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Virtual Math Summit 2020
2020 Virtual Math Summit Has Ended. Hope to see you next year!!
All sessions are housed in the Build Math Minds PD site for members to access. If you would like access, become a member of the BMM site.
Why The Virtual Math Summit?
Earn PD, Poolside!
It's PD specifically for elementary teachers, that you can attend from anywhere!
Each year at the Build Math Minds Virtual Math Summit, I bring in the nation's top math education experts and teachers to discuss issues concerning the teaching of elementary mathematics. I know there is so much uncertainty about what school will be like this coming year, but no matter what ‘going to school’ looks like this year, you will get lots of ideas during this summit that will help you make this year the best math year ever.
These sessions always give practical tips and thought provoking conversations that will help make decisions about how your students will interact with mathematics this coming year.
But, the BEST part is that it's all online! You don't have to leave the comfort of your home (or your pool) this summer to get some amazing math PD. Plus, did I mention it's FREE?!?!
You will be able to watch all the sessions as many times as you want through August 12, 2020. After that, the sessions all go inside my Build Math Minds PD site for members to have access to at anytime.
Certificate of Attendance will be awarded for sessions attended.**
Virtual Math Summit 2020 Speakers
Pre-Conference Session on August 2nd 5:00pm PDT
5 Steps Towards Equity
Although equity can be a very broad term as it may relate to race, gender, ability levels, socioeconomic status, resources, and sexual orientation, the key characteristic here is access. How are we making sure ALL students have access to the resources they need to be successful both academically and socially? Equity is something that all educators should strive for in their schools and classrooms. As a way for you to get started, here are 5 steps to get you on the right path towards leading equity.
Opening Session on August 3rd 8:00am PDT
From Theory to Practice: Making Equity a Reality in Your Math Classroom
Negative stereotypes about certain cultures often limit students' views of themselves and their abilities to be successful in mathematics. In this workshop, participants will identify principles and strategies from the ICUCARE equity framework to meaningfully engage students from groups that have been marginalized by traditional mathematics instruction.
August 3rd @ 9:00am PDT
Number Routines for Reasoning and Number Sense
Do your students struggle with reasoning about numbers and quantity, operations, decomposition or estimation? Are you looking for practical, high-quality tasks to engage students and ignite discussion? In this session, participants learn about dynamic, doable activities that engage students in meaningful ways. A collection of ready-for-use resources will be provided and explored so that pursuit of number sense becomes a daily routine. These resources naturally complement each and every lesson in elementary mathematics class.
August 3rd @ 9:00am PDT
Lower the Floor, Raise the Ceiling: Teaching Problem Solving to ALL Students
Teaching students to think, reason and problem solve is the cornerstone of quality math instruction. This session will highlight several engaging strategies such as the Three Act Math Task, Three Reads Strategy and Numberless Word problems that provide multiple entry points so that all students can access the math and engage in the learning. Leave with a new passion for teaching problem solving in your classroom!
August 3rd @ 10:00am PDT
Why We Should Reconsider Using Worksheets (And What We Should Be Doing Instead)
If you didn't like doing worksheets as a child and want a better option to use as a teacher, then come learn about an alternative that kids love doing, helps build conceptual understanding, leads to great conversations, and reveals hidden misconceptions.
August 3rd @ 10:00am PDT
Circle Round: Using Storytelling Techniques to Cultivate a Culture of Sense Making
Who can resist a good story? Let's shift students away from a "compulsion to calculate" and toward a desire for understanding as they engage with word problems. In this session, I’ll share five storytelling techniques and we’ll analyze rich classroom examples where teachers implement these techniques to engage each and every student, cultivate a culture of sense making, and build positive mathematics identities.
August 3rd @ 11:00am PDT
Make the Learning Stick- Strategies to Support Engagement, Understanding and Retention
This session will focus on current research and best practices that target how to increase retention of learning through active learning and engagement strategies and brain-based research. The use of graphic organizers, movement in the classroom and writing will be highlighted.
