This list will be updated frequently throughout the fall. Check back to see the latest additions.
| Presenters | Time | Title | Description | Audience Addressed |
| Rick Bartosh | 8:00 - 8:50 | CGI and the Iowa Core | The Iowa Department of Education has supported Cognitively Guided Instruction teacher development academies. This speaker will provide an overview of Cognitively Guided Instruction and focus on the ways CGI supports implementation of the Iowa Core in elementary classrooms. | Elem/Supervision/Administration |
| Michael Bevelacqua | 8:00 - 8:50 | Take the “Glass Half Full Approach” to CAS | This “hands on” session will explore ways to get started with CAS (Computer Algebra Systems). Participants will use TI-NspireTM CAS Technology to investigate Essential Skills of the Iowa Core Curriculum that students traditionally struggle to understand. This session is appropriate for both beginners and intermediate users of TI-NspireTM Technology. | Middle/High/Pre-Service Teachers |
| Vicki Burketta | 8:00 - 8:50 | If You Want to Know What Students are Thinking, ASK THEM! | Students have wonderful ideas for approaching mathematics content. Before, during and after completing problem based tasks, let’s ask students what they know about the content. Participants will engage in solving thinking tasks and learn/practice alternative formative assessment questioning strategies. | Elem/Middle |
| Tammie Cass | 8:00 - 8:50 | Multiplication With Meaning | Learning basic facts can be more than just rote memorization. Learn to attach meaning behind the multiplication. Learning alternative algorithms with meaning helps students attain a deeper understanding of multiplication. | Elem/Middle |
| Katie Denger | 8:00 - 8:50 | What Do You Mean There’s No Homework? | This presentation outlines teaching secondary mathematics without assigning homework to students. | Middle/High |
| Patsy Fagan | 8:00 - 8:50 | Using CAS to Foster Independent Learning | What’s the next step? Is my answer right? Questions like these often indicate a student’s lack of confidence and/or conceptual understanding. Strategies and activities to help students develop independent learning skills using the TI-Nspire CAS will be presented. Novice users of TI-Nspire CAS are welcomed. | High/College/Pre-Service Teachers |
| Cos Fi, Lynn Selking, Brooke Fischels | 8:00 - 8:50 | Important Mathematics and Powerful Pedagogy (IMAPP) & Lesson Study Approach (LSA): Enacting the ICC Stage 1 (Foundations) | The presentation will introduce you to Lesson Study Approach, which is a mechanism for professional learning. Participants will engage in discussions about How People Learn and ways of using LSA to enact the ICC and to reflect on our practice. | Elem/Middle/High/College/Pre-Service Teachers/Supervision/Administration/General |
| Sherri Reynolds | 8:00 - 8:50 | Lego Club – An After School Program Designed for At Risk Kids | Inspired by current research on the value of purposeful play, two Crestview Elementary teachers started a WDM sponsored after school Lego Club for 2nd graders. Learn how they incorporate spatial reasoning, reading and writing through this “back door” monthly activity. | Elem/Pre-Service Teachers |
| Susan Parker | 8:00 - 8:50 | When Harry Met Sally | Middle school is a time for students to begin looking at solving systems of equations, but not necessarily from an algebraic perspective. This lesson will provide students that opportunity using several representations to solve the problem. The participants will be the students. | Middle/High |
| Cliff Petrak | 8:00 - 8:50 | Don’t Slow Me Down with that Calculator | Session 1: Learn to master a multitude of little-known, super-shortcut computational techniques and strategies involving addition and subtraction that will leave your old-fashioned algorithm and computer-dependent friends in the dust. | Middle |
| Dan Petrak | 8:00 - 8:50 | Emerging Technologies to Enhance your Math Course | The presenter will discuss and demonstrate technologies available to enhance math courses. This fast paced and interactive session will include screen capture software, online communication tools, valuable web sites, blogs, online learning environments and many other tools. | Middle/High/College/Supervision/Administration/Pre-Service Teachers/General |
| Terry Rex | 8:00 - 8:50 | How a Tireless Tutor Takes Math Students Over the Top at Wings Park | Introduce participants to the ALEKS online math program and the many benefits of this differentiated instruction. | Elem/Middle/High/Supervision/Administration |
