2015 NCTM Annual Meeting
Revision as of 22:23, 11 May 2015 by imported>Raymond Johnson (→Thursday, April 16: added Storify and Shadow Con)
- 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
Monday, April 13
Tuesday, April 14
Wednesday, April 15
Thursday, April 16
- Geoff Krall: Adaptation: Creating Open Problems from Closed Curricula
- Michael Pershan and Max Ray: Contexts for Complex Numbers
- Shadow Con: http://www.shadowmathcon.com/
Friday, April 17
- Deborah Ball: With Respect for Teaching: Making Mathematics Instruction Explicit
- 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
- Phil Daro: What Decisions?
- Kathleen Argall: Student-Driven Learning and Problem-Based Geometry and Algebra 1
- Steven Leinwand: 10 To-Dos for Converting Principles to Actions into Tangible Improvements
Saturday, April 18
- William McCallum: The Practices in Practice
- Ruth Parker: Bringing the Standards for Mathematical Practice to Life in Classrooms
- Annie Fetter and Debbie Wile: Getting Students Invested in the Process of Problem Solving
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/