Gerver_Sgroi

Advanced Algebra with Financial Applications: A 3rd/4th Year Alternative for Struggling Students

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Advanced Algebra with Financial Applications: A 3rd/4th Year Alternative for Struggling Students

The need for quantitative financial literacy and numeracy education in our schools is undeniable. The goal of this session is to offer teachers a rationale and framework for creating and teaching a quantitative financial literacy mathematics course that is applications-oriented and technology-dependent. Modeling finance using advanced algebra assists students in seeing the relevance of the mathematics they are learning.

Richard Sgroi, Ph.D.

Author

Robert Gerver, Ph.D.

Author

The need for quantitative financial literacy and numeracy education in our schools is undeniable. The goal of this session is to offer teachers a rationale and framework for creating and teaching a quantitative financial literacy mathematics course that is applications-oriented and technology-dependent. Modeling finance using advanced algebra assists students in seeing the relevance of the mathematics they are learning.

In this webinar replay, you will learn:

  • Methods to introduce the finance, build strength in the mathematics, and assist in making that mathematics transferrable to other contexts.
  • How math can be explored in the contexts of discretionary expenses, banking, credit, auto ownership, employment, taxes, housing, investing, entrepreneurship, retirement, and budgeting.
  • What to tell students when they ask: “When are we ever going to use this?” – “Every day of your lives!”
Laurie_Bill_AnnMarie

Fostering meaningful mathematics: Learning through a virtual experience!

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Fostering meaningful mathematics: Learning through a virtual experience!

Student engagement is essential for building deep math conceptual understanding and fluency. Opportunities to explore, practice, and apply concepts help guide students from surface-to deep-level learning. How can educators achieve this effectively through a virtual classroom model? Facilitators should strive to mitigate logistical challenges while maximizing collaboration and interaction from teacher to student, as well as student to student. Hear from a panel of educators about how this balance will make math content come alive for today’s learners.

Laurie Boswell, Ed.D

Award-winning math teacher, trainer, and Big Ideas Math® author

Bill Barnes

Chief Academic Officer, Howard County Schools, Maryland

AnnMarie Varlotta

Math Instructional Support Teacher, Howard County Schools, Maryland

Student engagement is essential for building deep math conceptual understanding and fluency. Opportunities to explore, practice, and apply concepts help guide students from surface-to deep-level learning. How can educators achieve this effectively through a virtual classroom model? Facilitators should strive to mitigate logistical challenges while maximizing collaboration and interaction from teacher to student, as well as student to student. Hear from a panel of educators about how this balance will make math content come alive for today’s learners.

In this webinar replay, you will learn:

  • Ideas for facilitating a positive digital classroom
  • Strategies for organizing and presenting math content in a virtual environment
  • Tips on using interactive tools to meet the needs of all learners
Paul_Battaglia

Keep it Real, Keep it Relevant — Exciting opportunities to keep students engaged in mathematics

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Keep it Real, Keep it Relevant — Exciting opportunities to keep students engaged in mathematics

Opportunities to enrich student learning are everywhere! Teachers should feel empowered to use real-life, relevant materials and experiences to show students in grades 6-12 where mathematics exists daily.

Paul shares some of his favorite examples, shows how to find innovative resources that go beyond the four walls of a classroom, and demonstrates how to apply them on a daily basis.

Paul Battaglia

Math Teacher, consultant, and author of
AP® Calculus, Calculus, Precalculus, Algebra 2, Statistics

Opportunities to enrich student learning are everywhere! Teachers should feel empowered to use real-life, relevant materials and experiences to show students in grades 6-12 where mathematics exists daily.

Paul shares some of his favorite examples, shows how to find innovative resources that go beyond the four walls of a classroom, and demonstrates how to apply them on a daily basis. This will result in students who look forward to learning mathematics concepts and teachers who will feel invigorated during the instructional process.