| Dick Smith and Joshuua Garien | 8:00 - 8:50 | From Pizza to Neopolitan Ice Cream - Trisecting Chords for Trisected Circles | This presentation is designed to share my ideas on how to liven up a geometry class. Geometer’s Sketchpad, Geogebra(free) and Excel are excellent tools for modern classroom teachers. See how equal chords can be drawn through the equal areas of trisected circles in 15 different ways!!!!! | High/College/Pre-Service/Supervision/Administration/General |
| Emily Starr | 8:00 - 8:50 | Integrating Interactive Online Resources Into Classroom Instruction | K-6 teachers will learn how to integrate online math virtual manipulatives, instructional animations, practice activities, and games into classroom instruction in flexible and effective ways that encourage student participation. Teachers will be given the opportunity to apply what they have learned to a current unit with access to StarrMatica. | Elem/Pre-Service Teachers |
| Virginia Swenson | 8:00 - 8:50 | M.C.Escher Kaleidocycle | We will cut, color, and assemble a rotating chain of linked tetrahedra (Kaleidocycle). Good fun and easy activity for all. Will hand-0ut the M.C. Escher Kaleidocycle to be used in the classroom the next “free-fun” day. | Elem/High/Pre-Service Teachers |
| Frank Wang | 8:00 - 8:50 | Keys to Successful Teaching – Turning Research into Practice | With heart, humor, amusing anecdotes, and references to research, the speaker will describe five easy-to-apply yet powerful tips for improving teaching effectiveness. The talk is light-hearted, “Robin Williams”-like; the goal, serious – to help students succeed beyond their most ambitious expectations. The goal of my talk is to motivate teachers to help students, of all ages, ability levels and backgrounds, to achieve far beyond the their and even the students' own expectations. | General |
| Diane Whitfield | 8:00 - 8:50 | Exploring Graphs, Transformations and Domain | Following a brief introduction to the ClassPad, we will work in groups on an activity to help students understand domain and transformations using polynomials and trig functions. Learn how to help everyone visualize mathematics! . | High/College/Pre-Service Teachers |
| Mike Baker and Tracy Wingert | 9:00 - 9:50 | An NSpiring Look At The Iowa Core Curriculum | A look at one of the topics in the Iowa Core, Recursion and Iteration. We will use the power of the Texas Instruments TI- NSpire to connect the various representations of this particular topic. | High |
| Michael Bevelacqua | 9:00 - 9:50 | Teaching 21st Century Issues | This “hands on” session will explore the concept of Problem Based Instruction. Participants will use TI-NspireTM CAS Technology to investigate the 21st Century issue of Pandemics. This session is appropriate for both beginners and intermediate users of TI-NspireTM Technology. | Middle/High/Pre-Service Teachers |
| Jeri Daniels | 9:00 - 9:50 | A Toolkit for Teachers | To provide a toolkit for teachers and ideas for time fillers, time savers, enrichments and extra practice and fun with basic facts and strategies. Ideas I've gathered, not necessarily created all of them. Leave with ideas to implement in your classroom. | Elem (Gr. 3-5) |
| Mike Dillon | 9:00 - 9:50 | Integrating Multiple Intelligences and Technology to Enhance Classroom Instruction | This presentation is based on various types of research, professional development activities, and personal experiences. The goal is to provide the audience with new ideas for enhancing classroom instruction using a combination of MI theory and technology applications. Instructional examples will be drawn from concepts typically presented in algebra courses and will be tied to the ICC. | General |
| David Ewing | 9:00 - 9:50 | Math-a-MAGIC! | Astonish your students by ‘Math-A-Magically’ reading their minds and telling them the number or card they have secretly selected…or win a ‘fair’ game…everytime! Come and add magic, mystery, and good math to those spare, teachable minutes. | Elem/Middle/Pre-Service Teachers |
| Jill Freking | 9:00 - 9:50 | Using Assessment to make Cognitively Guided Instructional Decisions in the classroom | Participants will discuss how technology is helping educators all over the country to screen and diagnose student’s early math skills. Topic included: screening measures of skill proficiency; diagnostic interviews for probing students’ mathematical thinking; progress monitoring tools; extensive instructional guidance linked to results; continuous professional development for teachers. | Elem/Supervision/Administration |
| Katie Hash, Rachel Hughes, Amber Cassady | 9:00 - 9:50 | Important Mathematics and Powerful Pedagogy (IMAPP) & Lesson Study Approach (LSA): Enacting the ICC Stage 2 (Secondary school level planning) | Participants will engage in discussions about ways of using LSA to enact the ICC and to reflect on our practice. The session will focus on unpacking the mathematics and repacking the mathematics for instruction. | High/College/Pre-Service Teachers/Supervision/Administration/General |
