Are you looking for some creative ideas to engage your students and their families in Family Math Nights? If so, come join our showcase! You will be involved in games, activities, and discussions with experienced MITs. You will leave with many ideas for your Family Math Night!

Hear from and converse with panel members about the goals, challenges, and opportunities related to implementing the Kentucky Core Academic Standards for Mathematics. Panel members will respond to questions from the audience as well as questions provided in advance from teachers and other mathematics stakeholders in Kentucky.

Kids love roller coasters and for many, basketball as well. In Newton's Revenge, students are actively engaged in modeling linear data centered on a roller coaster ride and determine whether the ride is safe for all riders, even those who are very tall.

The Erikson Early Childhood Collaborative (EEMC) in Kentucky, features content from the Erikson Institute's Early Math Collaborative and is facilitated by trained KY Center for Mathematics (KCM) leaders. These eight, half-day sessions for preschool/kindergarten teachers bring out interactive mathematics lessons to empower educators of young children. Join us for a preview of this outstanding professional learning experience!

Do your students struggle with regrouping? If they do, this session is for you! Many students struggle with regrouping, but do they have to do the problems that way? We don't think so! Come to find different strategies to ease the stress of regrouping for both the student and the teacher in a life without regrouping!

A supportive environment can raise mathematical students' self-efficacy, increase participatory behaviors, and build academic achievement. This presentation provides practical and research-based ways to create such an environment, while moving teachers toward Exemplary in PGES Domains 2 and 3.

Participants will explore the use of place value strategies for addition and subtraction up to 100 and 1,000. Following the Common Core, we will discuss meaningful learning with the use of various hands-on materials. Join us as we discover effective tools to promote conceptual understanding and create make-and-take manipulatives.

The twenty-bead rack is a fantastic tool for supporting children's development of non-count-by-ones strategies for addition and subtraction. This session provides an opportunity to think about how to organize instruction around the bead rack and how to use it in the classroom during whole group and small group instruction.

This session will highlight the problem types and sense making strategies at the core of the professional development program Cognitively Guided Instruction (CGI). Participants will learn about the distinctions among whole number word problems and how young children initially make sense of these differences. Activities will include problem solving and analysis of young children's strategies.

Sampling Distributions and the Central Limit Theorem were taught differently in two sections of introductory statistics. In one, students watched the professor use an applet during lecture; whereas in the other, students actively used the applet in the computer lab. Results will be shared and discussed.

Learn about thinking strategies used by successful math thinkers and how to share them with your students. Leave with lessons in-hand, ready-to-teach, and with ideas for using thinking strategies in your own lessons. Be prepared to fully engage in some great discussions and activities!

Participants will rotate through several centers to experience activities created by Kathy Richardson. The addition/subtraction centers will help them to think of numbers in terms of their underlying structures. The place value centers will require participants to recognize equivalent values of groups of 100s, 10s and 1s.

My workshop will consist of a combination of hands on experiences that will involve observation, exploration, discovery, and communication with others. I will be stressing the use of the scientific process with young children to promote critical thinking. Current standards for math, science, and language arts will be addressed.

This presentation will focus mainly on the tools and strategies used by me and my collaborating teacher to engage very low level Freshman and Juniors in an Algebra and Algebra II setting. Topics discussed will include flipped videos, small group collaboration, discourse, and use of manipulatives.

Good problem solving is paramount in our Common Core environment. This workshop will engage participants in rich problem tasks selected from algebra, geometry, number and operations, calculus and discrete mathematics. Participants working in small groups will reason, explore connections among disciplines with these rich tasks and apply appropriate tools strategically.

This presentation will model conceptual teaching on three levels: Lesson, Discussion, and Presentation. The focus will be maximizing student understanding of basic concepts, then deepening their knowledge by making new discoveries and engaging classrooms in cooperative learning environments. Attendees will participate in three levels of engagement: lesson, discussion, and presentation.

Are you struggling with how to implement the Mathematical Practices into your classroom? Participants in this session will leave with engaging strategies and activities that can allow you to interweave the Math Practices in your classroom.

