Professional Development and Workshops
For Teachers
Uplifting Mathematics By Uplifting Students
The quality, scope, and purpose of mathematics must be prioritized in order for all students to have the best experience and outcomes. In this workshop teachers will see mathematics that is filled with awe, wonder, magic, and historical value. As well, they explore more inclusive and wider purposes for learning mathematics that are aligned to present and future wellbeing for all students and teachers. Great mathematical content is student-facing, and how we deliver that is teacher-facing. We need both.
Teaching Mathematics As A Journey Through Its History, People, and Stories
Every idea and concept of mathematics that students learn in their own journey of mathematics was once not known or poorly understood by humans. This is an important idea to illustrate that mathematics is really the story of “slow failure”, and its thematic development through all races, cultures, and civilizations is a narrative that must be embedded to have a fuller and deeper understanding of the awe and wonder of mathematics.
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The 5 Pillars of Mathematical Fluency
Our current math education system has a narrow belief of what “fluency” means in mathematics. It goes beyond proficiency and agency. It attends to what it truly means to be fluent in language. And since mathematics is the language of the universe, we need the broadest of idea of mathematical fluency. The pillars are factual, procedural, conceptual, historical, and contemporary. All five will be examined in detail and threaded together to give a more powerful idea of mathematical fluency.