Come and explore mathematics in a casual setting.
Tables will be set up around the room for you to explore, play and engage with. Take your time, go at your pace, and most importantly have some fun!
Here are some of the tables being offered:
- Rotational Surprises - James Tanton
- Turning around twice is no different from turning around once, right? After all, in both cases, if you started facing forward you end up facing forward again. But come stop by and play: we might just put that thought into serious doubt!
- Chasing Rabbits - Sunil Singh
- Come prepared to also do some quirky and surprising problems and puzzles that will get your classrooms excited about the journey of exploring mathematics, and all its wonderful nooks and crannies!
- Math in the Trades- Carmen Wasylynuik
- How to incorporate real life math in the workforce
- The Wonderful Adventures of Square Kid: Fractions, Transformations, and Circus Performance - Gregory Belostotski
- Teachers will design their own Square Kid and watch it tumble mathematically.
- Playing with Big Beautiful Problems - Alicia Burdess
- They will solve big beautiful problems with manipulatives
- Exploring Geometric Shapes with Modelling Balloons -Scott Seland
- Using modelling balloons (balloon animal balloons) to explore properties of geometric shapes.
- Impactful Mathematics Resources - Lorelei Boschman
- I will have a variety of math resources available for teachers to simply browse through at this table. This could help them become aware of these potential resources as well as have time to browse through them. Projected resources to highlight would be: John Hattie's visible learning in math, Marian Small's open ended questions, John vanDeWall's teaching mathematics, Jo Boaler's Mathematical Mindsets...and others that are instrumental in teaching and learning mathematics.
- An Excuse to Play With Nerf Guns - An Exploration of Statistics - Darcy Bundy
- I have about 10 nerf guns and plenty of darts. We can talk about statistics, normal distribution, accuracy, precision, graphing, measurement, and just plain old having fun.
- Playing with Scratch- Rob Melenchuk
- Participants will be able to "play with" a simple precoded activity by being allowed to manipulate the code to change the results of the program. Participants will interact with Scratch via Makey Makey to replicate a more authentic real life application using a method different than the Chromebook keyboard to interact with Scratch.
- Student Created Escape Website, Boxes and Rooms. - James Harline
- Come and look at different strategies that I have explored to engage students in creating various Escape Room type activities to help them with their problem solving skills while being able to scaffold according to each student’s mathematics ability. These are rich, cross curricular, open ended tasks that students can customize and are adaptable to any age of student.
- Math Fair: Making It Happen! - Carolyn Jones
- Looking for ways to get students and stakeholders excited about mathematics? Math fairs build confidence through problem solving, communication, reasoning and making connections. Participants will engage in puzzle solving and learn how to plan for, organize, resource, implement and celebrate a SNAP Math Fair. Create a mathematical experience to remember!
- Website: http://www.mathfair.com/
- Awaken Wonder Through Math-Based Escape Room Creation - Adam Luciuk
- Attendees will learn the Mobile Escape process that helps students take learning into their owns hands, and provides them the environment to acknowledge one other's unique gifts and abilities. The process that we will review allows students to engage in teamwork and problem solving to create their very own educational escape room. Participants will explore a unique educational puzzle created by Mobile Escape as well as the benefits of the inquiry-based prototyping process.
- Location: Outside in the parking lot
- Building Shapes - Shauna Pascoe & Stacy Connolly
- Engaging students in rich, highly cognitive mathematical experiences develops confident mathematical risk takers. Math is about more than memorizing facts and algorithms; we must also recognize the importance of creativity, surprise, elegance and personal strategies in creating meaningful learning experiences that transfer.
- Unsolved Math Problems - Dave Martin
- Come and play with unsolved math problems!!! There will be at least one accessible to every single grade!
- Math Games -Chad Williams
- Come check out some board games/card games you could play with your students as they uncover the beauty of mathematics. Examples include Albert's insomnia, 24, Blokus, Prime Climb, Gobblet, Quarto, Represent, Kingdomino, Set, Tiny Polka Dot, and Swish.
- Have fun with Desmos -Angelo Delli Santi
- I will get participants to play with three different kinds of activities that are found in DESMOS Classroom: Marbleslides,Polygraph and Card Sort. With these activities participants will have the opportunity to bring this back to their classroom and learn from the wonderful use of technology.
- Playing with Math Through Problem Solving - Vanessa Yaschuk
- - By engaging in mathematical problem-solving through engaging in "good problems" from a variety of sources
- By taking risks, making conjectures and making mistakes
- Engaging in mathematical dialogue
- Exploring what problem-solving looks like, sounds like and feels like
- Working on vertical, non-permanent surfaces, if available*
- Golden Ratio in the Sculpture of Venus - Richard Yao
- I will have a board set up to explain the idea of golden ratio and how it was applied to the sculpture of Venus. As well its application in our daily life such as Art and Architecture.
Just like how I would engage my students to try so they get to practice measurements as well fractions, participants can take measures for each other or themselves, then calculate their measurements to see if their figures align with the standard of perfection of the ancient greek artists.
- Closing the Gap on Basic Facts - Roni Kraut
- A multitude of games supporting K - 6 numeracy and basic facts learning will be on hand to explore. The games are from the Thinking Strategy and Cross-Number series, and ideal for individual learning, group learning, learning centres and whole class instruction.
- Teaching the Mathematics of Mathematicians- David Hay
- We'll play with some rich math tasks (from the RabbitMath and Callysto projects) that focus on the analysis of complex structures and mathematical modeling, on paper or with computational thinking and data analysis.