| Judy Jeffrey | 9:00 - 9:50 | Standards and Teaching | This session will focus on the interplay between the developing national movement to common core standards and the Iowa Core. The Director will also discuss the impact of teaching on student learning and the movement across the nation to determine teacher effectiveness. . | General |
| Larry Leutzinger | 9:00 - 9:50 | The Keys to Developing Thinking in Students | Learn of 6 research-based components that will help you develop thinking in your students. | General |
| Larry Osthus | 9:00 - 9:50 | Using a Computer Algebra System (CAS) to Promote Engagement and Access to Algebra for All Students | Learn how a CAS program can be used to engage all students in learning algebra. See how the classroom becomes an active learning center where students hypothesize, justify, and communicate. Explore sample lessons and create CAS activities. Data will show changes in students’ attitudes. Video will be shared showing the changes teachers’ attitudes and methods. | High |
| Cliff Petrak | 9:00 - 9:50 | Don’t Slow Me Down with that Calculator | Session 2: Learn to master a multitude of little-known, super-shortcut computational techniques and strategies involving fractions that will leave your old-fashioned algorithm and computer-dependent friends in the dust. | Middle |
| April Pforts, Shelley Bramschreiber, Diana Juntunen, Tresa Zaragoza | 9:00 - 9:50 | Important Mathematics and Powerful Pedagogy (IMAPP) & Lesson Study Approach (LSA): Enacting the ICC Stage 2 (Elementary/Middle school level planning) | Participants will engage in discussions about ways of using LSA to enact the ICC and to reflect on our practice. The session will focus on unpacking the mathematics and repacking the mathematics for instruction. | Elem/Middle/College/Pre-Service Teachers/Supervision/Administration/General |
| Diane Royer | 9:00 - 9:50 | Gaming in the Classroom | After receiving the ICTM Travel Grant, I gathered data on digital gaming at NCTM in Washington DC. This session will show you how to implement digital gaming into your middle school classroom. | Middle |
| Mark Schnurstein | 9:00 - 9:50 | Inquiry Based Data Manipulation | Teacher will receive easy lessons that will allow students to collect and manipulate math data through hands on inquiry based labs. | Elem/Middle |
| Joanne Seymour Kuster | 9:00 - 9:50 | Learning, Earning and Investing: Hands-on Personal Finance | Money…It’s today’s hot topic. Help students get a grip on wants & needs and handling finances. Ideas/activities to teach 21st century money management skills-- saving, investing, borrowing and entrepreneurship. Show them millionaire status isn’t out of reach. | Elem/Middle/Grades 5-9 |
| Bridgette Stevens and Heather Bolles | 9:00 - 9:50 | Iowa Textbooks Lack Cognitively-Challenging Mathematical Tasks | As a part of an IMSEP-funded project, the speakers will present results of part of their implementation of a professional development project with middle grades and high school mathematics teachers interested in increasing and maintaining cognitively-challenging mathematical tasks. | Middle/High/College/Supervision/Administration |
| Brian Townsend | 9:00 - 9:50 | Go Green! Recycle “Useless” Algebra. | Participants will make sense of elementary student observations by applying prior knowledge of algebra. A good time will be had by most. | Elem/Middle/Pre-service Teachers |
| Matt Townsley | 9:00 - 9:50 | How do you know if they know? Re-examining assessment through the lens of learning | This session will highlight “assessment for learning” techniques from a secondary math classroom teacher's perspective. Come to get your beliefs about assessment and reporting learning challenged and refined as they relate this Iowa Core Curriculum characteristic of effective instruction. | Middle/High/Pre-Service Teachers |
| ICTM Business Meeting (President: Judith Slezak) | 10:00 - 10:20 | |||
| Deborah Loewenberg Ball | 10:20 - 11:20 | Making the Mathematical Core Learnable for All | As we move toward a more ambitious set of mathematical goals for our nation's youth, how will we ensure that all students succeed? This presentation will focus on the work of teaching, identifying practices of teaching toward complex mathematical outcomes for all learners, including enacting and enable high expectations, making mathematical practices and language explicit; and using homework and applications in ways that are sensitive to diversity. | General |
