CMC - South 2016: Full Schedule

Welcome to California Mathematics Council - South’s 2016 57th Annual Conference Program!
This year’s conference is in Fabulous Palm Springs, Friday, November 4 and Saturday, November 5!
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8:30am PDT

100: Using Technology to Increase Conceptual Understanding in Algebra and Geometry

Many topics in algebra and geometry are difficult to address conceptually and tend to be taught procedurally. We’ll explore interactive applets that let students “notice and wonder,” talk about mathematical situations, and develop conceptual understandings of triangle properties, linear equations, systems of equations, and factoring trinomials.

EVALUATION POLL CODE: 580386

Speakers

Annie Fetter

The Math Forum at NCTM

I'm the longest-tenured staff member of the Math Forum. I worked on the project that produced the first version of the Geometer's Sketchpad® dynamic mathematics software and was a consultant for Key Curriculum Press for many years. My current work focuses on the development of children's... Read More →

FetterCMCS2016TechnologyHandout pdf

FetterCMCS16TechnologySlides pdf

FetterCMCS2016AlgGeoToolsLinks pdf

Friday November 4, 2016 8:30am - 9:59am PDT
PSCC-Primrose A

G.I. 6–12, FEATURED | Featured, FEATURED

Loc PSCC
Session # 100
Strategies Tech
Strand FEATURED

10:30am PDT

200: Rigorous Teaching and Learning—Sparking Students’ Passions

Rigor in mathematics classrooms should be the foundation for engaging students in high-quality teaching and learning. Find out what rigor in math classrooms is all about. Then experience how your passion for math can fuel students’ passion for learning and succeeding in life.

EVALUATION POLL CODE: 580385

Speakers

Lee Stiff

North Carolina State Univ

Friday November 4, 2016 10:30am - 11:59am PDT
PSCC-Primrose B

3–5, FEATURED | Featured, FEATURED

Loc PSCC
Session # 200
Strategies Acc&Eq
Strand FEATURED

10:30am PDT

201: Connecting Data to Instruction—Looking at Smarter Balanced Items & Responses to Inform Instruction

We'll look at several released Smarter Balanced test items and the associated performance data in order to see how this information can be used to improve instruction. Additionally, we'll look at annotated student work on recently released performance tasks to help teachers understand what constitutes acceptable responses that focus on problem solving, communicating reasoning, and modeling.

EVALUATION POLL CODE: 580446

Speakers

Judy Hickman

Big Ideas Learning

Smarter Balanced CMC South Nov 2016 ppt

Friday November 4, 2016 10:30am - 11:59am PDT
PSCC-Primrose C

Featured, FEATURED | General Aud., FEATURED

Loc PSCC
Session # 201
Strategies Asmt Coach Ldrshp
Strand FEATURED

10:30am PDT

202: What is Academic Rigor in the Primary Classroom?

The subject of rigor brings up lots of questions that need to be examined. What makes a task rigorous? Is harder always better? How do we know when struggling with a task will lead to understanding and when it will not? We will look at what we need to consider to provide rigorous, yet appropriate, tasks for young children.

EVALUATION POLL CODE: 580447

Speakers

Kathy Richardson

Co-founder, Math Perspectives Teacher Development Center

Friday November 4, 2016 10:30am - 11:59am PDT
PSCC-Primrose A

PK–2, FEATURED | Featured, FEATURED

Loc PSCC
Session # 202
Strategies Acc&Eq Asmt
Strand FEATURED

1:30pm PDT

300: Teaching Mathematics: Reflections and Insights on >1000 Classroom Observations

I have been blessed with an ever growing data base of more than 1000 K–12 mathematics classroom observations since 2010. This session is an opportunity to capture and share some of what I've observed and learned. We will use specific examples to look at such issues as on-going cumulative review, homework, worksheets, saying vs. showing, formative assessment, questioning, and tasks that either numb or energize our neurons—all of which can be transported to every classroom in which mathematics is taught.

