2019 Alaska Cross Content Conference

In many classrooms, students’ sitting together in teams does not guarantee effective mathematical discourse. Activities will be modeled that encourage students to talk, write and share ideas. Status is important so some of these activities will address this issue. Participants will experience study team and teaching strategies that particularly deal with discourse and see how the Standards for Mathematical Practices will be tied into and highlighted by these strategies.

Manipulatives in a secondary math classroom? You will see how successful it can be. Actively engage with algebra tiles and the area model to multiply polynomials before moving to factoring and completing the square. Use the area model to do polynomial long division. Supporting students transition from the concrete (manipulative) to the abstract (paper and pencil) is the goal.