Come work collaboratively with other math teachers to enrich your problem solving and subject matter knowledge! Imagine that you live in the city of Cartesia whose streets lie on the lines of a square grid. How can you move around in such a city? How many ways are there for you to move from one...
Designed by the Math Project at Sacramento State for K-12 teachers of mathematics, these workshops (held via Zoom) are designed to not only deepen your understanding of mathematics, but also to help you reflect on what learning was like last year. With a focus on student thinking we will ask ourselves, "What is worth keeping?"...
Online, interactive session In small collaborative groups, play a game related to math fluency, then take some time to reflect about fluency, collaboration and mathematical playfulness in teachers’ classroom practice. Each of the two dates will feature a different game to play. Register: https://commerce.cashnet.com/CENTERXEVENTS?itemcode=40070XE-MND
Join us for a look back at the history of mathematics education policies in California, that has brought us to the current state in the creation and adoption of a CA Math Framework. All the politics and all the drama will be included, from 1989 right up to this very moment. The latest draft, and...
It’s the end of your first year at Pigwarts and you are stuck in Professor Snipe’s Potions exam. He has given you multiple cauldrons and you are tasked to see how many ingredients you can place in them before they bubble over. If they bubble over, you have start again. Just when you think you’ve...
Virtual learning sessions Saturdays, 9:00am – 10:00am March 5, 2022 Fee: $10/session
DIVISION of Fractions: Grades 4-6 In this session you will explore ways to help students conceptually understand division of fractions. We will use hands-on manipulatives and the rectangular area model of division. How does the concept relate to the algorithm? Why do we flip the second fraction when we divide? We will utilize the CCSS...
