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CAMT
2015
Conference for the
Advancement of
Mathematics
Teaching
Elementary Catalog
June 24-26, 2015
George R. Brown Convention Center
1001 Avenida De Las Americas
Houston, TX 77010
(713) 853-8000
62nd Annual Conference for the Advancement of Mathematics Teaching
CAMT 2015
Welcome to CAMT
You Don’t Want to Miss This!!
Opening Sessions on Wednesday and Thursday
8:00 a.m. – 9:30 a.m.
Wednesday: Alan November, General Assembly
Debbie Silver, Ballroom B&C
Thursday: Ervin Knezek, General Assembly
Bea Luchin, Ballroom B&C
MATH-A-RAMA: 25-minute sessions on geometry.
Presented in Ballroom A. See pages 6, 14, 28, and 42 for details.
Wednesday
10:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
Thursday
1:00 p.m. – 3:30 p.m.
Friday
8:30 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.
Exhibits: You will want to visit the exhibit floor to see the latest
in mathematics curriculum, manipulatives, technology, and
many other resources. Exhibit Hall B3, George R. Brown
Convention Center. See page 11 for more information.
TCTM Business Meeting and Reception:
Thursday, June 25 4:30 p.m. – 7:00 p.m.
Hilton Americas, Grand Ballroom L
First Time to CAMT?
Welcome to CAMT! We hope that while you are here you
discover ways to become a better educator and that you find the
support you need from our community.
Making the Most of Your Conference Experience:
• Make an effort to engage with someone else. Introduce
yourself to the person waiting in line with you or sitting next
to you in a session. Taking the time to focus on others opens
our mind to new ideas.
• Try sitting in different areas of the room rather than always
sitting at the front or the back of the room. If you change
where you are sitting throughout the day, you create a
different context for yourself—when things look different,
they sound different.
• Pay attention—thinking is hard work. Don’t try to multi-task.
• In the breaks between sessions, reflect over the last session
and summarize a key idea. Write it down.
First Timer’s Reception
Wednesday, June 24, from 3:30 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. in the foyer
of the Grand Ballrooms, George R. Brown Convention Center.
Information Booth
The information booth is located at Registration on the 3rd floor
of the George R. Brown Convention Center.
Website
The CAMT website, camtonline.org, has general conference
information, a posting of exhibitors, program information, and
information directed to First Timers.
Staff
The CAMT board, volunteers, and program committee (all
designated by ribbons on their name tags) are always available
to answer your questions.
Professional Credit
Fill out the form located in your program book. Make a
copy of it, and turn it in to your school. There is also a
Certificate of Attendance located in your program book,
but it is not sufficient to count as professional development
credit. CAMT does not keep records of your professional
development credit.
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The sessions at CAMT present a variety of viewpoints. The views expressed or implied in the sessions should not be interpreted as official
positions of CAMT. References to particular commercial products by a speaker should not be construed as a CAMT endorsement of said
product(s). CAMT reserves the right to change speakers, change facilities, or modify the program content.
Sessions are to provide participants with information they can use in their profession and are not to be used to sell a product. Speakers
who disregard the Speaker Guidelines and use their session to sell a product will have their session stopped. Participants should report
violations to the program committee or the registration desk.
By registering for CAMT 2015, participants grant CAMT the right to use, in promotional materials, their likeness or voice as recorded on, or
transferred to, videotape, film, slides, audiotapes, or other media.
62nd Annual Conference for the Advancement of Mathematics Teaching. The CAMT 2015 logo was designed by Matt Carlsen. The CAMT
2015 print catalog and online catalog, camtcatalog.net, was designed by Geoffrey Potter.
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Elementary Catalog
Gearing Up for Change
CAMT Board of Directors
Lesa Beverly,
Board President
Jennifer Hylemon,
Board Vice-President
Stephen F. Austin State University
Grapevine • Colleyville ISD
Texas Section of the Mathematical
Association of America
Texas Association of
Supervisors of Mathematics
Adam Hile,
Board Secretary
Linda Sams,
Treasurer
Klein ISD
Cypress-Fairbanks ISD
Texas Association of
Supervisors of Mathematics
Conference for the Advancement
of Mathematics Teaching
Paul Gray,
University of Texas at Austin
IPSI
Nancy Trapp,
Independent Consultant
Texas Council of
Teachers of Mathematics
Texas Council of
Teachers of Mathematics
James Epperson,
University of Texas at Arlington
Vince Schielack,
Texas A&M University
Texas Section of the Mathematical
Texas Section of the Mathematical
Association of America
Association of America
Cynthia Schneider,
Independent Consultant
Caren Sorrells,
Independent Consultant
Texas Council of
Teachers of Mathematics
Texas Association of
Supervisors of Mathematics
Anita Hopkins,
CAMT Executive Director
Paula Moeller,
Conference Chair
The University of Texas at Austin
Conference for the Advancement
of Mathematics Teaching
CAMT Sponsors
Texas Association of Supervisors of
Mathematics (TASM)
Texas Council of Teachers of
Mathematics (TCTM)
Conference for the Advancement
of Mathematics Teaching
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Don’t Miss This!
First Time CAMT
Sponsors
Featured Sessions
Texas Education Agency
Clear the Rooms Policy
MATH-A-RAMA
Meetings of
Organizations
Future CAMT Sessions
Exhibit Hours
Handicap Provisions
For Your Child’s Safety
Clean Air Policy
Cell Phone Use
Lost and Found
First Aid
Name Tags
Replacement Tags
Fees
Convention Center Map
Exhibitors
Key to Presentations
CPE Instructions
Elementary Sessions
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
Presenter Index
Personal Schedule
Continuing Professional
Education Credit (CPE)
CPE Certificate of
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Attendance
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63 Guidelines for Speakers
63 CAMT Committees
Texas Section of the Mathematical
Association of America (MAA)
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CAMT 2013
Featured Sessions
Featured Sessions
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F
Wednesday,
June 24
Opening Sessions
Opening Sessions
Ervin Knezek, Lead4Ward
Alan November, November Learning
Who Earns the Learning?
