The Experience First Mathematics Workshop – June 22-26

Join a professional learning community of mathematics teachers interested in fostering mathematical thinking and literacy in their students. Learn techniques to introduce new mathematical concepts through engaging problems, allowing students to develop mathematical skills and ideas for themselves.

The Experience-First Mathematics (EFM) Workshop is brought to you by The Blake School and the University of Minnesota’s School of Mathematics Center for Educational Programs.  The methodology of EFM is firmly rooted in the research that inspired NCTM’s Principles to Actions and the Common Core’s Practice Standards. Research also shows that EFM can help ALL students learn mathematics as it truly is, not as skills to be memorized, but a way of thinking and approaching complex problems.

The details


The 2015 workshop will be held June 22-26, 2015 on the University of Minnesota’s Twin Cities Campus. See the website (experiencefirstmath.org) for registration details.

Each morning, the teacher participants will experience problem-based learning first hand in Calculus, Statistics, Geometry, or Algebra, taught by local high school instructors. These sessions also include discussions of student-centered, experience-first techniques used in high school classes.

In the afternoons, all teachers (both teacher-participants and teacher-teachers) will work collaboratively to develop or modify experience-first lessons to be used in their own classrooms. It is an opportunity to work with colleagues from your school as well as teachers from other schools. For this reason we encourage several participants from the same school. Experimentation with a new instructional style is far easier as a team.

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