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Georgia Mathematics Conference at Rock Eagle – Preliminary Session Listing Thursday, October 15, 2015 Subject to Change – Pick up your final printed program with your Registration materials! 8 – 9 AM Welcome First-Time Participants to the Georgia Mathematics Conference! Kaycie Maddox, GCTM President & Northeast Georgia RESA Dan Funsch, GCTM Past-President & The Alleluia Community School In this session you will gain some tips to help you get the most out of the conference. This session is only for first timers and especially for newer teachers. It is brought to you by the Executive Committee of the Georgia Council of Teachers of Mathematics. Please note: This is an optional session! The PBL Project — We’re Not Preparing Students for Jeopardy Anymore! (grades 1 – 8) Ben Bache, PBL Project manager and owner of Homecourt Publishers, LLC Attendees to this session will receive free books that feature integrated problem-based scenarios. Problem-Based Learning promotes communication, collaboration, curiosity, organization, and problem-solving skills. Participants in this session will be introduced to the philosophy of Problem-Based Learning and the PBL Project website (www.pblproject.com). During the presentation, we will review the layout and content of the PBL Project books so that teachers can implement the exercises successfully during classroom instruction. My Journey Bridging the Gap with Struggling Math Students (grades 5 – 8) Michelle Banks, Luella MS How do you personalize learning in a math classroom? How do you juggle data collection and remediation while supporting your students? Come learn about my journey to bridging the gap for students in MTSS/RTI and resource math classrooms. Innovative MATH Solutions (grades 1 – 8) Richard Buchner, Innovative MATH Solutions Learn about our Innovative Math Solutions to increase test scores by achieving automaticity through higher engagement levels in the classroom. Attend our session to get pilot school results, learn how to increase engagement levels, learn how achieve greater automaticity, and learn why this is so critical to the future of math education, a student’s math career and how it directly relates to the downward trending math scores since 1964. Why We Don’t Teach Mathematics - Taking No Prisoners (grades 4 – College) Frank Edge, Piedmont College - Athens A discussion of why common math teaching techniques are often ineffective, and suggestions for more effective strategies. After 35 years of teaching mathematics to remedial adults, at risk HS students, non-major undergraduates, and future teachers, I will be reflecting upon what many adults didn’t learn in their K-12 mathematics classes, and upon how this situation might be remedied. Active Learning with Literature in MS Mathematics (grades 6 – 8) Susan Edwards & Beth Pendergraft, Georgia Regents University Looking for ways to make your math class more interesting and get your students engaged in active learning? We will share real strategies that work well in middle school math classrooms. We will share ways to use books that have math themes as anchor activities, folder games, brain busters and small group activities. Increasing Student Motivation, Achievement, & Behavior Using a Company Model (grades 6 – 12) Emily Freeman, Cobb County School District Become your own CEO and turn your classes into companies! The company model makes a competition out of anything you grade. "Pay" companies based on their performance and reward your top employees. Set company goals or compete against other classes. Your data will drive instruction and production. This works great in a flipped classroom too!

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Georgia Mathematics Conference at Rock Eagle – Preliminary Session Listing Thursday, October 15, 2015 Subject to Change – Pick up your final printed program with your Registration materials! 8 – 9 AM (continued) Families Count: Promoting Family Engagement in the Mathematical Development of Their Children (grades K – 12) Annette Howell & Marci Coward, DeKalb County Schools The purpose of this session is to make teachers aware of programs and/or activities that can be used to promote family engagement in the mathematical development of their children. Participants will receive wonderful ideas and technology based resources/websites that will aid them in including parents/families in the learning process. Guinness Outliers: Making Measures of Center Fun and Easier to Understand (grades 6 – 9) Brian Lack, Forsyth County Schools Middle school students struggle with flexible understanding/application of appropriate measures of center. In this session, we will go beyond the typical "textbook" approach to teaching students how to identify the "best" measure of central tendency by using a context that is meaningful and engaging to just about any student: Guinness World Records. Come prepared to be actively engaged in experiencing exciting ways to confront common misconceptions about statistical analysis. Roller Coasters and Algebra (grades 7 – 10) Basil Lee, Langston Hughes HS How can we shift from performing sequences of mathematical procedures and memorizing facts and formulas to applying math concepts critically to solve problems in the real world? We will create linear equations in two variables by investigating and solving a relevant real world problem involving a Six Flags roller coaster. Collaborating with Office 365 (grades K – 12) Bruce Nicol, Osborne HS Microsoft Office 365 can simplify the way you collaborate with other teachers. This session will focus on using OneDrive and OneNote for organizing materials by course and sharing these materials with other teachers. This session will also compare the use of Office 365 online components with the corresponding Google components. What does Fact Fluency Look Like? (grades 2 – 6) Thom O’Brien, ExploreLearning Math fact fluency! What is math fact fluency? Why is it critical in secondary as well as elementary? What method for developing fluency will promote automaticity across a broad range of students? What if we could solve the problem of math fact fluency in just 18 minutes per day? Come see how interactive game based learning can bring your students to fluency in as few as 30 days! Mathematical Model and Civil Rights (grade 9) Lucia Poole, Joanne Cole, Jen Newsom, & Sheryl Hughes, Harrison HS This session includes a lesson plan that ties in Mathematical Modeling with the Greensboro lunch counter sit-ins. Specifically the lesson incorporates a six-minute video that summarizes the movement. Next, the students conduct research to find the number of protesters involved in the movement, run regression models to determine which is most appropriate, and make a prediction about how many protesters would be involved on the ninth day. Building Frac/Tions (grades K – 5) Shannon Roberts-Kelly, Lamar-Milledge ES & LaChandra Thomas-Mole, Wilkinson Gardens ES This session will identify the "fraction" in each grade level. Ideas and activities will be discussed to demonstrate the integration of fractions. This session will identify what fractions are and what they are not. Assessments will be provided for grade levels including quick checks, formative/summative, and ways to differentiate these assessments. Let’s create a strong foundation for our fractional buildings 2 updated 9/20/2015