8:00-9:30
The Times Are Changing with New Standards, New Expectations,
and New Solutions
Assembly A,B,C
8:00-9:30 Debbie Silver, Debbie Silver Presents
More Rigorous Mathematics for All—Are We There Yet? If Not, How
Do We Get There—Through Equity and Pedagogy
Ballroom B,C
8:00-9:30 General Interest Sessions
Diane Briars, NCTM
Creating a New Culture of Teaching and Learning
Teaching Practices You Can Count On to Develop Procedural Fluency
Ballroom C
10:00-11:00 Rigor, Engagement, and Discourse: The Gears that Turn Our
Students’ Success in Mathematics
Unlocking the Power of Problem Solving
Assembly B
11:30-12:30 Debbie Silver, Debbie Silver Presents
Math is Supposed to Make Sense! The Most Important Mathematical
Habit of Mind
Ballroom C
David Molina, David Molina & Associates
1:00-2:00 Rigor, Engagement, and Discourse: The Gears that Turn Our
Students’ Success in Mathematics
2:30-3:30 More Rigorous Mathematics for All—Are We There Yet? If Not, How
Do We Get There—Through Equity and Pedagogy
2:30-3:30 Elementary Sessions
Marcy Cook, Marcy Cook Math
Success for Every Child! Do You Know What It Takes?
10:00-11:00
Assembly A K-5
Dinah Zike, Dinah Zike Academy
Motivational Starters For Number Sense and Algebraic Thinking
10:00-11:00 Assembly A
3-5
Barbara Novelli, Creative Mathematics
ScafFOLDing Vocabulary Instruction via Notebook Foldables
10:00-11:00
Ballroom C K-5
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Sherry Parrish, Parrish and Associates, Inc.
K-5
Kim Sutton, Creative Mathematics
3-5
Marcy Cook, Marcy Cook Math
Between U and I for Primary Thinkers
11:30-12:30 Assembly A Sherry Parrish, Parrish and Associates, Inc.
Ballroom C
Elementary Sessions
Linda Gojak, NCTM
Fun with Patterns and Functions!
10:00-11:00 Assembly C Assembly B
Bea Luchin, NUMBERS Professional Development
Assembly B
Number Talks: A Path to Numerical Reasoning
10:00-11:00
Assembly B Assembly A
Cathy Seeley, Independent Consultant
Deliberate Optimism: Reclaiming the Joy in Education
1:00-2:00
Assembly B
David Molina, David Molina & Associates
John Staley, Baltimore Public Schools
1:00-2:00
Ballroom B, C
General Interest Sessions
Alan November, November Learning
11:30-12:30
Assembly A, B, C
Bea Luchin, NUMBERS Professional Development
Fall Down 7 Times, Get Up 8: Teaching Kids to Succeed
8:00-9:30
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Thursday,
June 25
K-5
Developing Fractional Reasoning Through Number Talks
1:00-2:00 Assembly C K-5
Using Games to Teach and Assess
10:00-11:00 Ballroom C
Kim Sutton, Creative Mathematics
PK-2
Powerful Math Strategies for Powerful Peeps!
11:30-12:30
Assembly C PK-2
Dinah Zike, Dinah Zike Academy
ScafFOLDing Vocabulary Instruction via Notebook Foldables®
11:30-12:30 Ballroom C K-5
Jennifer Taylor-Cox, Taylor-Cox Instruction
Math Rocks: Guided Math Instruction in Action!
1:00-2:00
Assembly A
K-5
Shifting Gears from Good to Great with Fractions
1:00-2:00
Ballroom C
3-5
Mary Alice Hatchett, TCTM
Cheryl Rose Tobey, Mathematics Consultant
Moving Learning Forward by Uncovering Student Thinking: Get the FACTS!
2:30-3:30
Assembly A K-5
Kim Sutton, Creative Mathematics
Round Them Up With Rounding Readiness!
2:30-3:30 page 4
Assembly C
3-5
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Texas Education Agency
Friday, June 26
F
General Interest Sessions
Pam Harris, Indpendent Consultant
Building Powerful Matematizers: Numeracy
8:30-9:30 Assembly B
Matt Larson, Lincoln Public Schools
Overcoming Obstacles to Make Mathematics Work for All
8:30-9:30 Ballroom C
Update for Grades K-5
Elementary Sessions
Marcy Cook, Marcy Cook Math
Math Centers For The K-5 Classroom
8:30-9:30
Assembly A
This session will present the most current information
regarding curriculum and assessment of Mathematics K-5.
Critical issues such as state and federal requirements,
revised TEKS, STAAR assessments ESTAR/MSTAR
initiatives, TxAIR, and Project Share resources will be
discussed. Attendees will be given the opportunity to ask
questions.
K-5
Jo Ann Bilderback, Julie Guthrie, James Slack,
Texas Education Agency
TEA Update for Elementary Mathematics K-5
Friday, June 26
11:30-12:30
Assembly B
Kim Sutton, Creative Mathematics
Let’s Give Them Math to Talk About!
10:00-11:00
Assembly C
K-5
Barbara Novelli, Creative Mathematics
Science Brings Relevance and Meaning to Math
10:00-11:00
Ballroom C
K-5
Barbara Novelli, Creative Mathematics
Using Games to Teach and Assess
11:30-12:30
Ballroom C
3-5
Jo Ann Bilderback, Texas Education Agency
TEA Update for Elementary Mathematics
11:30-12:30
Assembly B
K-5
Marcy Cook, Marcy Cook Math
Math Centers For The K-5 Classroom
1:00-2:00 Assembly B
K-5
Mary Alice Hatchett, TCTM
Shifting Gears from Good to Great with Fractions
1:00-2:00 Ballroom C
3-5
Clear the Room Policy
To provide equal opportunity to sessions for each attendee, it
is the policy of the CAMT Board that rooms are to be cleared
of all participants at the end of each session. The Board
respectfully requests voluntary compliance with this policy.
CAMT Catalog Online
We have made every attempt to provide adequate seating
for participants at the conference, but for your safety and
due to fire regulations, only those with seats will be allowed
in meeting rooms. To comply with fire codes, it will be
necessary to ask any person sitting on the floor or standing to
leave the room.
The CAMT Catalog is now online!
Please remember:
Use our online, searchable catalog to find the right session
for you. Search by day and time, presenter, affiliation, topic,
or any keyword you wish. The online catalog also lists the
latest updates on cancelled, moved, and new sessions.
www.camtcatalog.net
All meeting rooms will be cleared between presentations.
All seats are available on a first-come, first-served basis.
Reserving spaces in line or saving seats is not permitted.
Persons with disabilities and their assistants do not have
to clear the session room as others do.
