CMC South 2021 62nd Annual Conference

Students engage and re-engage with math games that are appropriately challenging. The games demonstrated in this session are easily differentiated and provide a setting for all students to choose to engage at their present level of math expertise.

Join us for a demonstration by Jim Franklin, teacher of special education, who invented a number line to help students round numbers up to 10,000,000 and other manipulatives that address fractions, decimals, money, elapsed time, and capacity.

Student engagement in math is greater when they see its relevance to issues that matter. We will explore a framework for planning lessons that apply math to social justice issues and share examples of how local teachers put these into practice.

Focus on intentional approaches in equitable teaching practices prior to, during, and following instruction. Through student-centered instruction, we will de-silo content, methods, technology, equity, and assessment in a connected & coherent fashion.

Want to take your math talks to the next level? We'll discuss ways to build student confidence so they feel confident to share, and ways to have student-led discussions where they build on each others' thinking and can answer each others' questions.

Participants will experience three approachable problems that grow as students deepen their understanding of probability, equations, and functions and graphs.

Share one High School math teacher's pedagogical journey in discovering about Grading Equity: beginning with inspiration working with author Dr. Doug Reeves, then growing through practice to a 20/20 Focus, and now assessing thru Student Voice

Engage students to visualize & experience rate of change using motion detector technology. Using this real-life scenario, participants will engage as students and discuss teacher moves to guide students through the understanding of rate of change.

In this talk, we will use the context of the Marvel Movie Black Panther and our pedagogical imaginations to consider how we might transform mathematics classrooms to become equitable and empowering spaces for Black and Brown students. Leveraging the context of Wakanda this talk connects features of Wakanda to high quality mathematics teaching and learning. Strategies include connecting math tasks to problems of social justice, valuing and making space for students’ cultural identities and interests, and the use of “rough draft talk”.

This presentation will draw on particular moments from the Black Panther movie to illustrate the use of mathematics for solving real world problems, building one’s community, addressing problems of social justice, and more. In particular, the character’s problem-solving skills and integration of technology (i.e. Vibranium), engineering (i.e. kinetic energy in the Black Panther suit), and science (i.e. force, motion) along with mathematics will be central in this presentation. The goal of this presentation is to connect a recently popular movie as a context for exploring what math classrooms might look like in Wakanda. This “pedagogical imagining” of a non-colonized classroom provides space for participants to “see” beyond incremental changes to consider how math classrooms can be re-designed to empower students. Namely, teaching practices that value and include students’ cultural identities and those promoting equity and justice seem central in Wakandan classrooms.

How do students in your classes view themselves as mathematical learners? In this session, we will share activities and resources educators can use and customize with students to cultivate a classroom community with positive math identities.

Come participate in sample lessons, as we utilize the UDL framework to provide equitable access to all students in mathematics. Leave the session with new understandings of the UDL Framework and ready made resources to use the next day.

Rich tasks to engage students in solving and discussing are a vital part of classrooms. Manipulatives can be utilized to help students by providing entry points for all students. Additional strategies will be shared to support productive struggle.

Need creative games to practice skills like counting, subitizing, composing and decomposing numbers? You have arrived at your destination! Experience the motivating games designed to have students begging to play! Be a player!

Teachers will see a variety of children's literature big books and how these are used to bridge language to develop mathematical concepts. Participants will see examples of how to use literature to teach counting, adding, subtracting, and comparing.

Students need a curriculum that embraces their mathematical brilliance and highlights mathematical contributions of people who look like them. How do we create content designed through the lens of DEI to empower students of color? Through co-design!

Amplify, Don't Simplify! Learn ways to invite every student to the mathematics table with language strategies that encourage students to be doers and communicators of mathematics. Workshop based on research from NCTM's Beyond Good Teaching.

To aid students' learning recovery, we leverage the research about the power of games to address vital fluency and comprehension standards. Through play, students engage in grade-level content and see themselves as capable participants in math.