Welcome to the 2016 MidSchoolMath National Conference!
Session scheduling is limited to registered attendees - all attendees should receive schedule access via email by Jan. 4 or within two business days of registering. Click on the "More Information" link for detailed directions on accessing SCHED and signing up for concurrent sessions.
Programming begins each morning at 8:15 am sharp, ending at 4:30 pm on Friday, followed by a social hour from 5:00 - 6:30 pm; and ends at 4:15 pm on Saturday.Please note, schedule is subject to change.
To learn more about MidSchoolMath or register to attend the conference, please visit www.midschoolmathnationalconference.com or email conference@midschoolmath.com.
Limited space still available - $95 additional fee. Note: you will not be able to add this session to your schedule in SCHED - if you are registered to attend, it will be added to your SCHED agenda for you! Call us at 575-737-8446 to add this workshop to an existing registration.
Join Steve Leinwand and Scott Laidlaw as they release "The 8 Laws of Teaching Middle School Math (or What Every Middle School Math Teacher Needs to Understand)."
Take this day to break with tradition and cut across the grain of common practices that hold students back. Expect this workshop to challenge some of the underlying assumptions about the math classroom and forever change how we approach teaching middle school math.
This popular Master Class is being offered twice. While this session is full, ample space is available in the session offered on Saturday at 12:55 pm.
How do we let go of how we were taught to teach math? How do we release textbooks as the core tool in our classroom and realize that we, as teachers, are the most valuable tool in the classroom?
Research supports that the number one impact on student growth is by the teacher, not a math program. This session will dive deep into the fears that underlie our resistance to stepping into our most powerful role. You will experience how to build a community and culture in which facilitates authentic learning.
BYOD: Please bring a laptop, tablet or iPad with you to this session, if you can.
Both you and your students will enjoy these fun, daily activities, and no real extra time out of your day is needed. Handouts will be provided at the session and no expensive materials are required.
This popular session is being offerend twice; please add only one of the two to your agenda!
Last year MidSchoolMath released the first socially-networked story-based math game, EMPIRES.
Trading of virtual goats and researching metallurgy, interwoven with a youthful love story and the creation of settled civilizations in Ancient Mesopotamia is not the formula one expects when considering methods to raise the dismal track record of US students
on the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) scale in math.
So why goats? Because goats, or metallurgy, or wherever else a civilization story can take you, can help math make sense. A compelling story pedagogy takes learning deeper. The game starts with an introductory trailer that creates a captivating setting with a feeling that this is the beginning of civilization. Characters and plot are essential parts to keeping to story moving as the game begins. Students manage their empire, tallying assets, investing and distributing resources. As each activity unfolds, opportunities for deep learning of math – and repetitive practice – appear, woven into the context of the game.
Math uniquely comes to life within EMPIRES. Ratios and proportional relationships are explored as resources are invested in projects; the Pythagorean Theorem serves as a tool that allows the measurement of distance and time between a neighboring empire to complete a trade.
Join math teacher, Lori Brown, to find out what happened when she brought EMPIRES to her classroom!
Too often, only a single teacher tries something new. How do we ensure that change in how we teach math - and how our students think and feel about the subject - occurs at the school level?
Join the team from Turquoise Trail Charter School for a conversation about how they are striving to create an engaging school culture around math. Hear about their efforts, think through challenges, ask questions and share your ideas!
Join us at the LaFonda on the Plaza for a Celebration, in honor of You, the Teacher!
Free Drink + Cash Bar
Chips & Salsa
Live Music
The LaFonda on the Plaza is located just a short walk from the Convention Center, at 100 E San Francisco St. The Celebration will be held in the Lumpkins Ballroom.
Come learn about Financial Capabilities! We will be covering "The Cost of College" and sharing the Common Core resources available on our website www.learnmoneysense.com by Nusenda, complete with interactive videos, lesson plans, and more. Provide your students with the knowledge and skills to create financial plans, effectively manage their money, and become knowledgeable financial consumers.
You will leave this session with the knowledge, skills, and resources to immediately integrate financial capability into your classroom.
Note: Participants MUST sign up for both Part 1 (Saturday, February 20, 2016 11:10am - 11:55am) and Part 2 (Saturday, February 20, 2016 12:55pm - 2:10pm) of this session!
Join your peers on a tour of the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum to explore the math behind the art of one of New Mexico’s most famous artists and create a CCSS math problem for your students based on math connections in the exhibit.
Georgia O’Keeffe is one of the most significant and intriguing painters of the twentieth century, known internationally for her boldly innovative art. Her distinct flowers, dramatic cityscapes, glowing landscapes, and images of bones against the stark desert sky are iconic and original contributions to American Modernism.
“I decided to start anew, to strip away what I had been taught.”— Georgia O’Keeffe
Both you and your students will enjoy these fun, daily activities, and no real extra time out of your day is needed. Handouts will be provided at the session and no expensive materials are required.
Note: Participants MUST sign up for both Part 1 (Saturday, February 20, 2016 11:10am - 11:55am) and Part 2 (Saturday, February 20, 2016 12:55pm - 2:10pm) of this session!
Join your peers on a tour of the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum to explore the math behind the art of one of New Mexico’s most famous artists. Create a CCSS math problem for your students based on math connections in the exhibit.
Georgia O’Keeffe is one of the most significant and intriguing painters of the twentieth century, known internationally for her boldly innovative art. Her distinct flowers, dramatic cityscapes, glowing landscapes, and images of bones against the stark desert sky are iconic and original contributions to American Modernism.
“I decided to start anew, to strip away what I had been taught.”— Georgia O’Keeffe
It’s a long road from idea to reality. As educators we go to conferences look online and get all these ideas that seem magically and transformative, but then reality sets in. Not all schools are lucky enough to have updated curriculum, one-to-one tech or other new devices . . . meaning you have to get creative at times if you want to bring new activities and tech into your classroom! Look at your resources!
In this session, we'll talk about how to take an idea and link it with the outcome you want to see in the classroom. We want the ideas to impact student learning, but are they possible? Look at your resources! Idea that we have outside the classroom or need supplies for there is a plethora of websites, discounts, story problems, and other resources that can make it happen! You'll leave with a list of resources and ideas - and come prepared to share your own!
Last year MidSchoolMath released the first socially-networked story-based math game, EMPIRES.
Trading of virtual goats and researching metallurgy, interwoven with a youthful love story and the creation of settled civilizations in Ancient Mesopotamia is not the formula one expects when considering methods to raise the dismal track record of US students
on the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) scale in math.
So why goats? Because goats, or metallurgy, or wherever else a civilization story can take you, can help math make sense. A compelling story pedagogy takes learning deeper. The game starts with an introductory trailer that creates a captivating setting with a feeling that this is the beginning of civilization. Characters and plot are essential parts to keeping to story moving as the game begins. Students manage their empire, tallying assets, investing and distributing resources. As each activity unfolds, opportunities for deep learning of math – and repetitive practice – appear, woven into the context of the game.
Math uniquely comes to life within EMPIRES. Ratios and proportional relationships are explored as resources are invested in projects; the Pythagorean Theorem serves as a tool that allows the measurement of distance and time between a neighboring empire to complete a trade.
Join math teacher, Lori Brown, to find out what happened when she brought EMPIRES to her classroom!
