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...
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...
What are some core strategies for providing math instruction that is equitable for students? In this session, we will discuss strategies and then focus on ways to help students make connections within mathematics that can empower them to develop new levels of understanding. We will have both examples of tasks that provide opportunities for connections...
Our PLUS Math (Plan, Learn, Use and Share Math) series offers teaching-focused sessions on a variety of topics. How can you use math to address social and environmental justice? What lessons or tools are available to support this work? In this session we will discuss lessons learned from teaching a math for social justice class...
