OAME Talks

By David Petro, OAME President

Education K-12

What's OAME Talks about?

The OAME Talks podcast is a brief discussion with some of the presenters from our annual conference. The podcast serves as an introduction to the webinar that each of the speakers will put on. The podcast will air on the first of the month and on the 2nd Wednesday of the month we will air the speaker's webinar.

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Talk 20: Tara Flynn and She...

01.01.2021

Summary : Explore a fractions learning trajectory (with assessments to guide instruction) emerging from 8 years of research in Ontario K-12 classrooms, focused on unit fractions as the key to understanding. Podcast notes: Recorded Dec 2020, Tara is a researcher ...

OAME Talks episodes:

01.01.2021 Talk 20: Tara Flynn and Shelley Yearley Summary : Explore a fractions learning trajectory (with assessments to guide instruction) emerging from 8 years of research in Ontario K-12 classrooms, focused on unit fractions as the key to understanding. Podcast notes: Recorded Dec 2020, Tara is a researcher ...
12.01.2020 Talk 19: Ian VanderBurgh Summary : Problem solving lies at the heart of mathematics. In this session, we will talk about and solve some problems that are accessible across a wide variety of levels and have lots of extensions. We will also talk about ...
11.01.2020 Talk 18: Chris Suurtamm and Peter Taylor Summary : This session begins with sharing videos depicting a growing population of particles that motivate a problem and discussion about exponential growth with students. In this problem, students are given the "law of growth" and are asked whether it ...
10.01.2020 Talk 17: Ron Lancaster Summary : Participants will work in groups on a shared problem solving activity for a balanced mathematics program. The mathematical content will involve factoring numbers, fractions, proof and patterning. Podcast notes: Recorded Sept. 2020. Ron is a professor at OISE. ...
03.01.2020 Talk 16: Liisa Suurtamm and Christine Lebeau Summary : With funding from a TLLP grant, a team of Mathematics and Special Education teachers have worked together throughout this year to better understand how to support our students with learning disabilities. Our team met monthly, developed learning profiles, ...
02.21.2020 Talk 15: Bonus Episode: OAME 2020 Preview #3 Summary : In this episode we hear from all of the OAME 2020 featured speakers once more. This time just briefly as they all answer the same question: Is there anything that you believed to be true when you started ...
02.14.2020 Talk 14: Bonus Episode: OAME 2020 Preview #2 Summary : In this episode we hear from the featured speakers from Friday's slate of sessions at OAME 2020 in Oshawa. We’ll hear a brief preview from Kamau Bobb speaking about what modern citizenship looks like, Richard Van Camp speaking ...
02.07.2020 Talk 13: Bonus Episode: OAME 2020 Preview #1 Summary : In this episode we hear from the featured speakers from Thursday's slate of sessions at OAME 2020 in Oshawa. We’ll hear a brief preview from Mary Bourassa speaking about other aspects of teaching to help students learn, Ian ...
02.01.2020 Talk 12: Alex Overwijk and Jimmy Pai Participants will engage in math tasks in an environment that is conducive to thinking. Based on research by Dr. Liljedahl, these tasks will enable us to dig deep into the components of a thinking classroom. Collectively, let us learn to ...
01.01.2020 Talk 11: Kaneka Turner Do you remember the first day? It was filled with excitement and optimism as you considered the newness of it all. This was followed by anxiety and caution as you considered uncertainty of it all. This description aligns to both ...
12.01.2019 Talk 10: Jennifer Wilson and Liz Ramirez How might we nurture a community of learners, where making thinking visible is safe, even when students make a mistake? In this session, we will consider norm setting, questioning, and listening, as well as strategies, routines, and tasks to jump ...
11.01.2019 Talk 9: Matt Baker Whether you're struggling to plan exciting activities for class or just feeling frustrated by the difficulty of the profession, it is really easy to feel isolated as a teacher. Let's just say it: teaching math is hard and exhausting. Coming ...
10.01.2019 Talk 8: Jules Bonin-Ducharme To collaborate is to share our understandings and to make sense of our collective reasoning. In this webinar, we will explore how listening to student’s mathematical story can help create a whole class narrative. By Visualizing, Verbalizing and Verifying, we ...
03.01.2019 Talk 7: Mark Chubb Many students enter math class making connections to previously learned material, actively making Sense of the content and concepts, however, many others do not. Students that use their mathematical intuition come prepared to make Sense of the mathematics and continually ...
02.25.2019 Talk 6: Bonus Episode: OAME 2019 Preview #3 In this episode we hear from a few of our featured speakers at the upcoming OAME 2019 conference in Ottawa. We’ll hear a brief preview from Jennifer Wilson speaking about her #slowmath movement, David Costello talking about classroom spaces and ...
02.18.2019 Talk 5: Bonus Episode: OAME 2019 Preview #2 In this episode we hear from a few of our featured speakers at the upcoming OAME 2019 conference in Ottawa. We’ll hear a brief preview from Carl Oliver who speaks about the importance of teachers connecting with each other, Nat ...
02.11.2019 Talk 4: Bonus Episode: OAME 2019 Preview #1 In this episode we hear from a few of our featured speakers at the upcoming OAME 2019 conference in Ottawa. We’ll hear a brief preview from Lisa Lunney-Borden who speaks of her work with indigenous communities, Jules Bonin-Ducharme talking about ...
02.01.2019 Talk 3: Fawn Nguyen In this episode, Fawn Nguyen will summarize some of the ideas from her OAME 2018 session titled What if We've Been Teaching Mathematics all Wrong? One of the biggest myths is that mathematics is all about computation. John Allen Paulos ...
01.01.2019 Talk 2: Marian Small In this episode, Marian Small will summarize some of the ideas from her OAME 2018 session titled Teaching with Intention: Focusing on What Matters. Teaching to the expectations is the job of every Ontario teachers. But it's not always obvious ...
12.12.2018 Talk 1: Kyle Pearce & John Orr The inaugural OAME Talks podcast is introduced by OAME President David Petro, and begins with an interview with Kyle Pearce and Jon Orr about their most recent OAME Mathematics Conference presentation: Going Deeper With Memorable Math Moments.

OAME Talks

What's OAME Talks about?

Download our free app to listen on your phone

OAME Talks episodes:

Talk 20: Tara Flynn and Shelley Yearley

Talk 19: Ian VanderBurgh

Talk 18: Chris Suurtamm and Peter Taylor

Talk 17: Ron Lancaster

Talk 16: Liisa Suurtamm and Christine Lebeau

Talk 15: Bonus Episode: OAME 2020 Preview #3

Talk 14: Bonus Episode: OAME 2020 Preview #2

Talk 13: Bonus Episode: OAME 2020 Preview #1

Talk 12: Alex Overwijk and Jimmy Pai

Talk 11: Kaneka Turner

Talk 10: Jennifer Wilson and Liz Ramirez

Talk 9: Matt Baker

Talk 8: Jules Bonin-Ducharme

Talk 7: Mark Chubb

Talk 6: Bonus Episode: OAME 2019 Preview #3

Talk 5: Bonus Episode: OAME 2019 Preview #2

Talk 4: Bonus Episode: OAME 2019 Preview #1

Talk 3: Fawn Nguyen

Talk 2: Marian Small

Talk 1: Kyle Pearce & John Orr