Working from a class profile, participants are encouraged to bring their 'Purple' or 'Red' books as we explore how to organize students, materials, and activities for more targeted instruction. Tips for organization will be both generated and provided. Teamwork is a plus!

Working on the premise that you can NEVER get enough of a good thing, please join us for Part 3 of Serious Fun in Mathematics! Whether this is your first, second or third time with us, learning will be new and STILL loads of fun! You, too, will have fun!

Using Bloom's Taxonomy in class and one-on-one to promote student engagement with math. Questions that go beyond the knowledge and comprehension levels can foster engagement. Through a small group activity, attendees will practice using questioning strategies that foster higher order thinking about math problems.

Experience ways to truly engage struggling learners in your classroom utilizing the 8 Mathematical Practices. Participants will leave with ready to implement activities and strategies to use in the classroom immediately from practicing middle school teachers. Our classroom is alive with excitement about numbers and yours can be too!

In this session, we will explore writing in math instruction to highlight Mathematical Practice #3 construct viable arguments and critique the reasoning of others. Participants will leave with a working knowledge of four types of writing that can be differentiated to engage and accelerate ALL students.

This session will provide teachers with examples of famous unsolved problems in mathematics that are accessible to students in grades 3-12 and at the post-secondary level. Engaging with unsolved problems can help develop rich student mathematical practices.

Looking for ideas to spark student engagement? This workshop will introduce you to several classroom tested activities that can be modified for any math content area from introducing a concept to reviewing for a test.

When children are given the opportunity to attempt to solve problems using different tools, they are not only fully engaged, but the magic of conceptual understanding begins. During this presentation, you will create different tools and explore the strategies in implementing a Problem of the Day in your classroom.

Although the Common Core State Standards for Mathematics begin at kindergarten, research is clear that children's preschool math achievement is an important indicator of later school success. What should preschool teachers be doing to give young children the best chance of being ready for and enjoying their kindergarten and later math experiences? This presentation will explore what the Standards suggest is important for math teaching and learning for 3- and 4-year olds, focusing on both content and practices. Through video analysis, discussion, and hands-on activity, participants will think deeply together about preschool as an important math education opportunity in the era of the Common Core.

The presentation will demonstrate how the integration of technology, pedagogy, and content knowledge (TPACK) can facilitate deep mathematical understanding. Participants will learn about the framework and engage in three math mini-lessons (elementary, middle, and HS) demonstrating TPACK. Attention will be given to integrating this framework in math teacher education programs.

This presentation will focus on how to create engaging standards based lessons that are student led. Examples will be shown on how to scaffold lessons for students so that they are completely self-sufficient throughout each activity, allowing for the educator to provide remediation.

Come and participate in cooperative learning groups! You will move around the room to experience hands-on math activities that are based on Kagen structures and strategies for the K-5 classroom. The goal is to boost math engagement and student-to-student discourse. These are math commercials you don't want to miss!

Looking for some fun in your classroom? We will put a fun spin on structuring numbers! This session will look at the fluency standards for each grade level finding exciting ways to have our students become fluent. We will explore and play games to increase understanding! Come play twisted math!

We will demonstrate various methods for teaching addition and subtraction. We will use popsicle sticks, ten frames, story mats, empty number lines, bead racks and arrow cards. We will also present some games that can be used to reinforce these skills.

How can the strategic use of technology increase student engagement and help make thinking more visible? Online resources and TI-Nspire Navigator will be used to demonstrate the use of real-time, immediate analysis of responses to encourage student engagement while providing them an opportunity to share and assess their own learning.

This session will provide a brief history of the Common Core State Standards as well as explore reasons why educators should be excited about the core's focus on discovery learning and student engagement. This interactive session will also demonstrate the benefit of the core pedagogy over the traditional math pedagogy.

The Beyond Base Ten project will enhance the mathematical development of gifted students in a meaningful and sustainable manner. The project has three main components: (1) direct services to students; (2) PD for teachers; and (3) Parent involvement.

Engage your students in math by using their passion for art. Explore different activities that connect art and math. You will be able to take these activities back and implement them into your classroom immediately! (And you can count this towards Program Reviews!)