| Deborah Loewenberg Ball | 11:35 - 12:05 | "Chatting with Deborah Loewenberg Ball" | Informal conversation with Deborah Loewenberg Ball | General |
| Vickie Borich and Rick Brooks | 11:35 - 12:05 | (PLC*MT) = (SA)2 | What do Professional Learning Communities, Math Teachers and Student Achievement have in common? Join the discussion as presenters share the journey that the Johnston High School Math Department has started with PLCs. | High |
| Brooke Fischels | 11:35 - 12:05 | No Money for Math Technology or Supplies? Not Anymore! | This session will introduce participants to Donorschoose.org, which allows teachers to submit classroom projects. Donors from across the nation contribute and fund your classroom needs. Come learn how to submit your own application – even submit a project today! | Elem/Middle/High/College/Pre-Service Teachers/Supervision/Administration/General |
| Jane Haugen | 11:35 - 12:05 | Linking Science with Math in K-4 Classrooms | Participants will learn ways to connect science and math instruction. Practical ideas will be given and hand-outs provided. Activities will align with the latest national standards for both science and math. Come learn ways to integrate the science and math curriculum! | Elem |
| Kristin Kanaskie | 11:35 - 12:05 | Understanding Problem Solving | Learn about and experience a strategy to use in the problem solving thinking process that students go through when given a word problem. This helps organize their thoughts, improve problem solving abilities, improve mathematical confidence, and improve collaboration in a rich mathematical context. | Elem |
| Lisa Smith | 11:35 - 12:05 | Have You Found Your Voice? | To address the NCTM
communication standard, while also exploring the implementation of 21st
Century skills, I'm piloting the use of voicethread.com in my methods
classes. My goal is to provide
an opportunity for pre-service teachers to not only listen to students'
thinking but also respond with additional questions or ideas about the
next step to take to encourage mathematical communication. I will share
the work of my students while also brainstorming additional ideas to use
this and other tools to facilitate collaboration, critical thinking and
communication. |
College (Teacher Prep) |
| Laura Brincks | 12:15 - 12:45 | Love, Peace and the Casio ClassPad 330 | This session will focus on the new Love and Peace Application. No experience on the calculator is necessary. | High/Pre-Service Teachers |
| Roger Johanson | 12:15 - 12:45 | Visualization and challenging questions | Visualization to challenge middle (and elementary) students’ mathematical sense-making. Challenging questions for reasoning and sense making – Iowa Core Curriculum and NCTM standards. Focus on operations with whole numbers, fractions and decimals, plus geometry and data analysis. | Middle |
| Joyce Johnson | 12:15 - 12:45 | The ABC's of Teaching the I, 2, 3 's | When students love math the teaching is much easier. Learn some ideas about getting kids eager to learn more about math. Get your students to continue thinking even as the bell rings! I've taught 5th or 6th grade since 1981. | Elem/Middle |
| Jason Lang | 12:15 - 12:45 | Real World Externships for Teachers | Join us to hear the experiences of teachers that participated in the Real World Externship program and learn how you can get involved next summer. | Middle/High |
| Lex Miller | 12:15 - 12:45 | Computer Science Opportunities and Requirements | The focus of the presentation would be to discuss what kinds of careers are available in computer science, what the study of computer science entails, and what are the mathematics requirements for students entering a computer science curriculum. | Middle/High |
| Cheryl Northrop | 12:15 - 12:45 | Integrating Quizdom (Student Response Systems) and PowerPoint in the Mathematics Class | A brief demonstration of how I have integrated Quizdom and Power Point in the mathematics class. How I feel it has impacted my class and brief description of the students’ reactions to using both of these technologies. Time will be spent looking at PowerPoint and how it can be used in your classroom. | Elem/Middle/High/College/Pre-Service Teachers/Supervision/Administration/General |
| Deidra Baker and Bonnie Sunstein | 12:30 - 1:20 | Parallel Lines: Writing about Geometry from Keota to Revere | Tenth –grade Geometry students in Keota, IA and Revere, MA corresponded and skyped about math, life, and their worlds. We will describe this IMSEP-funded, ongoing project, discuss the math, language connections, life lessons, and future possibilities students and teachers shared. | Middle/High/College |
