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Attend this session presented by Jan Hayes:

Thursday, February 6 | 1:30-2:30pm
Yes, Math can be Creative and Innovative:  See M² and M³ for Yourself!

Gifted students thrive with engaging ways of learning, and then with opportunities to explore newly opened avenues of inquiry and discovery. Mentoring Mathematical Minds’ (M³) authors and researchers offer students, for example, comparative investigations of Egyptian, Chinese, base 3 and base 10 number systems in order to decode a “MoLi stone”, and invite them to invent their own best number system.  Students in the Algebra strand replicate Guiness Book of World Records and ask them to set their own records. In Mentoring Young Mathematicians (M²), first grade students, while helping their animal (puppet) friends Imi and Zani, invent safety belts for their egg passengers, and test their results.  These are just a few of the examples of innovative lessons that ask students to act as professional mathematicians around Common Core concepts of math. Each lesson deepens and extends the mathematical understanding, while students grow in the use of mathematical vocabulary and oral and written communication, and solve challenging scenarios.  All lessons require participant discussion and clarification to solve motivating scenarios and tasks.  Multiple methods for solving the posed problems, and for creating new problems, allow for innovative thinking and defense. Teachers will experience several hands-on activities included in some of the units. At the end of the session, teachers will have become familiar with some of the research-based, award winning gifted curricula lessons from M² and M³, as well as the teacher support and professional development provided in each unit.

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Attend these session presented by Lisa Packley:

Thursday, February 6 | 1:15pm-2:15pm
The Mathematician's Journal - Thinking More Deeply

Just as scientists journal to record their hypotheses and document findings, mathematicians benefit from journaling as well. After all, math is a science in itself. Writing about math, while using key vocabulary, is essential to a deeper understanding of more complex mathematical concepts. Students who can effectively write about their methodology in solving, connect new learning to prior knowledge, and reveal new patterns, demonstrate true mastery of the mathematical practice standards.

Thursday, February 6 / 2:30pm-3:30pm
Talk Moves - Facilitating Meaningful Discussion in Mathematics

Confidence in mathematics can be effectively fostered through facilitating meaningful discussion in the classroom. Encouraging students to take risks, share ideas, elaborate, and explain their thinking using precise vocabulary, lends to creative and logical mathematical solutions. This session will demonstrate how "Talk Moves" can address and correct students' misconceptions about their learning, while offering a forum for sharing a variety of methods for solving problems. Connections to effective mathematical journaling will also be addressed.

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Attend this session presented by Wendy Atendorf:

Friday, February 7th
Rickles, Bickles and Gickles Oh MY! Come on an adventure to the Land of Treble

Come and explore our numeration system by visiting the Land of Treble. Everything students see in this place of fantasy will be made of three parts. Though this creative adventure students are looking at patterns in our number systems and then work with other number systems to help discover what constitutes a place value system and a base system. We will explore the use of the Math Messaging Board and model the Classroom Discussions Rights and Obligations that help create a productive discussion. Student voice is a critical component to help students learn how to organize their thoughts before creating their own written responses.

Visit the Kendall Hunt exhibit to learn more about our gifted programs.

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Visit the Kendall Hunt exhibit to learn more about our Slavic and East European language products.

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Attend these session presented by Valerie Johse:

Thursday, February 13 | 10:35-11:45 am
Games to Extend Learning in Mathematics

Play gives children a chance to practice what they are learning (Fred Rogers). Increase teacher effectiveness and achieve higher student outcomes through the use of games that push students to think at higher levels. Teachers use games to practice and reinforce learning but are your games fresh? Do they connect to the mathematics being taught? Do they require students to use critical thinking and thinking in different ways? In this session, participants will experience games that address geometry, basic operations, place value, and more if time allows. Let's have fun while learning!

Thursday, February 13 | 2:45-3:30 pm
Inquiring Minds Want to Know - Inquiry and Mathematics

Take your mathematically talented students to higher levels through effective use of an inquiry approach. Design student learning beginning with an engaging activity that leads to mathematical questions for students to investigate, communication with their peers, and mathematical discoveries that students understand and remember. Why does that number card trick work? How are the digits of number related to whether or not you can create a palindrome in one step? Why is the product smaller than the factors when multiplying decimals? Challenge your students to think beyond!

Visit the Kendall Hunt exhibit to learn more about our talented and gifted programs.

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