Georgia Mathematics Conference at Rock Eagle – Preliminary Session Listing Thursday, October 15, 2015 Subject to Change – Pick up your final printed program with your Registration materials! 8 – 9 AM (continued) Differentiating with Manipulatives in the INTERactive Classroom (grades 3 – 5) Stephanie Shultz, Marietta City Schools Learn how interactive & hands-on instruction with manipulatives can make the mathematical practices come alive in the classroom. This presentation will focus on the importance of the concrete-representational-abstract model within the GSE classroom as well as integrating ELA and STEM. Using a variety of concrete and virtual manipulatives, participants will pause to reflect on the math behind the tasks and how to differentiate these tasks for all grade levels involved. Numbersville: The Place Where Guided Math Meets STEAM Kathy Spruiell, Arcado ES Join us to learn how to incorporate guided math, project-based learning, the engineering process, and STEM/STEAM. The Numbersville project is a unique and innovative way to engage your students' number sense with real world connections during your guided math workshop time. Teachers will leave with a tool kit of resources to support next steps in implementing these strategies in their classrooms. Using Foldables as a Tool for Learning (grades 3 – 12) Chris Tallent, Westside MS Foldables are a fun way for students to organize mathematical concepts for classroom use and for later review. Students find foldables fun to make and easy to use. Tips and Strategies for Maintaining Health, Fitness & Sanity for (Math) Teachers (grades K – College) Dottie Whitlow, Math Consultant, Z-Health Trainer Teaching takes lots of time and energy! For teachers, the last person to get needed time and attention is one’s self! Over time, this can take a toll on our health and wellness. Dr. Whitlow, a veteran math educator, speaks from experience about overwhelming stress, sedentary life-style, health issues and what can prevent decline or restore health, energy and vitality. Known as a leading math educator and advocate, she is now a Health Coach and Z-Health trainer. 8 – 9:30 AM Writing Tasks that Incorporate Mathematical Reasoning (grades 7 – 12) Mark Freitag, Georgia Regents University This session presents a way to create mathematical tasks that implement the powerful relationship between inductive and deductive reasoning. After a short introduction and demonstration of examples, participants will have the opportunity to create and share their own mathematical tasks. Writing and Evaluating Assessment Items (grades 1 – 7) Susan Jones, Educational Consultant Learn how the professionals write and edit assessment items! Participants will experience interactively the process used to evaluate standards, select a plausible context, and the many edits required to produce a finished mathematics assessment item. We will discuss different item types, including multiple choice, constructed response, and technology-enhanced items. Not Knowing the Meaning of the Equal Sign Creates Inequality (grades K – 5) Doris Santarone, Angel Abney, & Brandon Samples, Georgia College A pivotal concept for successful mathematical learning of algebra is the equal sign. Unfortunately, any misunderstandings about equality established in elementary school will plague students throughout their education. Pre-service teachers investigated K-5 students’ conceptions of the equal sign. They and their host teachers were surprised by their findings. We will suggest interventions to help develop a productive view of the equal sign. 3 updated 9/20/2015

Georgia Mathematics Conference at Rock Eagle – Preliminary Session Listing Thursday, October 15, 2015 Subject to Change – Pick up your final printed program with your Registration materials! 8 – 9:30 AM SMART Board Workshop for Novices (grades 9 – College) Allen Wolmer, Atlanta Jewish Academy In this Workshop, targeted at novice SMART Board users, math teachers will see how to easily and efficiently use their SMART Board and SMART Notebook software to get started. Bring your laptops loaded with SMART Notebook 11 or 14! 8:30 – 10:30 AM Seeing and Communicating Math: Number Sense Building (grades K – 5) Seyoung Holte, Clarke County School District Developing number sense and mathematical thinking skills through "seeing math." Subitizing is not just for Kindergarten and first graders! Building algebraic thinking skills the way it makes sense to the students without pulling our hair out. Composite Volume & Redistribution in the 5th Grade Classroom Michelle Parker, Fairmount ES Are you looking for new ways to approach the toughest measurement and data standards? Look no further. We will discover three methods for finding volume of two non-overlapping right rectangular prisms using improvised cubic units and then apply the methods to manipulatives and formulas. We will explore “distributed equally” and compare it to “distributed unequally” before we use symmetry to redistribute equally on a line plot. Four original tasks and a demonstration will be shared. 9:15 – 10:15 AM Math Explosion: Creating a Competitive Environment to Drive Instruction within your Class and across Teams (grades 6 – 8) Robbie Bartlett & Andrew Reeves, Thomson MS In this session, you will learn how to create a Positive and Competitive environment within your classroom and across teams, to develop a true "data driven classroom" (STEM). You will also learn how to use the data collected from the competition to self-evaluate and differentiate your classroom. We will share with you the impact that "Math Explosion" has had on our student’s education, and the relationships that it has formed. SMP In Action: Problem Solving and Formative Assessment (grades K – 12) Lenisera Bodison, Michelle Bateman, Andrea Wright, Christine Morgan, LaTonya Brown, Annette Howell & Hannah Maharaj, DeKalb County Schools Problems are an inevitable part of life, and learning how to solve them effectively is important. This session will review the nature of problem solving, strategies for effective problem solving, and a specific process that can be helpful in solving problems. You will have an opportunity to practice the process with a real-life problem. 5 Ways to Spruce-Up Old Hand-Me-Down Resources with Technology (grades 6 – 12) Emily Freeman, Cobb County School District Do you have resources and activities that you've used for years? Has someone given you their old materials? It's time for an upgrade. Come see demonstrations and ways to incorporate Kahoot, Socrative, QR codes, Padlet, and Desmos into your lessons. Come ready to play with technology, ask questions, and share what you have tried!