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Featured Sessions
Special Interest
MATH-A-RAMA
On each of three half-days of the conference (Wednesday morning, Thursday afternoon, and Friday morning), elementary teachers
(K-5) will have the opportunity to attend different sessions, for a total of 16 different MATH-A-RAMA sessions at CAMT 2015. The
theme for all of the sessions will be geometry. Each day, a different set of 25-minute sessions will be repeated, so that a participant
may attend all sessions in any order. Participants who do not want to attend every MATH-A-RAMA session may enter and leave
during the 5-minute breaks between sessions. See you there!
Ballroom A
Wednesday, June 24
10:00 a.m.–12:30 p.m.
Thursday, June 25
1:00 p.m.–3:30 p.m.
Friday, June 26
8:30 a.m.–11:30 a.m.
Amy Zann, Jessica Salazar, and
Kelly Tryer,
Deer Park ISD
ishapes
Kelly McDaniels, Maggie Revelette, and
Audrey Swoveland,
Midway ISD
What’s In a Name?
Sheri Bourque, Casey Dixon, and
Amy Fiedler,
Deer Park ISD
Polygons from Triangles
Becky Morris, Johanna Perez and
Alanna Guzman,
Deer Park ISD
Quadrilateral Family Tree
Barry Smith, Heather Hodges, and
Michelle Portis,
Deer Park ISD
The Amazing Geometric Race
Jami Kouba, Angela Nelson, and
Savannah Byerly,
Deer Park ISD
Marshmallow Shape Madness
Kellye Coffman, Deanna Parrish and
Blancanieves Galvan, Deer Park ISD
Three P’s in a Pod
Angela Reyes, Lauren Johnson, and
Lauren Preston,
Deer Park ISD
Tasty Shapes
Ashley Beck, Sarah Smith, and
Michelle Buckert,
Deer Park ISD
Flashback Friday with Geometry
Jamie Ellis, Shelby Mathis, and
Cheryl Sanders,
Deer Park ISD
On the QT
Hanna Deutschendorf, Kim Padua, and
Wendy Manion,
Deer Park ISD
Here’s a Shape, There’s a Shape
Everywhere a Shape, Shape
Jamie Penick, Jeanne Mills, and
Kimberly Ayala,
Deer Park ISD
Going Geo
Tiffany Villanueva, Tinay White, and
Debbie Gibson,
Deer Park ISD
Do You Want to Build a Playground?
Bonnie Weltjens, Shannon Schwarze,
Susan Simpson,
San Antonio ISD
S’more Math, Please!
Arash Abnoussi, Amy Hanshew, and
Debbie Strouse,
Midway ISD
To Be or Not to Be—a Hexagon
Melissa McCroskey, Samantha Moore,
Kristina Goehring, Deer Park ISD
Bigger, Better, Best!
Kristina Hernandez, Kristan Sandel,
and Whitney Rich,
Deer Park ISD
The “Perfect” Angle
Meetings of Organizations
Texas Association of Supervisors of Mathematics
Texas Council of Teachers of Mathematics
Tuesday, June 23
Hilton Americas, 335 A-C
Reception 5:30 p.m.
Meeting 6:00 p.m.–8:30 p.m.
Presider: Janet D. Nuzzie, TASM President
Thursday, June 25 4:30 p.m.–7:00 p.m.
Hilton Americas, Grand Ballroom L
AMTE–TX Business Meeting and Poster Session
Thursday, June 25
2:30 p.m.–3:30 p.m.
George R. Brown Convention Center, 352B
The Association of Mathematics Teacher Education-Texas
Section will hold their regular business meeting. Members and
interested individuals are welcome.
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Presider: Martha Godwin, TCTM President
TCTM members are invited to the annual TCTM business meeting and reception. This meeting and reception is open to all paid registrants attending
CAMT 2015 and dues-paying members of TCTM. No pre-registration or
additional fee is required. During our brief business meeting, we will share
information with members about recent actions of the national, state, and
local councils.
Award recipients and state and local board members will be recognized.
Door prizes will be awarded. We regret that children or other guests cannot
be accommodated.
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Exhibits, Dates, Policies
Future CAMT Sessions
Lost and Found
2016
June 29-July 1
San Antonio; Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center
2017
July 10-12
Fort Worth; Fort Worth Convention Center/Omni Hotel
2018
July 16-18
Houston; George R. Brown Convention Center
Items for lost and found may be turned in or retrieved at the
CAMT Registration booth on the 3rd level of the George R.
Brown Convention Center. At the end of the conference, all
lost and found items brought to the Registration Desk will be
taken to the CAMT Office in Austin, TX.
First Aid
A manned First Aid Station is located behind General Assembly C in the convention center. In case of an emergency,
please contact a CAMT volunteer who will see that emergency personnel are contacted. Do not call 911. Convention
center staff or First Aid personnel will make contact with
emergency services.
Exhibit Hours
Commercial exhibits of instructional materials and teaching aids
for mathematics instruction will be on display in Exhibit Hall
B3. Links to individual exhibitor websites will be listed on the
CAMT website at camtonline.org.
Exhibit hours are:
Wednesday, June 24 Thursday, June 25
Friday, June 26
Program Supplement
Be sure to pick up a program supplement in the CAMT
registration area. Please consult the supplement for changes
and additions that occurred after the program book was
printed.
10:00 a.m.–4:30 p.m.
10:00 a.m.–4:30 p.m.
9:00 a.m.–1:00 p.m.
Special Access and Handicap Provisions
Name Tags
• The George R. Brown Convention Center and the conference hotels warrants that they make a good faith effort to
comply with requirements of the Americans with Disabilities
Act of 1992 and related amendments.
Replacement Name Tags
Your name tag serves as your ticket to all conference sessions. Lost name tags will cost $5 to be replaced.
Participants can obtain a replacement name tag for lost or
forgotten name tags at the registration desk. The fee for
replacing a name tag is $5.00. Materials that were mailed to
a school address and were unable to be picked up require a
$5.00 fee to be replaced.
• Persons with disabilities that require assistance may have
an assistant accompany them (without paying a registration
fee for the assistant). The assistant must check in with the
registration desk to receive approval and obtain a name tag.
• Persons with disabilities do not have to clear the session
room as others do.
Fees
CAMT registration is $250.
Administrators’ Conference is $350.
Replacement name tag is $5.
Admission for exhibits only is $20.
For Your Child’s Safety
Because of the size and nature of CAMT, this conference is not
an appropriate setting for children. Your hotel concierge will be
able to provide recommendations for childcare services while
you are attending the conference. We appreciate your understanding and cooperation. Children (including nursing babies)
will not be allowed in sessions or the exhibit hall.
