This workshop took place virtually.
Due to the high demand for our virtual teacher workshops, we split and ran a lower-level workshop (designed for teachers of grades K-5) and an upper-level workshop (designed for teachers of grades 6-12). The page for the lower-level workshop is
Professional development credit certificates and stipends were offered for this workshop.
However, a teacher may only obtain a certificate and stipend for the lower-level or upper-level workshop, but not both. (It is OK if someone wants to attend both workshops.)
Participants will have to have a current W9 on file with Kansas State University to get the stipend. A copy of the W9 form is available at the bottom of this page. If someone was paid for the January or March workshop, the W9 on file is still valid.
The workshop featured 90-minute mathematical activities/explorations led by Rachael Levy and Dave Auckly.
Schedule
(All times in Mountain Time.)
9:00 – 9:10 am Welcome
9:10 – 10:40 (Rachael (Ray) Levy) Math Session 1: Finding Mathematics in the World Around You through Mathematical and Statistical Modeling
10:40 – 11:00 Introductions/Discussion
11:00 – 12:30 (Dave Auckly) Math Session 2: Intersection Math
12:30 – 1:00 Final discussion
Sessions
Finding Mathematics:
In this session, we will do a couple of activities that help learners begin to identify Mathematics in the world around them.
First, we will play “where’s the math?,” Which can be used as a warmup activity or weekly challenge.
Second, we will discuss how students can collect and analyze a day of data and relate what they find to concepts from their math course at any level.
Slides form Ray’s talk You can reach Ray at rachel.levy@gmail.com
Here are some related links. The “notice and wonder” framework is explained by the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics: Notice and wonder page.
A wonderful way to implement “notice and wonder” is via 3 acts. The basic idea of a 3-act is explained
3 Act webpage
A nice introduction to math and computer science related to video games may be given via scratch.
See the Scratch Website.
Intersection Math:
In this session, we will explore interesting patterns in intersections.
Intersection math comes from James Tanton’s Thinking Mathematics website. This website has many interesting activities and sessions suitable for middle and high school students.
Here are the mouse written notes from the session:
5-22-21 Navajo Math Session
We also discussed ways to increase student interaction. Here is a related link:
Ways to promote math discorse.
Cube slices — only view after considering questions on cube slices PDF
Cube Slices PDF