2024 Virtual Math Summit

 

It was great to attend some of the workshops at the 2024 Virtural Math Summit. I watched 

Juli Dixon

Multiplication Fact Fluency:
A School-Wide Solution (3rd-5th)

How can students achieve a deep understanding of multiplication that allows them to develop fluency with their basic facts for multiplication that goes beyond recall to explain and justify their thinking? Experience the six tactics that make up the Fact Tactics(TM) Fluency Program designed to shift from drill-and-kill instruction to an approach that helps students make sense of multiplication while developing automaticity and procedural fluency.

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It was good to listen and hear the same things being said like many of the other researchers like Jo Boaler. We should be teaching strategies, conceptual understanding and context. Then through practice they develop fluency. We want students to develop multiplicative thinking to support them with higher level maths. The fluency helps with less loads or processes when working out higher level problems that involve basic facts to suport the strategies.We do not learn through drill and kill or speed games and tests. As these develop maths anxiety and puts students off wanting to learn. This was also a good workshop to support my next toolkit I am doing around Multiplication facts.

Latrenda Knighten

Windows and Mirrors: Implementing Teaching Practices that Build Students’ Mathematical Identities

In a student-centered mathematics classroom, students should have the opportunity to see themselves as doers of mathematics (mirrors) as well as view real-world connections to mathematics (windows). Windows and mirrors in the mathematics classroom allow students to develop positive attitudes about mathematics and build strong mathematical identities. Attend this session to learn practical strategies for building and nurturing students’ mathematical identities.

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This was a great workshop to link nicely with our reading practice around the importance of window and mirror text for our students. This transfers to our maths exactly the same. 

We need to give maths a real world purpose and connect to our student worlds they live in. 

I am looking forward to going and watching some of the other workshops when I get some spare time. I love keeping up to date with the latest research in maths and watching changes develop. Having spent many years as a maths facilitator I still have a passion for the subject.