Emergency Instructions
In the event of a problem where evacuation appears imminent,
an announcement over the Public Address system and will
precede an audible alarm.
Clean Air Policy
Everyone should assemble in the Green Space at the Discovery
Green Park directly in front of the Convention Center to meet
with facility personnel to receive further directions and updates
regarding the emergency.
Cell Phone Use
ALL STAFF AND GUESTS MUST REMAIN OUTSIDE
THE CONVENTION CENTER UNTIL INSTRUCTED OTHERWISE BY AUTHORIZED EMERGENCY PERSONNEL
CAMT maintains a smoke-free environment in all sessions
and events (including receptions, exhibits, etc.)
As a courtesy to the speaker and your colleagues, please
silence cell phones and other devices during all sessions.
Security Dispatch (George R. Brown) – 713-853-8087
(Use this number for Emergencies)
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Exhibitors
Booth
4mulaFun Inc.
Agile Mind Educational Holdings, Inc.
Algebra Readiness Educators, LLC
AMTE-TX
Association of Texas Professional Educators
The Bach Company
Bedford, Freeman & Worth Publishers
Bedtime Math Foundation
Big Ideas Learning, LLC
Borenson and Associates, Inc.
Box Cars and One-Eyed Jacks
CAMT 2016
Casio America Inc.
Catnip's Word Walls
Claire Lynn Designs
CPM Educational Program
Creative Instruction LLC
Creative Mathematics
D&H Distributing
DeafTEC
Deanan Gourmet Popcorn
Didax
Dinah-Might Adventures
DynaStudy, Inc.
EAI Education
ECS Learning Systems, Inc.
Education 2000
Educators Outlet, Inc.
ETA hand2mind
Excel Math
ExploreLearning
EyeQue
FACEing MATH
Frog Publications
GF Educators, Inc
Heinemann
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Integral Mathematics, Inc.
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It's A Hoot! - Origami Owl
IXL Learning
Johnny's Key
KAMICO Instructional Media, Inc.
Kelly's Treasure
KP Mathematics
L&M Instructional Resources
Learning Wrap ups, Inc.
LEGO Education
Lone Star Learning
MAA
Marcy Cook Math
The Markerboard People
Math GPS, LLC
The Math Learning Center
Math Teachers Press, Inc.
MATH-SCIENCE-TEES.COM
Mathspace
McGraw-Hill Education
McGraw-Hill Education
Mentoring Minds
MOEMS-Math Olympiads for
Elementary and Middle Schools
Mountain Math/Language, LLC
Music Notes
Nasco
National Geographic Learning/Cengage
Learning
Neufeld Learning Systems Inc.
ORIGO Education
Otto Tading, Inc.
The Outstanding Guides
Pearson
Peoples Education
Perfection Learning
RALLY! Education
Region 4 Education Service Center
Renaissance Learning
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Gearing Up for Change
Exhibitors
Company
Russell Educational Consulting
Sapling Learning
Scentsy Fragrance
School Specialty Inc.
Soh Cah Toa
SpringBoard
Booth
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STAAR Mission Math by Cosenza &
Associates, LLC
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Suntex International
Superior Products, Inc.
TCTM
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Texas A&M University
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Texas Educational Solutions/Ascend
Education
Texas Instruments
Think Through Math
TODOS
TRC - UT Austin
Tupperware
U.of Houston-Clear Lake
US Math Recovery Council
UT DANA CENTER
UTeach - The University of Texas at
Austin
Walden University
Xtreme Math
Booth
430
211
238
122
226
136
537
536
530
302
522
527
Elementary Catalog
Key to Presentations
Using the Catalog
Sessions are listed in chronological order by
day and time in addition to grade level. Each is
labled with a session number. If a session is repeated, a second number will be listed. It can
also be found in the presenter index. General
Interest sessions appear in both Elementary
and Secondary catalogs.
F
Elementary
Wednesday
14 - 27
Thursday
28 - 41
Friday
42 - 53
Presenter Index Don’t forget to
clear the room
after each session!
54
(see page 5)
If session is highlighted and
has a star symbol, it is one of
the Featured Sessions listed on
pages 4-6.
session
time
session
number
strand
session
title
8:30 - 9:30
3001
Featured
session
room
grade level
target
Lila Cockrell
NOTE: general interest
course listings are
integrated into both the
Elementary and Secondary
sections, and are not listed
separately.
Dan Myer,
F General Interest
Stanford University
session
presenter(s)
Curriculum and Assessment
Capturing, Sharing, and Resolving Perplexity
Given the infinite buffet table of tools and technology to try out
in the classroom, how do you decide what’s worth your and your
students’ time? Without some kind of criteria guiding our selection,
we’ll spend years building up a dusty closet of tools that looked
good, promised a lot, and didn’t deliver. With that in mind, the presenter will describe “perplexity,” one of the scarcest resources in the
classroom, and how to pick tools and technology to maximize it.
session
description
Session details
and materials are
listed here.
Continuing Professional Education Credit
The State Board of Educator Certification (SBEC) has approved
CAMT as a provider of Continuing Professional Education
Credit (CPE). Credit will be available for all conference
sessions for the exact number of minutes of the sessions (if a
session is 60 minutes, you will receive 60 minutes of credit).
Although attending exhibits is a valuable component of the
CAMT experience, no CPE credit is awarded for this activity.
If you are interested in receiving CPE credit:
1. Use the CPE credit form provided in the program book.
This form provides certification of attendance and credit. In
accordance with state requirements, separate certificates will
not be issued.
2. Complete the questions on the form. Forms will not be
checked/stamped by CAMT staff.
3. Take the form with you as you leave the conference.
The completed CPE form is your proof of attendance.
CAMT does not keep records of your CPE forms.
(The CPE form is located on page 61)
page 13
CAMT 2015
Gearing Up for Change
Elementary Session Listings
Wednesday, June 24, 2015
Wednesday Opening Sessions
F
8:00 - 9:30
Alan November,
Assembly A,B,C
November Learning
F
8:00 - 9:30
Ballroom B,C
Debbie Silver,
Debbie Silver Presents
Who Earns the Learning?
Fall Down 7 Times, Get Up 8: Teaching Kids to Succeed
Who should be working harder during class, the teacher or the students?
In the “Age of the Empowered Learner,” we can equip our students to
take responsibility to manage a large proportion of their learning. We
can also empower our student to create content that contributes to the
learning of their peers. Research indicates that one of the most powerful
strategies to improve learning is to provide students with self-assessment
strategies. This session will provide step-by-step strategies that create a
culture of the empowered self-directed and collaborative learner.