EVALUATION POLL CODE: 580498

Speakers

Steve Leinwand

Author, American Institutes for Research

Steve Leinwand is a Principal Research Analyst at the American Institutes for Research (AIR) in Washington, D.C. and has over 30 years of leadership positions in mathematics education. Steve has served on the Mathematical Sciences Education Board during the development and publication... Read More →

CMC South 11 16 Keynote.ppt pptx

Friday November 4, 2016 1:30pm - 2:59pm PDT
PSCC-Primrose B

Featured, FEATURED | General Aud., FEATURED

Loc PSCC
Session # 300
Strategies Acc&Eq Asmt Tech
Strand FEATURED

1:30pm PDT

302: Conferring and Questioning to Spark Deeper Understanding

Questioning has become one of the biggest challenges of teachers everywhere as they rise to the challenge of transforming their classrooms into communities of mathematicians. The CCSS Standards of Mathematical Practice require that children engage in problem solving with tenacity and confidence and that teachers foster a climate conducive to the generating of mathematics rather than the explanation of it. Teachers have been told that they have a new role—one of a facilitator, rather than a teller. But being a facilitator is not sufficient; we are also mentors. Precisely how to question in ways that engage learners to go deeper into the mathematics at hand will be the focus of this presentation. Digital video will be used to study it in action and participants will leave with a “Landscape of Teacher Change on Conferring and Questioning” to monitor their own growth and development.

EVALUATION POLL CODE: 580500

Speakers

Catherine Fosnot

CEO and President, Catherine Fosnot & Associates: New Perspectives on Learning

Current CEO and President of New Perspectives on Learning and past Founding Director of Mathematics in the City, and the lead author of the Contexts for Learning Mathematics series as well as the Young Mathematicians at Work series.

Friday November 4, 2016 1:30pm - 2:59pm PDT
PSCC-Primrose A

General Aud., FEATURED | Featured, FEATURED

Loc PSCC
Session # 302
Strategies Acc&Eq Asmt Coach
Strand FEATURED

3:30pm PDT

401: From Counting to Problem Solving: Supporting the Development of Understanding for Each Student

Beginning problem solving can seem challenging for students and teachers. This session will focus on how to use counting collections to support students to solve problems. The session will provide examples as well as elucidate the underlying principles that support the connection between counting collections and problem solving.

EVALUATION POLL CODE: 580546

Speakers

Megan Franke

Professor of Education at UCLA, UCLA

Megan Franke is a Professor of Education at UCLA. Megan’s research focuses on understanding and supporting teacher learning for preservice and inservice teachers. She studies how teachers’ use of research-based information about the development of children’s mathematical thinking... Read More →

Friday November 4, 2016 3:30pm - 4:59pm PDT
PSCC-Primrose C

Featured, FEATURED | PK–2, FEATURED

Loc PSCC
Session # 401
Strategies Acc&Eq
Strand CGI, FEATURED

3:30pm PDT

400: Facilitating Meaningful Discourse in Mathematics Classroom

According to Principles to Action, mathematical discourse should: build on and honor students’ thinking; provide students with the opportunity to share ideas, clarify understandings, and develop convincing arguments; and advance the mathematical learning of the whole class. It has been argued that “discussions that focus on cognitively challenging mathematical tasks, namely those that promote thinking, reasoning, and problem solving, are a primary mechanism for promoting conceptual understanding of mathematics.“ During the session participants will: 1) watch a video clip and discuss what the teacher does to support her students engagement in and understanding of mathematics; 2) discuss how the video exemplifies the focal teaching practice; and 3) consider what can be learned from this example that could apply to teaching more broadly.

