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Wisconsin Mathematics
Council
Annual Conference
May 4th – 6th
Green Lake Conference Center
Draft Schedule
2022 Keynote Speakers
Steve
Dr. Christy Pettis Dr. Nicole Louie Kevin Dykema Leinwand
Howie Hua Ann Elise John
Record SanGiovanni
Schedule at a Glance
Wedenesday, May 4 Thursday, May 5 Friday, May 6
Empowering Mathematical
Grade Band Workshops Grade Band Workshops Proficiency Conference
Conference Registration Conference Registration Redefining Fluency Strand
6:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. 6:30 a.m. – 1:30 p.m. Bauer Morehouse
Kraft Centre Lobby Kraft Centre Lobby 8:30 a.m. – 3:00 p.m.
Breakfast Breakfast This day-long session will
6:30 a.m. – 8:30 a.m. 6:30 a.m. – 8:30 a.m. focus on PK-8 student’s
Kraft Centre Dining Room Kraft Centre Dining Room flexible and efficient
procedural skills that are
First Timers Welcome First Timers Welcome built through conceptual
7:00 a.m. – 7:30 a.m. 7:00 a.m. – 7:30 a.m. understanding and
Kraft Tower Dining Room Kraft Tower Dining Room authentic contexts.
Grade Band Workshops Grade Band Workshops
8:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. 8:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. Envisioning High School
See Schedule Below See Schedule Below Mathematics Strand
Kern Brayton Case
WMC Exhibit Hall WMC Exhibit Hall 8:30 a.m. – 3:00 p.m.
8:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. 8:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Pilsbury Pilsbury This day-long session will
focus on unpacking the First
Lunch Lunch Two Years (F2Y) standards
11:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m 11:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m through rigorous and
Kraft Centre Dining Room Kraft Centre Dining Room authentic course offerings,
coherent pathways, and
Celebrate WMC & WMEF shifts in classroom practices.
4:30 p.m. – 7:30 p.m.
Kraft Centre Dining Room
Wednesday, May 4, 2022 8:00 – 9:00 a.m.
General Interest Grades PK-2
Bauer Beaty Bauer Morehouse A
Edpuzzle: make ANY video into a lesson Strengthening Mathematical Identity through
Edpuzzle is the perfect tool for allowing students to Numberless Word Problems
watch and engage with videos while the teacher Do your students struggle to understand word
gathers data throughout the lesson. We will go over problems? Numberless word problems start with the
the basics of the program, and you will walk out with context of the story. Quantities and questions are
video lessons and assessments ready to go! Edpuzzle removed in order to help build understanding. Once
is a free site that can be used to create a flipped mathematicians understand the context, quantities
classroom, provide legitimate sub plans that can be are gradually added. Providing this scaffold will help to
assessed later, allow for absent students to easily promote equity and remove language barriers. This
make-up work, and so much more! session will help develop positive mathematical
Angela Crawford & Dayna Clark, School District of identity and agency within your classroom.
Janesville Karen Johannes & Coryn Bauer, Oak Creek-Franklin
Joint School District
General Interest
Bauer Boddie La Due Grades 9-12
Connecting PLCs to Tier 2 Interventions Bauer Morehouse B
Participants will hear from the facilitators about best Minutes Matter: Moving Away From Daily
practices in Tier 2 interventions and how these Homework
practices can be applied at the systems and classroom Technology & Standards have changed, why not daily
level. Discussions will be had around grade-level PLC practice? Hear how a Wisconsin teacher committed
work is foundational to the delivery of Tier 2 to making his classroom different, teaching thru
intervention, and how PLC’s should be used to inform discovery, assessing for mastery without time
student identification, intervention targets, and constraints, no busy work, no “playing school”
methods used to deliver instruction around these requirement to learning math, all with little to no
targets. homework by making minutes matter.
Joe Deegan & Lisa Hennessey, Sun Prairie Area School Scott Anderson, Evansville Community School District
District
Grades 3-5
General Interest Bauer Morehouse C
Bauer Lightbody
Brain-based Strategies to Boost Learning in Math
Drive and Accelerate Math Achievement for K–5 How do you help students to learn, remember, and
Learners stay focused on their math learning? This session will
Use Star Math data to ensure young learners develop explore strategies that are based on brain research to
foundational mass skills and master focus skills by help students to retain information. We will put
using Freckle Math. Accurately screen and monitor K– together an outline of a compendium that is useful for
5 students’ math progress, accelerate student growth all learners, including English Language Learners and
with adaptive, personalized math practice, students who have special needs.
differentiate instruction and target intervention for
Rose Palmer, School District of Waukesha
each student’s needs, and align critical Math Focus
Skills for student learning to state standards.
Katie Ferguson, Renaissance
Wednesday, May 4, 2022 8:00 – 9:00 a.m.
Grades 9-12 General Interst
Kern Boehr Cary Kern Brayton Case B
It's Knot What You Think Digging Deep with Place Value
Exploration activity into using knot theory principles We’ll take a closer look at what those NBT
applied to probability will be introduced. Session standards are really saying and explore some ways
will explore various applications of probabilistic to have our learners develop stronger meaning of
models. Basic probability and counting techniques the base-10 number system. With these ideas in
applicable to high school statistics classes will be mind, we’ll discuss how this might impact our
addressed through short activities. instructional decisions.
Susan Baloun, Cochrane Fountain City High School Sarah Burzynski, Oak Creek-Franklin Joint School
District
KEYNOTE
Grades 9-12
Grades PK-5
Kern Johnson
Brayton Case A
The UW System Math Placement Test and Early
Christy Pettis, UW – River Falls Math Placement Tool (EMPT)
Come learn about the UW System math placement
test and Early Math Placement Tool (EMPT)!
Presenters will give an overview of the math
placement test and will discuss the EMPT partner
program. The EMPT is a tool that teachers can use
to help their students better transition to college-
level mathematics. The best part about the EMPT
program is that it is FREE to Wisconsin teachers!