Do you ask yourself, “Just how am I supposed to motivate these
kids?” The real question, of course, is how to get them to motivate
themselves? Based on extensive research for her new book, Debbie
Silver offers surprising new finding about fundamental ways we can
change our teaching practices to help kids become self-motivated.
Come prepared to have your thinking challenged and to receive a
multitude of strategies that help learners develop internal motivation.
MATH-A-RAMA Sessions
10:00 - 12:30
Ballroom A
for elementary teachers
On each of three half-days of the conference (Wednesday morning,
Thursday afternoon, and Friday morning), elementary teachers (K-5)
will have the opportunity to attend different sessions, for a total of
16 different MATH-A-RAMA sessions AT CAMT 2015. The theme
for all of the sessions will be Geometry. Each day, a different set of
25-minute sessions will be repeated, so that a participant may attend
all sessions in any order. Participants who do not want to attend
every MATH-A-RAMA session may enter and leave during the
5-minute breaks between sessions. See you there!
Kellye Coffman, Deanna Parrish, Blancanieves Galvan,
Deer Park ISD
Three P’s in a Pod
Students classify and sort 2-dimensional shapes and 3-dimensional
solids. Students learn terminology, construct definitions, and describe mathematical attributes of polygons, prisms, and pyramids.
This activity gives students a hands-on approach to learning the
similarities and differences between prisms and pyramids.
Jamie Ellis, Shelby Mathis, Cheryl Sanders,
Deer Park ISD
On the QT
Amy Zann, Jessica Salazar, Kelly Tryer,
Deer Park ISD
ishapes
Students take pictures of objects with cameras on tablets (e.g., iPad)
and use a presentation app (e.g., Keynote) to sort and organize
pictures by shape or attribute. Students identify two dimensional
shapes in real life objects, including circles, triangles, rectangles,
and squares. They learn and use geometric vocabulary to describe
the shapes.
Becky Morris, Johanna Perez, Alanna Guzman,
Deer Park ISD
Quadrilateral Family Tree
Students create quadrilaterals using marshmallows and pretzels
following the listed attributes on description cards. Students then
use sets and subsets to create a graphic organizer of the relationships
among the different quadrilaterals based on their properties.
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Students identify and classify quadrilaterals and triangles according to their properties through problem solving, oral and written
communication, higher-order thinking, and the use of a variety of
manipulatives.
Tiffany Villanueva, Tinay White, Debbie Gibson,
Deer Park ISD
Do You Want to Build a Playground?
Students decompose composite figures formed by rectangles into
non-overlapping rectangles to determine the area of the original
figure using the additive property of area.
Bonnie Weltjens, Shannon Schwarze, Susan Simpson,
San Antonio ISD
S’more Math, Please!
Students use the shapes involved in creating s’mores to investigate
polygons. Students identify two-dimensional shapes and threedimensional solids, and partition figures into fair shares—fractional
parts. Students describe mathematical attributes, learn geometric
terminology, and compose and decompose shapes.
Elementary Catalog
Gearing Up for Change
8:00 - 9:30
F
Opening Session
Alan November,
November Learning
10:00 - 11:00
351BE
Pasadena ISD
2000
General Interest
PK-2
Shifting Gears with Content
Lara Roberts,
Shifting Gears with Content
Ashley Smith,
Clear Creek ISD
Who Owns the Learning?
What is a Rekenrek Anyway?
Who should be working harder during class, the teacher or the
students? In the “Age of the Empowered Learner, “ you can equip
your students to take responsibility to manage a large proportion
of their learning. You can also empower your students to create
content that contributes to the learning of their peers. Research indicates that one of the most powerful strategies to improve learning
is to provide students with self-assessment strategies. This session
will provide step-by-step strategies that create a culture of the empowered self-directed and collaborative learner.
Come explore the possibilities of using rekenreks in your classroom.
This simple tool will help your students compose and decompose
numbers, subitize, and gain number sense. You will leave this session with a rekenrek of your own and lots of ideas of how to use it
in your classroom.
10:00 - 11:00
371BE
2001
PK-2
8:00 - 9:30
1001
Debbie Silver,
Debbie Silver Presents
General Interest
Accelerating and Integrating Interventions
Fall Down 7 Times, Get Up 8: Teaching Kids to Succeed
Do you ask yourself, “Just how am I supposed to motivate these
kids?” The real question, of course, is how do I get them to motivate
themselves? Based on extensive research for her new book, Debbie
Silver offers surprising new findings about fundamental ways you can
change our teaching practices to help kids become self-motivated.
Come prepared to have your thinking challenged and to receive a
multitude of strategies that help learners develop internal motivation.
10:00 - 11:00
350B
Robb Wilson,
Revving up Everyday Assessments
Designing Differentiation that Moves
Differentiated instruction does not happen by accident. Differentiation in the classroom is all about understanding that you are dealing
with a group of diverse individuals and adapting your teaching to
ensure that all of them have access to learn. How do you, as teachers, teach the whole class with the individual student in mind? This
session examines how to find out what children know and need and
then how to design instruction that advances all students' mathematical thinking and success. This session’s focus will be on addition
and subtraction.
10:00 - 11:00
General Interest
What’s New at Texas Instruments Now?
Get an update of the latest offerings from Texas Instruments. Learn
about the latest Operating Systems (OS) for your graphing calculators, handhelds, and software. Explore the new free versions of TI
Connect software and find out about other new products that bring
more color options to your classroom. If you need to know what’s
new, this session is for you.
350DE
1602
General Interest
Revving Up Everyday Assessments
Dennis Adams
PK-2
Shifting Gears with Content
Explore Building Key Skills in 20 Minutes Per Day Grades K-2
Teaching with Technology
10:00 - 11:00
310C
2002
Texas Instruments
1002
US Math Recovery
Council®
Marilea Jungman,
Southern Methodist
University
Jo An Bilderback,
Texas Education Agency
ESTAR and MSTAR: Supporting RtI in Texas
This session will inform teachers about ESTAR (Elementary School Students in Texas: Algebra Ready) and MSTAR (Middle School Students
in Texas: Algebra Ready), a TEA initiative that is available at no cost to
all Texas public school districts. ESTAR and MSTAR support grades 2
to 8 by improving overall mathematics instruction and impacting student
achievement. This session will focus on how the system supports teachers in making instructional decisions as they implement RtI.
