Featured (Ticketed) Sessions

We are delighted present the following featured sessions. You have been assigned one ticketed session based on your preferences indicated on your registration form. Speaker details can be found here.

Session Titles and Descriptions

100 - Fostering Early Numeracy with Counting Collections (10:45-12:00)

Stephanie Latimer & Teresa Lind

Grade Span: Tk-2 - Location: Lab School Community Hall

We will share ways to grow children’s sense-making and understanding of numbers and operations through Counting Collections. In this session we will use video, student work, and interactive tasks to explore ways to support important mathematical ideas for children in grades K through 2. We’ll offer practical ideas getting started, as well as exploring ways to use Counting Collections for problem solving and operations. Templates and tools for you to use in your classroom will be shared.

110 - Follow-Up Equations to Explore Children’s Budding Understandings of Fraction Relationships (10:45-12:00)

Susan Empson

Grade Span: 3-6 - Location: Royce 190

When children solve story problems, they naturally use fraction relationships. In this session participants view video of children solving story problems and practice constructing follow-up equations to highlight fraction relationships. For example, a child who solved a story problem discovered that 5/8 of a pizza was 1/8 of a pizza more than 1/2 of a pizza. A follow-up equation such as 5/8 = 1/2 + ___ can help consolidate the child’s discovery.

120 - Getting to the Heart of Small Groups (10:45-12:00)

Kassia Omohundro Wedekind

Grade Span: K-5 - Location: Haines 39*

Many teachers and schools are interested in utilizing small-group instruction in math, but aren’t quite sure what that might look like, sound like and feel like for children and teachers. In this session we will explore how the elements of time, choice, response and community (Miller 2007) play a critical role in our work with small groups. We will examine these elements as we follow a small group of third graders exploring multiplication and consider strategies for facilitating conversations with small groups of mathematicians across the elementary grades.

200 - Counting Collections in the Upper Grades (1:00-2:15)

Julie Kern Schwerdtfeger & Kim Morchower

Grade Span: 3-6 - Location: Lab School Community Hall

What does Counting Collections look like in the Upper grades? How do we extend the foundational work accomplished in grades K-2 to grow with students? How can collections encourage multiplicative thinking, help mathematicians develop relationships with large numbers, and allow us to tackle the mathematical properties and complex recordings?

210 - Neurodiversity and CGI: Supporting Students with Disabilities through Strengths-Based Pedagogy (1:00-2:15)

Rachel Lambert

Grade Span: K-5 - Location: Royce 190

Using neurodiversity to frame disability as a strength, Dr. Lambert will present research that will debunk deficit myths that limit the mathematical potential of students with disabilities. How do students with disabilities engage in mathematics in CGI classrooms focused on student thinking? How can we best support their mathematical development in our classrooms, including in mathematical discussion and problem solving?

220 - Supporting Understanding of Ten as a Unit (1:00-2:15)

Angela Turrou

Grade Span: Tk-2 - Location: Bunche 2209A

How do we support a deep understanding of place value from the early days of counting Into problem solving? This session will explore examples of children's thinking as they engage in equal grouping and base ten ideas. Throughout the session, we will make connections to classroom practice, Including the role of number choice, supporting written representation, and varied tool use.

300 - Upper Grades Counting Collections: Exploring Teacher and Student Perspectives (2:45-4:00)

Darlene Fish Doto & Genevieve D'Arcy

Grade Span: 3-6 - Location: Lab School Community Hall

During this highly interactive session, participants will have the opportunity to observe and take part in mathematical strategies at play. We will collaboratively engage in complex counting tasks, record counting in multiple ways, delve into the recordings and mathematical principles that evolve from counting work, and share possibilities for extending and enriching tasks in the upper grades to further mathematical thinking and strengthen your math community.

310 - Hands Down, Speak Out: A Different Way of Talking in Math Class (2:45-4:00)

Kassia Omohundro Wedekind

Grade Span: Tk-2 - Location: Royce 190

Hands-Down Conversations are a structure for mathematical dialogue in which students take the lead, building agency as mathematicians and developing content understanding, as they notice, wonder, and reason about math and the world around them. We will analyze two classroom videos (grades K and 2) and dig into practical tips for facilitating math conversations in which students’ ideas take the lead.

320 - Relational Thinking Strategies for Comparing Fractions (2:45-4:00)

Nick Johnson

Grade Span: 3-6 - Location: Bunche 2209A

Did you know there are other ways to compare fractions besides a common denominator? This interactive session explores relational thinking strategies students use when comparing fractions. We will discuss video of a fourth grader solving a variety of fractions comparison problems and look at what these strategies reveal about students' understanding of fraction concepts. We will conclude by discussing how teachers can nurture and support this understanding with their own students.

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