize there might be some extenuating circumstances preventing this. Such situations will be handed on an individual basis.

This workshop encourages engagement from participants. In fact, the workshop will be more fruitful with increased participationn. A webinar typically presents information without requiring the audience to engage or respond in particular ways.

This workshop is open to anyone that teaches mathematics, statistics, or mathematics education courses. We will be introducing software that you can use in your courses that preservice teachers will use in their future classrooms with their own students.

Yes! If you currently (or hope to some day) teach undergraduate courses for preservice teachers this workshop is for you. In the application process you will be asked to provide the name of your advisor to confirm your status.

No! All the technology we will be using is free and does not need to be downloaded. They all run in a web browser.

GeoGebra, Desmos, CODAP, TUVA, and WebSketchpad. To learn more about these different technologies, see our Workshop Info page.

Yes! The first week of the conference you will learn beginner skills for each of the technologies in the workshop. The following week you will be able to choose some more advanced sessions to attend.

Advanced sessions will include the most recent updates to each of the tools, ways to use multiple features of the tools together, integrating the tools into larger activities, and ways in which you can use coding to add additional features to the ways you use various tools.

At least 60 applicants will be accepted to attend the workshop. All notices will be sent by January 15th.

While we plan to recruit widely, we will select participants purposefully. We plan to select workshop participants from the application pool so that, as best as possible, they represent a proportional sample of the 936 programs according to geographical location and size (according to Carnegie size classifications, see Table 1) of institution, with priority given to faculty from minority serving institutions.

There will not be official assignments due for sessions, but between the two weeks it is heavily encouraged that participants practice with the technology skills from the first week in order to feel prepared for the second week.

Participants will be asked to complete pre workshop surveys before the first day of the workshop. In addition, we will set up a “getting started page” on the project website that includes brief getting started videos and links to each of the mathematics action tools for anyone that would like to get familiar with them prior to attending the conference. The latter will not be required, but may help attendees determine which sessions they would like to attend.