$189 for one workshop; $170 each when two or more registrations are received at the same time. Registration fee includes extensive coursebook with blacklines, complimentary snacks, and more. Lunch is included where indicated.

Workshop #231

Standards-based Mathematics for Students with Special Needs, Grades 6–9

PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS

Engage in hands-on activities that address key middle-school Learning Standards from each of the five Illinois State Goals for Mathematics: Number Sense and Operations, Measurement, Algebra, Geometry, and Statistics / Probability. A focus is on research-based instructional strategies for making Illinois Mathematics Standards accessible to the struggling student, to English Language Learners, and to those who have other special needs.

--Special Needs Research: Examine academic research on student dispositions, differentiating instruction, multiple intelligences, supporting English Language Learners, mathematics intervention, and more.

--Instructional Games: Play Fractions on My Plate, Geometry Bingo, and Mozart's Game of Chance to reinforce operations with fractions, classifications of geometric figures, and basic probability.

--Bridging Arithmetic and Algebra: Activate prior knowledge by making key connections between the arithmetic students know and new concepts in algebra (such as solving number sentences and evaluating expressions).

--Accessing Fractions and Decimals: Use fraction tiles to model addition and subtraction of fractions. Use paper-folding to connect fraction and decimal equivalences.

--Using Error Analysis for Targeted Intervention: Examine a practical model for diagnosing errors in computation and providing meaningful instructional strategies for timely, pinpointed intervention.

--Supporting ELL Students in Learning the Language of Mathematics: Explore proven instructional strategies (involving cognates, multiple-meaning words, and more) designed to meet the needs of this student population.

--Using Visual Models to Solve Problems: Learn how simple drawings can help students visualize problems dealing with proportions, percents, and integers.

--Cooperative Problem Solving: Discover how students working in small groups can help one another become better problem-solvers. As they explain their reasoning — what they did and why they did it — they prepare themselves for the Extended Response items on the ISAT.

--Meaning of Mean: Engage in a hands-on activity that introduces the concept of mean. Solve real-world problems dealing with mean, median, and mode.

This course provides instructional strategies designed to address the needs of both regular and special-education students. All teachers, including those teaching developmental curricula or math education teachers, would benefit from this workshop.

Dates: July 16 & 17, 2010

Registration: 4:00 on Friday

Workshop hours:
Friday 4:00 pm – 10:00 pm
Saturday 8:00 am – 5:00 pm

Location:
Hotel Indigo Chicago-Schaumburg North
920 E. Northwest Highway
Palatine, IL 60074
847/359–6900

A reduced overnight rate of $79 is available from Hotel Indigo for ActiveMath participants.

Cost for one workshop: $189. Two or more registrations received at the same time: Only $170 each.

THIS WORKSHOP INCLUDES:

• An extensive coursebook with blacklines to take directly back into your classroom
• Complimentary snacks of Friday; coffee, rolls, and a delicious lunch on Saturday
• A certificate of participation suitable for framing and a fascinating puzzle
• An opportunity to examine and purchase supplemental math materials

One hour of Graduate Credit, for an additional fee paid at the workshop, available through

National-Louis University – MHE 586D

15 Illinois CPDUs are available for this workshop.

Workshop #232

Integrating Mathematics Across the Curriculum, Grades 5–9

PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS

This workshop is designed to provide participants with rich, interdisciplinary activities that will help students make connections between school math and the math of the real world. We will explore topics of great interest to students that will help make math a sense-making experience for your students.

-- Explore the Educational Theory of Mathematical Connections: Explore problem solving in the "real world" through journaling and Freudenthal's philosophy of Realistic Mathematics Education

-- Make Social Studies Come Alive in Your Math Classroom: Learn how to use simulations, historical accounts, and traditional mathematics to help students better understand the world in which they live. By using data collection and percentages, students will explore world populations and the distribution of food, integers and time-lines will help students understand divergent time zones, a hands-on activity using globes will enable students to appreciate the physical make-up of our earth and codes and ciphers will help students appreciate the commitment and dedication of the Code Talkers during WW II.

-- Use Literature and Poetry to Promote Mathematical Learning: Using the poetry of Shel Silverstein, we will examine computation, conversions, and data collection and analysis. In Norman Juster's The Phantom Tollbooth, students are encouraged to explore conversions, polyhedra, and order of operations. We will celebrate Mark Twain's birthday by investigating his Remarkable Jumping Frog and take part in a delightful paper-folding and data collection activity. A variety of books about large numbers will be discussed that encourage students to appreciate and understand the enormity of millions and billions.

-- Integrate Mathematics and Science: The study of natural disasters extends across the disciplines and connects mathematics with meteorology by examining the mathematics of earthquakes, volcanoes, hurricanes, and tornadoes. We will investigate our body systems and forensic math by using activities that involve precise measurements, data collection and analysis and ratio and proportion. These experiences will help students better understand how mathematics can be used to discover how remarkable we human beings are!

-- Explore the Connections Between Nutrition and Mathematics: With concerns about what we are eating and how much of it is really healthy, these activities will help your students determine caloric content of foods, how to read a product label, and what is a healthy diet.

-- A Visit from "Mr. Math," Mike Byster: Mike Byster, a math superstar and founder of Brainetics, will teach us "how to use the two parts of our brains at the same time"—one part processes information, while the other part stores information! This new power will allow our students to work better and faster at ALL subjects—including math, social studies, science, and language arts. In the past 10 years, Mike has visited over 5,000 classrooms to teach children this new approach to learning math and help them unlock their full potential. What a treat to have him join us and enrich this workshop.

This course provides instructional strategies designed to address the needs of both regular and special-education students. All teachers, including those teaching developmental curricula or math education teachers, would benefit from this workshop.