This K-3 session will be a collaborative effort from experienced MITs across Eastern and Central KY. Presenters will engage their participants with ways to connect mathematics through literacy, technology, music, family activities, and manipulatives. Everyone will leave the session with ways to connect mathematics to everyday life.

Mathematics educators are aware of misconceptions like the "freshman dream" when squaring a binomial

This presentation will communicate core ideas of integrating technology into mathematics. Session leaders will discuss various practical and realistic ways to integrate technology into mathematics. Demonstrating various technologies will help participants gain understanding how to apply technologies into their own classroom. Participants will then work within their own grade-groups to look at grade appropriate standards and align which technologies could work successfully.

Participants will engage in activities to learn more about how to properly implement Kentucky Core Academic Standards for Mathematics using core curriculum materials aligned to the depth intended. During this workshop, attendees will receive resources from Achieve the Core as they use grade-level "Focus Maps," plot "coherence" by sorting the progressions of the major work across grade levels, and determine high-quality tasks aligned to the "rigor" of conceptual understanding, procedural fluency, and applications in the math shifts. Finally, participants will evaluate sample curriculum materials using the EQUiP Rubric, also from Achieve the Core.

We will explore the challenge of integrating the use of iPads into math instruction. You will learn about specific learning routines to build mathematical fluency using math talk and apps aligned to Common Core Standards.

Participants will use data from the Ebola virus outbreak to explore the strengths and limitations of models. They will work in groups to model mathematics, and construct viable arguments and critique the reasoning of others while also addressing NGSS. Detailed handouts will be distributed.

This presentation will provide attendees with an exciting way to use the NCAA March Madness bracket to teach probability. Students will use the seed ranks to establish theoretical probability. These probabilities will be represented by colored beads, random numbers generated by calculators, and random number tables to determine bracket winners.

This session will focus on how to engage students using the flipped classroom model. Participate in a flipped classroom and learn various strategies to flip the classroom. View examples of a flipped classroom to guide in the creation of your own lesson.

Students need to be engaged when learning about math. This workshop will tell you how to engage your students using budget friendly manipulatives that we all have in our classroom or in our kitchen!

This session will discuss a wide variety of outreach programs. The session will also include a number of hands-on activities and demonstrations. Look out if you sit up front you may get wet!

During this interactive session, participants will learn strategies to move students through the CRA (Concrete, Representational, Abstract) framework for multiplication. Instructional strategies will include using tools and models such as bead racks, base 10 blocks, cubes, arrays, quantity lines, number lines and symbolic representations.

Math stories typically are one of the lowest areas of student achievement, and one of the hardest things for kids to understand. We will look at a basic outline of what type story should be taught at each grade level (K-3) and the phases children go through to solve them.

When teachers design purposeful instruction, students apply concepts with understanding. Knowledge of how children learn math along with diagnostic assessments result in instruction that develops strategies for flexible thinking and confident problem solving.

We ask students to solve missing addends/equations before they have any understanding of what equivalence is. This session will look at using physical models to solve equations.

Learn how a conceptual approach to math instruction, with the use of engaging and interactive manipulatives and rich digital tools can increase learner persistence and impact achievement outcomes. Discover how intelligent adaptive technology can provide a partnership to maximize instructional effectiveness within both student learning and data analytics.

Incorporate CCSS Mathematical Practices into your students' learning with these rich activities that can be used at various grade levels. Questioning techniques that create more engaging discussions will be illustrated. Get hands-on experience with graphing calculators and also see with an iPad app. Walk away with all the activities demonstrated.

Small group instruction allows teachers to address the differing needs of students more effectively. The use of math workshop in the elementary classroom provides the opportunity for students to receive such instruction, while also participating in engaging and hands-on activities in independent centers.

This presentation will explore the outcomes of a grant-funded project to flip classrooms in 80 KY classrooms. Student achievement, student perceptions, teachers perceptions, and teacher practices - this presentation will provide participants with flipped classroom 'data' to assist with their own research-based decisions.

Puzzles build intuition, logic, confidence, and stamina in algebra students - accelerated or struggling. Students (and people of all ages) find puzzles engaging, but their value doesn't stop there. Puzzles can be used to support number sense, encourage classroom discussion, and deliver algebra content. Participants will learn research-based strategies for using puzzles to develop algebraic reasoning from NSF-funded Transition to Algebra materials. They will solve and create puzzles to use with students.