EVALUATION POLL CODE: 580545

Speakers

Margaret Smith

Professor Emerita, University of Pittsburgh

Dr. Margaret (Peg) Smith has had a career thoroughly dedicated to mathematics and furthering the knowledge of other educators. Dr. Smith has authored and co-authored nearly one hundred books and articles, impacting students and teachers of all levels. Having graduated from State University... Read More →

400 Smith Task pdf

400 Smith Transript1 pdf

400 Smith Trancript2 pdf

400 Smith EffectiveMathematicsTeachingPractices docx

Friday November 4, 2016 3:30pm - 4:59pm PDT
PSCC-Primrose A

G.I. 6–12, FEATURED | Featured, FEATURED

Loc PSCC
Session # 400
Strategies Acc&Eq
Strand FEATURED

3:30pm PDT

402: Letting Go: Cultivating Agency and Authority in the Secondary Mathematics Classroom

In this session, I share what I learned from my dissertation video study of two high school teachers who were learning to enact Number Talks. I wanted to learn what the teachers found most challenging and how coaching supported their learning. In examining the videos of the Number Talks, I noticed that, even when teachers use teaching strategies that are recommended for engaging students in productive mathematical discussions, it can be hard to let go of familiar practices that we think of as "teaching" (such as asking leading questions or verifying students' answers), but that when we are able to forego those habits, students' agency and authority has more space to grow. I hope these ideas will be useful for teachers and coaches alike.

EVALUATION POLL CODE: 580547

Speakers

Cathy Humphreys

Friday November 4, 2016 3:30pm - 4:59pm PDT
PSCC-Primrose B

Teacher Ed, FEATURED | Featured, FEATURED

Loc PSCC
Session # 402
Strategies Acc&Eq Asmt Coach
Strand FEATURED

8:30am PDT

500: Number Talks and the Standards for Mathematical Practice: Teachers and Students Learning Together

Number Talks develop numerical reasoning skills for students and teachers alike and are a powerful vehicle for bringing the Standards for Mathematical Practice to life in elementary through post-secondary classrooms. This session will engage participants as learners while highlighting critical aspects that make Number Talks a safe space for the having of mathematical ideas.

EVALUATION POLL CODE: 580604

Speakers

Ruth Parker

Mathematics Education Collaborative (MEC)

Saturday November 5, 2016 8:30am - 9:59am PDT
PSCC-Primrose A

General Aud., FEATURED | Featured, FEATURED

Loc PSCC
Session # 500
Strategies Acc&Eq Asmt ELL
Strand FEATURED

8:30am PDT

501: Principles for Building and Using Effective Digital Tasks

What do the most powerful digital math tasks have in common? What teacher moves allow students to get the most out of any lesson? In this session, we’ll consider answers to these questions and use the Desmos Activity Builder as a lens for exploring the intersection of computers, teaching, and math.

EVALUATION POLL CODE: 580606

Speakers

Michael Fenton

Lead Instructional Designer, Desmos

Exploring the intersection of mathematics, technology, and curiosity.

Saturday November 5, 2016 8:30am - 9:59am PDT
PSCC-Primrose B

General Aud., FEATURED | Featured, FEATURED

Loc PSCC
Session # 501
Strategies STEM Tech
Strand FEATURED

10:30am PDT

601: Building a Coherent Teacher-Owned Middle School Curriculum

Illustrative Mathematics is writing a complete set of lesson plans, assessments, and differentiated learning supports for Grades 6–8 mathematics. The curriculum will be aligned to the Common Core State Standards, mathematically coherent, and attuned to the daily classroom needs of teachers. It will be an open-education resource released under a Creative Commons Attribution license, so that teachers will be able to adapt it to their local needs, while still preserving the basic architecture. In this presentation we will describe some of the key features of the curriculum and give participants an opportunity to work with some of the materials.

EVALUATION POLL CODE: 580653

Speakers

Bill McCallum

Illustrative Mathematics

Saturday November 5, 2016 10:30am - 11:59am PDT
PSCC-Primrose C

6–8, FEATURED | Featured, FEATURED

Loc PSCC
Session # 601
Strategies Acc&Eq ELL
Strand FEATURED

10:30am PDT

603: 'In the Position of Possibility' Many Mini Lessons—Teaching and Learning in the Urban Classroom

Let's explore the challenges and paths to success of teaching students "in the position of possibility" (formerly known as at-risk). Textbooks, testing, mandates, decrees, and breakfast service; experience the life of a South Los Angeles teacher through addition, subtraction, multiplication and division mini lessons.

