Location: Sandstone 9
Description: With the incorporation of practice standards into common core and NCTM literature on best practices in math education, there is a much needed paradigm shift for school math from exact science to creative art form. The focus on collaboratively solving nonroutine real-world problems affords students the opportunity to invent unique and/or multiple strategies alongside standard algorithms as well as even question and refine the notations we use. This breakdown of the rigid conventions of school math learning gives all students access to the moldable, shapeable, playful language of mathematics.
Participant Outcomes: Participants will better understand the practice standards and how they reinterpret our traditional school math practices to be more authentic to the work of real mathematicians. From that understanding, they will be able to reestablish their classroom culture to a more accessible, creative, and inspiring version of math learning that gives students ownership over their ideas and representations.
