Global Math Department Podcast

Teaching Math Simultaneously to In-Person and Virtual Students Presenter: Theresa Wills Date: June 1, 2021 Are you looking for meaningful ways of engaging all of your students – both in-person and remote learners? This workshop will give you some structures and routines that you can use immediately to make your concurrent or hybrid classroom community […]

NCTM Favorites Presenters: Annie Forest, Raymond Johnson, Sharon Vestal and Leigh Nataro Date: May 18, 2021 If you weren’t able to attend the NCTM Virtual conference, this session is for you. Four teachers will share some of their favorite take-aways from sessions they attended. There will be something for everyone! Recommended: PreK-12 Hosted by: Leigh […]

Games and Routines for Building Number Sense and Fluency Presenter: Robyn May Date: May 4, 2021 One of the biggest concerns teachers of mathematics have is that many students have little number sense and are not fluent in adding and subtracting. These skills are crucial to a student’s future success in mathematics, so it’s important […]

Why Kids Learn from Examples (and why other times they don’t) Presenter: Michael Pershan Date: April 20 2021 Why is it that sometimes students learn from the examples presented in class, and other times they don’t? In this session we’ll answer this question with ideas from research and classroom experiences. Here’s the short version: when […]

Public Math Pop-Up: Mathematize Your Kitchen Presenters: Chris Nho, Molly Daley, Christopher Danielson Date: April 6, 2021 In this workshop we will dream up, design, and implement temporary place-based math provocations. Come with a desire to spark math curiosity in others; leave with ideas, inspiration, and tools to enact public math in your own community. […]

Demystifying Math with Numberless Word Problems Presenter: David Henson Date: March 30, 2021 Where are the numbers? Numberless Word Problems provide an engaging way to leverage the student’s natural curiosity in solving word problems. By dialing down the math, students can develop a resilient problem-solving strategy. This session will practice ways to bring these strategies […]

Making Student Thinking Visible: Replacing Math Tests with Math Chats in a Remote Learning Environment Presenter: Kristen Emmel Date: March 15, 2021 Do you love a good number talk? What if we could make our math assessments less like a traditional test and more like a math chat? In this presentation we will investigate how […]

“Advanced Algebra with Financial Applications” An Algebra 2 Alternative for Struggling Students Presenter: Dr. Robert Gerver Date: March 2, 2021 Selected topics from Algebra 2, probability, statistics, trig, geometry and precalculus, all taught with an algebra 1 prerequisite, are used to cover banking, credit, mortgages, income taxes, auto insurance, investing, budgets, and much more. The […]

#DisruptiveNumbers, A Tool to Teach Mathematics for Social Justice Presenter: Bernadette Andres-Salgarino Date: February 16, 2021 Recommitting ourselves to teaching mathematics through the lens of social justice necessitates the reinvigoration of our pedagogical approach to learning. #DisruptiveNumbers is a tool to provoke mathematics discourse to unravel the intricacies that numbers bring to uncover hidden stories […]

Partnering with Parents in Elementary School Math Presenter: Matthew Beyranevand Date: February 2, 2021 In this session, you will deepen your understanding of parents’ needs and wants as they pertain to their children’s elementary mathematics education, as well as examine your own beliefs about partnering with parents. We will provide guidance for teachers and leaders […]

Building Fact Fluency Through Virtual Storytelling Presenter: Graham Fletcher Date: January 19, 2021 When we ask students to memorize their facts, we are essentially asking them to memorize over 100 isolated equations. This approach doesn’t allow students to explore the relationships between numbers that are foundational to mathematics. In this session, we’ll explore the important […]

The Best Online Teaching Tool: Socially Relevant Math Presenter: Dashiell Young-Saver Date: January 5, 2021 Data is at the center of discussions about police use of force & race, climate change, educational inequity, and many other important social issues. As math teachers, how can we lead meaningful discussions on such topics while teaching in the […]

Wonder, Plan, Run, Reflect: Action Research in the Math Classroom Presenter: Theresa Hickey Date: December 15, 2020 Being a responsive educator means getting to know your learners, leveraging their strengths, and tailoring your approaches so that the highest level of learning can take place. To do this, you need to try new things. But how […]

Bringing the Math Back: Lessons in Educational Recovery from Around the World Presenters: Brianna Kurtz Date: December 1, 2020 We’ve been told repeatedly that we are teaching in unprecedented times, but in fact this is not the first round of education recovery post-natural disaster in modern times. We will look at lessons from around the […]

PCMI in the Time of Pandemic  Presenters: Monica Tienda and Barbara Lynch Date: November 17, 2020 The Park City Math Institute (PCMI) is an intensive 3-week residential conference that’s been around in some form or another for 30+ years. The Teacher Leadership Program of PCMI offers a phenomenal professional opportunity for classroom teachers unlike anything […]

Breakout Rooms for Teaching Math Presenter: Theresa Wills Date: November 3, 2020 Teaching mathematics includes student to student collaboration. Learn how to create structures that keep students focused, positive, and talking in breakout rooms. The gradual release structures can be used in any grade level. Recommended Grade Level: K – 12 Hosted by: Sheila Orr […]

Promoting Mathematical Literacy: What our students need to know, why they struggle, how we can help! Presenter: Mindy Adair Date: October 27, 2020 Learning math is complex and challenging. Participants will have the opportunity to consider what our students really need to know, why math is difficult for many students, from social, emotional, and environmental […]

Presenters: Sarah Powell Date: October 6, 2020 Many students experience difficulty with math and require targeted math support. In this presentation, we’ll focus on the design and delivery of math intervention. We’ll review how to select critical content to teach in intervention. Then, we’ll highlight five practices (explicit instruction, precise language, multiple representations, fluency building, […]

Presenters: Kassia Omohundro Wedekind and Christy Thompson Date: September 22, 2020 Come learn about Hands-Down Conversations, a structure for dialogue in which students take the lead, building agency and understandings as mathematicians and readers. We’ll dig into strategies for engaging in argumentation and explore the crossover between the content areas. Recommended Grade Level: K – […]

Presenter: Zach Korzyk Date: September 15, 2020 DeltaMath has long been a free tool used to give automatic and detailed feedback to students for math practice on over 1400 different math problem types. Given the current health crisis, this immediate feedback is more important than ever. This session will cover the basics of creating assignments and […]