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Georgia Mathematics Conference at Rock Eagle – Preliminary Session Listing Thursday, October 15, 2015 Subject to Change – Pick up your final printed program with your Registration materials! 9:15 – 10:15 AM (continued) They Just Don’t Understand! (grades 3 – 5) Sandra Goff, J Squared Mathematics Consulting Procedural knowledge is not enough! To be successful, students need both conceptual and procedural knowledge. This idea is the cornerstone of the Mathematical Practices. In this session, we will explore strategies that effectively teach mathematical concepts within and across grades. The targeted concepts will relate to number and operations, and to measurement. Surviving Algebra: A Student Shares Her Story of Escape and Success (grades 6 – College) Liz Melendez, Southern Poly/Kennesaw State University & Dottie Whitlow A unique convergence of fortuitous circumstances shed some much-needed light on my years of difficulty with math. I was able to analyze my experience from a rhetorical perspective, which allowed me to see more clearly not just the problem I was having with math, but the overall problems many seem to have with math education. My findings were astonishing! This session will help you understand your students’ perspectives, experiences & difficulties. Differentiating with Manipulatives in the INTERactive Classroom (grades K – 2) Stephanie Shultz, Marietta City Schools Learn how interactive & hands-on instruction with manipulatives can make the mathematical practices come alive in the classroom. This presentation will focus on the importance of the concrete-representational-abstract model within the GSE classroom as well as integrating ELA and STEM. Using a variety of concrete and virtual manipulatives, participants will pause to reflect on the math behind the tasks and how to differentiate these tasks for all grade levels involved. Math & RTI (Response to Intervention) (grades K – 5) Lachandra Thomas-Mole, Wilkinson Gardens ES & Shannon Roberts-Kelly, Lamar-Milledge ES Feeling overwhelmed with the Response to Intervention process? Unsure how to meet the needs of your students at various Tiers? Well, this session is for you! In this session, you’ll be given some tools and techniques to effectively implement strategies that are critical for successful RTI outcomes. You will leave with advice on how to avoid common implementation pitfalls, tips on using data to inform decision making at each stage, and the confidence to implement the strategies effectively. Engage the Zombies in Your Class - Fun with Exponentials (grade 9) Monica Vestal-Mashburn, Columbia HS Why should students have to wait until Advanced Algebra to experience the Zombie Apocalypse Simulation task? Learn how the task can be modified to incorporate some of the comparing linear and exponential models (LE) standards in both the Algebra I and Coordinate Algebra courses. Participants will partake in the simulation, explore some of the additional questions, and then examine some of the GOFAR questions that are connected to these standards. 9:15 – 10:45 AM How do we Teach Algebraic Thinking? (grades K – 10) Janet Davis, Davis Educational Consulting, LLC In order for students to be successful in Algebra, they must first learn the algebraic structure of our number system. This session will examine the connection between how students are taught understanding of and operations with numbers through algebraic thinking leads to success in Algebra I and higher mathematics.

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Georgia Mathematics Conference at Rock Eagle – Preliminary Session Listing Thursday, October 15, 2015 Subject to Change – Pick up your final printed program with your Registration materials! 9:15 – 10:45 AM (continued) Flipping the Classroom in Math (grades 3 – 5) Jacqueline Fawaz, Spring Hill ES Learn how to "flip" your classroom in math through this interactive and resource-packed session. Flipping the classroom allows for the lower level of learning to happen at home with students watching videos, and you can focus on higher forms of work in class. This facilitates student-paced exposure to learning and the teacher becomes more of a coach. Discover how to use resources already at hand to immediately begin planning to flip your math classroom! M3 = Making Math Meaningful (grades K – College) Carolyn Marchetti, Discovery Education This session will cover ways to make math more meaningful to your students by using real life examples and digital resources. Too Hot! or Too Cold! An Integrated Hands-On Investigation (grades 8 – College) Kathleen Mittag, Retired, University of TX at San Antonio Let’s do a fun activity integrating math, science, and technology by exploring the concepts of heat, temperature, measurement, statistics, and modeling. This session will be open-ended, allowing participants to develop their own procedure for determining how to calibrate an unmarked Celsius thermometer to measure the temperature of a glass of tap water. How can Graphing Calculators Enhance my Instruction and Assessment Preparation? (grades 6 – College) Lorenzo Robinson, Renaissance MS The participants will explore the TI-84 Plus graphing calculator and it uses. After exploration and demonstration, they will work cooperatively to solve problems that address several Middle and HS math standards. Emphasis will be placed on the Standards for Mathematical Practices. Participants will receive a set of instructions and practice problems that can be used to implement their new learning immediately upon returning to their schools. Personalized Digital Learning Portfolio in Microsoft OneNote (grades 6 – 12) Mohan Sadhasivan & Akhenaten Amun, Stockbridge HS Microsoft OneNote is a free tool for our students to create digital portfolios that will allow them to express their own mathematical understanding and evidence of their engagement in real-world problems. Teachers will gain hands-on experience with & learn how to utilize OneNote to create a personalized learning environment for each student and collaborative learning environment for all students in a mathematics classroom. Bring your own laptop with Office 365 suite or Office 2013! Illuminating Probability and Statistics Concepts with Concrete and Computer-Based Simulations (grades 6 – College) Dianna Spence & Gregg Velatini, University of North Georgia Probability and statistics can be brought to life using simulations. Initially, concrete models such as coins, spinners, cards, and dice can be used to represent scenarios easily and intuitively, allowing students to make predictions, estimate values, and engage in statistical reasoning and inference. Once the concrete model is familiar, a comparable computer-based model can be introduced, allowing more extensive and efficient simulation. Participants will engage in several concrete explorations and see demos of comparable computer-based simulations

