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 students and teachers, yet both are asked to be "all in" from the very first day. Curriculum structures that offer routine and rigour support both teachers and students in their efforts to be "all in" . This session will explore characteristics of the lesson launch and warm up featured in Illustrative Mathematics curriculum and how these structures promote agency and equity in the math classroom.

Recorded December 2019. Kaneka works at Illustrative Mathematics and she Tweets at @KanekaTurner

More info and to find out how to register for Kaneka’s webinar on Jan 15th, 2020, can be found at https://talks.oame.on.ca/season-2

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 start conversations that encourage students to take risks and contribute to effective discussions.

Recorded November 2019. Both Jennifer and Liz work at Illustrative Mathematics. Jennifer Tweets at @JWilson828 and blogs at https://easingthehurrysyndrome.wordpress.com/. Liz Tweets at @LizRamirez. Also mentioned in the podcast was the story of Roger Penrose's struggles as a young student.

More info and to find out how to register for Jennifer and Liz’s webinar on Dec 11th, 2019, can be found at https://talks.oame.on.ca/season-2

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 to a conference like OAME gives us a few days to rejuvenate ourselves and connect with each other. But there's actually a huge community of people online that will listen, offer advice, and generally help you feel less alone all year round. The Math Twitter Blogosphere (or MTBoS) is a global group of math educators that support each other in tackling the challenges of teaching, whether they be practical challenges like activity planning or emotional challenges like supporting struggling students. We love this online community because it has changed our lives as educators, and we want the same for you!

This workshop will introduce the MTBoS and help participants to get online and get connected to the multitude of resources and supports available online from awesome, innovative educators. Time will be given to explore the community, guided by teachers active in the community. No previous experience in social networking is required!

Recorded October 2019. Matt teaches Algebra 2 and IB Math at The Brooklyn Latin School. He Tweets at @Stoodle and blogs at https://pythagoraswasanerd.wordpress.com/. The original version of this webinar was copresented with Sam Shah who Tweets at @SamJShah2 and blogs at https://samjshah.com/. Also mentioned in the podcast was Mary Bourassa (@MaryBourassa - http://marybourassa.blogspot.com/) and the video by Grant Sanderson on the patterns of primes in polar graphs.

More info and to find out how to register for Matt's webinar on Nov 13th, 2019, can be found at https://talks.oame.on.ca/season-2

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 create this collaborative sense making classroom.

Recorded Sept 2019. Jules is a K-12 Math Facilitator for the CSCDGR (Conseil scolaire catholique du district des Grandes-Rivières). He blogs at https://jboninducharme.wordpress.com/ and is on Twitter at @jboninducharme.Other people mentioned include: Marian Small (@Marian_Small - http://www.onetwoinfinity.ca/ , Mary Bourassa (@MaryBourassa - http://marybourassa.blogspot.com/, and Peter Liljedahl (@pgliljedahl - http://www.peterliljedahl.com/)

More info and to find out how to register for Jule’s webinar on Oct 16th, 2019 (in English) and Oct 17th, 2019 (in French), can be found at https://sites.google.com/oame.on.ca/oame-talks

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 make connections between what they already know and what they are learning. This session will offer easy to use classroom routines that help your students think like a mathematician by using their intuitive reasonings. Routines like Notice and Wonder, Estimation routines and Mathematical Modelling will be explored together. Through this session we will learn how to start your lessons where your students are in their understanding, with their own ideas. Then we will discuss strategies to move the learning forward. (Audience: Primary, Junior, Intermediate)

Recorded Feb 2019. Mark is an instructional coach in the District School Board of Niagara. He blogs at https://buildingmathematicians.wordpress.com/ and can be found on Twitter at @MarkChubb3 . The cartoon about area from @BenOrlin can be found here.

More info and to find out how to register for Mark’s webinar on March 20th, 2019, can be found at https://sites.google.com/oame.on.ca/oame-talks

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 Tracy Zager talking about sparking the curiosity of teachers.

Jennifer blogs at https://easingthehurrysyndrome.wordpress.com/ works at Illustrative Mathematics and is on Twitter at @jwilson828

David is on Twitter at @dr_costello

Tracy blogs at Matt blogs at http://tjzager.com, her book is “Becoming the Math Teacher You Wish You’d Had” and is on Twitter at @TracyZager

More info can be found at https://sites.google.com/oame.on.ca/oame-talks

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 Banting talking about his ideas to maximize the potential of the teaching space, And Matt Baker and Sam Shah who together will be presenting a session the power of our teacher voice.

Carl blogs at http://www.coast2coast.me/carl/ and is on Twitter at @carloliwitter

Nat created the website http://fractiontalks.com/, blogs at http://natbanting.com/ and is on Twitter at @NatBanting

Matt blogs at https://pythagoraswasanerd.wordpress.com/ and is on Twitter at @stoodle

Sam blogs at https://samjshah.com/ and is on Twitter at @samjshah

More info can be found at https://sites.google.com/oame.on.ca/oame-talks

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 his journey as a math facilitator (in French), Graham Fletcher speaks about how to teaching at the edge of understanding and at the speed of learning and Eli Luberoff speaking on how Desmos helps to knock down barriers with technology.

Lisa’s work can be found on her site http://showmeyourmath.ca/ and is on Twitter at @LLB_315

Jules blogs at https://jboninducharme.wordpress.com/ and is on Twitter at @jboninducharme

Graham’s work is housed at https://gfletchy.com/ and is on Twitter at @gfletchy

Eli’s company is at https://www.desmos.com/ and is on Twitter at @eluberoff

More info can be found at https://sites.google.com/oame.on.ca/oame-talks

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 wrote in his book Innumeracy, "... mathematics has as much to do with computation as writing has to do with typing." Yet, school mathematics continues to focus heavily on computation and arithmetic and not nearly enough on critical thinking and problem-solving. The mathematical expectations and processes that we expect students to acquire and apply depend directly on mathematics instruction and curriculum that expose students to mathematics as a way of thinking and solving problems.

Fawn mentioned Francis Su and the idea of helping kids seek truth and beauty. Here is a short talk where he talks about that idea (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UitkuhpDUpc). Fawn teaches out of Somis, California. Her public projects can be found at http://www.visualpatterns.org/ where her and many others have shared almost 300 visual patterns, http://www.mathtalks.net/ where she shares conversations that she has had with her students and her latest site http://www.between2numbers.com/ where she has sets of two things that she juxtaposes and asks for students to make some estimations about them. She blogs at http://fawnnguyen.com/ . Shout outs on this episode to Amy Lin (@amylin1962), Mary Bourassa (@MaryBourassa), Sheri Walker (@SheriWalker72) and Jules Bonin-Ducharme (@jboninducharme).

More info and to find out how to register for Fawn's workshop can be found at https://sites.google.com/oame.on.ca/oame-talks

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 what "meat" to put on the expectation's "bones". We'll look at expectations in K - 8 and see how we can be more intentional with the math ideas that should come out teaching toward those expectations by choosing better learning goals and better consolidating the problems st/udents work on.

Marian's work and ideas can be found on her site http://onetwoinfinity.ca and her more recent work includes MathUp (https://www.rubiconpublishing.com/collections/mathup/) and the soon to be published Math that Matters: Targeted Assessment and Feedback for Grades 3 - 8 (https://www.tcpress.com/marian-small )

More info and to find out how to register for Marian's workshop can be found at https://sites.google.com/oame.on.ca/oame-talks