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
• Hashtags: #NCTMBoston, #NCTMRC, #NCSM15

Program Highlights

Wednesday, April 15

NCSM Annual Conference

• Ignite session with Suzanne Alejandre (emcee) and Jim Dooley, Annie Fetter, Norma Gordon, Grace Kelemanik, Chris Luzniak, Jasmine Yin-Ying Ma, Carl Oliver, Laurel Pollard, Max Ray, and John Staley: Ignite! We'll Enlighten You and We'll Make It Quick
  • Review: Ashli Black: https://mythagon.wordpress.com/2015/04/19/session-thoughts-ncsm-ignite/

NCTM Annual Meeting

• Opening session featuring Diane Briars, Kathleen Heid, Frank Demana, Bert Waits, and Elizabeth Green
  • Recording: http://www.nctm.org/Conferences-and-Professional-Development/Webinars-and-Webcasts/2015-Annual-Meeting---Opening-Session/

Thursday, April 16

• Diane Briars: Five Years of Common Core State Mathematics Standards: Essential Actions for Moving Forward (President's Address)
  • Recording: http://www.nctm.org/Conferences-and-Professional-Development/Webinars-and-Webcasts/2015-NCTM-Annual-Meeting---President_s-Address/
• Anthony Rodriguez: Integrating Project-Based Learning: Teaching Mathematics Across the Curriculum
  • Review: Ashli Black: https://mythagon.wordpress.com/2015/04/20/session-thoughts-project-based-learning/
• Geoff Krall: Adaptation: Creating Open Problems from Closed Curricula
  • Slides, handouts, and framework: http://emergentmath.com/2015/04/16/nctm_adaptation/
  • Review: Ashli Black: https://mythagon.wordpress.com/2015/04/21/session-thoughts-adapatation/
  • 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
  • Storify: Zachary Champagne: https://storify.com/Zakchamp/shadow-con
  • Storify: Zachary Champagne on Laila Nur: https://storify.com/Zakchamp/laila-nur-at-shadow-con
  • Storify: Zachary Champagne on Kristen Gray: https://storify.com/Zakchamp/kristin-gray-at-shadow-con
  • Storify: Zachary Champagne on Christopher Danielson: https://storify.com/Zakchamp/christopher-danielson-at-shadow-con
  • Storify: Zachary Champagne on Michael Pershan: https://storify.com/Zakchamp/michael-pershan-at-shadow-con
  • Reviews: Ashli Black: https://mythagon.wordpress.com/2015/04/24/session-thoughts-shadow-con-part-1/ and https://mythagon.wordpress.com/2015/04/26/session-thoughts-shadow-con-part-2/

Friday, April 17

• 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
• 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
• Phil Daro: What Decisions?
  • Storify: Carl Oliver: https://storify.com/carloliwitter/phil-daro
• 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
• 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
• Jennifer Silverman: A Better Approach to Teaching Radian Measure
  • Movie version with slides: http://www.proradian.net/nctm2015/
• Ignite session with Diane Briars (emcee) and Robert Berry, Peg Cagle, Laurel Pollard, Annie Fetter, Grace Kelemanik, Dan Meyer, Eric Milou, Max Ray, Robyn Silbey and Ellie Terry
  • Recording: http://www.nctm.org/Conferences-and-Professional-Development/Webinars-and-Webcasts/2015-NCTM-Annual-Meeting---Ignite-Session/

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
  • Tina Cardone: http://drawingonmath.blogspot.com/2015/04/mtbos-booth.html
  • List of Twitter handles added to the sign at the booth: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1iHnz35v0ZwAyD254lycTk0DcO7OWqwV1WjCR9Khn3w4/edit#gid=0

Reflections

• The Global Math Department presented Favorites from NCTM following the conference: https://www.bigmarker.com/GlobalMathDept/21Apr2015
• Anna Blinstein wrote about the need for coherence and professional collaboration with a lot of notes for following up in her own practice: http://borschtwithanna.blogspot.com/2015/04/digesting-nctm.html
• Tina Cardone wrote briefly about the experience and linked to an album of pictures: http://drawingonmath.blogspot.com/2015/04/nctm-boston-experience.html
• Jill Gough doodled presentations from Jo Boaler, Magdalene Lampert, Kristin Gray, Jennifer Wilson, Dan Meyer, Sherry Parrish, Greg Tang, Tracy Zager, Elham Kazemi, Shadow Con, Mona Toncheff, and Cathery Yeh and Jody Guarino: https://storify.com/jgough/jill-s-doodles-from-ncsm15-and-nctmboston
• 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
• Dan Meyer scraped the conference sites for the handouts: http://blog.mrmeyer.com/2015/every-handout-from-nctm/
• Carl Oliver Storified a number of talks and collected others: http://www.coast2coast.me/carl/2015/04/18/nctmboston-jealousy-coverage-all-the-storifys-and-links-to-slides-from-this-years-conference/
• Young Suk Ahn Park wrote about Common Core, technology, gamification, and non-profits in the marketplace: https://medium.com/@ysahnpark/math-education-landscape-my-thoughts-after-attending-nctm-conference-2015-1008d3faf014
• 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/
• Pierre Tranchemontagne wrote about sessions by Andrew Stadel, Dan Meyer, Deborah Ball, Robert Kaplinsky, Mathalicious and Karim Ani, Steven Leinwand, Bruce McLaurin and Alex Overwijk, Dylan Wiliam, Max Ray, and others: https://moinsqueplus.wordpress.com/2015/04/22/ncsm-nctm-boston-2015/