Jason Thrun, UW – Platteville, Sonya Sedivy & Mark
Schroeder, UW Center for Placement Testing
Grades 6-8
Grades 6-8
Kern Stansbury Hanson
Kern Brown
Equitable Engagement Through Tasks
“Rise Up” to the Opportunity to Incorporate
By allowing students to be individuals with their
Technoogy into Math and ”Run Out” to Coding
thinking, they can begin to see themselves as doers
Compuer programming is an important part of
of mathematics, increasing their identity and agency
studens' future. Every item is somehow coded. In
within the classroom. As students take ownership of
this session we will focus on learning slope, parallel,
their learning, communicating, questioning, and
and perpendicular lines while reinforcing equivalent
discoveries, they become invested! In this session,
fractions. We use technology and robots such as
you will engage in tasks for your middle school
Sphero Edu, Wonder Workshop & Code.org to
classroom that will excite the learner and push
engage students by programming the slope of a line
them on a path of mathematical discovery.
and examining the equivalent fractions used. The
session will include time for participants to demo Mary Zastrow, Unified School District of DePere
the technology. Michelle Butturini, Reedsville School District
Kathleen Stephany & Carol Dobke, Oshkosh Area
School District
Wednesday, May 4, 2022 9:30 – 10:30 a.m.
Grades 9-12 KEYNOTE
Kern Boehr Cary Grades 6-8
Green Bay Lambeau Field Renovation Activity – Bauer Morehouse C
The Math Behind Keeping the Field Warm Kevin Dykema, NCTM President
Lambeau Field was renovated in 2018. While Elect
touring it, I developed a math activity. Some Let’s Get our Students Talking… About Math!
questions: cost of tubing under field, length of Most middle schoolers have no problems being
tubing in miles, volume of solution in tubing in willing to talk in math class- it’s getting them to
gallons, volume of plastic needed to make tubing? talk about math in math class that can be a
To solve, students must ask for data needed. challenge! Let’s examine some strategies to
Problem solving, unit conversion, volume, slope. increase the level of dialogue in our classrooms
Student and teacher materials, solutions, and so that we can better engage each and every
photos provided. Bonus: program to draw the student. Sponsored by hand2mind
Packers logo on TI-calculator.
Tom Reardon, Fitch High School & Youngstown General Interest
State University Kern Boehr Cary
NO Problem at All: Problem Based Learning for ALL
KEYNOTE Explore strategies that help students develop a
General Interest deeper understanding of concepts through
Bauer Morehouse B interacting with each other. Participants will engage
in activities that enhance their knowledge of
Howie Hua, Fresno State problem-based instruction as they explore how it
Honoring Student Thinking develops conceptual understanding in students.
When I was growing up, I thought good teaching Participants will walk away with effective strategies
meant "explaining concepts well." Throughout my for using problem solving to enhance students’
educational journey, I found that good teaching is learning and tools to engage students in interactive
much more than that. Students have brilliant learning.
mathematical ideas. How do we create an Andy Swank, Savvas Learning Company
environment where we honor student thinking to
help show that math belongs to everyone? This General Interst
session will go over ways of showing everyone is Kern Brown
a math person. Transform your Box (or Unboxed!) Curriculum
How can you add valuable skill and content into a
Write for the set curriculum without adding in extra worksheets,
extra grading, extra everything? Classrooms from
Wisconsin Pre-K to upper level, traditional to project based can
Mathematics Teacher gain from the addition of discourse tools. We’ll
share our tools that increase discussion,
Journal! accountability, and student planning. We will
WMC would like you share innovative practices challenge you to create options for all students to
with us. If you are interested in writing for the think, talk, and write about their thinking around
journal, please let us know at www.wismath.org. math.
Beth Ott & Mary Lee McKenzie, Clark Street
Community School
Wednesday, May 4, 2022 9:30 – 11:00 a.m.
Grades 3-5 Grades PK-2
Bauer Beaty Kern Brayton Case A
Making Math Stick: Applying Retrieval Practice to Utilizing Guided and Purposeful Play to Foster
Instruction and Learning Success in Mathematics
Have you ever heard students say "I forget doing Young children use their innate sense of play and
that"? Far too often, instruction prioritizes short- language to build concepts. Using the child’s natural
term performance at the expense of learning. way of learning through guided and purposeful
Making Math Stick is about applying retrieval playful, language-rich mathematics experiences
practice to instruction and learning. Instruction and engages every child, thus fostering success for all.
learning is mixed and spaced during the year. In this Participants will investigate, listen, talk, and engage
session, I stress a broader view of learning that in playful activities for number and geometry for
includes encoding, consolidating and retrieval. immediate use in their Pre-K to First Grade
classrooms!
David Costello, Costello Math
Melinda Schwartz, Origo Education
Grades 6-8
Bauer Boddie La Due Grades 9-12
Kern Brayton Case B
Getting to the Nitty GRITty of Math Instruction
“Make sense of problems and persevere in solving There's So Much Out There: Ways to Evaluate
them.” Perseverance, along with grit, is essential to Lessons Found Online
succeed. Grit moves away from “quickly getting the Mathematical learning hinges on selecting a good
right answer” to focus on the process through task. Given the volume of tasks and lessons
which students work. But how do we teach available online, we often have to sort through
perseverance and help our students develop grit? many tasks or lessons just to find one to use with
The activities from this session will help to build students. I will share techniques to find, evaluate,
students’ perseverance and grit by increasing their and implement high cognitive demand tasks that
procedural fluency and conceptual understanding. attend to learning goals of a lesson and students'
needs.
Jane Lewis & Tara Meinke, Gibraltar Secondary
School Jenny Sagrillo, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Grades 9-12 Grades 9-12
Bauer Lightbody Kern Johnson
Creating, Administering, and Scoring Quality Q: "When Will I Ever Use This?" A: Advanced
Assessments Algebra with Financial Applications
The purpose of this session is to help you create a Learn ways to use financial applications in an
quality assessment that truly finds the learning level Advanced Algebra course with a prerequisite of
of every student in your classroom. In addition to Algebra 1. The math will be explored in the contexts
that, you will be shown a methodology for quickly of expenses, banking, credit, auto/home ownership,
and effectively finding the score for that assessment employment, taxes, investing, entrepreneurship,
as well as an overall grade. Are you having issues retirement, and budgeting. The session will present
with creating and/or administering reassessments? methods to introduce the finance, build
You will see some strategies to help alleviate some mathematical strength, and assist in making
of that difficult workload. mathematics transferrable to other contexts.
Jeff Harding, Mundelein High School Richard Sgroi, Bedford Schools, Bedford NY
Wednesday, May 4, 2022 9:30 – 11:00 a.m.
