Breakout Sessions

Bridgeport

Spot It - Use Patterns to Attain +/- Fact Fluency- You've taught the patterns, but students revert to counting fingers? Spot It introduces patterns with concrete discovery activities and games, then it uses color-coding to focus practice on applying those patterns. Students learn to decide which patterns help with which facts, resulting in confidence, proficiency and flexible problem solving.

Patricia Peffley Grades K-3

Leland

Unlocking the Mystery of Data Literacy - Students are bombarded daily with large amounts of data, but can they read and understand the data? Join us as we provide skills and tools needed to equip learners to make sense of data, construct arguments and analyze and interpret graphical data through data talks and graph annotations.

Kristina Fulton All Grades

Juniata

Instructional Routines to Give Grade-Level Access to All Students - This session will focus on instructional routines that can be implemented in any math classroom. The routines are designed to increase engagement, give student voice, and grant access to grade-level content.

Dan Kaufmann All Grades

Metropolitan B and C

Manipulatives, Real and Virtual: Effectively Teaching the 4-6 Standards - Are you looking for ways to help your students develop a strong conceptual understanding in math and to better engage them in their learning? Discover benefits of using virtual and traditional manipulatives in your class to help every student better understand math as well as some ways to use a variety of manipulatives.

Kevin Dykema Grades 4-6

Metropolitan A

Materials Matter: How to Advocate for Quality Curriculum - The student, teacher, and content are the three most important factors of classroom success, yet less than 20% of teachers have access to standards-aligned curriculum. It is more important than ever to know the research, understand the materials you have, find out how it was selected, and learn how to advocate to ensure that all educators and students have access to high-quality instructional materials.

Jonathan Regino All Grades

Delaware

Exploring the Coordinate Plane with Ozobots - Integrate Coding into your Math Lessons with Ozobots! These little coding robots are a great way to teach the coordinate plane(and other concepts) to 4th - 8th graders! Come learn how to color and block code! If you don't have access to ozobots, don't worry, there are free virtual options!

Judy Trusz Grades 4-6

Brady

Developing Productive Persistence in the Math Classroom - In this session, participants will explore key research findings about how students learn and achieve. Educators will collaborate to consider strategies and routines to support students’ Social, Emotional, and Academic Development and to build a strong culture of learning that engages all learners and gives all students a voice.

Abby Neumeyer - Agile Minds Grades 7-9

Ballroom A (Gettysburg/ Lancaster)

Let's Debate Math: Increasing Discourse and Argumentation - Imagine: Debate, often a humanities staple, as an integral part of your math class. Come experience and learn ideas for expanding students' understanding of math with debates that will empower and engage students of all levels. Let's get our students constructing viable arguments and critiquing the reasoning of others!

Chris Luzniak All Grades

Ballroom B (Carlisle)

Leveraging Modeling with Mathematics through Worthwhile Tasks - In this session, participants will learn how to create and implement worthwhile mathematical tasks and lessons that establish a classroom culture centered around mathematical modeling practices and authentic problem solving.

Dr. Reuben S. Asempapa Grades 4-6

Ballroom C (Lebanon/ York)

Multiplication for Every Age - Too often as teachers, we focus on what we are teaching this school year...and that's about it. How often do we critically look at what students are learning outside of our grade band? In this session, we will follow the progression of multiplication as a concept and a skill from the foundations in kindergarten through Algebra II.

Shelby Strong and Justin Aion All Grades

Bridgeport

Mathematics: Magic, Wonder and Mystery - Participants partake of excursions involving open problems in elementary number theory, magic squares and securing the possible next term in a given sequence. The goal is to achieve engagement and elicit thinking. Some of these open problems have fascinated and frustrated even the brightest minds throughout the rich history of mathematics.

Jay L. Schiffman All Grades

Harrisburger

Doing Mathematics with our Hands: Examining Preservice Teachers Conceptual Understanding of Multiplication- During this session, a multiplication algorithm (i.e., finger multiplication by 9s) will be introduced. Attendees will explore how this algorithm relates to other multiplication algorithms and the concept of multiplication as a whole. The session will conclude with data describing pre-service teachers’ conceptions of the algorithm and how it can be used in the classroom.

Seonmi Do and John Elia Grades K-3

Leland

Real World Algebra - This session will focus on the real-world application of algebra 2 topics like functions, linear equations, quadratic equations, and exponential growth and decay.

Michael Tori Grades 10-12

Juniata

5 Digital Tools to Help You Say Goodbye to Grading - Save time and give students instant feedback with digital activities that grade themselves. You don't need to be tech-savvy to use engaging online resources in your classroom. Discover the top 5 digital resources you should be using and gain access to free templates to make your own self-checking activities.

Sarah Asma Grades 7-9

Metropolitan B and C

Creative Activities, Strategies, and Technology to Better Prepare Your Students for the SAT and ACT - Get interactive activities that align directly to the types of questions that are on the ACT/SAT.

Tom Reardon Grades 10-12

Metropolitan A

Paper Manipulatives: Why You Should Still Use Them in the Digital Age- Revisit the benefits of paper manipulatives and their value in the math classroom.

Jason Turka Grades 7-9

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

TI Tips for Keystone Algebra I Success - Building math confidence is critical for teachers and students. This session will focus on how to properly integrate TI technology to increase student understanding. Attendees will receive TI teacher software for the TI calculator they use in the classroom.