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Georgia Mathematics Conference at Rock Eagle – Preliminary Session Listing Thursday, October 15, 2015 Subject to Change – Pick up your final printed program with your Registration materials! 9:30 – 10:30 AM Ignite! Setting Thoughts on Fire (grades K – 12) Graham Fletcher, Griffin Spalding Schools, Michael Wiernicki, Henry County Schools, Turtle Toms, Georgia Department of Education, Jenise Sexton, Gwinnett County Schools, Brain Lack, Forsyth County Schools, & Lya Snell, Georgia Department of Education What makes mathematics educators passionate? Join us and find out! Come watch these six math educators light up the room with fresh ideas in math teaching and learning. Each speaker gets five minutes to talk about whatever ignites their passion, using twenty slides that auto-advance every fifteen seconds… whether they’re ready or not. Featuring the thoughts of @mikewiernicki, @turtletoms, @snell_lya, @MrsJeniseSexton, @DrBrianLack, and @gfletchy. This teacherled mini conference will set the room ablaze! Disruptive students: Always Early, Never Sick (grades 1 – 12) Gary Nelson, Georgia Gwinnett College The presenter will discuss strategies to help the teacher recognize the needs of these students and will provide strategies to reduce problem behavior immediately. Line plot, Line plot, Line plot, OH MY! (grades 3 – 5) Vinnie Prasad, Cobb County School District “Generate measurement data to plot on a line plot?” What does that standard mean? Come learn about line plots and how this data standard can be developed from grades 2-5. Participants will walk away with a grade appropriate task that supports the line plot standard. 9:45 – 10:45 AM Anchor Thirds (grades K – 5) Chantelle Kirk, New Hope ES Are you using math journal tasks in your class? In this session, you will learn about a structure modeled after Angry Birds for encouraging students to go from good to GREAT! How much information does a final grade or assessment score give the next year’s teacher? Anchor Thirds provides a system where teachers can observe students’ mathematical processing from prior years to the current grade. The K-5 Anchor Thirds recording sheets will be provided to attendees. What’s Cotton Got To Do With It? (grades 8 – 9) Michelle Mikes, Cobb County School District Come experience the hands-on, interdisciplinary Cotton Boll Task! This differentiated task incorporates Georgia Studies and Science in determining if there is a relationship between the weight of a cotton boll and the number of seeds that it contains. Learn how to acquire agricultural resources for this task and the interesting facts behind the cotton industry in Georgia. Bring your graphing calculator or one will be provided. More than Just a Literacy Thing…Close Reading of Math Word Problems (grades 1 – 5) Nichol Powell, Green Acres ES This session will help teachers model a way to apply Close Reading strategies, typically used in English Language Arts, to solve math word problems. With a focus on math vocabulary in rich problems aligned to the standards (GSE and SMP) and a 4-square Close Reading problem solving process, teachers will work through and discuss constructed response problems to build student confidence in making sense of and persevering in solving word problems.

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Georgia Mathematics Conference at Rock Eagle – Preliminary Session Listing Thursday, October 15, 2015 Subject to Change – Pick up your final printed program with your Registration materials! 9:45 – 10:45 AM (continued) Pascal’s Triangle in the Classroom (grades 10 – College) Bridgette Presley, Ola HS French mathematician Blaise Pascal published his arithmetic triangle in the 1650’s and it still fascinates mathematics students. This presentation highlights three forms of mathematical analysis that you can explore in the classroom. We will venture into Geometer’s Sketchpad, Figurate Number Sequences, Mathematical Structures, and Elementary Number Theory all within Pascal’s Triangle. This will encourage students to learn about and savor the beauty and interconnectedness of mathematics.

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Diane J. Briars President, National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

Diane J. Briars is president of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM), an 80,000-member international mathematics education organization. Previously, Briars was a mathematics education consultant, working primarily to support schools and districts in their interpretation and implementation of the Common Core State Standards for Mathematics. She has also been a senior developer and research associate on the Intensified Algebra Project, a joint venture of the Learning Science Research Institute at the University of Illinois at Chicago and the Dana Center at the University of Texas at Austin. This project, which is funded by the National Science Foundation, focuses on developing instructional materials for underprepared ninth-grade Algebra 1 students. Previously, Briars was mathematics director for Pittsburgh Public Schools. Under her leadership, Pittsburgh schools made significant progress in increasing student achievement through standards-based curricula, instruction, and assessment. Diane Briars is a past president of the National Council of Supervisors of Mathematics (NCSM) and has served in leadership roles in various other national organizations, including the College Board and the National Science Foundation. She has served on numerous national committees and advisory boards, including the National Commission on Mathematics and Science Teaching for the 21st Century, headed by Senator John Glenn. Briars holds a Ph.D. in mathematics education and M.S. and B.S. degrees in mathematics from Northwestern University, and she pursued postdoctoral study in the Psychology Department at Carnegie-Mellon University. She began her career as a secondary mathematics teacher.

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Georgia Mathematics Conference at Rock Eagle – Preliminary Session Listing Thursday, October 15, 2015 Subject to Change – Pick up your final printed program with your Registration materials! 1 – 2 PM Leadership Discussion Diane J. Briars, President, National Council of Teachers of Mathematics Developing Fractional Reasoning Through Number Talks (grades K – 5) Sherry Parrish, Author of Number Talks The routine of Number Talks to support the development of fractional reasoning and computational fluency will be explored through the lens of the NCTM's Mathematics Teaching Practices and the Common Core's Standards for Mathematical Practice. Classroom video of fraction Number Talks will be used to discuss and analyze student fractional reasoning. Everything You Wanted to Know About LaTeX, But Were Afraid to Ask (grades 9 – 12) Chuck Garner, Rockdale Magnet School for Science and Technology LaTeX is a free, open source, operating system-independent, document-typesetting program which enables you to create professional-quality documents with lots of mathematics. If you have ever wondered why your word-processed documents don’t look as good as professionally-printed books and journals, or if you have ever wished there was an easier way to include all that math in your document, then this session is for you! Web 2.0 Assessment Tools for Mathematics Teachers (grades 4 – College) Jeffrey Hall, Mercer University & Gregory Chamblee, Georgia Southern University Learn how to use Web 2.0 tools to assess your students in mathematics! Tools that will be discussed include BrainRush, Edmodo, Kahoot!, NearPod and TenMarks. Please visit http://tinyurl.com/mathedtech for links to these tools and other mathematics education resources. Similarity: Dropped your Lucky Charms? (grades 9 – 10) Karen Martin & Lindsey Moore, Jasper County HS A look at lessons on similarity using hands on materials and technology. Leave the session with at least three activities to use in your classroom. Online Math Screener and Resources That Actually Work...And Work Together (grades K – 8) Gary Miller, Curriculum Associates Would you like to have your weekends back? Less last-minute planning on Sunday nights? This workshop will focus on how a new online assessment can provide you with very accurate data that will help you make appropriate math instructional decisions. This Common Core application also feeds the screen data to a full instruction program that designs curriculum for each individual student, regardless of Tier I, Tier II, Tier III, or Tier IV and special education. Workshop appropriate for those working with K-8 students. Samples, door prizes and refreshments provided. Why Do My Students Need To Be Able To Use A Scientific Calculator? Just Show Me! (grades 6 – College) Kathleen Mittag, Retired, University of TX at San Antonio Today’s generation of scientific calculators has many advanced features. In this session, you will work out examples from mathematics, science and statistics examples, grades 6 – 12, using only a scientific calculator. Many states, including Georgia, allow only scientific calculators on certain math and science exams. In addition, many two-year and four-year colleges only allow these calculators in STEM and Statistics courses. Give your students the knowledge that will help them succeed!

