NCTM 2019 in Nashville, TN

Join our sessions and stop by ORIGO booth #218 for your chance to win. Sessions are either in the Music City Center or Nashville Omni.

Thursday, October 3, 2019

8:00 –  9:15 am
A Clear Vision for Utilizing Number Lines

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Pre-K to Grade 2
Nashville Onmi
Room: Broadway Ballroom GH
Presenter: Debi DePaul, ORIGO Education Product Manager 

Research shows a strong relationship between students’ understanding of number lines and math achievement. In this interactive session for K–5 educators, participants will explore the progression from number tracks to number lines and engage in games and activities to improve understanding of relative position, magnitude, and operations.

9:45 – 11:00 am
When My 2+3 Isn’t the Same as Your 2+3

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Pre-K to Grade 2
Music City Center
Room: 101 CD
Presenter: Sara Delano Moore, ORIGO Education Director of Professional Learning

“I Don’t Get What They Want Me To Do!” is a refrain we often hear from students about word problems. Many times, they don’t know which operation to choose when making sense of a problem. Learn to recognize features of different problem situations and practical strategies to support students as they make sense of the different categories.

11:30 am – 12:00 pm
Fractions: From Misunderstanding to Deep Understanding

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Grades 3–5
Music City Center
Room: 102
Presenter: Debi DePaul, ORIGO Education Product Manager

Did you know that using a limited number of visual models for fractions hinders students’ abilities to internalize and generalize fraction concepts? Explore four different representations of fractions and discover why each is so critical. Learn how different types of models provide different perceptual features and therefore serve different purposes.

4:00 – 5:00 pm
Making the Most of Meaningful Models

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Grades 3–5
Music City Center
Room: 209 A
Presenter: James Burnett, ORIGO Education Founder and CEO

Versatile models help teachers to articulate topics across elementary grades. Participants will discover practical activities using number lines, dot arrays, and area representations that can be used to teach major ideas involving basic facts, whole numbers, fractions, decimals, and computation strategies with deep conceptual understanding.

Friday, October 4, 2019

8:00 –  9:15 am
Multiplication Isn’t Always Commutative: Exploring the Problems with Problem Solving

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Grades 3–5
Music City Center
Room: 209 BC
Presenter: Sara Delano Moore, ORIGO Education Director of Professional Learning

Let us convince you! The commutative property can actually get in the way of solving word problems. Explore more meanings of multiplication and division while making sense of equal groups, area/array, and comparisons as separate problem types. Leave with strategies for better sense making, and put the commutative property in its place!

9:45 – 11:00 am
Which Model Should I Use? Choosing & Using a Variety of Representations

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Grades 3–5
Nashville Omni
Room: Cumberland 3/4
Presenter: Sara Delano Moore, ORIGO Education Director of Professional Learning

We work to use and connect multiple representations in teaching. At some levels, physical models are straightforward, while symbolic representations are dominant elsewhere. This session shows how to match the representations with the math and how to connect representations. We will use counters, bar models, and number lines as key representations.

1:00 – 2:15 pm
Using a Conceptual Approach to Build Addition and Subtraction Fact Fluency with Understanding

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Pre-K to Grade 2
Music City Center
Room: 205 A
Presenter: James Burnett, ORIGO Education Founder and CEO

Fluency is more than memorisation of isolated basic facts. Students need to see connections between facts. They need visual models to help form a “mind picture” that connects to a thinking strategy. This session will utilize easy-to-make visual aids and games that help students master the basic addition and subtraction facts–with understanding!

2:45 – 4:00 pm
Early Geometry Concepts: Making Connections to the Real World

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Pre-K to Grade 2
Music City Center
Room: 102
Presenter: Sandy Szako, ORIGO Education Learning Services Educator

Children develop their knowledge of the world around them through experiences in four aspects: movement in space; location and direction; 3D objects; and 2D shapes. In this playful session, we will take a journey through the developmental pathway necessary to build these essential concepts and how you can make them come to life in your classroom.