Explore ways to guide your students from robotic procedures and equip them with the tools to become proficient problem solvers. Participants will walk away with multiple strategies that can immediately be used in the classroom.

Small group instruction can be a powerful tool in closing achievement gaps and ensuring growth for all learners. Glimpse into a fourth grade teacher's classroom as he tackles his first year of small group instruction. Get answers and resources to help you get started using the guided math framework.

This session will explore our journey as we have evolved from a whole group direct math instructional model, to a more student-centered guided math model. Our presentation will include pictures and video of our classrooms and students at work. You will leave with resources and ideas.

Students are taught "rules" for multiplication and division, but do not understand the concepts behind the operations and cannot predict or justify the reasonableness of an answer. This session will focus on understanding Computation with Respect to Place Value (and Composing/Decomposing Numbers) with various models to give students a variety of strategies for multiplying and dividing numbers.

Math and Literacy go together like love and marriage; you can't have one without the other! Come to this engaging session that focuses on how to build a stronger marriage between the two! Come away with ideas on how to make the math come alive in picture books!

See how to use 30 free colorful interactive lessons based on the CCSS progressions. Included are student worksheets and teacher solutions. Find out how to get the TI-Nspire Teacher software 90-day trial so that you can use this immediately. Or win the software or iPad app as a door prize.

Champions and Leaders are encouraged to engage, ask questions, learn from one another and grow as professional developers. This session will be responsive to your questions and provide a forum with fellow instructors.

This is an interactive session which will focus on guiding teachers to move students forward in their ability to structure number. Our goal is for participants to leave our session knowing how to extend students learning and rehearsal of skill through the use of integrating technology into learning routines, partner work, and discourse, in order to meet and/ or exceed the proficiency levels outlined in the mathematical practices and fluency within the common core. Participants should bring laptops or iPads.

Administrators are looked to as the instructional leaders of the building. By putting structures in place that allow math interventionists to impact and influence Tier 1 instruction, principals can support their interventionist while improving overall mathematical instruction, achievement and learning throughout the school.

The goal of this workshop is to empower teachers to help students embrace and build on their individual strategies for solving addition and subtraction tasks. As teachers, we strive to understand there are many ways to solve problems. Come learn strategies and acquire tools for developing student thinking. Participants will walk away with classroom-ready activities.

This session provides an overview of the implementation of Engage New York Curriculum school wide K-6 and the use of Formative Assessment Lessons in the classroom. Participants will participate in a Formative Assessment Lesson as well as analyze examples of productive struggle in student thinking. Presenters will provide models used in the implementation of Engage New York at various grade levels to illustrate the high levels of engagement while maintaining rigor and relevance. Instructors will mock teach a lesson from Engage to illustrate the level of rigor and productive struggle students experience.

Are your students' addition and subtraction strategies being undermined by premature exposure to procedures and algorithms outside of your classroom? Join us on our crusade to create homework experiences that engage families in thinking about math as quantity instead of a series of steps and tricks.

Proportional Reasoning touches so much of the math curriculum in the common core that it is a great vehicle for promoting the practice standards. Come see some examples that you can use in your classroom.

This presentation will feature five amazing teacher candidates presenting and sharing the hands-on interactive experiences they created and taught in a kindergarten classroom. Participants will be introduced to 'Gus the Plus', 'Ellie Equal', 'Linus the Minus', 'Pete the Cat', and more. Engage in manipulative models, literature, and co-teaching fun!

Participants will engage in activities that provide strategies to integrate CCSS and NGSS. Mathematical modeling of both univariate and bivariate data of variations within and between populations will be explored. Participants will work in groups and discuss and share their investigations.

This presentation is to assist educators in helping students in their core academic areas. Teachers will learn to help students in these areas by teaching, reteaching, working with students in groups of one to three to help them with class assignments, concepts, and utilizing continued assessment.

Alternative Algorithms can provide greater access and help students develop a deeper understanding of operations. In this session, attendees will work in small groups to figure out various alternative algorithms and present them. Research on alternative algorithms will be presented and attendees will engage in a discussion of their application.

