1. science
2. mathematics

International Schools Mathematics Teacher’s Foundation will hold its biannual conference on
14-16 November 2014 at the new campus of Webster University in Vienna (historic Palais Wenkheim)
“Inspire, educate and motivate = your classroom”
Draft Program
Friday 14 November
Session #
Time
8:15-8:40
Fr-1
8:40-10:00 [80 min]
A
B
Registration & Conference Introduction
Frederick - 1A Fri
10:00-10:20
Butler – 1B Fri
coffee break
Fr-2
10:20-11:20 [60 min]
Lindner - 2A Fri
Awada – 2B Fri
Fr-3
11:30-12:30 [60 min]
Nakamoto - 3A Fri
Lavicza – 3B Fri
12:30-1:30
Fr-4
1:30-2:50 [80 min]
lunch
Lindner - 4A Fri
2:50-3:10
Fr-5
3:10-4:30 [80 min]
4:30-5:00
coffee break
Latkowski - 5A Fri
Saturday 15 November
8:20-9:40 [80 min]
Butler – 5B Fri
closing mini-session & announcements
19:30
R – session is a repeat of an earlier session
Sa-1
Flynn – 4B Fri
● conference dinner ●
A
B
Nakamoto - 1A Sat
Noble – 1B Sat
9:40-10:00
coffee break
Sa-2
10:00-11:20 [80 min]
Frederick - 2A Sat R
Neuwirth – 2B Sat
Sa-3
11:30-12:30 [60 min]
Latkowski - 3A Sat
Flynn – 3B Sat
12:30-1:30
Sa-4
1:30-2:50 [80 min]
lunch
Nakamoto - 4A Sat
2:50-3:10
Sa-5
coffee break
3:10-4:30 [80 min]
Butler – 5A Sat R
4:30-5:00
closing mini-session & announcements
Sunday 16 November
Su-1
Flynn – 4B Sat
8:20-9:20 [60 min]
Flynn – 5B Sat
A
B
Nakamoto - 1A Sun
Butler – 1B Sun
9:20-9:40
coffee break
Su-2
9:40-11:00 [80 min]
Latkowski - 2A Sun
Wazir & Flynn – 2B Sun
Su-3
11:10-12:10 [60 min]
Awada – 3A Sun R
Noble – 3B Sun
12:10-12:30
session details on following pages >>>
closing mini-session
► Session Details ◄
♦ Friday 14 November ♦
Kevin Frederick - 1A Fri
Why the Casio fx CG-20 might be your calculator of choice (80 min)
In this session, Kevin Frederick will share the American International School of Vienna's recent effort to
examine the high school calculator policy, and the factors that led to the adoption of the Casio fx CG-20 as our
required calculator (one-year evaluation and pilot of calculator options). He will present some of the benefits of
this calculator from a student and teacher and inter-departmental perspective, including demonstrations of
common operations in a problem-solving context. Discussion is encouraged!
Douglas Butler – 1B Fri
Putting tablets to work with dynamic software (80 min)
Many major software titles, including Geogebra and Autograph, are making the transfer to HTML so that the
programs can run on any device. This session will explore how successful this is proving to be, and give the
opportunity to try them out on whatever device you bring along, hopefully with a screen that is not too small!
Andreas Lindner - 2A Fri
Overview of Geogebra (60 min)
GeoGebra is an Open Software product for learning and teaching mathematics. Besides the basic module for
dynamic geometry GeoGebra provides a module for spreadsheet processing and other ones for computer
algebra, probability calculations and 3D geometry. Futhermore there is GeoGebraTube - a pool of free
materials for math lessons. In this lecture a couple of examples from different areas of mathematics and their
meaningful use in math lessons are presented (differential and integral calculus, probability, statistics,...)
Natasha Awada – 2B Fri
Using Explorations (IA) as a teaching tool (60 min)
Finding ideas, having the students interested in them, and getting them to do the research and writing. Sharing
ideas about using the IA for assessing students’ communication of mathematics and its application.
Jim Nakamoto - 3A Fri
Explorations in Maths SL/HL (60 min)
(0% mathematics, 0% technology)
A survival guide to the new IA – advice from a moderator’s perspective (…such as, Enough already with
Fractals, Parabolic trajectories, and Poker!)
Zsolt Lavicza – 3B Fri
Geomatech (60 min)
Zsolt will discuss Geomatech which is an exciting collaborative project between Geogebra and the Budapest
College of Communication & Business. The program is working with over 2000 teachers in Hungary to improve
math and science education in over 800 schools.
Andreas Lindner - 4A Fri
Geogebra workshop (80 min)
The participants will learn how to:
- make (simple) materials for math lessons with GeoGebra and how the materials can enrich lessons,
- how to share these materials with their students,
- how to find and download material in GeoGebraTube and embed this in their own courses,
- how to create GeoGebraBooks which are collections of materials for a certain topic.
Peter Flynn – 4B Fri
Teaching mathematics in a wireless classroom (80 min)
In this session, participants will experience a wireless mathematics classroom setting where the teacher can
pose a question and obtain immediate feedback on student understanding. Various question types and
questioning techniques will be showcased. This session is suitable for MYP and DP mathematics teachers
interested in formative assessment.
Jacek Latkowski - 5A Fri
Casio calculator workshop (80 min)
The session will demonstrate why a Casio graphics calculator is very ‘user-friendly’ and how it can be used
effectively in IB mathematics classes.