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Georgia Mathematics Conference at Rock Eagle – Preliminary Session Listing Thursday, October 15, 2015 Subject to Change – Pick up your final printed program with your Registration materials! 1 – 2 PM (continued) Prove It: Using TI-Nspire in Geometry Problem-Solving Tasks (grades 6 – College) Alesia Mickle, Jeanine Holihan, & Pier Junor Clarke, Georgia State University How can TI-Nspire be used in geometry? This session explores TI-Nspire tasks that engage students in collaborative, problem-solving activities to prove an understanding of geometry. Mathematics educators, researchers, and preservice teachers will share their experiences, tools, and tips to successfully implement hands-on TI-Nspire problem-solving tasks. Participants will leave the session with the necessary practice, confidence, and resources to effectively differentiate and infuse a technology approach to enhance student learning in the geometry classroom. Exploring Algebraic Concepts using Hands-on Models: 4-Pan Balance and AlgeBlocks (grades 6 – 8) Gary Nelson, Georgia Gwinnett College Come on in and learn how to use the four-pan algebra balance and AlgeBlocks to develop algebraic concepts and skills in middle school. Participants will work in groups to complete activities using both models. Effective Integration of Computer Simulations in Algebra (grades 5 – 12) Nakisha Polite, ExploreLearning Computer simulations allow students to confront their own beliefs by working with and receiving immediate feedback about their data and using individual problem-solving processes. Interaction with these simulations results in students taking ownership of the learning process in an environment that allows for simulation of real world aspects without the complications of risk, danger and time components. Join us to see how simulations can scaffold student learning and ultimately improve student achievement. A Good Notation Is Its Own Explanation! (grades 9 – College) Bill Shillito, Atlanta Jewish Academy Notation is one of the most powerful tools we have in mathematics. As our understanding of mathematics has evolved, so too has the notation we use to describe it — except in the classroom! Could clunky, outdated, and inelegant notation be holding some of our students back from understanding certain mathematical concepts? Changing Cones and Covariational Reasoning (grades 9 – 12) Irma Stevens, University of Georgia This session will report on research on the development of quantitative and covariational reasoning. The focus will be on developing covariational reasoning about two quantities, surface area and height, given a dynamic situation of a cone growing and shrinking. The goal of the activity will to be to sketch a graph relating the two quantities. Participants will be shown and asked to discuss the solutions/reasoning provided by students who have been given the same task. 1 – 2:30 PM 10 Best Apps to Rock your Math Rotation with Digital Learning (grades K – 5) Suhela Ghanie, New Prospect ES In this session teachers will learn how to successfully build a digital age math learning environment for elementary students during math rotation with Twitter, Aurasma, Nearpod, Flashcardlet/Brainscape, Skype classroom, Animoto, YAkit, GoNoodle, Blendspace, and Educreations. The emphasis is on building a highly engaging, well designed and personalized math classroom where students will be creating, playing, solving authentic math problems, and connecting to the world to become a global citizens of the 21st century.

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Georgia Mathematics Conference at Rock Eagle – Preliminary Session Listing Thursday, October 15, 2015 Subject to Change – Pick up your final printed program with your Registration materials! 1 – 2:30 PM (continued) Classroom Culture 101: Defining a Framework for Academic Success in the Mathematics Classroom (grades 7 – 11) Ayodele Harrison, The Lovett School In this session, the presenter will define classroom culture, introduce the C-6 Framework upon which it is built in every classroom, and investigate how pre-planning and everyday activities shape it. After a series of mathematically driven exercises and discussions, participants will craft a classroom culture mission statement centered on well-articulated student learning outcomes. Participants will leave with classroom ready resources to support the advancement of student learning through the development of culture in their classroom. Utilizing Prezi in Math Courses (grades 9 – College) Larissa Holm-Smith, Athens Technical College This session provides an introductory lesson to Prezi and how it can be used in HS or college-level math courses, including incorporating calculator screenshots and videos. Participants will leave with a host of materials for various levels of algebra. Writing and Evaluating Assessment Items (grades 8 – 12) Susan Jones, Educational Consultant Learn how the professionals write and edit assessment items! Participants will experience interactively the process used to evaluate standards, select a plausible context, and the many edits required to produce a finished mathematics assessment item. We will discuss different item types, including multiple choice, constructed response, and technology-enhanced items. Self-Assessment for a Differentiated Classroom (grades 3 – 6) Ginny Perren, Hill City ES In this session, we will discuss strategies for successful self-assessment in a differentiated classroom. We will discuss the correlation between pre- and post-assessments as well as having students monitor their own understanding. We will create a self-assessment package that teachers will be able to incorporate successfully in the classroom. Please bring your textbooks. Outstanding Math Guides OMG-1 (grades 2 – 5) Robert Sheperd, Fairplay MS Come make an Outstanding Math Guide (OMG) containing graphic organizers with steps, examples and vocabulary for every key concept taught throughout the year. All graphic organizers are aligned to Common Core. This creative guide offers students a quick reference that will put year’s curriculum at their fingertips! The OMG will transform your classroom and help you introduce or review material in a way that is fun and exciting for students! You must see it to believe it! Arithmetic to Algebra (grades 4 – 9) Michael Wiernicki, Henry County Schools Participants will engage in purposeful practice of math facts while seeking patterns. The patterns discovered will lead to generalizations based on the models constructed and arguments presented & critiqued by others. SMART Board Math Workshop for Intermediate Users (grades 9 – College) Allen Wolmer, Atlanta Jewish Academy In this Workshop, targeted at experienced but not necessarily expert SMART Board users, math teachers will learn more advanced techniques to make their Algebra, Precalculus, and Calculus lessons even more effective, while at the same time making them more efficient! Bring your notebooks with SMART Notebook 11 or 14! 11 updated 9/20/2015

