Elementary Math is Figure-Out-Able With Pam Harris

About the Event

All students should learn how to interpret the meaning of problems, make conjectures, analyze mathematical thinking and solutions, monitor and evaluate their progress, and understand the approaches of others in comparison with their own. Many of us have thought of math as disconnected facts to memorize, with rules and procedures to mimic. Pam calls this “fake math.” Real math is thinking mathematically, not just mimicking what a teacher does on the board. You can shift your brain from using rote memory to mathematizing. Pam helps teachers make this shift for themselves and helps teachers teach in a way that supports students to learn real math. This workshop will take a real math approach while reflecting on practice, instructional strategies, models, and research to support the positioning of all learners, including multilingual learners and students with learning disabilities, as leaders in your mathematics classes. With this workshop is a link to Pam Harris’ asynchronous Developing Mathematical Reasoning mini-course and virtual follow-up session, with the RCOE math team to support that asynchronous work. Dates and Times In-Person Monday, October 16, 2023 8:30 a.m.-3:00 p.m. Virtual Tuesday, December 12, 2023 Monday, January 22, 2024 Monday, February 26, 2024 3:45 p.m.-4:45 p.m. Monday, April 15, 2024 3:45 p.m.-5:00 p.m.