August 3rd @ 11:00am PDT
“I Don’t Get What They Want Me to Do!” Making Sense of Word Problems Across the Grades
Productive struggle with word problems dwells in the sense-making phase– what does it mean to understand a problem situation, in a mathematical sense? Understanding word problems is more than reading comprehension, followed by computation. Drawing, modeling, constructing, describing, and sense making happen in what we call the “Mathematizing Sandbox.” In the sandbox students pack down and build up representations, look at them from different angles, and maybe tear them back down and start all over again. Nothing is permanent in the Mathematizing Sandbox!
Closing Session on August 3rd 12:00pm PDT
Safe Prompts for Entering ‘Math’ematical Discussions
How can I motivate my students? Why aren't my students engaged during mathematics? These are questions educators wonder silently and at times out loud. The answers to these questions are connected to building positive mathematical identities in all students. This session will explore ways educators of students at grade levels can practically structure their lessons to provide safe spaces for students to engage in discourse and mathematical reasoning. To prep for this session, google 'babies eating lemons', click 'videos' and as you watch the numerous videos as yourself, 'What does this have to do with mathematics & your students?'. (or watch this session to find out)
Opening Session on August 4th 8:00am PDT
The 5 Practices in Practice: Identifying and Overcoming the Challenges of Orchestrating Mathematics Discussions
Discussions can be challenging for teachers who are trying to build on and honor students thinking while at the same time ensure that the mathematical ideas that at the heart of a lesson are clear and public. The five practices (Smith & Stein, 2019) – anticipating, monitoring, selecting, sequencing, and connecting – provide a model for effectively using student responses in whole-class discussions that is intended to make discussions more manageable by moderating the degree of improvisation needed during the lesson. The 5 practices model, however, it is not without its challenges.
August 4th @ 9:00am PDT
Building Coherent Fraction Understandings K–5
To support students in building a coherent understanding of fractions K–5, it is important to know how the ideas and representations connect across grades. In this session, we will engage in fraction activities to better understand the important role of coherent, connected tasks and representations to tell a story of fractions that offer each and every student access to grade-level mathematics.
August 4th @ 9:00am PDT
Math Buddies: Effective Peer Tutoring
Peer tutoring has the potential to accelerate student achievement (Hattie effect size = .53). How do we orchestrate meaningful interactions among peers? Learn how we implemented peer tutoring between two different grades for weekly math lessons that we call "Math Buddies".
August 4th @ 10:00am PDT
Connecting Mathematics to Place, Community and Culture
What are some practices that provide access and connection to mathematics for all learners? During this session I will share several projects that focus on connecting mathematics to other disciplines, to place, community and culture. Inclusive and responsive planning frameworks will be shared along with photographs of students engaged in playful mathematical experiences that broaden their understanding of what mathematics is.
August 4th @ 10:00am PDT
Math Mights Go Wild: Addition & Subtraction Strategies right out of Mathville
Join Shannon on a journey inside Mathville to meet the Math Mights characters who help students understand math processes differently than just solving problems one way. Watch student engagement soar as we promote students’ communicated reasoning so they are able to confidently explain their thinking. Unlock a common language for schools so students can learn about the characters and the strategies in first grade, and then apply same strategies to higher level concepts as they grow to 5th grade.
August 4th @ 11:00am PDT
Developing Problem Solving within a Mathematically Literate Environment
Problem solving has been a focal point in mathematics for many years. While we have stressed problem solving for some time, have we been going beyond surface level? Have we seen growth in students persevering through a problem, communicating about their thinking, or using learning experiences to move forward as mathematicians? When approaching problem solving within a mathematically literate environment, students become mathematicians who think mathematically when approaching, working through, and reflecting on a problem. To achieve a mathematically literate environment, the teacher must ensure there is a multitude of opportunities for students to be thinkers, communicators, collaborators, and self-monitors.
August 4th @ 11:00am PDT
Number Routines for Elementary
Learn some research behind early numeracy skill acquisition. Spend a brief time on the natural approximate number system, abstraction, relational thinking, connexity, subitizing, ordinality, cardinality, unitizing, and value, and explore how these skills differentiate the human brain from a computer. Get examples of how these skills play out in real K-5 classrooms, then see examples of number routines from a kindergarten, first grade, and third grade classroom. Learn about shifting our math mindset from competing with computers to reaching the full potential of the human mind's capability with number. Gain actionable steps and routines that develop a value-oriented student.