Georgia Mathematics Conference at Rock Eagle – Preliminary Session Listing Thursday, October 15, 2015 Subject to Change – Pick up your final printed program with your Registration materials! 1:30 – 2:30 PM Mathematical Modeling: A Project-based Approach to Family Functions (grades 11 – College) Michael Nguyen-Quan, Meadowcreek HS Exploring and implementing the use of technology by using Desmos Graping Calculator to facilitate the Mathematical Modeling Unit in Advanced Algebra. This project-based approach will help students engage in the discourse of synthesizing and generalizing different types of functions, exploring how the parameters will transform the parent graphs, and identifying appropriate types of functions to fit onto an image. 1 – 3 PM Seeing and Communicating Math: Problem Solving (grades K – 5) Seyoung Holte, Clarke County School District They keep saying "Show your work!" But how? Building mathematical communication skills throughout the unit study – journals done right! Let’s Get Moving! (grades 6 – 8) Jamie Kennedy, Turner MS Come learn about various ways to incorporate kinesthetic learning into middle school math! Get hands-on experience and ready-made templates and instructions for a number of kinesthetic activities that you can implement in your classroom immediately! We will cover fractions (yes, fractions!), the coordinate plane, the number line, statistics, integers, equations & more! Strategies range from the simple to involved! You will come have a good time and take the good time with you! Lights, Camera, Action: Reality Math, Take One! (grades 9 – 12) Dana Meyer & Rozina Essani, Marietta HS Using reality TV as inspiration, students have fun solving challenging math problems! For "Survivor Math," students use a map to find various locations, solve problems and earn tribal tokens. In "Mathster Chef," Students solve problems based off recipe cards. The solutions to math problems become the combinations for a variety of different safes and locks in “The Great Escape - Math Style.” Appropriate props make the games even more fun! 2:15 – 3:15 PM Supporting Students in Agency, Identity and Authority David Foster Executive Director, Silicon Valley Mathematics Initiative, Mathematics Assessment Collaborative Recent research stresses the importance of students being owners of their learning, developing positive disposition towards mathematics, shifting their beliefs to a growth mind-set and engaging in high cognitive math discourse. This session will examine how real teachers foster classroom culture to enable students to develop their agency, identity and authority in math class. Videos of elementary and secondary classroom will be analyzed and resources shared. Georgia’s Statewide Math Team (grades 6 – 12) Chuck Garner, Rockdale Magnet School for Science and Technology Did you know there is a statewide math team which competes internationally each May at the American Regions Math League tournament? Come find out about what ARML is, what the ARML competition is like, how students are selected for the Georgia team, and what you as a teacher can do to get your students ready!

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Georgia Mathematics Conference at Rock Eagle – Preliminary Session Listing Thursday, October 15, 2015 Subject to Change – Pick up your final printed program with your Registration materials! 2:15 – 3:15 PM (continued) Engaging Students in Mathematics through Forced Perspective Photography (grades 7 – 10) Stephanie Haga & Susan Baker, Fulton County Schools Everyone loves pictures that create a forced perspective, but have you ever considered the mathematics involved in creating these images? Join us for this hands-on session where you will learn various ways to challenge your students with real math related to forced perspective photography. Standards-Based Grading in the Middle and HS Classroom (grades 6 – 12) Heather Lloyd, Hart County HS Do you want your grades to mean something to students and parents? Would you like to be able to look at your gradebook and see exactly where your students are struggling? Come find out about standards-based grading for middle and high school from someone who has been successfully using it for over 5 years. Teaching and Assessing Math in a Digital World (grades K – College) Carolyn Marchetti, Discovery Education This session will cover integration and effective use of digital tools and resources into math instruction and assessments to build students’ mathematical conceptual understanding and proficiency. Using Literature to Teach Mathematics (grades K – 5) Jacquelyn Mesco, Shaylee Kissner, & Kristen Anderson, Dalton State College Laura Filson, Charles Ellis Montessori Academy This session will combine the use of Children’s Literature with the practice of Mathematics. You will see specific lessons as well as extensions into adjacent grade levels. Participants will leave the session with lesson plans and materials to take into their classrooms. Turning Zeros Upside-Down (grades 9 – College) Bill Shillito, Atlanta Jewish Academy Zero and infinity – what two numbers could possibly be more different? Or so one might think! In this session, we’ll use rational functions and a unique view of the real numbers to explore how zero and infinity are really two sides of the same coin, and can be analyzed in surprisingly similar ways. Three Act Math Tasks (grades 9 – 12) Umamaheswari Subramanian, ELizabeth Oparinde, Lindra Gordon & Herman Fletcher, D. M. Therrell HS In this session, participants will experience three-act math tasks (modeled after Dan Myer’s three act tasks). We will discuss how the three act tasks kindles students’ interest, motivates students, promote problem solving, reasoning and math understanding in the classroom. Student participation in the classroom and students’ work will be shared. Finally, we talk about how teacher collaboration helped us create the tasks

2:15 – 4:15 PM Writing Counts: The Use of Math Journals to Increase Literacy (grades K – 5) Darryl Felker & Andrea Wright, DeKalb County Schools With a strong emphasis on Standards 3 and 4 of Mathematical Practice, participants will identify ways to integrate writing and into daily instruction. Students will strengthen their understanding of mathematical concepts through a variety of writing activities that require them to explain and defend logical points to support their responses.