EVALUATION POLL CODE: 580656

Speakers

Dina Williams

LAUSD

Saturday November 5, 2016 10:30am - 11:59am PDT
Renaissance-Catalina

G.I. PK–5, FEATURED | Featured, FEATURED

Loc Renaissance
Session # 603
Strategies Acc&Eq ELL GATE
Strand FEATURED

10:30am PDT

600: Adding Talk to the Leadership Teaching and Math Equation

How do adult interactions in school impact student interactions in schools? What do robust academic discussions sound like among teachers and among students? How do we cultivate rich, engaging inquiries at the administrative and the teacher and the student levels in any given school or district? How do we address problems in school and how do those habits impact how we engage with mathematics problems? What does culture have to do with learning and how do we cultivate the culture we all want to live in? In this talk I will share my thinking about how to develop the kind of dialogue needed to actually improve learning. We will explore "learning communities" and the role of each player in the community to both learn and contribute to the collective and individual knowledge in the community. What habits of discourse need to be cultivated so that all of us, no matter age or rank, can engage productively in dialogue that furthers learning, innovation, problem solving, and collaboration?

EVALUATION POLL CODE: 580651

Speakers

Lucy West

Founder and CEO, Metamorphosis Teaching Learning Communities

I have worked at all levels of the system as an employee of the NYC DOE. As a consultant in coaching and leadership I have worked across the USA and Canada, grades K-12, with teachers, principals and district level supervisors, and I'm passionate about educators learning to collaborate... Read More →

Saturday November 5, 2016 10:30am - 11:59am PDT
PSCC-Primrose B

General Aud., FEATURED | Featured, FEATURED

Loc PSCC
Session # 600
Strategies Acc&Eq Coach Ldrshp
Strand FEATURED

10:30am PDT

602: Make Failure Cheap: We All Take Risks Here

In a safe class with a teacher they respect, students will reason, rationalize, disagree, compare, and improve. Those environments don’t occur by accident; they’re the product of a specific focus on empowering student voice. Let’s discuss effective and ineffective questions for all grades, model openness for diverse methods, and celebrate guesses and incorrect answers.

EVALUATION POLL CODE: 580652

Speakers

Matt Vaudrey

Fontana USD

Matt Vaudrey draws upon years of experience with K-12 Math Education, as a teacher, instructional coach, and administrator. Off the clock, he advocates for students on the margins and builds confidence with teachers nationwide. His book, Classroom Chef, is available on Amazon, and... Read More →

Saturday November 5, 2016 10:30am - 11:59am PDT
PSCC-Primrose A

General Aud., FEATURED | Featured, FEATURED

Loc PSCC
Session # 602
Strategies Acc&Eq
Strand FEATURED

1:15pm PDT

702: The Whole Problem-Solving Process: Traversing Gaps Between Thinking Talking Writing and Typing

High-stakes tests are just one time we expect students to read a problem on the computer and then type an answer. It’s easy to lose sight of the phases involved in the process of producing a finished product. We’ll look at samples that highlight this issue and strategies to support moving from thinking to talking to writing to typing.

EVALUATION POLL CODE: 580698

Speakers

Annie Fetter

The Math Forum at NCTM

FetterCMCS2016PSProcessHandout pdf

FetterCMCS2016PSProcessSlides pdf

Saturday November 5, 2016 1:15pm - 2:44pm PDT
Renaissance-Catalina

3–5, FEATURED | Featured, FEATURED

Loc Renaissance
Session # 702
Strand FEATURED

1:15pm PDT

700: Boost Conceptual Understanding & Procedural Fluency with Rich Number-Sense Tasks

Would your students benefit from rich number-sense tasks connected to ratios, proportions, expressions, solving equations, functions, and more? Come participate in hands-on tasks that provide students with opportunities to use their own reasoning strategies and methods for solving problems that coherently build conceptual understanding and procedural fluency.

