Register for both days ($200) or one day ($125)
Registration includes materials and lunch
November 1
Day one will focus on connecting key topics from the number strand. Working from a model for place value that focuses on multiplicative reasoning, we will look at a series of tasks that deepen student knowledge of, and ability to work with number from one million to one millionth. Topics for the day include:
- Understanding equality and what it means to “preserve it”
- Connecting fractions, decimals, ratios and percentages
- The most efficient and effective way to help struggling students master and recall multiplication & division facts
- The number properties that matter and how to teach them, what to do with order of operations.
Current research on spatial reasoning makes clear that placing more attention on how we teach topics from the space and shape and data analysis strands has a direct, positive affect on student achievement with number facts and number operations. Day 2 will provide you insights into how this can be true.
February 15
Day two will focus on techniques for actively engaging students in the study of topics from shape and space including:
- Transformations and transformative thinking
- Studying and relating angles
- Properties of triangles
- Why developing formulas matters and how to make it meaningful
We will also take a deep look at how to connect gathering, sorting and generalizing data and building and interpreting tables of values and a variety of graphs across all the strands, all year long.
When you study a PAT or any international math test it quickly becomes obvious that reading and interpreting visual data, charts, tables and graphs plays a huge role in student success.
(The materials package includes BERCS Cards matched to student practice sheets and student problems Assessment criteria listed in student friendly language accompany them.
Throughout the materials and the day, we will connect problem solving with specific attention to word problems and ways to infuse key comprehension, word attack, reading and writing skills into your math lessons.)