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Georgia Mathematics Conference at Rock Eagle – Preliminary Session Listing Thursday, October 15, 2015 Subject to Change – Pick up your final printed program with your Registration materials! 2:30 – 4 PM Able but not Capable: When Efforts to Maximize Students’ Performance Minimizes Their Potential James Williams, Engagement Manager, National Center on Education and the Economy Instructional strategies and practices resulting from procedural and skill based standards and assessments are still very evident in mathematics classrooms today despite recent transitions to more performance based and conceptual standards/assessments. This session will examine some of these practices, show how they could possibly limit the mathematical development of students and identify small but significant changes that can be made to facilitate growing student potential in mathematics. Moving From Geometric Transformations to Escher Tessellations (grades 8 – 10) Betty Long & Deborah Crocker, Appalachian State University Participants will review the transformations: translation, reflection, and rotation. You will learn four particular forms of these transformations that M. C. Escher used in his tessellations through hands-on activities. These four forms of transformations will be used to make an irregular shape that tessellates to create your own "Escher" art! 2:30 – 4:30 PM Diagnostic Math: A Plan to Remediate or Accelerate (grades K – 5) Michelle Clay, Floyd County Schools Using the resources available from the New Zealand Numeracy Project, the presenter will facilitate a plan to help teachers assess and plan for future instruction. Teachers will leave this workshop with the resources needed to implement this diagnostic tool in their classrooms immediately. 3 – 4 PM Instructional Strategies (grades K – 12) Milton Childers, Creekside School & YouTube MathwithMilton How do you turn instructional theory into practical teaching? Learn how to apply instructional strategies for effective learning and teaching. There is a lot of behavioral and brain based research on how to teach, but applying those techniques in the classroom can be challenging. This session will provide practical examples of how to use research based instructional strategies in the classroom. Have a Little Confidence (grade 11) Marilyn Ellis, Sandy Creek HS How can we help Advanced Algebra students understand the concept of confidence intervals? This session is designed to answer that question. Students often find statistics to be intimidating and hard to understand. It is essential that they learn that statistics doesn’t have to be hard. If their chosen career doesn’t require understanding statistics, being a knowledgeable consumer of information we are bombarded with daily requires it.

3 – 4:30 PM That’s the Way the Ball Bounces! (grades 9 – 10) Carla Bidwell, Metro RESA & Reagan Biwott, Marietta City Schools Come experience a technology-enhanced STEM activity chock-full of mathematics and science—all in the simple bounce of a ball! Teachers will explore various mathematical functions that can be used to model the bouncing of a ball. Science can then help explain the mathematical models by understanding the behavior of the ball as it bounces. Leave with this versatile activity that can be modified for a variety of courses and grade levels.

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Georgia Mathematics Conference at Rock Eagle – Preliminary Session Listing Thursday, October 15, 2015 Subject to Change – Pick up your final printed program with your Registration materials! 3 – 4:30 PM (continued) Please Don’t Give Me Another Worksheet! (grades 8 – 12) Sandy Burlingame, Mountain Area Christian Academy We all know that the best way to do well in math is to practice, practice, practice. But our students often think "if she gives me one more worksheet, I’m going to scream!" I’ll be sharing with you different ways to give our students the practice that they need, but in different and unique ways. These activities can be applied to every level of math from Prealgebra to Calculus. I’ll be sharing examples from algebra, geometry, precalculus and calculus. Not Your Average Kid! Strategies to Meet the Needs of Diverse Learners (grades K – 12) Kristie Fountain & Margo Williams, DeKalb County Schools What is connection between English Learners’ (ELs) English language development (ELD) levels and mastery of Georgia Standards of Excellence (GSE) for Mathematics? In this session, participants will learn how to analyze ACCESS data and incorporate Can Do Descriptors to help ELs’ access the language needed to make sense of and demonstrate mastery of mathematical concepts. Presenters will facilitate this session as teachers learn scaffolding and differentiation strategies. Millions, Billions and Double Trouble (grades 3 – 5) Kenneth Jones, UTeach, Columbus State University Discover innovative, hands-on activities to help students understand very large numbers and the effects of doubling using real-world examples from the environment and the global community. Presented games and simulations enhance students’ abilities in measurement, data analysis and graphing representation. Receive a CD of lesson plans matched to Georgia Performance Standards. Spaghetti Crane Lab (grade 9) Brandy Mitchell, Lassiter HS, Christine Price, Durham MS, & Sebrina Brown, South Cobb HS This lesson allows students to question and explore regression models in a real-world application. We will be creating a crane model, collecting data on the load amount, choosing the appropriate model (linear, exponential or quadratic) and using the data to make predictions. This task can be used in Algebra I in unit 6 to compare linear, exponential and quadratic regression. Bring a laptop and/or TI-84, if available. Implementing Interactive Notebooks for High-Stakes Testing (grades 6 – 12) Kalisha Sackey & Tonja Simpson, Stephenson HS Learn how to set-up and implement interactive math notebooks in your class to prepare students for high-stakes testing. Attendees will create their own graphic organizers and folder pockets as well as teach their students to chart their data to self-monitor their mastered standards. In the end, attendees will leave with a composition book transformed into a highstakes test study guide complete with data, notes, tests, quizzes and examples. Connecting with Polar Curves (grades 11 – College) Dennis Wilson, Landmark Christian School Polar graphs can present quite a conundrum for students as they try to connect many different concepts and representations. We will explore methods for helping students make connections between their past knowledge and the new concepts of polar curves with visual representations. We will utilize technology to create dynamic links between the Cartesian and Polar coordinate systems and investigate the slope and area of polar curves in relationship to their Cartesian counterparts.

