25-28
NCTM 2024 Annual Meeting & Exposition
This year's theme, The Math of Their Dreams: Illuminating Students' Brilliance, focuses on centering students and their unique experiences, emphasizing the importance of recognizing and fostering the brilliance each student brings to the classroom.
The event aims to inspire educators to explore the theme and discover new ways to highlight and support their students' mathematical talents.
We hope you'll stop by our booth, or attend one of our presentations.
Presentations
My Four Favorite Tasks for Promoting Problem Solving in the Elementary Grades Time
Thursday, September 26, 2024
1:00–2:15 p.m.
Great problems invite conjecture, encourage communication, promote collaboration, and — sometimes — inspire chaos. During this session, we'll examine puzzles, games, and activities that motivate third-, fourth-, and fifth-grade students to get involved with numbers, operations, fractions, and geometry. In addition, we'll consider the characteristics of a classroom culture that foster problem solving.
Patrick Vennebush
Patrick Vennebush is the Chief Learning Officer at the Math Learning Center, overseeing the areas of content development, professional learning development, educator support, and research.
Leveraging Mathematics Teacher Leaders to Transform Learning Environments for Teachers and Students
Thursday, September 26, 2024
4:00–5:00 p.m.
We are interested in a broad transformation of mathematics teaching to be more ambitious and equitable for each and every student. With this in mind, we set out to prepare and position elementary mathematics specialists (EMSs) in 12 schools in a diverse urban school district. Interested in the most effective model, we examined EMSs as coaches, generalist teachers, and specialist teachers to understand the impact on both teachers and students. Participants will discuss successes, challenges, and potential implications for their work.
Nicole Rigelman
Nicole Rigelman is a professor of mathematics education at Portland State University and the Education Program Officer at The Math Learning Center. Nicole is passionate about supporting instruction focused on deepening students’ mathematical thinking and is the co-author of Catalyzing Change in Early Childhood and Elementary Mathematics: Initiating Critical Conversations.
Noticing and Building Upon Student Brilliance Using the Trends in Student Thinking Data Tool
Friday, September 27, 2024
2:45–4:00 p.m.
Examine strategies for focusing student-teacher interactions — whether individual, small-group, or whole-group — to more deeply understand and build upon student mathematical thinking. Leave with an assets-focused tool that supports noticing and systematically using progressions of mathematical content, strategies, and practices to provide feedback and inform next instructional steps.
Nicole Rigelman
Developing and Supporting Elementary Mathematics Specialists that Cultivate Collective Brilliance
Friday, September 27, 2024
1:00–2:00 p.m.
Participants will discuss the varied roles and responsibilities of elementary math specialists (EMSs) and the ways they support cocreation of ambitious teaching and equitable learning for students and teachers through their work. Using AMTE’s new Guidelines for Developing and Supporting Elementary Mathematics Specialists, we will consider approaches to supporting EMSs across the professional continuum with their learning, practice, and identity development in formal and informal leadership roles.
Nicole Rigelman
Using Observations and Learning Progressions as Formative Assessment
Friday, September 27, 2024
1:00–2:15 p.m.
A young learner’s ability to see and understand number relationships and basic facts is central to early mathematics. Research outlines a progression that children typically follow as they develop number concepts. However, an individual’s pathway is often much more complex. If we only look at a young child’s ability to get right answers and explain their thinking on paper, we miss valuable information about what they do know that can guide us toward helping them develop further understandings.
Shelly Scheafer
Shelly Scheafer is the Senior Manager for K-2 Content Development at The Math Learning Center. Prior to this position, Shelly was a Bridges teacher, interventionist, and math coach.