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You Can Count On It Imagine that, instead of drilling your students on 100 different basic facts, you could focus on fewer than 20 of them and a few big ideas that allow easy access to the rest. Imagine that your students could use intuitive understanding to consider numbers and mentally compute with ease. Imagine that, with student understanding of each big idea, several of your curriculum requirements could be addressed at the same time. All of that and more is completely realistic when students are empowered with these key understandings! This lively session will focus on hands-on exploration, practical classroom ideas and natural language. “Teachers leave the sessions inspired and armed with insights and practical techniques. D.Lunn “...enthusiasm and energy second to none” Take It Personally! Could you learn to skate by being told (or shown) how to do it? What about driving a car or learning to draw? You might learn some things about these topics but, chances are, you will need to strap on some skates, get behind the wheel of a car or put pencil to paper to get any real understanding and confidence in your ability. In other words, we all need direct personal contact with ideas to really own them.
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Pre-Fab Rules Here today and gone tomorrow… that's what happens when you haven't built the rule yourself. Memorizing someone else's rule means memorizing someone else's understanding; ‘discover’ the rule yourself and own it for a lifetime! Through exploration and hands-on activities, this session will get you thinking outside the box on your own memorized rules and the reasoning behind them. Participants leave with classroom strategies that allow students to use their own make-sense words to construct common math rules and definitions they simply won't forget! “...entertaining, highly engaging” Building Bridges "They seem to have the idea with the manipulatives... ...as long as there is no pencil involved!” Ease the transition from concrete to abstract by building bridges that connect models to the procedures. Accurate, natural language is the focus of this make-sense approach to basic computation that will empower your students and deliver results! “...gets at the core of math understanding” What You Say Makes All The Difference! The way we talk about the math we see makes all the difference! In this lively, hands-on session, participants will be amazed at how meaning can be lost or brought to life just by the models we make and the words we choose. Learn how to transform non-sense rules into makes-sense language! |
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