| Teresa Finken | 12:30 - 1:20 | Are Four Columns Better than One? Examples of Work with the ELI Lesson Plan from Pre- and In-service teachers | Participants explore the 4 column lesson plan from Lesson Study efforts, how the plan connects collaboration and teacher study groups, problem solving, 5 E’s of inquiry, formative assessment, development of teacher knowledge of content and pedagogy, and teacher success. Examples of preservice and student teacher plans shared. A teacher educator shares 4C-5E plan lessons preservice teachers develop as they learn and practice guided inquiry strategies. | General |
| Joel Haack | 12:30 - 1:20 | Slitherlink: an environment for theorems and abstraction | The Japanese geometric logic puzzle Slitherlink and its variants provides an accessible environment for student conjecture, proof, and modification of hypotheses. | Elem/Middle/Preservice Teachers |
| Lori Mueller and Jennifer Zindel | 12:30 - 1:20 | Co-Teaching using Problem Based Instructional Task | Strategies and tips for co-teachers who want to use more Problem Based Instructional tasks in their middle school math classrooms. Some examples of differentiation will also be given. | Middle |
| Mary Beth Murrell | 12:30 - 1:20 | The Nutty Function | The screw is a simple machine that we will use to engage students in the mathematical ideas of slope, intercept, and direct variation. By recognizing patterns, quantifying, and modeling, we provide students the opportunity to deepen their understanding of both math & science. | Middle/High |
| Cliff Petrak | 12:30 - 1:20 | Don’t Slow Me Down with that Calculator | Session 3: Learn to master a multitude of little-known, super-shortcut computational techniques and strategies involving squaring that will leave your old-fashioned algorithm and computer-dependent friends in the dust. | Middle |
| Kathy Rogotzke and Craig Zoellner | 12:30 - 1:20 | Inquiry Based Science Activities for Teaching Elementary Mathematics | This hands-on session will provide ready to use activities of short science topics that incorporate various mathematics lessons such as probability, sequences, modeling and others. These activities provide an interactive way to demonstrate the relevance and importance of mathematics in the elementary classroom. | Elem/Middle |
| Judith Spitzli & Eric Hart | 12:30 - 1:20 | Teaching Iowa Core Mathematics Using Formative Assessments and Learning Progressions (focus on Trigonometry) | This session will address the Mathematics ICC with a specific focus on formative assessments and learning progressions. The presenters will share how formative assessments and learning progressions have been designed using trigonometry K-12 from the ICC. | Elem/Middle/High |
| Bridgette Stevens | 12:30 - 1:20 | Mathematics for Elementary Teachers' Instructors: The Sharing of Mathematical Tasks | Bring tasks to share and
improve what we do in our courses for future elementary mathematics
teachers. |
College |
| Frank Wang | 12:30 - 1:20 | Keys to Successful Teaching – Turning Research into Practice | With heart, humor, amusing anecdotes, and references to research, the speaker will describe five easy-to-apply yet powerful tips for improving teaching effectiveness. The talk is light-hearted, “Robin Williams”-like; the goal, serious – to help students succeed beyond their most ambitious expectations. The goal of my talk is to motivate teachers to help students, of all ages, ability levels and backgrounds, to achieve far beyond the their and even the students' own expectations. | General |
| Michelle Watts, Emily Gahan, Rhonda Myrvik, Nancy Stout, & Laura Secrist | 12:30 - 1:20 | EMPOWERR Lesson Study: A Professional Learning Community where Teachers and Students Learn | This session will focus on using lesson study to support teachers learning to implement the mathematics Iowa Core including the essential concepts and skills, instructional practice and formative assessment. We will include ideas for starting and sustaining lesson study in your building or district. | General |
| Wendy Weber | 12:30 - 1:20 | Let’s Play! Using Games & Puzzles to Promote Reasoning, Proof, & Communication | We can improve students’ skills in reasoning and proof, as well as verbal and written communication, by introducing games and puzzles (SET®, Sudoku, Minesweeper, and Knights and Knaves logic puzzles) students can easily understand and immediately play. Worksheets will be provided. | High/College |
| Martin Wesemann | 12:30 - 1:20 | How Corporate Partnerships Can Enhance Math Learning in Your Classroom | Martin Wesemann will present how the partnership between Pella Corporation and the Pella Community Schools have engaged area businesses and school systems to provide financial and teaching resources to advance STEM goals. | Elem/Middle/High/Supervision/Administration |
