Math Workshops
2015/2016
10% discount for MSUNER Districts:
Belleville, Bloomfield, Caldwell/West Caldwell, Cedar Grove, Clifton, East Orange, Elizabeth, Englewood, Fair Lawn, GlenRidge, Hillside, Kearny, Little Falls, Livingston, Maywood, Montclair, Newark, Nutley, Parsippany/Troy Hills, Pascack Valley Regional, Passaic Valley Regional, Paterson, Randolph, Rockaway Township, South Orange/Maplewood, Teaneck, Tenafly, West Orange.
$150 per teacher
8:30a-2:30p (parking & coffee)
Reserve NOW at: Workshop registration form
2015-16 Mathematics Series: Grades K-2, 3-5, 6-8, 7-10
Navigating 2015-16 Mathematics Standards: Teaching for Understanding with a Focus on Instruction and Assessment
1. November 13, 2015
Title: Navigating 2015-2016 Mathematics Standards: Teaching for Understanding with a Focus on Instruction and Assessment Important Beginnings
Grade Levels: K-2
Presenter: Eliza Leszczynski, Ed.D., K-12 Educational Consultant
Description: Participants will engage in an across the grades look at the Domains of “Number and Operations in Base 10” and “Operations and Algebraic Thinking.” Ready-to-use, hands-on activities focusing on the development of a strong number sense and a deep understanding of operations (addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division) with numbers and related applications in real contexts will be emphasized. Participants will examine the structures of story problems and discuss student strategies occurring in the context of each problem type.
2. January 14, 2016
Title: Navigating 2015-16 Mathematics Standards: Teaching for Understanding with a Focus on Instruction and Assessment ~ Fractions, Decimals and Percents
Grade Levels: 6-8
Presenter: Eliza Leszczynski, Ed.D., K-12 Educational Consultant
Description: Come and participate in active learning about the many connections between fractions, decimals, and percents, with a focus on the across the grades look during a hands-on session. The use of multiple representations and manipulatives for fractions, decimals, and percents will be emphasized, including number lines, fraction bars, 10x10 grids, base-10 blocks, and others. Ready-to-use activities, including story problems will be examined. The connections of percents and ratios will be addressed in the context of real life problems.
3. February 11, 2016
Title: Navigating 2015-16 Mathematics Standards: Teaching for Understanding with a Focus on Instruction and Assessment ~ Problem Solving and Performance Tasks
Grade Levels: 6-8
Presenter: Deborah L. Ives, Ed.D., K-12 Educational Consultant
Description: Come and participate in active learning about the Standards and Mathematical Practices for middle grades math, with a focus on an across the grades look during a hands-on session. Using a balanced approach for all students, a link between Instructional Strategies, Grade Level Curriculum Expectations and the State Assessments will be addressed using online simulations, performance tasks, and real world applications/modeling.
4. February 19, 2016
Title: Navigating 2015-16 Mathematics Standards: Teaching for Understanding with a Focus on Instruction and Assessment ~ Fractions
Grade Levels: 3-5
Presenter: Eliza Leszczynski, Ed.D., K-12 Educational Consultant
Description: Participants will engage in an across the grades look at the Domain of “Number and Operations – Fractions” in lessons involving operations with fractions, comparison of fractions, and fraction equivalence, including meaningful strategies for connecting concrete and pictorial models of improper fractions and mixed numbers. Ready-to-use, hands-on activities, including fraction-decimal connections, and instructional strategies incorporating the use of physical manipulatives with fractions will be emphasized. Formative and summative assessment of fraction skills with be addressed.
5. March 9, 2016
Title: Navigating 2015-16 Mathematics Standards: Teaching for Understanding with a Focus on Instruction and Assessment ~ Problem Solving and the Use of Digital Tools
Grade Levels: 3-5
Presenter: Deborah L. Ives, Ed.D., K-12 Educational Consultant
Description: Participants will engage in an across the grades look at the Domain of “Number and Operations – Fractions” that will highlight expectations of problem solving and Performance Tasks. Ready-to-use, hands-on lessons and instructional strategies, differentiation and accommodations, and the use of multiple assessment and questioning techniques will be emphasized, including easily accessible digital tools.
6. March 23, 2016
Title: Navigating 2015-16 Mathematics Standards: Teaching for Understanding with a Focus on Instruction and Assessment Updates
Grade Levels: 7-10
Presenter: Deborah L. Ives, Ed.D., K-12 Educational Consultant
Description: Come learn updated information through a hands-on look at lessons and Performance Tasks with instructional strategies that focus on algebraic reasoning and sense making for middle and high school students. Real world applications will be provided through multimedia resources that help students and teachers meet the current Mathematics Standards and State Assessment expectations.
