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[Mayim Bialik] The Power of Just One Teacher
Mayim Bialik, known mostly for her role as Amy Farrah Fowler on The Big Bang Theory, gave the opening talk at this year’s NCTM Annual Meeting & Exposition. I must admit that having just spent 48...
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[Marc Garneau] “I See It: The Power of Visualization”
The second session I attended at the 2013 NCTM Conference was Marc Garneau’s “I See It: The Power of Visualization.” As a visual learner, I know how helpful it can be to provide students with more...
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[Gary Rubinstein] The Math Behind the Heavens and Earth
I took the opportunity to go to Gary Rubinstein‘s session, “The Math Behind the Heavens and Earth,” to start my Thursday at NCTM’s Annual Conference in Denver last week. Highlights of the session: He...
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[Forrest Clark] Communicating Performance for Common Core State Standards
I was first introduced to standards-based grading (SBG) by Shawn Cornally at Think Thank Thunk. I thought the idea was a fascinating one, but I was interested in learning more. When I heard that...
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[Skip Fennell] Math Specialists Get Ready Now: Common Core Assessments Are...
Skip Fennell, Jon Wray, and Beth Kobett (who was absent for this presentation) are the leads on the Elementary Mathematics Specialists & Teacher Leaders Project. As the name implies, the focus here...
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[Emily Thrasher] Supporting Beginning Teachers through Online Social Communities
At NC State University there is a program called the Noyce Mathematics Education Teaching Scholars, funded by the National Science Foundation. Along with providing preservice preparation, this program...
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There is perhaps nobody better at shouting math education’s rallying cry than Steve Leinwand. Knowing that my notetaking could not keep up, I recorded Steve’s talk for later review. Graciously, Steve...
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[Frank Lester] Whatever Happened to Problem Solving in the Math Curriculum?
Frank Lester was the editor of the 1234-page Second Handbook of Research on Mathematics Teaching and Learning. This was an interesting talk, not so much for any specific content but for how it was put...
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[Karim Ani] “Keeping It Real”
Preliminary note: This recap cannot capture Karim’s charm and rapport with the large crowd. My apologies for the inadequacy. Karim opened with his thesis — We should use real-world topics to teach...
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[Jo Boaler] Promoting Equity Through Teaching For A Growth Mindset
As you can see from the picture, it was a packed house! After waiting in line for fifteen minutes, I was so lucky (and excited) to get a seat to hear Jo Boaler speak, even if my seat was in the...
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[Uri Treisman] Keeping Our Eyes on the Prize
On April 19, 2013, the third day of NCTM’s annual meeting in Denver, Uri Treisman gave a forty-minute address on equity that Zal Usiskin, director of the University of Chicago’s School Mathematics...
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[Cindy Percival] Carrots Before Horses
a.k.a. Experience before Formalization This session was task-oriented, which was a great way to start the conference. It introduced several exploration activities meant to be the introduction to a...
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[Kenn Pendleton] Technology: A Portal to Exploration and Discovery
A big theme through the NCTM conference was using questions to prompt students to explore mathematics. I am a big proponent of inquiry-based learning, so I was excited to find other teachers with...
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[David Dockterman] Developing Student Growth Mindsets
Dockterman is an adjunct lecturer of education at Harvard Graduate School of Education, and works for Scholastic Education as well. He walked us through definitions of a “fixed” mindset and a “growth”...
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[Alan Schoenfeld] Meeting the Challenges of Common Core Standards
Schoenfeld divided his talk into three parts. 1. Students are currently not engaging in mathematical sense-making. He gave the example of the following problem posed to 97 first- and second-grade...
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[Janet Andreasen] Using Teacher- and Student-Made Videos in the Mathematics...
Janet, Deborah, and Zyad advocated using teacher-made and student-made videos in the classroom, both for instruction and assessment. Janet suggested that student-created videos can give teachers the...
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[Peg Smith] Creating Opportunities for Students to Engage in Reasoning and Proof
When someone says “Yeahbut has a conference session ever actually caused you to change your practice?” I immediately point to Peg Smith. After catching her 5 Practices session two years ago at NCSM...
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[Charles Fadel] 21st Century Mathematics
I was very fortunate to get the opportunity to travel to Stockholm recently for a conference on “21st Century Mathematics.” The gathering was put together by the Center for Curriculum Redesign and, to...
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[Dan Meyer] Modern Math Teaching
I was one of many who turned out for Dan Meyer’s session, which focused on why teachers should be using technology to capture, share, and resolve perplexity. What’s perplexity? Dan described it as...
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[Vi & George Hart] Viral Math Videos: A Hart-to-Hart Conversation
I think Christopher Danielson said most of what I was thinking during this somewhat odd father-daughter session. It’s difficult to describe the vibe that was in the room, with the presenters casually...
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