Dates: July 23 & 24, 2010

Registration: 4:00 on Friday

Workshop hours:
Friday 4:00 pm – 10:00 pm
Saturday 8:00 am – 5:00 pm

Location:
Renaissance Chicago North Shore
933 Skokie Blvd.
Northbrook, IL 60062
847/498-6500

Cost for one workshop: $189. Two or more registrations received at the same time: Only $170 each.

THIS WORKSHOP INCLUDES:

• An extensive coursebook with blacklines to take directly back into your classroom
• Complimentary snacks of Friday; coffee, rolls, and a delicious lunch on Saturday
• A certificate of participation suitable for framing and a fascinating puzzle
• An opportunity to examine and purchase supplemental math materials

One hour of Graduate Credit, for an additional fee paid at the workshop, available through

National-Louis University – MHE 585I

15 Illinois CPDUs are available for this workshop.

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Workshop #233

Teaching Number Concepts and Computation Meaningfully at Grades 3–6

PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS

This workshop breathes life and understanding into important computation skills (both traditional and alternative algorithms), number sense concepts, and estimation/mental math strategies involving whole numbers, fractions, and decimals. Both regular and special-needs students engaged in these activities should no longer struggle with rote procedures!

-- State and National Standards for Number and Operations: Examine how the new Common Core State Standards for Mathematics, the NCTM Principles and Standards for School Mathematics, and Illinois State Goal 6 all play an important role in promoting number concepts and computational fluency.

--Mathematical Models: Use instructional models--such as simple drawings, grids, play money, and readily available manipulatives--to help develop number sense and to help introduce algorithms for addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division with whole numbers, fractions, and decimals. Learn how to make the transition from the models to paper-pencil algorithms.

--Estimation and Mental Math: Learn mental math and estimation strategies for the four operations with whole numbers, fractions, and decimals. Strategies include using benchmarks, front-end estimation, and using compatible numbers. Experience how problems become approachable to ALL students when estimation is used.

--Targeted Intervention Activities: Examine common error patterns and research-based remediation activities that pinpoint typical computational errors that students make—with suggestions for preventing and avoiding those errors. The intervention strategies include the use of research-based alternative algorithms.

--Instructional Games: Engage in instructional games and activities that reinforce number concepts and the operations with whole numbers, fractions, and decimals. Games include our own version of "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?"

--The "Whys" of Arithmetic: When multiplying by a 2-digit number, why do you move the second partial product one space to the left?; When dividing fractions, why do you invert the divisor and multiply? Explore these questions and others.

--Communication: Experience how to improve your students' ability to explain (orally and in writing) the processes they use in performing computations

This course provides instructional strategies designed to address the needs of both regular and special-education students. All teachers, including those teaching developmental curricula or math education teachers, would benefit from this workshop.

Registration: 4:00 on Friday

Workshop hours:
Friday 4:00 pm – 10:00 pm
Saturday 8:00 am – 5:00 pm

900 Lake Cook Road

Buffalo Grove, IL 60089

847/215–8883

THIS WORKSHOP INCLUDES:

• An extensive coursebook with blacklines to take directly back into your classroom
• Complimentary snacks of Friday; coffee, rolls, and a delicious lunch on Saturday
• A certificate of participation suitable for framing and a fascinating puzzle
• An opportunity to examine and purchase supplemental math materials

National-Louis University – MHE 585AA

15 Illinois CPDUs are available for this workshop.

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1-Day Seminar (SM14)

NEW! Reading and Writing in the Math Classroom: Promoting Successful Problem Solving, Grades 4–8

PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS

Research has shown that in order to succeed in mathematics, students must develop reading and writing skills specific to the subject. Learn how to help your students "read and write mathematically." This workshop will use motivating, hands-on activities to investigate how reading and writing can be made an integral part of the mathematics classroom.

• Investigate Strategies to Improve Problem Solving Skills: Among the strategies we will explore are K-N-W-S (the facts they Know, what information is Not relevant, what the problem Wants them to find out, and what Strategies can be used to solve the problem) and other collaborative activities.
• Help Students Develop a Deeper Understanding of Mathematics by Journaling: Writing and thinking are strongly linked and can help students make connections between symbolic, visual, and verbal solutions. Also consider how journaling can be used as an alternative to traditional assessment and as a form of helping student retain information by providing elaborative rehearsal.
• Utilize Literature to Make Mathematical Connections: Students will be given the opportunity to explore essential math topics using motivating, hand-on activities and instructional games.
• Learn How to Focus on the "Language of Mathematics": Examine the variety of types of language difficulties students face when learning this new language—from words that are the same as everyday English, but have different meanings, to those terms that are found only in the mathematics context.
• Facilitate Problem Posing: Learn how to encourage problem posing to help students identify the key elements of a problem and help one another find solutions.

This course provides instructional strategies designed to address the needs of both regular and special-education students. All teachers, including those teaching developmental curricula or math education teachers, would benefit from this workshop.

Registration: 8:00 am

Seminar hours:
8:15 am – 3:15 pm

Renaissance Chicago North Shore

933 Skokie Blvd.

Northbrook, IL 60062

847/498–6500

THIS SEMINAR INCLUDES:

• Each participant will receive a comprehensive coursebook of activities that has been designed specifically for this seminar
• Continental breakfast — rolls, coffee, and fruit (lunch on your own)
• A copy of Hope Martin's book, What Year Am I?, Second Edition (a $24.95 value!)
• A certificate of participation suitable for framing

There will be an opportunity to examine and purchase supplemental math materials.

Chapman University College — Course Number pending

(Participation in one online session and a paper are required for college credit.)

6 Illinois CPDUs are available for this seminar.

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