2015 NCTM Annual Meeting

• Location: Boston, Massachusetts
• NCTM Research Conference: Monday, April 13 – Wednesday, April 15
• NCSM Annual Conference: Monday, April 13 – Wednesday, April 15
• NCTM Annual Meeting: Wednesday, April 15 – Saturday, April 18

Program Highlights

Thursday, April 16

• Geoff Krall: Adaptation: Creating Open Problems from Closed Curricula
  • Review: Henri Picciotto: http://blog.mathedpage.org/2015/04/nctm-report-adaptation.html
  • Storify: Carl Oliver: https://storify.com/carloliwitter/geoff-krall-creating-open-ended-problems-from-clos
• Michael Pershan and Max Ray: Contexts for Complex Numbers
  • Review: Ashli Black: https://mythagon.wordpress.com/2015/04/21/session-thoughts-contexts-for-complex-numbers/
  • Review: Bob Lochel: http://mathcoachblog.com/2015/04/20/it-took-me-2-years-to-get-this-approach-to-imaginary-numbers/
• Shadow Con: http://www.shadowmathcon.com/
  • Storify: Taylor Williams: https://storify.com/MrWilliamsSTEM/shadow-math-con-2015

Friday, April 17

• Deborah Ball: With Respect for Teaching: Making Mathematics Instruction Explicit
  • Slides: http://www-personal.umich.edu/~dball/presentations/041715_NCTM.pdf
  • Storify: Carl Oliver: https://storify.com/carloliwitter/deborah-ball
• Tina Cardone and Ashli Black: Nix the Tricks
• Allison Hintz, Lynsey Gibbons, and Elham Kazemi: Transforming Practice: Organizing Schools for Meaningful Teacher and Leader Learning
  • Storify: Carl Oliver: https://storify.com/carloliwitter/elham-kazemi-et-al
• Phil Daro: What Decisions?
  • Storify: Carl Oliver: https://storify.com/carloliwitter/phil-daro
• Kathleen Argall: Student-Driven Learning and Problem-Based Geometry and Algebra 1
  • Storify: Carl Oliver: https://storify.com/carloliwitter/kathleen-argall-student-driven-learning-project-an
• Steven Leinwand: 10 To-Dos for Converting Principles to Actions into Tangible Improvements
  • Storify: Carl Oliver: https://storify.com/carloliwitter/steve-leinwand-10-to-dos-for-converting-principles

Saturday, April 18

• William McCallum: The Practices in Practice
  • Storify: Carl Oliver: https://storify.com/carloliwitter/bill-mccallum-the-practices-in-practice
• Ruth Parker: Bringing the Standards for Mathematical Practice to Life in Classrooms
  • Storify: Carl Oliver: https://storify.com/carloliwitter/ruth-parker
• Annie Fetter and Debbie Wile: Getting Students Invested in the Process of Problem Solving
  • Storify: Carl Oliver: https://storify.com/carloliwitter/debbie-wile-and-annie-fetter-getting-students-inve

Exhibit Hall Highlights

• MathTwitterBlogosphere booth

Participant Reflections

• Raymond Johnson wrote a few thoughts about curricular coherence, similarities in researchers and teachers, thinking of social media beyond Twitter, and being impressed by Geoff Krall and Tina Cardone: http://blog.mathed.net/2015/04/a-few-thoughts-from-nctm-2015-nctmboston.html
• Henri Picciotto wrote a wrap-up post with highlights from sessions conducted by Scott Steketee, Michael Pershan and Max Ray, and Brent Ferguson: http://blog.mathedpage.org/2015/05/nctm-wrap-up.html
• Christina Tondevold wrote about the sense of community that social media brings to in-person events like NCTM and mentioned talks by Eric Milou, Karen Karp, and Ruth Parker: http://www.therecoveringtraditionalist.com/my-nctmboston-takeaways/