Douglas Butler – 5B Fri
Autograph for IB, on traditional computers (80 min)
This session will explore some aspects of Autograph that may not be as well known, including: vectors in 2D
and 3D, 1st and 2nd order differential equations, complex numbers, and probability distributions
► Session Details ◄
(continued)
♦ Saturday 15 November ♦
Jim Nakamoto - 1A Sat
Listing slightly to port, but otherwise OK (80 min)
(90% mathematics, 10% technology)
If you’re perfectly content to sail through the topic of conics with just translation, dilation, and reflection, this
session is not for you. (It’s a shame you’re missing rotation, but that’s OK.) For those interested in a bit more
for your students, this session will help you investigate the mathematics behind rotation; while the TI-Nspire
will help you graph and explore rotated conics. All you need is a pencil and your sheet of trig identities to make
two interesting discoveries.
Jim Noble – 1B Sat
IB Math Studies – extending the mathematics classroom
(80 min)
[description to be added]
Kevin Frederick - 2A Sat
Casio CG-20 – calculator of choice (80 min)
* REPEAT *
In this session, Kevin Frederick will share the American International School of Vienna's recent effort to
examine the high school calculator policy, and the factors that led to the adoption of the Casio fx CG-20 as our
required calculator (one-year evaluation and pilot of calculator options). He will present some of the benefits of
this calculator from a student and teacher and inter-departmental perspective, including demonstrations of
common operations in a problem-solving context. Discussion is encouraged!
Erich Neuwirth – 2B Sat
Teaching statistics effectively (80 min)
Erich will demonstrate a range of ideas, methods and technological aids for teaching statistics – and will
undoubtedly enhance the understanding of important statistics concepts for all participants.
Jacek Latkowski - 3A Sat
IA (Exploration) in Maths HL & SL (60 min)
Sharing my experience with the new IA (Exploration) in Maths HL and SL. Finding the right ideas for the
mathematical explorations, helping students with the process and understanding the assessment
criteria. Using assessment criteria to maximize potential IA scores.
Peter Flynn – 3B Sat
IB Maths SL: Using Anscombe’s Quartet to Study Bivariate Data (60 min)
Informed data analysis should be both numerical and graphical in nature. In this session, participants will use a
cleverly devised data set, namely, Anscombe’s Quartet, to numerically and graphically study the effect of
outliers on Pearson’s product-moment correlation coefficient and least squares regression analysis.
Jim Nakamoto - 4A Sat
PublishView (80 min)
(100% technology)
Are you a fan of silent movies – all action, but no colour and no audio? Your graphics calculator has colour and
some action, but no audio. Your TI-Nspire software has a feature called PublishView, with which you can create
documents containing active TI-Nspire screens, images, video, audio, and HTML links. The big bonus is that a
PublishView document can be run on an online player without the user even owning theTI-Nspire software.
Bring your laptop or iPad and come and create your first multi-media document.
Peter Flynn – 4B Sat
Using the TI-Nspire CX as a dynamic teaching and learning tool (80 min)
In mathematics, a tool can be used for doing mathematics as well as for teaching mathematics. In this session,
participants will experience how pre-prepared dynamic TI-Nspire CX files can be used to help teach a
mathematical concept and enhance student understanding. No TI-Nspire CX experience will be necessary.
Douglas Butler – 5A Sat
Autograph for IB, on traditional computers (80 min)
* REPEAT *
This session will explore some aspects of Autograph that may not be as well known, including: vectors in 2D
and 3D, 1st and 2nd order differential equations, complex numbers, and probability distributions
Peter Flynn – 5B Sat
The Fibonacci sequence and systems of linear equations (80 min)
It is important to highlight links and connections between mathematical ideas. In this session, participants will
use technology to explore patterns in systems of linear equations involving the Fibonacci sequence.
► Session Details ◄
(continued)
♦ Sunday 16 November ♦
Jim Nakamoto - 1A Sun
Something for everyone (60 min)
(100% technology)
In this session, we’ll take a look at some little-used, but priceless features of the 84SE/84C as well as
the TI-Nspire CX that will be useful in statistics and analytic geometry. Using a statistical table, for
example, becomes completely redundant with the TI-84 producing statistical measures such as the
critical values of the Chi-square and t- distribution for any degree of freedom.
Douglas Butler – 1B Sun
What's new and exciting on the web (60 min)
Douglas will cherry-pick from his TSM Resources website and look at simulations, data, images from Google
Earth, etc - on both traditional computers and tablets.
Jacek Latkowski – 2A Sun Making your own math videos to complement your teaching
(80 min)
Making your own mathematical videos with the use of graphing software such as SMART and with a GDC.
Ibrahim Wazir & Peter Flynn – 2B Sun
An exploration made possible by using technology (80 min)
This session will show how appropriate classroom technology can make a topic that would otherwise not be
accessible to students become a fruitful area in which students can explore and then write an Exploration. The
topic is exploring the locus of extreme points of polynomial functions.
Natasha Awada – 3A Sun
Using Explorations (IA) as a teaching tool (60 min)
* REPEAT *
Finding ideas, having the students interested in them, and getting them to do the research and writing. Sharing
ideas about using the IA for assessing students’ communication of mathematics and its application.
Jim Noble – 3B Sun
[description to be added]
ICT and mathematical task design (60 min)