In this webinar replay, you will learn:

  • How to increase student engagement and participation
  • Strategies that naturally incorporate productive struggle
  • How students can take critical thinking skills from the math classroom to the real world
Sophie Murphy

The Power of Language: Developing High Impact Teaching Strategies with Effective Classroom Discourse

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The Power of Language: Developing High Impact Teaching Strategies with Effective Classroom Discourse

Professor John Hattie’s Visible Learning research has now ranked over 250 influences that are related to learning outcomes from highly impactful, positive effects to negative effects. His meta-analyses have concluded that strategies emphasizing feedback, including classroom discussion, have a strong, positive effect on student learning and achievement outcomes. As a self-proclaimed teacher that “talks too much,” Sophie Murphy, under the direct guidance of Hattie as her lead supervisor, began investigating effective talk and questioning through the eyes of students.

 

Sophie Murphy

Sophie Murphy

K-12 Teacher, Researcher and Global Education Leader

Professor John Hattie’s Visible Learning research has now ranked over 250 influences that are related to learning outcomes from highly impactful, positive effects to negative effects. His meta-analyses have concluded that strategies emphasizing feedback, including classroom discussion, have a strong, positive effect on student learning and achievement outcomes. As a self-proclaimed teacher that “talks too much,” Sophie Murphy, under the direct guidance of Hattie as her lead supervisor, began investigating effective talk and questioning through the eyes of students.

In this webinar replay, you will learn about:

  • Sophie’s current PhD research that she is doing with Professor John Hattie at the University of Melbourne on the power of language, teacher talk, and student voice
  • Effective ways to use language across elementary and secondary classrooms to create deep level learning, transfer of understanding, effective questioning, and classroom discussion
  • Research-based tips that will translate directly into your daily instruction
Kokoska

Navigating the AP® Calculus Exam: A Content Presentation

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Navigating the AP® Calculus Exam: A Content Presentation

How do you motivate, present and justify AP® Calculus Exam concepts and how are student responses scored? Former Chief Reader, Stephen Kokoska, discusses L’Hospital’s Rule, background, technology, and examples, and how Free Response Questions involving L’Hospital’s Rule are scored. This webinar replay will benefit AP Calculus teachers of all experience levels as you help students prepare for the AP Calculus Exam.

Kokoska

Stephen Kokoska

Professor of Mathematics, Bloomsburg University
Former Chief Reader, AP® Calculus

How do you motivate, present and justify AP® Calculus Exam concepts and how are student responses scored? Former Chief Reader, Stephen Kokoska, discusses L’Hospital’s Rule, background, technology, and examples, and how Free Response Questions involving L’Hospital’s Rule are scored. This webinar replay will benefit AP Calculus teachers of all experience levels as you help students prepare for the AP Calculus Exam.

In this webinar replay, you will learn:

  • Common questions involving L'Hospital's Rule to help you prepare students for the AP Calculus exam
  • How to identify and avoid common student errors
  • How L'Hospital's Rule RFQs are scored on the AP Calculus exam
  • The use of technology in visualizing and solving problems involving L'Hospital's Rule
Geometry

Geometry: Tips, Tools and Models

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Geometry: Tips, Tools and Models

Geometry is everywhere, in the natural and manufactured world. Students engage with patterns, designs, and shapes. They are able to discover and recognize angles, curves, and lines in their everyday lives in the classroom and beyond. Many of the properties and relationships we teach in the geometry strand K-12 can be modeled or demonstrated using everyday, inexpensive materials. Laurie shares and demonstrates her favorite tips, tools, and models for helping all students see the beauty of geometry! Learn some positive practices that you can use with your students to build understanding. 

Geometry

Dr. Laurie Boswell

Award-winning math teacher, trainer and Big Ideas Math® author

Geometry is everywhere, in the natural and manufactured world. Students engage with patterns, designs, and shapes. They are able to discover and recognize angles, curves, and lines in their everyday lives in the classroom and beyond. 

Many of the properties and relationships we teach in the geometry strand K-12 can be modeled or demonstrated using everyday, inexpensive materials. Laurie shares and demonstrates her favorite tips, tools, and models for helping all students see the beauty of geometry! Learn some positive practices that you can use with your students to build understanding. 

In this webinar replay you will learn: 

  • How to increase awareness of geometry in our everyday lives
  • Approaches for making and collecting models
  • Templates for tools and models to use in your classroom