How do we build powerful numeracy in our students? What if they don't know their facts? Come experience strategies to help all students construct numerical relationships so that they can succeed in higher math. We'll discuss an overall vision and focus on some specific examples you can use in your class. Math is figure-out-able!

Remove the fear of fractions in your 3-5 students! Come join the MaRTI Plus London Cohort and be involved in hands on activities that help students make sense of fractions. You will see how the activities are aligned to the Common Core Standards, and you will leave the session with activities that will promote student development of understanding fractions.

Participants will explore the use of Number Talks to promote the development of number sense and the use of mental math strategies in computation. Participants will view and discuss sample classroom video Number Talk sessions. Sample tasks for Number Talks will be given.

Attendees will gain knowledge of several tools to use in professional learning experiences that will help educators dig deeper into the math common core standards. The tools will include a Minnesota slice protocol for examining and identifying student work in terms of rigor, skill,conceptual understanding and application.

Games can provide a valuable opportunity for students to practice and apply mathematical concepts critical to the Common Core Content Standards and the Standards for Mathematical Practice. Teachers can use gaming experiences for informal formative assessment and differentiation to better meet student needs. This session will include a variety of content-appropriate games across the high school math strands of algebra and geometry for whole class, small group, and individual participation.

This presentation gives an opportunity to experience the use of manipulatives with mathematics in grades K through 5 and the connection of the manipulatives to an area model. Selected topics span from the two Number and Operations domains along with the inclusion of mathematical practices.

Throughout history, as the focus on why we are teaching math changed, the strategies for solving word problems have also changed. What was once considered 15 difference situations of word problems may actually have only three difference structures. With intentional instruction of those structures, struggling students can develop a strong foundation to solve those word problems.

Join us for a sequel to our 2013 KCM presentation as we revisit the game of Liar's Bingo. Play the game and then explore the mathematics inherent in it. "Liars don't have to remember their lies" if they find and use mathematical patterns.

Not all students can simply memorize basic facts! Join us and learn how to implement the CCSS, including Attending to Precision, by teaching your students to develop thinking strategies for learning basic multiplication and related division facts in a meaningful way. Innovative and conceptually-based games and resources that get students excited to learn basic math facts will be utilized.

We are excited that participants will be hiking the Math Camp-In Trail with us! We will give you tips on how to organize a Math Camp-In experience at your school. Participants will have the opportunity to explore various Math Camp-In stations that allow students to apply their mathematical knowledge.

Experience games and activities to help move students toward fluency in multiplication and division. You will be introduced to the Kentucky Numeracy Project Intervention Guide (KNPIG) as well as other resources. Participants will learn how to obtain these free games to be used in classrooms and RTI groups. PLAYTIME included!!

Do educators know if their students will be ready to successfully show understanding by the end of the unit? Educators often do not effectively use assessment data due to their complexity. However, progress monitoring can be accomplished with a variety of formal assessments that are actually very efficient and precise.

Tired of boring lessons? Tired of unmotivated students? Tired of students that think negatively about math? Implement math workshop in the elementary classroom and watch engagement and mastery of math content soar. Learn how to set up math workshop and take away usable resources for your classroom.

This session will emphasize developing conceptual understanding of Computation with Fractions. Multiple experiences in physically modeling and sense-making with fraction computation problems will give students strategies for problem solving and transferring their understanding to symbolic notation.

This presentation gives an opportunity to experience the use of manipulatives with mathematics in grades 6 through 12 and the connection of the manipulatives to an area model. Selected topics span from the Expressions and Equations domain to the Algebra and Functions domains along with the inclusion of mathematical practices.

Are you Nationally Board Certified? If you are wanting to improve your differentiation, analysis of student work, and self-reflection, you should be. Learn about the revision to the National Board process and delve into equitable instruction.

This is a presentation of our PLC philosophy and protocol. Attendees will learn how we use the intended curriculum to drive planning while we use the learned curriculum to respond to student misconceptions and reteach.

Need fresh ideas for introducing quadratics to your students? Come explore ways to encourage all students to make conjectures about key characteristics of graphs and transformation behavior and to help students make sense of the vertex form of quadratics.