Global Math Department Podcast

Building Fact Fluency Through Virtual Storytelling

Presenter: Graham Fletcher

Date: January 19, 2021

When we ask students to memorize their facts, we are essentially asking them to memorize over 100 isolated equations. This approach doesn’t allow students to explore the relationships between numbers that are foundational to mathematics. In this session, we’ll explore the important role that context plays in developing fact fluency. By purposefully sequencing a series of tasks and activities through the same context, students can begin to make connections and develop an understanding that is scalable well beyond single digits.

Recommended Grade Level: K - 5

Hosted by: Leigh Nataro

Watch the full presentation at: https://www.bigmarker.com/GlobalMathDept/Building-Fact-Fluency-Through-Virtual-Storytelling

 

The Best Online Teaching Tool: Socially Relevant Math

Presenter: Dashiell Young-Saver

Date: January 5, 2021

Data is at the center of discussions about police use of force & race, climate change, educational inequity, and many other important social issues. As math teachers, how can we lead meaningful discussions on such topics while teaching in the often tech-issue-ridden, awkward, and dehumanizing online setting? Together we’ll tackle this challenge by exploring the #1 predictor for students’ ability to succeed while learning online: their genuine interest in the content.

Recommended Grade Level: 9 - 12

Hosted by: Leigh Nataro

Watch the full presentation at: https://www.bigmarker.com/GlobalMathDept/The-Best-Online-Teaching-Tool-Socially-Relevant-Math-35425d52e5236b6269ec7307

Wonder, Plan, Run, Reflect: Action Research in the Math Classroom

Presenter: Theresa Hickey

Date: December 15, 2020

Being a responsive educator means getting to know your learners, leveraging their strengths, and tailoring your approaches so that the highest level of learning can take place. To do this, you need to try new things. But how will you know if your adjustments are making a difference?.... Action research! Join us for some great tips on designing and running this research in your own classroom!

Recommended Grade Level: K - 12+

Hosted by: Rana Hafiz

Watch the full presentation at: https://www.bigmarker.com/GlobalMathDept/Wonder-Plan-Run-Reflect-Action-Research-in-the-Math-Classroom

Bringing the Math Back: Lessons in Educational Recovery from Around the World

Presenters: Brianna Kurtz

Date: December 1, 2020

We've been told repeatedly that we are teaching in unprecedented times, but in fact this is not the first round of education recovery post-natural disaster in modern times. We will look at lessons from around the world and how various nations reshaped their mathematics classrooms after interruptions due to disease, war, and weather-related phenomena. In these stories of resilience and innovation, we will imagine how our own classrooms may be reimagined in the wake of Covid-19.

Recommended Grade Level: 9 - 14

Hosted by: Amanda Riske

Watch the full presentation at: https://www.bigmarker.com/GlobalMathDept/Bringing-the-Math-Back-Lessons-in-Educational-Recovery-from-Around-the-World

 

PCMI in the Time of Pandemic 

Presenters: Monica Tienda and Barbara Lynch

Date: November 17, 2020

The Park City Math Institute (PCMI) is an intensive 3-week residential conference that's been around in some form or another for 30+ years. The Teacher Leadership Program of PCMI offers a phenomenal professional opportunity for classroom teachers unlike anything else around. The global pandemic may have interfered with 2020, but come see what's up for PCMI 2021!

Recommended Grade Level: 3 - 12

Hosted by: Rana Hafiz

Watch the full presentation at https://www.bigmarker.com/GlobalMathDept/PCMI-in-the-Time-of-Pandemic

Breakout Rooms for Teaching Math

Presenter: Theresa Wills

Date: November 3, 2020

Teaching mathematics includes student to student collaboration. Learn how to create structures that keep students focused, positive, and talking in breakout rooms. The gradual release structures can be used in any grade level.

Recommended Grade Level: K - 12

Hosted by: Sheila Orr

Watch the full presentation at https://www.bigmarker.com/GlobalMathDept/Breakout-Rooms-for-Teaching-Math

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Promoting Mathematical Literacy: What our students need to know, why they struggle, how we can help!

Presenter: Mindy Adair

Date: October 27, 2020

Learning math is complex and challenging. Participants will have the opportunity to consider what our students really need to know, why math is difficult for many students, from social, emotional, and environmental elements, to the learning profiles for dysgraphia and dyscalculia, and how we can best support our math teachers and diverse learners.

Recommended Grade Level: K - 12

Hosted by: Leigh Nataro

Watch the full presentation at https://www.bigmarker.com/GlobalMathDept/Promoting-Mathematical-Literacy-What-our-students-need-to-know-why-they-struggle-how-we-can-help

Presenters: Sarah Powell

Date: October 6, 2020

Many students experience difficulty with math and require targeted math support. In this presentation, we'll focus on the design and delivery of math intervention. We'll review how to select critical content to teach in intervention. Then, we'll highlight five practices (explicit instruction, precise language, multiple representations, fluency building, and problem-solving instruction) with a strong evidence base for improving math outcomes for students who experience math difficulty. By the end of this presentation, you'll know what works in math intervention!

Recommended Grade Level: K - 8

Hosted by: Leigh Nataro

Watch the full presentation at https://www.bigmarker.com/GlobalMathDept/What-Works-in-Math-Intervention

Presenters: Kassia Omohundro Wedekind and Christy Thompson

Date: September 22, 2020

Come learn about Hands-Down Conversations, a structure for dialogue in which students take the lead, building agency and understandings as mathematicians and readers. We'll dig into strategies for engaging in argumentation and explore the crossover between the content areas.

Recommended Grade Level: K - 2

Hosted by: Jill Bemis

Watch the full presentation at https://www.bigmarker.com/GlobalMathDept/Hands-Down-Speak-Out-Exploring-the-Crossover-between-Math-and-Literacy-Talk

Presenter: Zach Korzyk

Date: September 15, 2020

DeltaMath has long been a free tool used to give automatic and detailed feedback to students for math practice on over 1400 different math problem types. Given the current health crisis, this immediate feedback is more important than ever. This session will cover the basics of creating assignments and viewing student results. We will also discuss the newer features of DeltaMath Plus that give the teachers a lot more flexibility in creating assignments: attaching videos to assignments, creating an online test and writing your own questions on DeltaMath.

Recommended Grade Level: 6 - 12

Hosted by: Leigh Nataro

NOTE: To get a full understanding of Delta Math, the viewing the webinar is recommended over listening to the podcast.  Also, there is a Delta Math Facebook group where Delta Math Users help each other.

Watch the full presentation at https://www.bigmarker.com/GlobalMathDept/Using-DeltaMath-for-Distance-Learning