Featured Session
General Interest
Kern Stansbury Hanson
Exploring Global Cultures and Social Justice in the Mathematics Classroom
Have you ever heard of a Jaglavak from Cameron? In this presentation, you will learn how to create a
math lesson about one, complete with social justice questions. Global Math Stories (GMS) allows you to
the world and its cultures with your students. GMS are free, digital narratives from around the world that
embed math in real-world contexts. In both English and Spanish, they bring cultures to life and include
sample problems, social justice questions, and extension resources.
Chadd McGlone, Mathkind
Featured Session
Grades 3-5
RWI Crystal
2021 Wisconsin Standards for Mathematics: Finding Our Mathematical Strengths
In this session we will share how the process of co-creating the 2021 Wisconsin Standards for
Mathematics leveraged stakeholder experiences and perspectives to build standards that better support
a picture of equitable outcomes for all Wisconsin students. We will show how these revisions have the
potential to impact instruction and assessment so that all Wisconsin students in the 3-5 grade band are
confident doers and thinkers of mathematics.
Michelle Butturini, Reedsville School District
Julie Bormett, WI Department of Public InstructionWednesday, May 4, 2022 11:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
Grades 9-12 General Interest
Bauer Beatty Bauer Lightbody
Inverse Relations: Why traditional practices create Feedback Requested! Learning to Center Students’
misconceptions & an argument for a new strategy. Mathematical Identity in the Learning and
Why are we so obsessed with functions as opposed Teaching of Mathematics
to relations? Why do we switch the x & y variables? This session invites feedback on the 2021 Wisconsin
Why do we reflect over the line y=x to graph the Standards for Mathematics “professional learning
inverse relation? Lastly, the most important module”. The action research-based module has an
question, what if we didn't do those things? A lot of explicit learning outcome of expanding teachers’
our conventions involving inverses contradict and professional practice so students have access to the
undermine practical uses and common sense learning that promotes their mathematical identity
understandings of inverse relations. Let's fix it. and skills, which in turn helps them become flexible
Nikki Dexter & Doug Burge, School District of users of mathematics. Specifically, we seek
Holmen feedback on the model’s flexibility to accommodate
a range of teacher knowledge, skills, and resources
Grades 9-12 as well as the district’s ability to focus on their
Bauer Boddie Ladue professional learning.
Provide Strategies, Activities, and Conceptual Wisconsin Mathematics Alignment Taskforce
Understanding to Prepare Students for the ACT Barbara Bales, UW System, & Mary Mooney, WI
We will provide interactive activities that align to Department of Public Instruction
the types of problems that are on the newly revised
ACT that can be integrated into your daily lessons. KEYNOTE
Creatively use technology as a learning, teaching Grades PK-5
and discovery tool! Topics include Pythagorean Bauer Morehouse A
triples, functions, systems, percents, matrices, stats, Ann Elise Record, Math Consultant
trig. Get access to problems from recent exams and
Fluency Through Facts: Addition and Subtraction
all activities. Warning: students may learn and
Fluency has three aspects: flexibility, efficiency,
retain the math better in the process!
and accuracy. Let's explore the heart of the
Tom Reardon, Fitch High School & Youngstown strategic thinking for addition and subtraction
State University and discuss how we can begin that conceptual
understanding while developing students' fact
fluency. Not only will students develop fluency
for their basic facts, but they will be setting a
foundation of flexibility that will naturally
progress to their grade level content. Together
we can create positive math journeys for ALL our
students!Wednesday, May 4, 2022 11:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
Grades 9-12
Featured Session Kern Boehr Cary
Grades 9-12 Formative Assessment Meetup: Collaborative
Bauer Morehouse B Session
This is a collaborative session where attendees will
Gail Burrill, Michigan State University share what formative assessment classroom
Using Simulations to Make Sense of the World: techniques they are currently using and get ideas on
The Pandemic new things to try.
Investigating phenomena in the world can engage Crystal Marie Vesperman, Johns Hopkins Center for
students in understanding mathematics and Talented Youth
statistics in real contexts. Simulations can be
powerful tools to build conceptual understanding General Interest
of terms such as herd immunity or false positives Kern Brayton Case A
and can provide students with the tools to make
responsible decisions in their own lives and as "Folding In" Multiple Concepts
responsible citizens. We’ll work through Origami is fun and hands-on, relating to multiple
classroom activities you can do to make this mathematical practices and standards. Come and
happen for your students. fold with me! We'll use two modular origami folds
which allow us to access to multiple Platonic solids
each. We'll talk about how we can incorporate
multiple standards and concepts as we fold and as
Featured Session
we analyze the finished figures.
Grades PK-2
Linda Uselmann, Marian University
Bauer Morehouse C
Jessica Bobo, Age of Learning, Inc. Grades 6-8
Kern Brayton Case B
Mastery Learning for the Whole Child
As we embark on the journey of education being No “GarbageTM” about it, Integer Games are
different than in the past, it is more important Serious Play in Middle School.
than ever to be able to support not only the Games play an important role when engaging
academic success of a child, but also their students in the Number System standards.
Participate with us by learning and playing games
educational circle of stakeholders. In this session,
you will learn what true personalized learning such as Not in My Kingdom, QwingoTM, and
looks like within the classroom as well as a child’s GarbageTM to model writing integers and rational
life. The entire ecosystem must be enriched and numbers in order from least to greatest. We will
empowered for our children’s success. also use dice in the game Max-ItTM, and cards to
practice adding, subtracting, and multiplying
integers. No “Garbage” about it, we will cover our
standards.
Carol Dobke & Kathleen Stephany, Oshkosh Area
School DistrictWednesday, May 4, 2022 11:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
General Interest Grades 3-5
Kern Brown Kern Stansbury Hanson
Elicit Student Thinking to Embrace our WI Take Your Math Wall to the Next Level: Turn Spiral
Instruction Math Shifts Review into Fun, Authentic Problem Solving!
We ask students every day to tell us what they are Transform your typical math wall into something
thinking. How do we ensure more than “I just did it” new and exciting! Learn how to create a different
as a response? This session will focus on how we kind of daily, interactive math wall that integrates
Elicit Student Thinking in our classroom to build your PBL or thematic units. These dynamic math
flexible users of mathematics while embracing all walls create a culture of flexible math thinkers who
mathematical identities in your classroom. authentically problem solve, research real world
Chris Boettcher, CESA #5 data, and engage in rich discourse, while still
exploring spiraling math skills.