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Georgia Mathematics Conference at Rock Eagle – Preliminary Session Listing Thursday, October 15, 2015 Subject to Change – Pick up your final printed program with your Registration materials! 3:30 – 4:30 PM Keep Calm and STEM On! (grades K – 12) Cindy Moss, Discovery Education In this session participants will be exposed to reasons to get started and move forward with STEM. They will leave with free STEM resources and strategies to use in mathematics that tap into the Streaming Base services available through our partnership with GPB. Making Math Practice More Interesting (grades 6 – 12) Luke Christopher, Hart County HS Do your students sigh loudly when you assign bookwork or hand out yet another worksheet? Do they spend more time talking than working because they are bored? Practice is a necessity in the math classroom, but it doesn’t have to be boring for you or your students. Learn some ways to spice up your classroom with little or no effort on your part. Using Formative Assessment to Foster a Growth Mindset for Learning Fraction Operations (grades 3 – 5) Joy Darley & Ha Nguyen, Georgia Southern University In this session, the presenters will demonstrate formative assessment tasks designed to develop a “growth mindset” toward learning about fractions. Fraction Bars and Fraction Circles will be used along with number lines in order to make sense of fraction definitions and operations. Using Moodle to Assess Students and Revolutionize Your Classroom (grades 6 – College) Billy Esra & Jonathan Ariail, Thomasville HS Scholars Academy Join us on a tour of the open-source classroom management system, Moodle! We are currently using Moodle to generate automatically graded formative assessments, integrate technology into our classrooms, differentiate instruction, personalize feedback for students, flip our classrooms, and simply manage our course documents. We hope that Moodle can help you revolutionize your classroom, too! Revamp Routine Tasks with Technology (grades 6 – 12) Gayle Herrington, Luella MS How much do your students like to communicate mathematically, practice new skills, or tackle challenging problems? Take a peek in my technology toolbox to see how you can increase student participation one click at a time. Understanding the Language of Mathematics: Diagnosing Mathematical Errors on Word Problems (grades 3 – 5) Valerie Lemon, Chesney ES Newman’s Error Analysis (NEA) is a diagnostic method that can specifically determine when and where errors may occur during problem solving. Using five prompts, mistakes can be located. When there are mathematical language barriers, automaticity of math facts is not the only concern. Many errors occur prior to the application of operations. NEA assists with “Growing Student Potential in Mathematics” as the focus is linking the language with the numeracy. Numbers, Operations, and Patterns! Oh My! (grades 2 – 5) Jenny Lockwood, Springdale Park ES & Debra Muse, Carrollton MS In this session, we will explore hands-on activities and strategies that help students build their understanding concepts related to number and operations. We will include opportunities to incorporate children’s literature and games into your lessons. We suggest you bring glue, scissors, and highlighters so you can fully engage in the activities yourself!

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Georgia Mathematics Conference at Rock Eagle – Preliminary Session Listing Thursday, October 15, 2015 Subject to Change – Pick up your final printed program with your Registration materials! 3:30 – 4:30 PM (continued) Interdisciplinary STEM: What is the role of Mathematics? (grades 6 – 12) Robert Mayes, Georgia Southern University The Real STEM Project has been collaborating with 23 middle and high schools to integrate authentic real-world interdisciplinary STEM research into either existing classes or new Real STEM courses. We will explore the use of authentic STEM problems and the role that mathematics plays in interdisciplinary STEM efforts. Number Sense (grades 4 – 8) Jennifer Peek, Sumter County Intermediate School Many students struggle with number sense. They can memorize the rules and perform the operations but do they really understand what the numbers mean? Have we handicapped our students by not teaching number sense and allowing students to simply “get to” the answer? Students lack confidence with their mental math abilities and become calculator dependent by the time they reach high school! Join us for strategies that will help foster number sense in grades 3-8. Performing with Pentominoes (grades 4 – 7) Patia Rountree & Tracey Simons, Southeast Bulloch MS Come join us as we show how pentominoes revolutionized our classrooms. Pentominoes are a tool we use to teach area, perimeter, symmetry, similarity, and transformations. Pentominoes allow students to develop spatial reasoning, work cooperatively, and give teachers a means of alternative assessment. You will leave this session with numerous tasks that will help your students learn and have fun for years to come! Check out what these five little squares can do for you! Teaching Mathematics for Social Justice: Grieving Through Probability (grade 10) Erin Talley, Osborne HS This presentation will have a focus on teaching for social justice in a Title I school. Teachers will see how high school students learned probability by investigating teenage driving fatalities after a peer died in a car accident. They mastered standards and performed as well as students who learned through traditional probability tasks. Teachers will see how using data on teenage fatalities, students were able to derive the addition rule of probability.

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Georgia Mathematics Conference at Rock Eagle – Preliminary Session Listing Thursday, October 15, 2015 Subject to Change – Pick up your final printed program with your Registration materials!

4:45 PM PE at the GMC Now that you have exercised your brain all day, come exercise your body too! (EMC Senior Pavilion – down at the lake!)  Fun Run/Walk (t-shirts for folks who start & finish the course!)  Math Moves (t-shirts for folks who participate in the entire “ZOOM-BA” class!)  3-on-3 Basketball

7:15 PM Auditorium Building Mathematically Powerful Classrooms David Foster, Silicon Valley Mathematics Initiative Teachers, administrators and parents are confronted with a significant change in K-12 math education, as America shifts to new state standards. These shifts require changes in math content, instructional practices, and the demands on students. The next generation assessments challenge students to think and do mathematics differently. This keynote will introduce a framework to examine and focus math education into five essential dimensions to improve students’ learning. Examples of highly effective math classrooms will be shared, illustrating how these dimensions address the learning needs of all students.

Immediately following the keynote address will be the GCTM Awards Ceremony. It will conclude with door prizes.

Following the ceremony, you are invited to the EMC Senior Pavilion for refreshments, music, and dancing, or you may participate in Cindy Moss’ Fireside Chat courtesy of Discovery Education (campfire site near the EMC Senior Pavilion)!

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