CURRENT OFFERINGS

The course offerings for Numbers & Operations  the essential ideas of Early Number Sense, Place Value, Operational Sense, and Number Systems. Courses for Numbers & Operations available for all grade levels as well as special education. Please note 6th grade may attend elementary or secondary sessions.

Preparing students for algebra doesn't start in middle school. This course is geared to help educators understand how algebraic reasoning is developed throughout the K-6 math curriculum, so that they can ensure students' are ready for Algebra I. Course available for K-6 & special education.

Focused on building deep understanding of equality and operations with unknowns, this course is designed to assist teachers in upper elementary, middle, and high school in understanding how these ideas build over time in the curriculum as well as how the brain makes sense of them so that they may help their students grasp these important concepts. Grades 2 and Up.

Rational numbers are more complex than whole numbers and often give educators & students alike trouble. The courses designed around rational numbers target these seemingly scary numbers and help them make sense. The course offerings of rational numbers include decimals & fractions, ratios & proportions, and functional thinking. Courses for Rational Numbers are available grades 2+ as well as special education. Please note 6th grade may attend elementary or secondary sessions. 

The NCTM's 8 Effective Teaching Practices are an essential road map to successful math instruction. With names like "Build Conceptual Understanding from Procedural Fluency" and "Elicit Student Thinking", teachers are often lost on why, what, when, and how they are doing these. In this course, educators walk out not only with a better understanding of what the 8 ETPs are, but with how to implement them for the most benefit. Open to all educators.

Fluency isn't just fast facts in a flash! Too often educators are hyper-focused on speed and forget about efficiency, flexibility, accuracy, and reasonableness. In this course, educators will relearn what automaticity really means and how they can best address all components of fluency to support their students.

How do you help students solve word problems? Draw a picture? Use the dreaded key word strategy? It sounds so easy, but feels impossible when students don't understand the relationships illustrated in the word problems. Enter schematic representations. Based on the separate work of Asha K. Jitendra and Sarah R. Powell, this course shows how to use schematic representations to teach students to solve word problems. Best suited for teachers of struggling learners.

Working with numbers is an important part of developing mathematical comprehension. In this course, teachers learn how to use the materials that they have to produce students who are able to logically think through problems. This course highlights the use of Schema-Based problem solving, but also focuses on how number and operation play builds critical sense-making in mathematics.

For years math teachers have seen math text and standards encouraging the use of multiple methods for solving. How to meaningfully attach these methods to mathematical concepts for students has remained a struggle for many educators. This course is designed to help teachers understand the connection between various strategies for math and how to help their students make competent choices when deciding upon a method.

Asking students to write about their mathematical thinking in their own words helps them both deepen their own understanding as well as active reflect on the reasoning of others around them. This course is designed to help build spaces where meaning-making via writing is valued, internalized, and grown. Participants will learn how to start students off with personal reflections and scaffold development up to formalized writing that includes things like storybook and/or textbook type writing.