Grades 6-8 Sarah Gutzwiller, West Allis-West Milwaukee School
Kern Johnson District
Using an Asset-based Approach to Foster Math
Identities Featured Session
When we help students foster positive math Grades 3-5
identities, they are more likely to consider
RWI Crystal
themselves doers of math. This change in student
mindset helps students see themselves as Wisconsin Modeling Challenge: Grades 3-5
mathematicians. Join us as we explore the impact of Join WMC to investigate attributes of
an asset-based approach, as opposed to a deficit- mathematical modeling as highlighted inthe
based approach, to math instruction. Wisconsin Standards for Mathematics (2021). In
this session, we will engage in grade level tasks to
James Oliver, Amplify
help you connect mathematical modeling to your
owneducational setting.
WMC Math Modeling TeamWednesday, May 4, 2022 1:00 – 2:00 p.m.
Grades 9-12 KEYNOTE
Bauer Beatty General Interest
E's 2 STEM Summary Bauer Morehouse A
There is an acknowledged shortage of mathematics Howie Hua, Fresno State
teachers. What can be done to help rectify this
Tell Me Why: Understanding the Math Behind
situation? Tackling the dilemma, UW-Platteville has
the Tricks
been awarded an NSF Capacity Building grant
Why do we flip the second and multiply when
designed to “grow their own.” This session will
dividing fractions? Why does a negative times a
discuss the goals of the project, the challenges
negative equal a positive? Math is much more
faced, and the successes to date. Come, hear,
than tricks. This session will go over the math
discuss, help…
behind many common tricks to show that math is
Tim Deis & Jodean Grunow, UW-Platteville understandable.
Grades 6-8 General Interest
Bauer Boddie La Due Bauer Morehouse B
Making Student Thinking Visible with Number What Matters when Building Mathematical
Talks Thinkers
Participants will learn about the benefits of What can we do to build mathematical thinkers
implementing 10-15 minute number talks who have high expectations for themselves as well
consistently to help students build number sense, as the stamina to persist through difficult tasks?
develop understanding of multiple represenations Join us for an exploration of what each of us do in
to solve problems, and recognize the importance of our own classrooms, PK-16. We will share results of
explicitly explaining solution strategies for others to our study that include struggling math students’
understand. beliefs about their mathematical abilities and which
educational experiences encourage them to learn
Angie Kraft, Oconomowoc Area School District
the most, and which produce the most obstacles.
General Interest Katrina Rothrock, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire
Bauer Lightbody Katelin Nelson, Maria Cruciani, & Ethan Olerich
10 Equitable Classroom Practices you can do RIGHT General Interest
NOW! (And why math classrooms need them!) Bauer Morehouse C
As teachers, we work hard to create systems and
A Mathematics Progression: A Dialogue Across K-
supports for all of our students to experience
12 and Higher Ed Mathematics Educators
success. Come experience 10 (research-based and
In this session we will have an open dialogue related
researcher studied) practices that contribute to
to best practices in the teaching and learning of
forming an equitable environment in our school.
mathematics across the K-16 spectrum. Join us to
You will leave with a (figurative) tool bag that you
explore the questions, "What does mathematics
can implement on Monday!
looks like at the high school and college levels?" and
Mary Lee McKenzie & Beth Ott, Clark Street "How do our teaching practices align with each
Community School other and the 2021 Wisconsin Mathematics
Standards?" Through this open discussion, we hope
to build on and strengthen a strong mathematics
teaching community for our Wisconsin students.
UW System Math IntitiativeWednesday, May 4, 2022 1:00 – 2:00 p.m.
Grades 3-5 Grades 9-12
Kern Boehr Cary Kern Brown
More Choice More Voice A Technology-Enriched Introduction to Logarithms
Helping students find their voice is a fundamental Logarithms can be challenging for students to learn
habit that needs to be promoted and established in and for teachers to teach. Various dynamic
the classroom. This workshop will leverage the technologies allow for simultaneous work in the
research on how giving students choice in the worlds of both algebra and geometry. Using graphs
classrooms empowers them to find their voice and of exponential functions and then geometrically
become active, engaged members of the classroom reflecting these graphs to get their inverses can lead
community. Walk away with resources to make this to better understanding for your students.
happen in your room Ray Klein, Pear School Solutions
Andy Swank, Savvas Learning Company
Grades 9-12
Grades 6-8 Kern Johnson
Kern Brayton Case A
Free Online Computer Programming Curriculum
Teaching About Our World with Mathematical After 18 years away from teaching Computer
Models and Manipulatives
Programming, the presenter was challenged with
In this interdisciplinary workshop discover activities
preparing to teach both introductory and AP-Level
that bring current events and top global challenges Computer Science courses during the Summer of
into the math classroom. Explore trends in the
2020. Facing an unknown future - in-person
environment, global population and more using learning? virtual learning? some hybrid of the two?
models, manipulatives and lively group work that
- the presenter decided to move away from his
build middle school math skills while exciting familiar teacher-created content, and sought out
students about math connections to their lives. free online curricula. What he found was a pleasant
Zaynab Baalbaki, ZB Consulting & Teacher Powered surprise! Come hear about options considered,
Schools Network decisions made, student success, and next steps.
General Interest Mike Weidner, Nicolet High School
Kern Brayton Case B
Grades PK-2
Intentionally Building Teachers’ Mathematical Kern Stansbury Hanson
Competence: A Model for Leadership
Dr. Robert Berry, past president of NCTM, provides Using Play to Introduce Mathematics to Students
a framework to describe student This year we launched math in our Kindergarten
mathematical competence. Join us in examining classrooms through play. During this session we will
how this same framework may be used to look at how play can be used to notice what
understand equitable mathematics instruction as students already know about math and inform our
well as to support a teacher’s mathematical next steps.
competence on their journey of becoming leaders? Rose Palmer, School District of Waukesha
We will share initial findings from our work with
mathematics teacher leaders and provide a space
for reflection and conversation.
Paige Richards & Dr. Anne Marie Marshall,
Mathematics Institute of WisconsinWednesday, May 4, 2022 1:00 – 2:00 p.m.
Featured Session
Grades 6-8
RWI Crystal
Wisconsin Modeling Challenge: Grades 6-8
Join WMC to investigate attributes of mathematical modeling as highlighted inthe Wisconsin Standards
for Mathematics (2021). In this session, we will engage in grade level tasks to help you connect
mathematical modeling to your owneducational setting.
WMC Math Modeling TeamWednesday, May 4, 2022 2:30 – 3:30 p.m.
