Friday
Breakout Sessions

Breakout Sessions

Bridgeport

Making Middle School Math Come Alive with Manipulatives, Games, and Activities - Participants will experience hands-on activities in data collection, game simulation, probability, and integer operations. Participants will leave with games and activities that create a high level of engagement and build equity among their students.

Jocelyn Dunnack - CPM All Grades

Harrisburger

Inspiring Mathematical Joy through Year-Round Engagement - Come engage in joyful and collaborative mathematics, and discuss a year-long model of activities meant to build excitement and a sense of community around mathematics! At this session, low-cost, accessible, and stress-free resources to bring fun mathematics into the classroom will be shared.

Ma Bernadette, Andres-Salgarino and Spencer Bowen All Grades

Leland

Games and Activities for Numerical Fluency K-5 - Games allow students an opportunity to build problem-solving strategies, discuss their mathematical thinking, and build on the ideas and strategies of other players. Providing students opportunities to "play" games encourages student engagement and allows them to take ownership of their learning. Games also help students develop mathematical skills to increase their positive identity as a thinker and learner of math.

Janay Sanders--Big Ideas Learning Grades K-5

Juniata

Standards Align System (SAS) - This session will review all the education supports for teachers within the SAS system along with updates to the Assessment Center.

Kevin Mauro - Pennsylvania Department of Education All Grades

Metropolitan B and C

Positioning Students as Problem-Posers - We talk about how students should be problem-solvers. But often, the problems students are asked to solve are already created by someone else. In this session, we will explore classroom routines of how to support students to generate and solve their own problems and why this matters.

Chris Bolognese Grades 10-12

Metropolitan A

Living in the The Thinking Classroom: One Year of Full Immersion in Liljedahl's Practices -

Our school dissolved the Honors section of pre-algebra in favor of using 7th grade to focus on developing foundational algebraic concepts. I will share how we used "Building Thinking Classrooms" as our guide in dismantling an archaic approach to math learning and instruction to provide equitable learning opportunities for all of our students.

Adrienne Paul Grades 7-9

Delaware

Building Understanding of Fraction Comparison and Addition Among Pre-Service Teachers - In this session we will discuss how PK-4 pre-service teachers build an understanding of fractions. Specifically, the focus is on fraction comparison and fraction addition using math drawings and reasoning. What math drawings do pre-service teachers use to support their understanding, and what challenges do they have using reasoning in fraction comparison?

Rachel Ayieko Grades K-3

Brady

Gamification on GeoGebra - Gamification is the process of adding games or gamelike elements to something so as to encourage participation. In this session we will explore some GeoGebra (always free to students, teachers, schools, and researchers) community created resources that use gamification to increase students engagement.

Rob Pontecorvo All Grades

Harrisburger

Finding Focus Amongst Chaos - By choosing a Focus of the Week with their cooperating teacher, student teachers have the opportunity to fine tune specific skills on a weekly basis. This session describes how student teachers defined that growth, describing their plans, how those plans were carried out, their expected outcomes, and how they experienced significant growth one skill at a time.

Debbie Gochenaur Grades 7-9

Leland

Math is Art: Metaphors, Mindset, and Instruction - The metaphors we use for mathematics have a profound impact on the way we view mathematics and our role in it. In this session, the presenter will share her research about mathematical metaphors and their impact on teacher mindset and instruction and guide participants’ exploration of their own mathematical metaphors.

Karise Mace All Grades

Juniata

Is It Really a Stats Lesson if There Aren't Any Sticky Dots? - Contribute to classroom datasets which invite communication and understanding of statistical ideas using a trusted manipulative - sticky dots! We’ll discuss the role of variability, and perform simulations which lead to informal inference ideas. After this session, your classroom budget for sticky dots is guaranteed to increase!

Bob Lochel Grades 7-9

Metropolitan B and C

The Modeling Mindset - Are you interested in what mathematical modeling looks like in the classroom? Join this experienced teacher as we discuss what mathematical modeling looks like from Day 1 and throughout the school year. Interact with colleagues and learn strategies from research and classroom experience.

Rachael Gorsuch Grades 10-12

Metropolitan A

Flip the Switch - Make Students Do the Thinkin - Who's doing the most thinking in your class? The teacher or the students? So, how can educators engage students in learning and make the mathematical thinking more visible? In this session we will focus on using purposeful questioning to increase student thinking, perseverance, and productive struggle.

Kristina Fulton All Grades

Delaware

Building Fluency, Building Confidence, Building Excitement through Gaming - Our workshop will show how to apply mathematics to real-world situations using vivid and interactive video games. These games illuminate the beauty and brilliance of math by demonstrating mathematics applications in sports, navigation and mapping, agriculture, and space travel. Applications engage students with a diverse array of interests.