| Steven Wicken | 12:30 - 1:20 | Gravity - Demonstrating Quadratic Equations From Pre-Algebra to Calculus | We will look at a variety of demonstrations and activities the use gravity to demonstrate the properties of quadratic equations. We will look at activities at many levels: Pre-Algebra, Algebra, Advanced Algebra and Calculus. | High |
| Comfort Akwaji-Anderson | 12:30 - 2:00 | Using the PRIME Leadership Framework to Reach All Children’s Brilliance | This presentation will focus on the PRIME Leadership Framework as a vehicle to help Pre-Service-Teachers and In-Service-Teachers put what we know into practice. Participants will engage in structured viewing of publicly available video to analyze and identify opportunities that the teacher afforded students to access and learn meaningful mathematics. This will demonstrate how the PRIME can help teachers reach into each of their students' brilliance. | Elem/Middle/High/College/Pre-Service Teachers/Supervision/Administration/General |
| Michael Link, Brian Reece and Joe Obrycki | 12:30 - 2:20 | Hard Core Algebra | The Iowa Core Curriculum challenges us to re-think the ways we teach mathematics. Piloting an NSF funded curriculum has helped us envision what this might look like in our Algebra 1 and 2 classrooms. Explore and experience several lessons from these materials and learn how our perceptions of teaching algebra have changed. | Middle/High/Pre-Service Teachers |
| Diane Mason | 12:30 - 2:20 | Have You Ever Wondered “Why?” | Why do we “carry (or borrow) a one”? Why do we align decimal points when adding decimal fractions? Why do we multiply by reciprocals to divide fractions? Why do we need common denominators to add fractions? Let’s investigate! | Elem |
| Betsy Black | 12:50 - 1:20 | Grade 1 Teacher | I won the 2008 Presidential Award for Excellence in Math and Science Teaching (PAEMST) Although I have not gone to Washington D.C. for my award yet I hope to this fall and will be able to tell an audience about my trip and all that led up to the trip. | Elem |
| Angela Schnurstein | 12:50 - 1:20 | Need ideas for block scheduling? | Learn about warm-ups, problems of the day, puzzles of the week, and using “cheap guys” white boards for number line models, and more. You will walk away with things to use in your classroom! | Middle |
| Jody Vanderloo | 12:50 - 1:20 | Using Problem of the Week to Motivate Students | Using a non-routine Problem of the Week, fifth grade students have made gains in math communication, using multiple strategies and improving representation and proof. Concepts and strategy development, weekly questions, student work samples and scoring rubrics will be shared. Come hear how “Wooly’s Problem at Work” has motivated us ALL to think deeply! | Elem |
| Jihwa Noh | 12:50-2:20 | For Secondary Methods Instructors: A Chance to Swap Stories and Compare Notes | The title says it all. This session provides an opportunity for secondary methods instructors to share and improve what they do in their courses. | College |
| Mike Baker and Tracy Wingert | 1:30 - 2:20 | An NSpiring Look At The Iowa Core Curriculum | A look at one of the topics in the Iowa Core, Recursion and Iteration. We will use the power of the Texas Instruments TI- NSpire to connect the various representations of this particular topic. | High |
| Kate Denger | 1:30 - 2:20 | How Am I Going To Teach That?!? | The Iowa Core Curriculum introduces topics to be taught in secondary mathematics classrooms that teachers may not have had a lot (or any) experience teaching. The session will give suggestions for teaching topics including Discrete Mathematics, Inferential Statistics, and Conic Sections appropriate for a 9 – 12 classroom. | High |
| Larry Leutzinger | 1:30 - 2:20 | The Keys to Developing Thinking in Students | Learn of 6 research-based components that will help you develop thinking in your students. | General |
| Susan Parker | 1:30 - 2:20 | Writing to Learn Mathematics | Using writing activities in the classroom strengthens understanding of mathematics. This will be a look and practice at ways to incorporate and use writing with your students. | Elem/Middle (Could do MS/High instead) |
| David Rethwisch | 1:30 - 2:20 | Project Lead The Way: An Engineering Curriculum for Iowa Schools | Presentation of how Project Lead The Way (PLTW) is implemented in Iowa. PLTW is a multidisciplinary STEM curriculum emphasizing projects and applications to provide relevance for math and science. | Middle/High |
| Walter Seaman and Vicki Burketta | 1:30 - 2:20 | EMPOWERR at the Core | EMPOWERR- a 3-year MSP and IMSEP-supported grant partnering UI and GWAEA in mathematics and Lesson Study PD with the staffs at three elementary schools. We discuss EMPOWERR, its uses of ICC and LMT and how the PIs have featured these. | General |
