LTF ONE-DAY CONFERENCE Math Journals Spacecraft Radar Tracking Increase student understanding of questions and rubrics for Pre-AP free response questions. Analyze the fit of linear regression lines for NASA data from two different radars and investigate an error plot. Presenter: Paula Orr Audience: High School Math teachers Session I: 9:15-10:30 and Session III: 12:45-2:00 Presenter: Tammy Cagann Audience: AP Statistics teachers Session IV: 2:15-3:30 Room: M222 Room: M219 Using Graphic Calculators on Assessments Explore ways to integrate LTF-style questions into your curriculum. Explore middle school graphic calculator applications with a focus on LTF free response questions. Presenter: Paula Orr Audience: High School Math teachers Session II: 10:45-12:00 and Session IV: 2:15-3:30 Presenter: Lori Edwards Audience: Middle School Math teachers Session I: 9:15-10:30 How to Implement LTF into Assessments Room: M222 Linear Functions, Transformations, and Graphical Displays Room: M223 Bar Graphs and Histograms Improve students’ understanding of linear functions and transformations through the use of boxplots. Create and interpret bar graphs and histograms using categorical and quantitative data. Presenter: Tammy Cagann Audience: Middle and High School Math teachers Session I: 9:15-10:30 Presenter: Lori Edwards Audience: Middle School Math teachers Session II: 10:45-12:00 Room: M219 Room: M223 Developing Area Formulas Geometry and Graphical Displays Create and interpret various graphical displays as they relate to area and volume of geometric shapes. Explore the relationship among area formulas and receive an activity to use with middle school students. Presenter: Tammy Cagann Audience: Middle and High School Math teachers Session II: 10:45-12:00 Presenter: LTF Math Staff Audience: Middle School Math teachers Session III: 12:45-2:00 Room: M219 Analyzing Function Behavior Using Graphical Displays Room: M223 Creating Pre-AP Style Assessments Improve students’ understanding of function behavior based on the shape of the distribution of function values. Create questions on your assessments that increase the rigor and critical thinking levels of your students. Presenter: Tammy Cagann Audience: High School Math teachers Session III: 12:45-2:00 Presenter: LTF Math Staff Audience: Middle School Math teachers Session IV: 2:15-3:30 Room: M219 Room: M223 1 TI-Nspire for Beginners Where Do We Go from Here? Learn the basic key strokes for the TI-Nspire calculator. Analyze the 2011 Free Response Questions from the AP Calculus Exam and how the questions lead to changes in instructional strategies. Presenter: Raul Padilla Audience: Middle and High School Math teachers Session I: 9:15-10:30 and Session III: 12:45-2:00 Room: M224 Presenter: Nancy Arroyo Audience: AP Calculus teachers Session IV: 2:15-3:30 Room: M221 TI-Nspire Activities for the Classroom Navigating the Rough C’s of the New Web and Technology: Prezis Explore classroom activities for the TI-Nspire calculator. Presenter: Raul Padilla Audience: High School Math teachers Session II: 10:45-12:00 and Session IV: 2:15-3:30 Room: M224 What’s in an AP Calculus Question for My Students? (Motion) Analyze the 2011 AP Calculus AB Form B exam question 5 and see how your course contributes to student success on the exam. Presenter: Nancy Arroyo Audience: High School Math teachers Session I: 9:15-10:30 and Session III: 12:45-2:00 Like student attention spans, technology seems to move faster than light. Keeping up with new technology, the new web, and new media and understanding how they can be used as learning tools is an endeavor unto itself. Let’s look critically at one of the most misused teaching and learning skills and tools: PowerPoint presentations. Together we’ll explore and create Prezi presentations and reveal a new paradigm for communicating and collaborating in engaging ways. You are encouraged to bring your own technology. Presenter: Jonathan Edquid Audience: All teachers Session I: 9:15-10:30 and Session III: 12:45-2:00 Room: M217 Room: M221 What’s in an AP Calculus Question for My Students? (Area/Volume) Analyze the 2011 AP Calculus AB Form B exam question 3 and see how your course contributes to student success on the exam. Presenter: Nancy Arroyo Audience: High School Math teachers Session II: 10:45-12:00 Room: M221 2