Dana Morse TI

Ballroom A (Gettysburg/ Lancaster)

Encouraging Investigation and Conversation with the Desmos Calculator - Take part in investigations from Algebra 1 and 2 from a learner’s perspective using the blank slate of the Desmos Calculator. We’ll deconstruct the teacher moves which support student investigation and learning. No experience with using the Desmos Calculator is needed and you’ll leave with new moves to share.

Bob Lochel Grades 10-12

Ballroom B (Carlisle)

Successfully Developing Fluency- Having students develop number fluency is critical, but how can we do this? Come explore ways to integrate number talks and number strings to develop this essential skill and improve student efficiency, accuracy, and flexibility. See how manipulatives can be used to further the development.

Kevin Dykema Grades K-3

Ballroom C (Lebanon/ York)

Is a Tuna Melt Actually a Pizza? Fostering Debates and Justification in the Math Classroom - Is a tuna melt actually a pizza? Is a loaf of bread a sandwich? Is a book just a paper taco? This session will introduce participants to the “sandwich chat,” a model for debate in the math classroom that teachers can use throughout the year while exploring mathematical concepts. Come hungry for learning, leave hungry for sandwiches!

Shelby Strong and Justin Aion Grades 7-9

Bridgeport

Fun Functions: Interesting Function Activities that Highlight the Mathematical Practices - Participants will experience activities including a human graph, function machines, a silent board game and a Function Treasure Hunt. CCSS Mathematical Practices will be processed throughout.

Astrida Lizins - CPM Grades 10-12

Harrisburger

Visualizing Ten-Frames to Learn Strategies and Master Addition and Subtraction to 20 - Use a fact mastery method with ten frames that builds students’ strategy-rich understanding and conceptual base for calculations. By strategically grouping related facts and sequencing their study, students learn quickly and joyfully. Learn how to formatively assess students and employ a system that students use to track their own progress.

Mary Leer Grades K-3

Leland

Proportions: So many solutions, so little time - In this session, 8 procedures will be demonstrated in solving the most common missing value proportion problems. While all of these procedures are valid and applicable to each problem, participants will identify the reality that different procedures lend themselves to semantically different problem types. Implications to instruction will be discussed.

Deana Deichert Grades 7-9

Juniata

Pedagogy 101 - Effective math teachers understand that pedagogy is a crucial component in the teaching of mathematics.

Dan Umbarger Grades 10-12

Metropolitan B and C

Writing in Mathematics - How can teachers use writing in mathematics classes to increase student engagement and comprehension?

Dr. Megan Clementi- Pennsylvania Department of Education Grades 6-9

Delaware

Learn the Root Cause of Math Anxiety and How to Eradicate it in Your Students! - Join 24®Game and First In Math® inventor, Robert Sun in a hands-on presentation as he shares his ideas and research on how to build a nation of children who are fearless in mathematics. Bring your device and let’s dive into mathematics together to create a New Generation of Thinkers!

Bob Sun - First in Math and Math 24 All Grades

Brady

Break the Forgetting Cycle with Get More Math! - By the end of the school year, students have already forgotten many of their hard-won math concepts and skills. How can we make it stick? Josh Britton will share his 20-year journey, proven model, and custom-created Get More Math system for driving long-term math retention in the classroom.

Josh Britton - Get More Math Grades 3-11

Bridgeport

Rethinking Grading in the Math Classroom - If you’re looking to challenge your thinking and improve your practices in hopes of using a grading system that promotes student growth, autonomy, motivation and confidence, please consider attending. We’ll discuss how grading practices do and do not encourage learning in our classrooms and what we can do moving forward.

Alex Herr All Grades

Harrisburger

Routines We Can Continue To Utilize From Our Virtual Experience - We offer a number of routines such as Which One Doesn't Belong?, Always, Sometimes or Never, What If, Notice and Wonder, Card Sorts, and purposeful questions to foster engagement and help students and teachers think deeply of the mathematics they are pursuing. Such routines can be used in all settings.

Jay Schiffman All Grades

Juniata

Elevating Student Voices and What If Thinking with Desmos - Learning mathematics is not a spectator sport. How do we get all students to participate and how do we get reluctant students to share their thinking? In this session, you will learn how to use a single Desmos calculator page to encourage mathematical reasoning with all of your students.

Leigh Nataro Grades 10-12

Metropolitan B and C

GeoGebra for Student-centered Discovery-based Learning - GeoGebra is leading the way for educators to incorporate student-centered discovery-based learning in any teaching modality (remote, hybrid, or live learners). Come with your device and learn how to increase access and equity in your classroom through GeoGebra Classroom, Notes, their thousands of free resources, and their free completely digitally accessible version of the acclaimed Illustrative Mathematics curriculum.

Robert Pontecorvo All Grades

Metropolitan A

Number Talks to Develop Fluency and Number Sense - During this session, participants will dive into the meaning of both fluency and number sense. We will explore methods to develop fluency and number sense at the same time using a 5-day Number Talks protocol.

Dan Kaufman Grades K-3

Delaware

Power-up your math lessons so ALL students can access grade level material - Providing access to grade-level math everyday in your classroom is true equity. Discover a better way to differentiate when it matters most.

Damon Smerchek - Amplify Education All Grades