Join us virtually for the free NATM Conference on Saturday, Oct. 3, from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. This year's conference features the school year's first online Math Teachers' Circle, which will be held at noon and presented by Dan Schaben of Arapahoe Public School.
Register for NATM Conference at: https://hopin.to/events/2020-virtual-natm-conference
RSVPs are requested but not required for the Math Teachers Circle at: https://forms.gle/g53W3yw2Hy8VVv85A. If you can make it to just the MTC, please use this form.
Math Teachers' Circles Zoom ID: 942 9494 7949
Passcode: 962742
Oct. 3 presentation:
"Teach Math to Make Sense of the World"
by Dan Schaben
Geometry literally means "Earth measure." As I embark on the last 10 years or so of my professional educational career, I reflect on how I started and how I intend to finish that career. Math to me growing up made no sense, and it made little sense until I started asking my own questions in my 30s about why and how. I was so busy becoming mistake-free, I missed the big picture and failed to learn. Math is just now making sense to me at age 46, and every day another piece falls into place. Join me as I share some of the tools and processes I have used over the years to become good at sense making. How can we turn all of our students into questioners? How can we break free of the hamster wheel that is "teaching to the test"? How can math education be about measuring the Earth again?
NATM Schedule:
9-9:15 a.m. - Opening: Dr. Lorraine Males, President of NATM
9:15-10:15 a.m. - Keynote: The Whole-School Mathematics Agreement, Dr. Karen Karp
10:30-11:30 a.m.
Featured Elementary Session: Strength-Based Teaching and Learning in Mathematics, Dr. Beth Kobett & Dr. Karen Karp
Featured Secondary Session: Mathematics Lessons to Explore, Understand, & Respond to Social Injustice, Dr. Robert Berry, Dr. Basil Conway, Dr. Brian Lawler, & Dr. John Staley
11:30-11:45 a.m. - Closing, Dr. Lorraine Males, President of NATM
Noon-1 p.m.: Math Teacher Circle hosted by CSMCE and presented by Dan Schaben
1-3 p.m.: Un-conference Sessions (organized based on participant interest)