The Center for Science, Mathematics and Computer Education is excited to offer an Online Nebraska Math Teachers’ Circle tonight at 7 p.m. Central (Thursday, Jan. 7), with guest Dr. Susie Katt of Lincoln Public Schools.
In “Productive Math Struggle in Elementary Classrooms,” Susie will be presenting on her book “Productive Math Struggle,” co-authored with John SanGiovanni and Kevin Dykema and published in April 2020. Registration for the Math Teachers' Circle is required.
Math Teachers’ Circles (MTC) bring together math teachers and mathematicians with the goal to discover and pass along to students the excitement and richness of problem solving in deep yet accessible mathematics topics.
We know productive struggle is important but how do we provide these opportunities for our elementary learners? Susie will discuss specific actions to help K-5 students begin to see why struggle is important for them as learners of mathematics and how we can support students as they engage in struggle. Practical ideas to use in classrooms will be shared.
Participants will discuss why productive struggle is an important ingredient of an elementary mathematics classroom and express understanding of:
• the importance of valuing productive struggle by determining how it advances student learning
• fostering student identity by developing strategies for learning about how elementary students view themselves as mathematicians
• how to develop and maintain a community by describing classroom activities which promote a learning environment that embraces struggle
• how to plan for and navigate struggle during a lesson by describing intentional moves teachers can make to support struggle
• the importance of reflecting upon struggle by describing tasks that can be used in classrooms.
Learn more at: https://scimath.unl.edu/mtc-online/
MATH TEACHERS' CIRCLE
“PRODUCTIVE MATH STRUGGLE FOR GRADES K-5”
Thursday, Jan. 7, 7-8 pm CST
RSVP HERE: https://forms.gle/Y6YZFpRCtW4eKmrz5
Zoom Meeting ID: 942 9494 7949
https://unl.zoom.us/j/94294947949
More details at: https://scimath.unl.edu/mtc-online/