Grades 9-12
Bauer Beatty KEYNOTE
Colliding Masses, an Interesting Counting Problem, General Interest
and a Jaw Dropper Bauer Morehouse C
The title of this presentation hints at a result that’s Nicole Louie, UW – Madison
been popular on the Internet for several years. If
the title doesn’t jog your memory, then I think you Making the Shift: Thinking Systemically
will really enjoy this surprising result. I’ll model the Advancing equity in mathematics education isn’t
problem on a TI-84, reveal the jaw dropper, and only about adding some new tricks to teachers’
explain what’s going on. The explanation uses trig, pedagogical toolkits. It also requires us to rethink
but the result can be appreciated by anyone who what learning and doing mathematics are about,
enjoys math. Participants may wish to bring a chin and to challenge the narrow ideas that most of us
guard. Please bring a TI-84. grew up with—ideas that push many people to
the margins of mathematics based on their
Jason Thrun, University of Wisconsin - Platteville
gender, race, language, and dis/ability status.
These ideas aren’t just in our heads; they are in
Grades 6-8
our curricula, our assessments, our standards, our
Bauer Boddie La Due
policies, and our practices. In this session, we will
Engaging Tasks to Encourage Student Thinking consider what it will take to make the shift
Boredom is a powerful decelerator to student toward equity at a systemic level, and what roles
learning, so engagement is at the core of learning in each of us can play.
any setting. This session will focus on strategies to
promote engagement and encourage students to Grades 9-12
build conceptual connections and achieve deeper Kern Boehr Cary
levels of understanding. Explore how to modify
tasks to provoke students to make sense, reason, Finding the Shortest Way by Using Eight Standards
connect ideas, establish their own ideas, and for Mathematical Practice
struggle. Participants will solve the shortest distance problem
used in real life especially for finding convenient
Shelly Baumann, Big Ideas Learning
location to live, construct bridges, pipelines etc. The
authenticity of the context in the problem open
Grades 9-12
doors to discuss multiple assumptions and find a
Bauer Stansbury Hanson
general method that works for all these
Transformation Graphing Using Graphing assumptions. Discussion will include the
Technologies and a Free 250+ Video Modular implementation of standards for the mathematical
Course Use technology to assist students to visualize practice with the transformations in the Geometry
and graph 15 parent functions “by hand”, explore content.
and discover patterns of 6 transformations:
vertical/horizontal shifts, stretches, shrinks, Kimberley Sirin Budak, UW – Stevens Point
reflections, f(-x), combinations of these. Strategies
for in-class or online instruction using the videos,
flipped classroom, review. 500+ colorful animated
graphs for prealgebra through calculus. All materials
will be provided on a website.
Tom Reardon, Fitch High School & Youngstown
State UniversityWednesday, May 4, 2022 2:30 – 4:00 p.m.
Grade 6-8 Grades 9-12
Bauer Morehouse A Kern Brayton Case A
Posing Purposeful Questions while Embracing our My Journey to a Standards-Based AP Calculus & AP
WI Instructional Math Shifts Statistics Classroom
Posing purposeful questions helps build flexible Our high school adopted a Standards-Based
users of math while embracing all mathematical Grading, or Grading for Learning, philosophy four
identities. As educators, we recognize some years ago. I will share our department's journey to
questions promote deeper mathematical thinking prepare for this change over the two years prior to
than others. We want to give students the chance changing as well as what I have implemented and
to justify their understanding in multiple ways. modified in my Advanced Placement (AP) Calculus
When asking, “What did you do next?” we only and AP Statistics classes.
focus on the procedures to obtain an answer rather
Damion Beth, Baraboo High School
than the rigor and conceptual understanding.
Chelsea Adams, CESA #4 Partner Sesison
Grades 3-5 General Interest
Bauer Morehouse B Kern Johnson
Problem Solving in a Mathematically Literate
WI-AMTE Poster Session
Environment: Going Beyond Surface Level
Join pre-service and early career teachers as they
Problem solving is the focus in many classes;
share their innovative teaching projects, including
however, too many students rely on the teacher to
classroom action research, an analysis of
tell them if they are correct. We need to assist
teaching, illustrations of a teaching strategy,
students from doing mathematics to thinking
mathematical tasks and more.
mathematically. In this session, I share strategies
teachers can apply to dig deeper into problem
solving so that students are engaged in thinking that Featured Session
supports their understanding and their journey Grades 6-8
throughout the problem-solving experience. RWI Crystal
David Costello, Costello Math 2021 Wisconsin Standards for Mathematics:
Finding Our Mathematical Strengths
Grades PK-2 In this session we will share how the process of
Kern Brayton Case A co-creating the 2021 Wisconsin Standards for
Mathematics leveraged stakeholder experiences
Strategies + Understanding = Fluency
and perspectives to build standards that better
Through activities and discussion, participants will
support a picture of equitable outcomes for all
explore strategies for addition and subtraction that
Wisconsin students. We will show how these
build number sense and computational fluency. A
revisions have the potential to impact instruction
strategies-based approach prepares students for
and assessment so that all Wisconsin students in
success beyond the basic fact range. The strategies
the 6-8 grade band are confident doers and
and resources in this session will empower First
thinkers of mathematics.
through Third Grade teachers with interactive
activities for students for immediate classroom use. Cynthia Cuellar Rodriguez, Milwaukee Public
Schools
Melinda Schwartz, Origo Education Mary Mooney, WI DPIThursday, May 5, 2022 8:00 – 9:00 a.m.
General Interest Grades 9-12
Bauer Beaty Bauer Morehouse A
Shifting Away From Traditional Grading with Meeting the Mental Health Needs of our Students
Labor-Based Grading Contracts Educators have observed and experienced an
This session will focus on how labor-based grading increase in mental health needs of our students. A
contracts can be used to shift away from traditional School Social Worker and School Psychologist will
grading in the mathematics classroom. After a brief present various ways to address these needs. What
overview of contracts, I will explain how they can be can you do as a Teacher when you become
implemented to increase engagement, focus on concerned about a student? How can you work
individual development, foster creativity, and collectively with Student Services and other
address power dynamics. I will conclude with colleagues to help all students succeed? We will
lessons learned so far, student feedback, and a also discuss our own self-care.
focus on how this shift has influenced my practice.