Fill in skill gaps with daily workouts from Number Corner and
develop conceptual understanding and procedural fluency in the
context of problem solving. You will solve a calendar pattern and
experience a typical daily skills workout. Then, by grade level
groups, you will work independently to experience more workouts,
exploring a range of skills addressed in the TEKS. All these materials and more will be available through a free online preview.
10:00 - 11:00
372AD
Lynn Rule,
MathRack
2003
PK-2
Ramping Up for College and Career Readiness
Christina Tondevold,
Mathematically Minded
Building a Solid Foundation in Number Sense
Do you have students counting on their fingers to add? Those students lack number sense! Number sense needs to be experienced!
Experience activities involving ten frames, MathRacks, games, and
number paths as you learn about relationships and strategies that
will develop your students' number sense and their ability to add
and subtract flexibly and fluently.
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Wednesday
F
Opening Session
Ballroom B,C
Jessica Finley,
ELEMENTARY
1000
Assembly A,B,C
CAMT 2015
Gearing Up for Change
ELEMENTARY
10:00 - 11:00
370BE
2004
PK-2
Valerie Johse,
Texas Council on Economic
Education
2008
F
Featured
Shifting Gears with Content
Ballroom C
Dinah Zike,
Dinah Zike Academy
K-5
Shifting Gears with Content
Financially Fit Students
ScafFOLDing Vocabulary Instruction via Notebook Foldables®
Come see how engaging stories and connected activities can help
your students master the financial literacy TEKS in a way that is
meaningful to elementary students. Find out where free, quality
materials are available to help support the teaching of personal
financial literacy TEKS.
If teachers want students to retain and understand complex concepts
and content-laden vocabulary, the best way to help the learners’
brains manage the new information is by organizing the information
in a useable, recallable way. Notebook Foldables® are effective,
student-centered tools that enable students to record and process
new words and concepts in a hands-on, kinesthetic way. Create
your own mini-composition book filled with examples that are
classroom-tested and ready for immediate application.
10:00 - 11:00
361BE
2005
K-5
Glenna Tabor,
Glenna Tabor Resources,
LLC
Accelerating and Integrating Interventions
Wednesday
10:00 - 11:00
Tabor Rotation: Simplifying Small-Group, Guided Math
Instruction
How can a teacher successfully and easily use small groups, stations, and differentiate instruction in math? How can a teacher meet
and exceed the needs of all learners on a regular basis? This session
will explore specific components of the Tabor Rotation Framework
and how they can powerfully impact small groups and stations.
Come learn about the framework that has already impacted over 1
million students and can change your math classroom forever!
10:00 - 11:00
381BC
Bob Parrish,
AnsMar Publishers, Inc.
2006
K-5
10:00 - 11:00
K-5
Presenting effective Instructional Strategies, attendees will learn tips
to engage and reach students and emphasize critical thinking instead
of fill in the blank answers. Using seven successful strategies, teachers will be able to measure the development of student learning and
take on the demands of the new TEKS. This facilitates development
of knowledge and skills as specified in TEKS standards.
322
Rodelio Abuan,
Houston ISD
K-5
Revving up Everyday Assessments
Terrific Hands-On, Minds-On Games and Activities for
Elementary Students
Maximize the learning potential of students by engaging them in
learning by playing. You will be taught how to make and use games
and activities that can be tailor-made to your grade level and subject
area, individualized to every type of learner, and adjusted to fit any
class size. These games can be used as restroom or tardy passes,
practice activities, as review stations for state tests, warm-up exercises, exit tickets, etc. You will also be taught how to make worksheets for every game activity to be used for student assessment.
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Bastrop ISD
Guided Math: Focus on Small-Group Instruction
As part of a Balanced Math program, Guided Math provides smallgroup instruction to meet the needs of students. Teachers will learn
how to use formative and summative assessments to form flexible
groups while using targeted, engaging activities. Participants will
walk away with small-group lesson examples, templates, and activities for their diverse classroom needs.
10:00 - 11:00
382C
Samantha Campbell,
Spring ISD
2010
K-5
Strategies to Meet the New TEKS Requirements: 7 Proven
Methods
2007
Jennifer Jones,
Alison Lentz,
Shifting Gears with Content
Revving up Everyday Assessments
10:00 - 11:00
320A
2009
Shifting Gears with Content
Academic Talk: Using Math Discussion to Help Students Learn
Do students use academic vocabulary in your classroom? Do you promote
productive speaking, listening, and critical thinking? Putting thoughts into
words moves students to think critically. The classroom should be a place
where students are confident in their voice to explain and participate in academic discussions. This session will enhance your instructional tool kit with
ways of using language in teaching mathematics that will allow students to
engage in higher-order thinking and reasoning.
10:00 - 11:00
2011
F
Featured
Assembly A
K-5
Linda Gojak,
National Council of
Teachers of Mathematics
Shifting Gears with Content
Success for Every Child! Do You Know What It Takes?
NCTM’s landmark publication, Principles to Actions, describes
the teaching and learning principles that are essential to success in
mathematics. In this session, you will focus on implementing tasks
that promote reasoning (with a focus on games), facilitate meaningful classroom discourse (around those games), and ask purposeful
questions (while students are playing the games). These games include substantive mathematics for K-5 students and are intrinsically
motivating. Let’s find out what this looks like in the classroom!
Elementary Catalog
Gearing Up for Change
10:00 - 11:00
Barbara Spotts
2012
10:00 - 11:00
352E
Nancy Balter,
Educational Insights
2017
K-5
3-5
Accelerating and Integrating Interventions
Shifting Gears with Content
Number Lines . . . Oh the Places You'll Go!
Metric System Magic!
In this session, over 100 Math Standards on the Open Number
Line will be modeled, including Elapsed Time, Making Change,
Subtraction with Regrouping to Equality, Probability, Measurement, Fractions/Decimals/Percentages, Geometry, Ratio/Proportion,
and more! You have to see this . . . and we guarantee you won't be
disappointed.
Join us for ready-to-use games and activities to develop metric understanding with your students. Learn about the metric staircase—a
powerful and easy-to-remember method to convert units in the
metric system. Your students will be converting from millimeters
to kilometers in no time! Come for the door prizes and stay for fun
lesson ideas.
10:00 - 11:00
Assembly B
Parrish and Associates, Inc.