| Lynn Selking, Cos Fi and several IMAPP participants | 1:30 - 2:20 | Important Mathematics and Powerful Pedagogy (IMAPP) & Lesson Study Approach (LSA): Enacting the ICC Stage 3 (Enacting the Lesson) | Participants will engage in discussions about ways of using LSA to enact the ICC and to reflect on our practice. Participants will engage in observing and debriefing an actual lesson implementation with actual students. | Elem/Middle/High/College/Pre-Service Teachers/Supervision/Administration/General |
| Dr. Jenna Seymour | 1:30 - 2:20 | Come See Ratios Between & Within Rectangles in a Rule, Table, & Graph | Hands-on-learning using the concept of "a unit" for developing understanding of algebraic concepts in young children thru adults. Participants will group mathematically similar rectangles to understand between and within ratios, algebraic rules, function tables, and graphs using direct variation. Materials available electronically. | General |
| Dick Smith and Joshua Garien | 1:30 - 2:20 | Oblique Diagonals of Rectangles and Right Rectangular Prisms | This presentation will
demonstrate how to help students discover integral solutions for the
equation a^2+b^2=c^2+d^2 for skewed rectangles and the equation a^2+b^2+c^2=d^2+e^2+f^2 for parallelepipeds. Learn an interesting factoring strategy to make algebra and geometry meaningful. |
High/College/Pre-Service/Supervision/Administration/General |
| Diane Theissen | 1:30 - 2:20 | “GCF or LCM? . . . I get them confused!” | A comment often made by university students when revisiting factors and multiples. Student misconceptions, some favorite problems and tasks to help students develop these concepts and number sense as well as connections to rational numbers will be explored and shared. | Middle |
| Brian Townsend | 1:30 - 2:20 | Go Green! Recycle “Useless” Algebra. | Participants will make sense of elementary student observations by applying prior knowledge of algebra. A good time will be had by most. | Elem/Middle/Pre-service Teachers |
| Diane Whitfield | 1:30 - 2:20 | Exploring Graphs, Transformations and Domain | Following a brief introduction to the ClassPad, we will work in groups on an activity to help students understand domain and transformations using polynomials and trig functions. Learn how to help everyone visualize mathematics! . | High/College/Pre-Service Teachers |
| Deidra Baker and Danelle Knoche | 2:30 - 3:20 | Writing Equations: Now and Next | The ICC suggests having students write equations in NOW – NEXT form. If you are now confused, and wondering what to do next, this is the session for you! Lots of examples, suggestions, and ideas from many levels of math. | Middle/High/Pre-Service Teachers |
| Mariah Birgen | 2:30 - 3:20 | The Core of Calculus | Round-table discussion about how we all go about adapting Calculus to the Core Curriculum | High/College/Pre-Service Teachers |
| Mike Dillon | 2:30 - 3:20 | Integrating Multiple Intelligences and Technology to Enhance Classroom Instruction | This presentation is based on various types of research, professional development activities, and personal experiences. The goal is to provide the audience with new ideas for enhancing classroom instruction using a combination of MI theory and technology applications. Instructional examples will be drawn from concepts typically presented in algebra courses and will be tied to the ICC. | General |
| Teresa Finken | 2:30 - 3:20 | The Core of Professional Development Begins before Licensure | How to use models of professional learning community, four-column lesson plan, and writing to prepare confident student centered teachers. | General |
| Jill Freking | 2:30 - 3:20 | Using Assessment to make Cognitively Guided Instructional Decisions in the classroom | Participants will discuss how technology is helping educators all over the country to screen and diagnose student’s early math skills. Topic included: screening measures of skill proficiency; diagnostic interviews for probing students’ mathematical thinking; progress monitoring tools; extensive instructional guidance linked to results; continuous professional development for teachers. | Elem/Supervision/Administration |
| Eric Hart, Cos Fi, Shelley Bramschreiber, Amber Cassady, Randy Clennan, Brooke Fischels, Kate Hash, Rachel Hughes, Diana Juntenen, April Pforts, Jeff Sands, Stacy Schultz, Lynn Selking, Tammy Swenka and Tresa Zaragoza | 2:30 - 3:20 | Important Mathematics and Powerful Pedagogy (IMAPP) & Lesson Study Approach (LSA): Enacting the ICC Stage 4 (Debriefing and Reflecting on the Lesson) | LSA: Participants will engage in debriefing and reflecting about an actual lesson implementation with actual students. Teachers in IMAPP project will also share their experiences using LSA in the classrooms. | Elem/Middle/High/College/Pre-Service Teachers/Supervision/Administration/General |
