ATMNE NH 2024

Baffled by changes that have taken place in elementary school math? Struggling to activate students' prior knowledge? We'll discuss some common misconceptions that persist around elementary math education, and how to draw on these methods and strategies to help students find connections to secondary math content.

Get your students doing math while moving! We will explore activities that get students understanding math at a deeper level, from average rate of change, to geometry concepts, vectors, and more. Participants will be engaged in the activities as students. Free activities and resources will be shared.

What precedes moments of math joy? How do we understand, foster, and recognize those moments? In this session we share how we integrated Design Thinking and Universal Design for Learning to center teachers' voices. Taking teachers' perspectives into account to plan for professional learning that would recognize moments of joy in math class. We will discuss factors that surround math joy and reflect on the elements of learning environments that promote and celebrate those moments.

How do we show students with math anxiety the joy in math? How can we include interventions for math anxiety in our teaching? This session will explore ways to combat math anxiety and bring back the joy from a former math hater.