2015
F
Sherry Parrish,
10:00 - 11:00
342CF
Math Teachers Press
2018
K-5
3-5
Shifting Gears with Content
Accelerating and Integrating Interventions
Featured
Susie Whisnant,
Multiplication Magic
This session provides an introduction to Number Talks and demonstrates how this classroom routine supports students in developing
accurate, efficient, and flexible computation strategies. Participants
will engage in Number Talks, analyze classroom video clips, and
learn how to connect students’ strategies to the Texas Essential
Knowledge and Skills for Mathematics.
Multiplication worries will disappear as you learn hands-on ways
to help your students learn and truly understand their multiplication facts as they become STAAR problem solvers. In this session,
you will be given researched-based games and activities utilizing
manipulatives, math journals, STAAR graph paper, and children's
literature. Poof!—Learning multiplication facts and problem solving
becomes an easy task!
310B
2016
3-5
Tami Scruggs,
Hellen Grahmann,
Huntsville ISD
10:00 - 11:00
3-5
Shifting Gears with Content
Math—Fun and Games for All: Part 3
Come join us again for a highly motivational session. This session
will include ways to help organize, store, and use games and activities to introduce and reinforce skills. All of these activities are easily
adjustable for any grade level and any subject area. If you’ve participated in prior CAMT sessions, please join us this year for parts 3
and 4. Each session will contain new activities and ideas!
361CF
2019
Sandra Johnson,
Kayci Schellinger,
Greenville ISD
Shifting Gears with Content
You Want Me to Teach What?
This session will address the new standards for fifth grade regarding multiplying and dividing decimals and fractions. Most of us
remember how to do this with the standard algorithm from when we
were in high school, but now we are asked to teach the kids conceptually. You will leave the session with ideas, lessons, and resources
to help you address these challenging topics.
10:00 - 11:00
2020
F
Featured
Assembly C
Kim Sutton,
Creative Mathematics
3-5
Shifting Gears with Content
Fun with Patterns and Functions!
Come experience the fun of patterns and functions through Kim
Sutton's style that is passion-filled! You will engage in hands on activities with T-tables! Kim will model best practice with literature,
songs, dances, and a powerful handout that will motivate students!
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Wednesday
Number Talks: A Path to Numerical Reasoning
10:00 - 11:00
ELEMENTARY
332AD
CAMT 2015
Gearing Up for Change
ELEMENTARY
10:00 - 11:00
360BE
Houston ISD
2021
11:30 - 12:30
351AD
General Interest
Shifting Gears with Content
Ramona Davis,
Cypress-Fairbanks ISD
1004
3-5
Shifting Gears with Content
Amelia Moya,
Lake Travis ISD
Model, Lead, Test: Systematically Teach Behavior
TCTM Information Session
We cannot assume that children will arrive in our classrooms well
behaved and ready to learn. Small behavior issues can waste valuable teaching time and even accelerate into confrontations. Learn
a research-based, time-tested classroom management program that
encourages, empowers, and promotes excellence. Stop negative
behavior before it begins. Use class time for teaching math—not
correcting behaviors. This impossible dream is absolutely possible.
Texas Council of Teachers of Mathematics (TCTM) is a state affiliate of NCTM and one of CAMT’s supporting organizations. Participants will learn about TCTM’s mission to promote math educators
across the Lone Star state. Information about grant opportunities,
publishing opportunities, scholarships, continuing education, and
networking possibilities will be given. Resources created by fellow
Texas math teachers through TCTM will also be presented.
10:00 - 11:00
371AD
2022
3-5
Wednesday
Kewanta Michelle,
John Felling,
Box Cars & One-Eyed
Jacks
Accelerating and Integrating Interventions
Double Dare You—Math Games Using Double Dice
Come prepared to play some of our favorite box cars games that incorporate the use of highly engaging and motivating double dice, 10
sided doubles, 12 sided doubles and three in a cube. Games to teach
the following concepts will be covered: fractions, place value comparing, ordering and working with large numbers, all operations,
mixed operations beginning algebra and multi-digit work. Great
gameboards, student samples and assessment ideas will be shared.
10:00 - 11:00
Ballroom B
2023
3-5
Jane Felling,
Box Cars & One-Eyed
Jacks
Domino Math Games—Linking the Learning for Grades 3-5
Come prepared to play games that incorporate the use of a set of
standard dominoes that teach the following concepts: all operations
including multi-digit work, place value including decimals, fractions,
data management and analysis, and problem solving. This manipulative can be easily integrated into your math programs and the games
are appealing to all learners. Great game boards, journal writing
extensions, student samples, time-saving resource management tips,
and ideas to use right at the start of school will be shared. Games are
great for regular, title 1, special ed, RtI and after school programs.
1003
F
Featured
Ballroom C
Alan November,
November Learning
General Interest
Shifting Gears with Content
Creating a New Culture of Teaching and Learning
Access to timely information and communication tools can empower
educators to focus on the individual learning needs of their students.
These same tools can lead to a wealth of benefits, such as greater collegiality, stronger relationships, self-directed students, curriculum-aligned
technology, authentic work, rigorous, and motivating assignments, and
the development of a strong learning community. Learn all about this
potent new culture of empowered teaching and fearless learning.
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362CF
Elisabeth Johnston,
Plymouth State University
2024
PK-2
Accelerating and Integrating Interventions
Elizabeth Ward,
Mark Georges,
Texas Wesleyan University
¡Ya lo entiendo!: Using Math Games with ELLs
This session focuses on the importance of providing support when
using games to help ELLs develop math concepts. Math games created for the PK-2 classroom, along with strategies used to scaffold
these activities with ELLs, will be shared. In addition, presenters
will engage the audience in an interactive discussion of various
modifications and classroom considerations.
11:30 - 12:30
350DE
Bob Sornson,
Early Learning Foundation
2025
PK-2
Revving up Everyday Assessments
Shifting Gears with Content
11:30 - 12:30
11:30 - 12:30
Competency, Not Coverage: Pre-K to Grade 3 Essential
Math Skills
Differentiated instruction is a crucial part of a competency-based
learning system. Start with identifying essential early math skills,
then teach responsively, using differentiated learning as part of an
instructional plan that gives each child the time and support needed
to develop essential skills and concepts. Learn to use simple tools
for tracking progress toward competency.
11:30 - 12:30
320A
2026
PK-2
Alison Lentz,
Jennifer Jones,
Bastrop ISD
Shifting Gears with Content
Wacky and Wild Workstations for K-2
Teachers will learn how to incorporate TEKS-based workstations
related to place value, number operations, and algebraic reasoning
to increase student engagement while incorporating higher-level
thinking skills, problem solving, student accountability, and fun!