| Elizabeth Hughes and Jeremy Cue | 2:30 - 3:20 | Let’s Talk Mathematics: Supporting Mathematical Discourse in Your Classroom | This session focuses on specific discourse moves that teachers can use to support students’ learning during mathematical discussions. Teachers will analyze an episode of teaching that illuminates these discourse moves, and then discuss how to implement these moves in their classroom. | Middle/High |
| Lori Mueller and Jennifer Zindel | 2:30 - 3:20 | Co-Teaching using Problem Based Instructional Task | Strategies and tips for co-teachers who want to use more Problem Based Instructional tasks in their middle school math classrooms. Some examples of differentiation will also be given. | Middle |
| Mary Beth Murrell | 2:30 - 3:20 | The Line and a Rose | In this activity you will use TI-Nspire to investigate the effect of changing m & b on a line y=mx +b and extend this to changing n & a on the polar curve r=asin(nθ). This is a beginning lesson on using sliders with TI-Nspire in an action/consequence activity. | High/College/Pre-Service Teachers |
| Cliff Petrak | 2:30 - 3:20 | Don’t Slow Me Down with that Calculator | Session 4: Learn to master a multitude of little-known, super-shortcut computational techniques and strategies involving multiplication that will leave your old-fashioned algorithm and computer-dependent friends in the dust. | Middle |
| Kathy Rogotzke | 2:30 - 3:20 | Math Lessons from the Movies | In this session movie and television clips involving mathematics will be shared. A handout with the “mathematics lessons” will be included. | General |
| Joanne Seymour Kuster | 2:30 - 3:20 | Learning, Earning and Investing: Hands-on Personal Finance | Money…It’s today’s hot topic. Help students get a grip on wants & needs and handling finances. Ideas/activities to teach 21st century money management skills-- saving, investing, borrowing and entrepreneurship. Show them millionaire status isn’t out of reach. | Elem/Middle/Grades 5-9 |
| Judith Spitzli | 2:30 - 3:20 | PAEMST Application Process /for nominees, applicants | This informal session will focus on providing suggestions to current nominees and educators who want to be nominees on completing the application process. This year the applicants must be K-6 teachers who teach mathematics.. | Elem |
| Emily Starr | 2:30 - 3:20 | Integrating Interactive Online Resources Into Classroom Instruction | K-6 teachers will learn how to integrate online math virtual manipulatives, instructional animations, practice activities, and games into classroom instruction in flexible and effective ways that encourage student participation. Teachers will be given the opportunity to apply what they have learned to a current unit with access to StarrMatica. | Elem/Pre-Service Teachers |
| James Strayer | 2:30 - 3:20 | Do The Math and Adaptive Math Assessments! | Come see a new program developed by Marilyn Burns, addresses fundamental skill development and interventions for students 1-8th with multiple modes of instruction including white board technology! The tools offered bring teaching and learning to another level. Also to be shown is the Scholastic Math Inventory, a new adaptive assessment that reports in Quantile framework scores! | Elem/Middle |
| Virginia Swenson | 2:30 - 3:20 | M.C.Escher Kaleidocycle | We will cut, color, and assemble a rotating chain of linked tetrahedra (Kaleidocycle). Good fun and easy activity for all. Will hand-0ut the M.C. Escher Kaleidocycle to be used in the classroom the next “free-fun” day. | Elem/High/Pre-Service Teachers |
| Beth Van Meeteren and Bridgette Stevens | 2:30 - 3:20 | More than Just Math Games:
Young Children’s Development of Arithmetic Based on Piaget's Theory. |
Math games will be
introduced as a means for developing young children’s thinking on number relationships. Participants will learn the theory behind the approach, how to implement, assess, and support young children’s development of arithmetic. |
Elem |
| Martin Wesemann | 2:30 - 3:20 | How Corporate Partnerships Can Enhance Math Learning in Your Classroom | Martin Wesemann will present how the partnership between Pella Corporation and the Pella Community Schools have engaged area businesses and school systems to provide financial and teaching resources to advance STEM goals. | Elem/Middle/High/Supervision/Administration |
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