Becky Boylan & Michele Costello, School District of
Josh Hertel, UW-La Crosse Janesville
Grades 3-5 Featured Session
Bauer Boddie Ladue Grades 6-8
Teaching Problem Solving to ALL Students Bauer Morehouse B
Teaching students to reason and problem solve is Gail Burrill, Michigan State University
the cornerstone of quality math instruction. This
session will highlight several engaging strategies Developing Understanding in Middle Grades
such as Three Reads, Numberless Word Problems, Mathematics
and more that will provide multiple entry points for Often students can "do" in the moment but later
all students to engage in the math and ignite a cannot recall the process. Helping students
passion for problem solving in your classroom. develop robust concept images and engaging
them in motivating and cognitively challenging
Pamela Richards, STEMscopes / Accelerate activities can facilitate sense making and
Learning, Inc. understanding of core ideas such as ratio or linear
equations. Providing choice in the ways students
General Interest work and honoring their solutions gives them
Bauer Lightbody confidence and agency in their view of
Centering Students in Culturally Responsive themselves as doers of mathematics.
Teaching and Learning
Teaching Lab, in partnership with the Department
of Public Instruction, designed this session.
Participants will engage in student and teacher-
facing experientials to increase their capacity to
implement culturally responsive teaching practices.
The experientials model how instructional choices
and designs using their high-quality instructional
materials can affirm mathematics learners’
identities.
Tiayana Marks, Teaching Lab
Cara Grom and Mary MooneyThursday, May 5, 2022 8:00 – 9:00 a.m.
Grades PK-2 Grades 6-8
Bauer Morehouse C Kern Brayton Case A
Refining Your Number Talks Practice Transition to Algebra Book Project
Skillfully recording student thinking during a A math educator, middle school preservice
Number Talk is challenging, whether you are new to teachers, and a high school student will present
the practice or have been implementing Number their book project’s circular frameworks and its
Talks for years. Simultaneously understanding a progression. There will be discussion and sharing
primary student's thinking and charting it so that it about what main concepts for early middle
is clear for the rest of the class is hard! Join me as schoolers need to acquire to become a great
we learn and practice together to refine our problem solver and math minded person. This
practice at recording student contributions during session provides some chapters from the book
Number Talks. We will consider some which would be a great resource for 6-7 grade
characteristics of quality charting, engage in real- teachers.
time practice and discussion with colleagues. You'll Sinan Kanbir, Gabby Sanchez, Elyyssa Schleis, Joshua
leave with a fresh perspective on how purposeful Rottcheit, & Ava Kumar, UW - Stevens Point
recording can impact what students take away from
a Number Talk. Grades 9-12
Michelle Douglas-Meyer, Oak Creek-Franklin Joint Kern Brayton Case B
School District Discovery and Discourse with Desmos
In this session, I'll share some exploration activities
Grades 3-5 I've used with my Algebra 2 (co-serve model) and
Kern Boehr Cary AP Calculus classes that have helped students grasp
Rethinking Math Community to Ignite Vulnerability difficult concepts. I'll cover examples of quadratic/
and Engage Students in Meaningful Discourse exponential regression, discovering behavior of
Do you dream of having productive conversations in polynomial functions, and calculus applications
your math classroom? Does your current practice from derivatives to integrals to logistic growth to
seem mundane and needing a reboot? Come and infinite series.
learn about how to increase student discourse and Mike Carini, Elmbrook Schools District
vulnerability within the math classroom. Former
middle school math teacher and current elementary General Interest
school coach will focus on strategies to build a Kern Brown
strong math community that engages and $10,000 Could be Yours! How we obtained and
encourages student discourse. used an Open Education Resource Grant
Rachel Jean, Oak Creek Franklin Joint School District If you have considered applying for grants but were
overwhelmed, then come hear our story. We will
share an overview of the application process for an
Open Education Resource grant from WI DPI for
$10,000 and how it might work for you, too! Learn
about the materials we used for our book study (in
WISELearn) on Catalyzing Change in High School
Mathematics. Discover what we wish we had done
differently to make the process easier for you.
Curtis Marquardt, Sara Brown & Melissa
Hongsermeier, Math Institute of WisconsinThursday, May 5, 2022 8:00 – 9:00 a.m.
Featured Session
Partner Sesison
Grades PK-2
General Interest
RWI Crystal
Kern Johnson
Wisconsin Modeling Challenge: Grades PK-2
Mathematics Coaching to Strengthen Content Join WMC to investigate attributes of
Knowledge, Pedagogical Practice, and Beliefs mathematical modeling as highlighted inthe
NCTM’s Vision is “that each and every student Wisconsin Standards for Mathematics (2021). In
has access to the highest quality mathematics this session, we will engage in grade level tasks to
teaching and learning”. The work of the math help you connect mathematical modeling to your
coach is to partner with all teachers to carry out owneducational setting.
this vision. This interactive discussion will discuss
WMC Math Modeling Team
coaching from three angles: coaching to
strengthen mathematics content knowledge,
coaching to change instructional practice, and
coaching to develop beliefs and a common vision
that supports student success.
Lynn Schaal, School District of New London
Grades 6-8
Kern Stansbury Hanson
Proportional Reasoning in the Middle Grades
Proportional reasoning has continually been a
significant challenge for elementary/middle school
students. Before jumping directly into computation
with rules, using a “metacognitive” approach to
instruction can help students take control of their
own learning. Participants will learn about ratio
concepts and will engage in solving a variety of
problems.
Dr. Kim Taik, New Mexico Highlands UniversityThursday, May 5, 2022 9:30 – 10:30 a.m.
Grades 6-8 Grades 9-12
Bauer Beatty Bauer Lightbody
How the Brain Learns Math Best Math + Writing = Deeper Learning
Recent research in the area of neuroscience has "This isn't English!" "Do we have to use complete
found that there are hundreds of other types of sentences?" "I don't know how to explain my
learners besides visual, auditory and kinesthetic. work!" These may be some of the things math
Update your knowledge on how students learn best teachers hear when trying to get students to write.
specifically in mathematics. Learn why different This session will focus on the research behind
strategies work better and hear tips you can use writing in math, some strategies for incorporating
right away in the classroom to improve engagement writing into your curriculum, and scaffolds that can
and retention. be used with reluctant writers. We will also develop
writing prompts for your subject and grade level.