Closing Session on August 4th 12:00pm PDT
Innovate Inside the Box - Discussion
Christina Tondevold and George Couros discuss how to Innovate Inside The Box. In this session, they talk about all kinds of issues: how to empower students, what building relationships with students looks like, why we need to help kids feel like they contribute to our classrooms, what it means to have a learner-driven curriculum, and how you can be the change in your school. Plus, George will give us the 3 types of learning that all teachers need to do.
Opening Session on August 5th 8:00am PDT
The Power of Choice in Mathematics
Choice can be a powerful motivator, but students have few opportunities to exercise the power of choice during a typical school day. In this session, we’ll explore three ways to build choice into our math lessons so that we can motivate and empower students. First, we’ll examine choice in terms of which tasks students engage with. Then, we’ll examine choice in the way students approach tasks. Finally, we’ll examine choice in terms of the ways in how students evidence their brilliance.
August 5th @ 9:00am PDT
Building Mathematical Intuition with 1,094 Daily Math Routines
Did you ever wonder if we, as teachers, could help our students develop a more intuitive awareness of numbers? And if so, how could we cultivate that mathematical intuition in a way that sticks? The answer to these questions was my driving force over the past three years as I joined math classrooms, observed and interviewed students at work and wrote a 61-chapter K-5 curriculum. I would like to share that journey with you. In this presentation, we will investigate several math routines that were devoted to promoting mathematical intuition in students. We will take a trip together into classrooms as we watch children practice, play, and connect with numbers in a way that fosters a more intuitive relationship with numbers.
August 5th @ 9:00am PDT
Develop Growth Mindset in Mathematics to Increase Students’ Perseverance, Engagement, and Success in Mathematics
Today, we face so many challenges as math teachers, and sometimes it can feel overwhelming. Chief among these is how to help students persevere, engage with, and be successful in math. So many students proclaim that they “hate” math and take pride in declaring that they cannot effectively do mathematics. Within the STEM subjects, mathematics is the predominant subject where teachers face a real challenge to authentically engross students in the learning. But, as educators, we can change this trend and mindset in our students. I have specifically designed this presentation to help you promote a growth mindset in your students, while also building their conceptual understanding and love of mathematics.
August 5th @ 10:00am PDT
The Purpose and Power of Math Storytelling
Math Storytelling is far more than an accessory when it comes to learning math. As a learning tool, it is purposeful, visually powerful, and offers a way to connect all levels of learners to concepts in an emotionally compelling way. Math stories allow children to question, explore and engage in meaningful conversations about math with their friends. Explore how rich stories can stimulate wonder, combat anxiety and energize your standards- based instruction.
August 5th @ 10:00am PDT
Noticing and Wondering about Assessment
What does effective assessment in mathematics look like? For some, assessment is an isolated event where students are expected to perform. For others, assessment is an ongoing, moment-to-moment process that deeply involves students in using their current understanding to build a picture of what they are thinking about in mathematics. If teachers believe that assessment is embedded within teaching and learning, they can begin to position their thinking to notice and wonder about how their students are thinking mathematically. Assessment then ceases to be a tool to identify deficits in learning and becomes conversations to build on an understanding of assets.
August 5th @ 11:00am PDT
Math Flips: Build Relational Thinking with Flashcards
Are the “math facts” a sore subject? A focus on relationships between facts will make them easier to learn and more adaptable to other content areas. This session will highlight important relationships and how to teach them in an interconnected way using a new kind of flashcard.
August 5th @ 11:00am PDT
Number Webs: Visualize, Connect, and Explore Mathematics Using One Versatile Graphic Organizer
During this session we will process and visualize multiple ways of representing mathematical situations related to place value, addition, multiplication, subtraction, division, fractions, measurement, equations, and more using Number Webs. A Number Web is a versatile graphic organizer that connects the process of multiple mathematical ideas at different levels through composing and decomposing numbers in a variety of ways that provide conceptual understanding.
Closing Session on August 5th 12:00pm PDT
Taking Action
Wrap up of the conference with ideas and inspiration from educators about how they will take things from this summit and implement them this year.
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