How can mathematical discourse empower all learners? Together, we’ll explore practical routines that shift math conversations to students and create classrooms where discourse feels natural, safe, and accessible for everyone. Participants will experience strategies that deepen reasoning, support sense-making, and empower students to explain ideas, inquire, and engage in mathematical thinking.
This interactive session explores strategies to increase student discourse and engagement in math classrooms. Participants will experience structured talk routines, analyze student work, and practice facilitating meaningful discussions. The focus is on equitable participation, reasoning, and building a classroom culture where all students confidently share their thinking.
This session explores how AP Precalculus teachers can connect financial literacy to core math concepts while strengthening conceptual understanding, engagement, and AP readiness. Participants will examine vertical alignment from Math 1–3 into AP Precalculus through modeling tasks involving loans, investments, taxation, budgeting, exponential growth, and real-world function analysis.
This session explores how to shift the instructional focus from teacher-led demonstration to student-led discovery, using Amplify Desmos Math's digital tools and math language routines to make student thinking the centerpiece of the lesson. Throughout the session, participants will engage in math tasks, taking on the role of both student and facilitator.
Why do students who can “do” fraction problems still struggle to explain them? Too often, fraction instruction jumps to rules and procedures before students build a strong conceptual foundation. This session unpacks a coherent progression of fraction understanding from grades 3–5, showing how manipulatives and real-world contexts can support deeper reasoning and long-term retention.
Participants will use NotebookLM’s video tools to visualize math structures for learners, with the focus on English Learners. Through collaborative design, we’ll explore how AI-driven summaries highlight regularity across grades. By bridging language gaps and conceptual understanding, participants build pathways that support long-term mathematical development for all learners.
Participants will learn various routines to encourage student discourse in the math classroom. This learning will happen through watching video, live demonstration, article reading, and exploring student work artifacts. After interacting with the items connected to the routines, participants will engage in discussion about the routines to compare and contrast them and plan for implementation.
If I have some quantitative data, how often will the numbers begin with each digit 1-9? Benford’s Law is a probability distribution based on logs that models leading digit frequencies in many real-life datasets, such as social media followers and computer network traffic. It is widely used to detect financial fraud. We will explore a synthetic financial dataset using technology and Benford’s Law.