Lauren Wiske, Pewaukee School District
Dr. Leah Hover-Preiss, Poynette School District
KEYNOTE
General Interest Partner Sesison
Bauer Morehouse C General Interest
Nicole Louie, UW – Madison
Kern Johnson
Making the Shift: Who Gets a Say? Let’s Work Together: Forming Sustaining K-16
We’ve all experienced change from the top down: Mathmatics Partnerships
someone else tells us what the new program is, Providing rich mathematical experiences for our
and we have to get on board. This approach is students depends on teachers having their own
fundamentally incompatible with advancing robust mathematical experiences as part of pre-
equity, especially when the students and families service education and in-service professional
that greater “equity” is supposed to benefit are development. This requires sustained bi-
left out of the discussion. In this session, we will directional communication among K-12 schools,
discuss the why’s and how’s of engaging students districts, and colleges and universities. In this
and families in making change—not only to session, we will discuss and explore how to foster
inform them about decisions that have already this communication to form effective
been made, but to partner in creating an partnerships for the benefit of all.
equitable, humanizing, and just mathematics
Matt Chedister, UW La Crosse
education.
Grades 3-5
Kern Boehr Cary
The Struggle is Real...Fear not the Fraction!
Fractions are the foundation for a series of
important secondary math concepts, yet the
struggle with teaching fractions is real! Participants
will engage in rigorous tasks designed to elicit sense
making related to fraction concepts as learners first
and then observe students engaging in the same
tasks. It’s time to put the fear of fractions away!
Dina Mendola, Math RecoveryThursday, May 5, 2022 9:30 – 11:00 a.m.
Grades PK-2 Featured Session
Bauer Boddie La Due
General Interest
Cultivating Number Sense Through Understanding
of Number and Place Value Kern Brayton Case A
A deep understanding of number as quantity and of Math 4 Antiracism: Redefining Quality Education
place value is essential to student success in in Community
mathematics. The development of these concepts How can math class be a driver of antiracism and
begins early and continues throughout the greater social justice? Join the conversation
elementary grades. Pre-K through 2nd Grade alongside educators from the United States and
teachers will engage in games and activities that Ecuador as we build our vision of a just, equitable
utilize a variety of representations and honor a world shaped by quality math education. Learn
developmentally appropriate teaching model and about free resources to go deeper into Math 4
sequence to ensure student understanding of Antiracism.
number and place value.
Callie Herring, Mathkind
Melinda Schwartz, Origo Education
General Interest
Grades 3-5 Kern Brayton Case B
Bauer Morehouse A
Polydrons: Making Connections
How Well Our Students Understand Fractions
Participants will use Polydrons to explore 2-D and 3-
Impacts Their Futures. Let’s Teach What Works
D concepts including tessellations and Platonic and
Best!
Archimedean solids and the connections between
Join this session to learn what research
them. We will also discuss manipulative
demonstrates about the long-term consequences of
substitutions that function similarly.
students’ conceptual fraction understandings on
their school and career choices. After a brief Linda Uselmann, Marian University
overview of research and implications for access
and opportunity, we will engage with essential Grades 6-8
models and vocabulary that deepen conceptual Kern Brown
fraction learning. You’ll discuss and plan for Teaching Math Through Social Justice Applications
implementing small, key vertical changes in your This session includes examples of social justice
mathematics community. lessons that are aligned to middle school CCSS
Maria Franshaw, University of Wisconsin-Parkside standards, a step-by-step guide to developing your
own social justice lessons, a discussion of how to
Grades 9-12 anticipate and overcome pushback, and resources
Bauer Morehouse B and discussion around fostering an anti-racist, re-
Using Math Circles in your Secondary Classroom humanized math classroom.
In this presentation, a brief overview of Restorative Sam Nadolsky, Shorewood School District
Practices and math content circles will be presented
to novice and advanced practitioners on how
important they can be in a rich discussion based
math classroom. All will then participate in a math
content based circle to show how trust and
connection are built upon to engage students.
Cori Moran, School District of South MilwaukeeThursday, May 5, 2022 9:30 – 11:00 a.m.
Grades Learning to Teach with Instructional Featured Session
Materials
Grades PK-2
Over the last two years, a group of mathematics
education professors has been working with DPI to RWI Crystal
think deeply about how Educator Preparation 2021 Wisconsin Standards for Mathematics:
Programs (EPP) are preparing pre-service teachers Finding Our Mathematical Strengths
to use instructional materials well within the In this session we will share how the process of
mathematics curriculum. In this session, we will co-creating the 2021 Wisconsin Standards for
share examples of class activities, assignments, and Mathematics leveraged stakeholder experiences
assessments that we have been developing and and perspectives to build standards that better
using with our pre-service teachers. support a picture of equitable outcomes for all
Adam Paape, Concordia University Wisconsin Wisconsin students. We will show how these
DeAnn Huinker, UW-Milwaukee, Christy Pettis, UW- revisions have the potential to impact instruction
River Falls, and Mary Mooney, WI DPI and assessment so that all Wisconsin students in
the PK-2 grade band are confident doers and
thinkers of mathematics.
Jody Lee, Holmen School District
Julie Bormett, WI Department of Public
InstructionThursday, May 5, 2022 11:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
Grades 9-12 KEYNOTE
Bauer Beatty
Grades PK-5
Desmos Is Great: Using Desmos to promote deep Bauer Morehouse A
learning in advanced math classrooms
Christy Pettis, UW – River Falls
Learn about some cool ways to use Desmos to
promote exploration, critical thinking, and deep
learning in advanced math settings. Examples from
Algebra 2, Precalculus, and AP Calculus topics will
be presented -- modifications of these activities
could open them to all levels of learning!
Nikki Dexter & Ken Schelper, School District of
Holmen
Grades 6-8
Bauer Boddie La Due
Self Assessment Using Exemplars in Illustrative General Interest
Math Bauer Morehouse B
Come discuss self assessment in a middle school Equity in Action: The Neuroscience of Student
classroom. We will be using work samples from the Agency
Illustrative Math curriculum for grades 6-8 to show Our world needs powerful mathematical problem
how we have been using rubrics and exemplars to solvers. Yet, our math curriculum still focuses on
guide our students with self assessment. doing math procedures quickly and accurately,
without an emphasis on understanding. Discover
Brandon Marcis, Medford Area School District
how teaching spatial reasoning in early grades can
Matt Haase, Jessie Krueger, Greg Klapatauskas, &
empower students to own their creativity, provide a
Jake Bucki
more equitable learning environment, and prepare
all of us to solve the world’s most challenging
Grades 6-8
problems.