Aryah Fradkin--Legends of Learning Grades K-8

Brady

Engaging Entrance and Exit Tickets with Desmos - How can we leverage student reflection on their learning? How can we get all students to participate and see mistakes are part of the learning process? In this session you will see how this can be done with entrance and exit tickets with Desmos Activity Builder.

Leigh Nataro Grades 10-12

Ballroom A (Gettysburg/ Lancaster)

Using Visual Tools to make Mathematical Connections - We discuss how to use visualizations like tables and animations to teach math across the K-12 curriculum. Visual tools keep students actively engaged and strengthen mathematical connections. Sharing student examples and experiences from our teaching, we will show how these strategies foster a common mathematical language across grade levels.

Bobson Wong All Grades

Ballroom B (Carlisle)

Community-Inspired Mathematics Activities in High-Need School Districts - Our Noyce project takes a place-based approach to teaching in high-need schools. Our Noyce Scholars and we created tasks and activities that engaged students in their local community context, including the greater Pittsburgh area; rural Pennsylvania; and Baltimore, Maryland. We will share collaboratively developed materials and experiences.

Gina M. Foletta, Rose Mary Zbiek, and M. Kathleen Heid All Grades

Ballroom C (Lebanon/ York)

Exploring Triangle Inequity Theorem with Manipulative and Dynamic Geometry Software(GeoGebra) - We will focus on conceptual understanding of triangle inequality theorem by using manipulative and dynamic geometry software. First, we will explore the concept by using manipulative and then will transition into GeoGebra. We further explore the concept by utilizing GeoGebra to show how and why this rule works.

Bhesh Mainali Grades 7-9

Bridgeport

Activities that Maximize Student Understanding and Retention - These activities involve the WHOLE CLASS and require students to think and engage. The activities are ones that can be used for many mathematics concepts but the presentation uses topics spanning from middle school through Calculus. The activities are tried and true, used by the presenters for years with great success.

Kelly Brent and Shannon Wenger Grades 6-12

Harrisburger

Exploring the Connection Between Recursive Sequences and Composition of Functions - We will examine multiple representations of recursive sequences through iterative techniques. Various learning styles will be addressed through modeling of real-world situations. Using technology, problems that promotes algebraic thinking and a deeper understanding of sequences, functions, and limits that help students move from algebra to calculus will be examined.

Tom Beatini Grades 10-12

Leland

Teaching Geometry Concepts with Patty Paper - Make Geometry come alive with the use of “Patty Paper” investigating concepts such as parallel lines, perpendicular lines, angle bisector, segment bisector, circumcenter, incenter, centroid and more. The patty paper becomes the student notebook as they work through geometric concepts in a visual-tactile way while using a discovery discourse.

Marian Avery All Grades

Juniata

Stronger Summatives - How do we create tests/quizzes that accurately evaluate students’ understanding? Let’s look at fair grading practices, explore routines that advocate student learning and achievement, and discuss a variety of resources for improving assessments.

Maggie Cenan and Chris Luzniak All Grades

Metropolitan A

Transformation Graphing Using Graphing Technologies and a Free 250+ Video Modular Course -
Use technology to assist students to visualize and graph 15 parent functions “by hand”, explore and discover patterns of 6 transformations: vertical/horizontal shifts, stretches, shrinks, reflections, f(-x), combinations of these. Strategies for in-class or online instruction using the videos, flipped classroom, review. 500+ colorful animated graphs for prealgebra through calculus.

Tom Reardon Grades 10-12

Delaware

Less is More, 20 Minute CDTs to Assist in Accelerating Learning Model - In response to feedback from the field, the Pennsylvania Department of Education (PDE) and the Classroom Diagnostic Tools (CDT) Core Team expanded the CDT functionality to offer shorter, targeted diagnostic assessments that can measure one Diagnostic Category at a time. The Diagnostic Category assessment maintains the same validity, reliability and correlation users expect of the full CDT assessment.

CONNECTION to Accelerated Learning: In this session, the CDT Core Team will demonstrate the functionality of the CDT including reports that identify a focus group as well as flexible instructional groups, prescribe suggested next steps in learning progression, and show changes in student scores over time and on-track status.

Dan Richards, Brian Stamford, and Carrie Soliday All Grades

Brady

Promoting Problem Solving in Algebra with P.A.S.T.A. - This session is designed for secondary teachers who want to make mathematical problem solving accessible to all students, ramp up their instructional techniques, and enhance students’ conceptual understanding of Algebra. The PASTA pedagogical approach highlights five key instructional practices that mathematics teachers of any course can use to promote learning.

Kimberly Blagmon Grades 10-12