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Session Title
Lights, Camera, Action! Fun And Success For All In Algebra
Presenter
Allan Bellman, Supervisor of Teacher Education, UC Davis
Narrative
“Why would we want to teach with digital images?” he asked and then answered, “Because it’s better to watch it than read about it.” where “it” referred to any generic textbook problem.
I had no disagreement insofar as we [...]

Be Less Helpful – CMC North 2009 – Dan Meyer from Dan Meyer on Vimeo.
Session Title
Be Less Helpful
Presenter
Dan Meyer, High School Math Teacher / Google Curriculum Fellow
Narrative
30% of my talk targeted how we teach — the subtle ways we encourage students to stop thinking. 70% targeted what we teach — the not-so-subtle ways our adopted [...]

Session Title
Don’t Just Cover Geometry, Discover Geometry
Presenter
Michael Serra, Teacher / Author
Narrative
Serra took the participants through his well-worn strategies for teaching Geometry, emphasizing manipulatives and induction. His students develop definitions and terms together. At whatever point they see a pattern in their experimentation (ie. “okay … all the angles in a triangle seem to add to [...]

Session Title
What Do We Do With The Seniors?
Presenter
Robert Loew, High School Math Teacher
Narrative
Loew and his colleagues wanted more options for students who finished Precalculus during their third year of high school (or earlier) but who weren’t going on to a STEM major and didn’t want to take Calculus. They came up with two.
1. Math Analysis
College [...]

Session Title
Thoughts On Rationalizing Algebra In Ways That Serve Kids, Not Universities
Presenter
Steven Leinwand, Principal Research Analyst, American Institutes for Research
Narrative
The day before CMC-North I was trading notes with our lead counselor, just swapping stories about kids, when she mentioned a student who was at the end of her turn at the local community college. She’d [...]