This week: Access and Purpose at #NCTMannual

Edited By Sahar Khatri @khatrimath

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Last week, Global math was on hiatus this week due to the NCTM Conference in San Francisco. Join us this week for

#NCTM My Favorites: Recaps from NCTM Annual Conference: San Francisco Edition! where speakers will share some of their favorite moments from NCTM16.

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Spotlight on NCTM Annual Sessions

NCTM 2016 and Purpose

The NCTM 2016 Annual was full of great ideas, resources, sessions, and experiences. I felt a common theme throughout many of the sessions I attended: PURPOSE. Because there is a lot to process. I know your time is precious, so I blogged about it here.
~ by Andrew Stadel (@mr_stadel)

Creating Accessible Learning Environments

As usual, the 2016 NCTM annual meeting & exposition was a whirlwind of excitement, ideas, and inspiration. Bright and early on Thursday morning, I led my first NCTM session about teaching math to students with disabilities called Students with Disabilities CAN Do Math. Christine Roberts took these amazing doodle notes during our presentation!

Our presentation was mainly about creating access for students with disabilities in math class. Whether this was on my mind (as it usually is) or not, other sessions I attended also seemed to have creating access for students (of all kinds) in math class as a focus.

Marian Small’s session, Becoming the Math Teacher They Need (Click on “SmallNCTM”) was focused on using open-ended questions to create access for all students.
Both Elham Kazemi and Graham Fletcher mentioned or referenced using Numberless Word Problems to create access in their sessions.
Robert Kaplinsky’s Digging into Depth of Knowledge presented the different DOK levels as a way to create access and then increase the cognitive demand as appropriate. Dan Meyer described this as turning up the math dial!
Tracy Zager’s session on relational thinking highlighted question prompts to create access to this kind of thinking.
Carl Oliver described the process for choosing non-routine problems to use in class and how to create access to them for students.

(PS – Dan corrected me. This was not his quote, but a session participant!)
~by Andrew Gael (@bkdidact)

Great Blogging Action

“Teaching on a normal day is balance.”

With all the reading and video catch-up I suspect many of us are doing post-NCSM/NCTM, I’ll keep this short.

I’ve been watching across social medias as different states begin their testing days for various disciplines. While I miss pretty much every aspect of classroom teaching, I cannot confess to missing reading instructions verbatim and scrutinizing students grouped by grade and name as they sit exams all sharpened pencils and big eyes eyes pleading for better spare calculators than the ones I had.

To everyone living through the experience now, I wish you the best of luck and recommend the latest blogpost by José Vilson who reminds us all of the connections and true cadence of the profession we chose that’s more fun than fun.

~Ashli Black (@mythagon)

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