Bauer Lightbody
Nigel Nisbet, MIND Research Institute
The Mathematics of Game Shows
Active engagement opportunity! I will share the
Grades 3-5
course I designed for a summer enrichment
Bauer Morehouse C
program which focuses on game shows. See how
students engage in conditional probability, Supporting Resource Adoptions with Professional
combinatorics, and expected value to analyze and Learning
then create their own game shows. Engage in tasks The Manitowoc Public School District implemented
during this session to see how you could implement a new elementary math instructional resource
parts of my course into your own classroom (or to during the 2020-21 school year. A plan to provide
design your own enrichment course). Feedback and three years of professional learning to teachers
ideas encouraged. included a book study of instructional practices,
content knowledge learning, and connections to the
Crystal Marie Vesperman, Johns Hopkins Center for
2021 Wisconsin Mathematics Standards. We believe
Talented Youth that this model can be applied to any adoption and
would love to share our story with you.
Lori Williams, Manitowoc Public School DistrictThursday, May 5, 2022 11:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
General Interest Grades 9-12
Kern Boehr Cary Kern Brown
Supporting our language learners in the Math Class for ALL: Using Desmos, GeoGebra,
mathematics classroom. Makerspace, and Mathigon for a Positive Math
Learn how a math coach and El teachers teamed up Experience
to support not just language learners, but ALL Global Mathematics is a one-semester high school
learners in the mathematics classroom. Strategies math elective class. Students learn some history of
will be shared on Professional Learning Community mathematics, learn about current mathematical
structures, implementing scaffolds based on data developments, and make mathematical creations
analysis, as well as building level initiatives to help using free online math tools and the school's
support the overall mathematical proficiency for all makerspace. The materials that were designed for
math scholars with a focus on our language this class can also be used in other math classes!
learners.
Elizabeth Masslich, Cedarburg School District
Heather Gehri, Manitowoc School District
Jayna Deicher & Xia Vang, Jefferson Elementary
Partner Sesison
Grades 6-8
Kern Brayton Case A General Interest
Using Apple Apps’ logos to Teach Geometry Kern Johnson
Concepts Building A Robust Pipeline - Recruiting and
According to the Common Core State Standards for Retaining Teacher Candidates
Mathematics students are expected to have Schools depend on quality teacher education
knowledge of the concept of symmetry (including programs to supply new teachers, and teacher
different types of symmetry). In this talk, we will education program can only thrive with a robust
illustrate how to use Apple Apps’ logos to to teach pipeline of teacher candidates. In this session, we
the concepts of symmetry. will discuss how K-12 schools and math teacher
Senfeng Liang, UW - Stevens Point education programs can work together to recruit,
retain, and develop quality teacher candidates for
Grades 3-5 the benefit of all.
Kern Brayton Case B Eric Kuennen, UW Oshkosh
Trix Aren't For Kids: Teaching Conceptual
Understanding! Grades 9-12
Tricks are liable to fail once they've expired and Kern Stansbury Hanson
they create false perceptions that they always work Teaching Linear Equation with a Purpose
(Dr. Hilary Kreisberg). This session will focus on Are you tired of having students do meaningless
commonly used "tricks" and shortcuts to teach problems to practice finding slope and writing the
concepts in mathematics. We will focus on the equations of lines? Are you looking for a meaningful
importance of teaching for understanding versus way to introduce your students to domain? Come
just teaching procedural steps and tricks. Our see an easy project that does the teaching for you.
session will provide teachers with tools they can use (This project is very easy to modify and use for
to deepen mathematical understanding! algebra 2 and pre-calculus too.)
Missy Sperle, Courtney Feller, & Karly Enloe, Jessica Kachur, Oneida Nation High School
Lancaster School DistrictThursday, May 5, 2022 11:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
Featured Session
Grades 9-12
RWI Crystal
Wisconsin Modeling Challenge: Grades 9-12
Join WMC to investigate attributes of mathematical modeling as highlighted in the Wisconsin Standards
for Mathematics (2021). In this session, we will engage in grade level tasks to help you connect
mathematical modeling to your owneducational setting.
WMC Math Modeling TeamThursday, May 5, 2022 1:00 – 2:00 p.m.
General Interest KEYNOTE
Bauer Beatty
Grades 3-5
Math Equity Project: How Action Research Can Bauer Morehouse A
Build Compassionate Teachers
Over the past 3 years, in the middle of a pandemic, Ann Elise Record, Math Consultant
3 different cohorts of teachers have dove into
Fluency Through Facts: Multiplication and
equity work directly linked to their math classrooms
Division
to find ways to build strong relationships, deepen
Fluency has three aspects: flexibility, efficiency,
mathematical thinking and shine a light on the ways
and accuracy. Let's explore the heart of the
math impacts our lives. The Math Equity Project has
strategic thinking for multiplication and division
been a safe place for teachers to explore the work
and discuss how we can begin that conceptual
and process the tumultuous pandemic years while
understanding while developing students' fact
strengthening their practice.
fluency. Not only will students develop fluency
Mary Lee McKenzie & Christina Stefonek, Clark for their basic facts, but they will be setting a
Street Community School foundation of flexibility that will naturally
progress to their grade level content. Together
General Interest we can create positive math journeys for ALL our
Bauer Boddie La Due students!
Toto, I've a Feeling We're Not in Kansas Anymore!
Who are these kids that we are teaching? Our 21st KEYNOTE
century learners are not the same students as they Grades 6-8
were 50 years ago... even 10 years ago. We will Bauer Morehouse C
discuss what has changed and how can we meet our Kevin Dykema, NCTM President
students where they are to engage them in Elect
meaningful mathematics. Meeting the Needs of Each and Every Student
Melanie Jackson, UW Oshkosh NCTM's Catalyzing Change series has pushed us
to continue to work to create an equitable
Grades 3-5 mathematics education for each and every
Bauer Morehouse A student. Let's examine what we can do in our
classrooms to help make that goal a reality. In
Engaging in Mathematical Tasks that Encourage
addition, let's look at how we can effectively
High Cognitive Demand
advocate for policies, structures, and teaching
Mathematical tasks presented to students
practices to dismantle the inequities that exist.
encourage different levels of cognitive demand.
First, we will share research-based methods for
Sponsored by hand2mind
categorizing the type of cognitive demand a
mathematical task may encourage. Then we will
engage participants in mathematical tasks from the
Beast Academy problem solving focused curriculum.
Mathematics tasks will range in grade level from
2nd through 8th.
Jennifer Harrison, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire
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