EVALUATION POLL CODE: 580696

Speakers

Andrew Stadel

Math Teacher, Tustin USD

Andrew is currently a math teacher to middle and high school students at a Project-Based Learning public school. You can also find free resources at his widely-acclaimed website, Estimation 180. When Andrew is not teaching math, he’s having fun with his family, playing games and... Read More →

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Saturday November 5, 2016 1:15pm - 2:44pm PDT
PSCC-Primrose A

6–8, FEATURED | Featured, FEATURED

Loc PSCC
Session # 700
Strategies Acc&Eq ELL
Strand FEATURED

1:15pm PDT

701: From Arithmetic to Algebra—and Beyond

What can teachers in the elementary grades do to prepare their students to be successful in algebra? What can teachers in middle school and high school do to take advantage of those early investments and teach algebra successfully? In this talk, I'll share ideas about the progression from arithmetic to algebra, the central pillar of any college- and career-ready mathematics curriculum.

EVALUATION POLL CODE: 580697

Speakers

Jason Zimba

Student Achievement Partners

Saturday November 5, 2016 1:15pm - 2:44pm PDT
PSCC-Primrose C

General Aud., FEATURED | Featured, FEATURED

Loc PSCC
Session # 701
Strand FEATURED

1:15pm PDT

703: Equally Important as Real World: Proof and Reason

A lot of emphasis has been placed on mathematical modeling in the last few years. Explanation of mathematical reasoning is an equally important activity in mathematics and students should grow in their ability to explain their reasoning over their years in school. In this talk we investigate different ways to elicit mathematical reasoning from students at various grade levels and the standards for what constitutes a full explanation of reasoning at various grade bands on the Smarter Balanced exam.

EVALUATION POLL CODE: 580703

Speakers

Heather Dallas

Director/lecturer, The UCLA Curtis Center for Mathematics and Teaching

Saturday November 5, 2016 1:15pm - 2:44pm PDT
Renaissance-Andreas

General Aud., FEATURED | Featured, FEATURED

Loc Renaissance
Session # 703
Strategies Asmt
Strand FEATURED

1:15pm PDT

704: Leadership and Classroom Pedagogy Leading to Student Proficiency for ALL in Mathematics

Teachers and teacher leaders must focus on both equity and excellence. This requires a paradigm shift to a leadership pedagogy, where equity and excellence are at the center of all efforts. This pedagogy includes the following knowledge, beliefs, and actions: mathematics content knowledge, equity, advocacy, and outcomes focused.

EVALUATION POLL CODE: 580699

Speakers

Susie W. Håkansson

Member Services Chair, TODOS: Mathematics for ALL, Mathematics Education Consultant

TODOS: Mathematics for ALL is a national professional organization that advocates for equity and excellence in mathematics education for ALL students - in particular, Latina/o students. TODOS advances educators' .knowledge, develops and supports education leaders, generates and disseminates... Read More →

Saturday November 5, 2016 1:15pm - 2:44pm PDT
Renaissance-San Jacinto

General Aud., FEATURED | Featured, FEATURED

Loc Renaissance
Session # 704
Strategies Acc&Eq Asmt ELL
Strand FEATURED

3:15pm PDT

800: Math is Power not Punishment

We often offer students shortcuts, strategies, and skills before students understand their origin, their value, and the millions of hours of work they’ve saved mathematicians throughout history. We’ll look at techniques for putting students in a position to need these challenging skills so they feel like power, not punishment.

EVALUATION POLL CODE: 580746

Speakers

Dan Meyer

Chief Academic Officer, Desmos

Dan Meyer taught high school math to students who didn't like high school math. He has advocated for better math instruction on CNN, Good Morning America, Everyday With Rachel Ray, and TED.com. He earned his doctorate from Stanford University in math education and is the chief academic... Read More →

Saturday November 5, 2016 3:15pm - 4:44pm PDT
PSCC-Primrose A

General Aud., FEATURED | Featured, FEATURED

Loc PSCC
Session # 800
Strategies Acc&Eq
Strand FEATURED