Enriching Your Math Curriculum to Empower Students

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MN Math Leaders and MDE
Fall Kick-Off

 

Enriching Your Math Curriculum to Empower Students

Presented by Fawn Nguyen

 This session will focus on strategies that are designed to invite all students into a mathematics curriculum that is relevant and challenging.  Together we will look at strategies I use to encourage critical thinking and to build procedural fluency from conceptual understanding. We will work with visual patterns to develop algebraic reasoning and engage in number talks to develop number sense and flexible thinking. We will experience productive struggle through rich tasks.  By the end of our day, you will be equipped with strategies to make math social, one that values collaboration and encourages play and risk taking.

Tuesday, August 7, 2018
9:00 – 3:30 am
Minnesota Department of Education
Fee: $150 per person

Who should attend?
Teams from schools or districts
Administrators
District Curriculum Leaders
Teacher Leaders
Teachers
Coaches

REGISTER HERE or at http://tiny.cc/Fawn

Fawn is a middle school math teacher at Mesa Union Junior High in southern California.  She’s been a teacher since 1990.  She was the 2014 Ventura County Teacher of the Year.  In 2009, she was awarded the Math Teacher Hero from Raytheon.  In 2005, she was awarded the Sarah D. Barder Fellowship from the Johns Hopkins Center for Talented Youth.

She blogs about her lessons and classroom teaching at fawnnguyen.com.  Fawn authors three other websites for teachers:  visualpatterns.org,mathtalks.net, and between2numbers.com.  She is also one of the editors for mathblogging.org.

Fawn is also part of the UC-Santa Barbara Mathematics Project leadership team and presents at workshops and retreats throughout the year.  In 2012, she co-founded the Math Teacher’s Circle in Thousand Oaks, California. Fawn is serving a three-year term as a committee member of NCTM’s Professional Development Services Committee (PDSC) during 2015-2018.

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