Teachers will walk away with workstation ideas and activities to
meet the needs of their diverse classrooms!
Elementary Catalog
Gearing Up for Change
11:30 - 12:30
Susie Whisnant,
Math Teachers Press
2027
11:30 - 12:30
382C
Debbie Perry,
Midway ISD
2031
PK-2
PK-2
Accelerating and Integrating Interventions
Revving Up Everyday Assessments
STAAR Problem Solving Using Manipulatives and Children's
Books
Standards-Based Assessment Tools for First Grade
Mathematics
Learn research-based strategies to help all students in primary
grades develop problem-solving skills as they build mathematical
conceptual understanding. Participants will experience hands-on
manipulative activities and games within the concrete-representation-abstract (CRA) method. Children's literature activities are
included to illustrate how math concepts can be applied to realworld situations.
First grade teachers will explore standards-based assessment tools
created by the first grade new standards integration team of Midway
ISD. Teachers will receive links to a complete set of assessments
for first grade mathematics, as well as instructions for their use.
11:30 - 12:30
2028
310C
Explore Building Key Skills in 20 Minutes Per Day Grades
K-2
Fill in skill gaps with daily workouts from Number Corner and
develop conceptual understanding and procedural fluency in the
context of problem solving. You will solve a calendar pattern and
experience a typical daily skills workout. Then, by grade level
groups, you will work independently to experience more workouts,
exploring a range of skills addressed in the TEKS. All these materials and more will be available through a free online preview.
PK-2
Jane Felling,
Box Cars & One-Eyed
Jacks
Shifting Gears with Content
Shuffling Into Math—Card Games for K-2 Fact Fluency
Come prepared to play card games that help your youngest
students achieve success in basic number sense and operations.
This strategy-based workshop will provide you with many easy to
implement games and strategies for both addition and subtraction.
Ideas for doubles, near doubles, +9, -9, regrouping work, and using
benchmarks on a number line will be included. Reproducible game
boards and student samples will be provided. Activities are all
easily adapted to meet the needs of regular, special ed, RtI, ELL and
after school programs.
11:30 - 12:30
342AD
2030
PK-2
Judson ISD
K-5
Shifting Gears with Content
Courtney Klemcke,
Children’s Museum of
Houston
Shifting Gears with Content
When students engage in divergent thinking activities, the ability to
problem solve and think creatively can be vastly improved. It’s easy
to incorporate divergent thinking into your ELAR time, but what
about math? Together we will learn why the exposure to this type
of thinking is so important, and explore ways to integrate math and
divergent thinking in your daily routine.
11:30 - 12:30
2033
F
Featured
Assembly A
Marcy Cook,
Marcy Cook Math
K-5
Revving up Everyday Assessments
Between U And I for Primary Thinkers
Develop number sense by applying math to real-world situations.
Teach concepts such as BETWEEN and find a variety of ways to
involve students in dealing with the concept. Engage all students
from the beginning of math class with starters. Keep skills alive
with independent task time activities for individuals or partners.
11:30 - 12:30
362AD
Kelli Mallory,
Little Elm ISD
2034
K-5
Shifting Gears with Content
Process vs. Product Thinking: Shifting the Instructional
Focus K-5
As teachers, we often focus on the products, or outcomes of solving
problems. However, the new TEKS assume that students are deepening their content understanding while focusing on the processes of
solving problems. Come learn some ways to shift the instructional
focus so that the mathematical processes become the highlight of
problem solving in the classroom rather than just the products.
Playing with Math!
Stop by to pick up some hands-on, minds-on math ideas to use in
your classroom. From quick math activities to intense problemsolving challenges, we have the math your students can’t wait to
play with!
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Wednesday
Shifting Gears with Content
2029
Sharisa Rhoades,
Divergent Math
PK-2
Ballroom B
352F
2032
Dennis Adams
2002
11:30 - 12:30
11:30 - 12:30
ELEMENTARY
342CF
CAMT 2015
Gearing Up for Change
ELEMENTARY
11:30 - 12:30
332BE
2035
K-5
Xiaofen Zhang,
Texas State University-San
Marcos
Shifting Gears with Content
Do you want to help students enjoy learning fractions? Explore a
variety of hands-on activities that can enhance children’s interest in
fractions and strengthen their understanding of the concepts. The
importance of different types of representations used to represent
fractions will be demonstrated. We will also discuss how the activities are beneficial for students to master the content standards.
382AB
2036
K-5
Stacia Prince,
Stephen F. Austin State
University
K-5
Come see how to use manipulatives and models to connect numerical understanding from Kindergarten to Algebra 1.
320C
Nikki Bitzer Katy Price,
Denison ISD
2037
K-5
Accelerating and Integrating Interventions
Magic Math Mat: Mathematics Instruction Conceptually
The amazing Magic Math Mat will show you over 30 different
objectives and ways to teach young students mathematics conceptually and on a deeper level. You will be amazed at how easy these
activities will be to incorporate into your daily routines, making
teaching math fun, while also raising those math scores. This session was presented at CAMT 2014 by master teachers Nikki Bitzer
and Katy Price with an overwhelmingly positive feedback. The
complete activity book/presentation is available in digital format as
well on TpT.
11:30 - 12:30
2038
322
2007
Rodelio Abuan,
Houston ISD
K-5
Revving up Everyday Assessments
Terrific Hands-On, Minds-On Games and Activities for
Elementary Students
Maximize the learning potential of students by engaging them in
learning by playing. You will be taught how to make and use games
and activities that can be tailor-made to your grade level and subject
area, individualized to every type of learner, and adjusted to fit any
class size. These games can be used as restroom or tardy passes,
practice activities, as review stations for state tests, warm-up exercises, exit tickets, etc. You will also be taught how to make worksheets for every game activity to be used for student assessment.
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Glenna Tabor,
Glenna Tabor Resources,
LLC
Tabor Rotation: Simplifying Small-Group, Guided Math
Instruction
How can a teacher successfully and easily use small groups, stations, and differentiate instruction in math? How can a teacher meet
and exceed the needs of all learners on a regular basis? This session
will explore specific components of the Tabor Rotation Framework
and how they can powerfully impact small groups and stations.
Come learn about the framework that has already impacted over 1
million students and can change your math classroom forever!
11:30 - 12:30
371CF
K-5
Connecting Numeric Understanding
11:30 - 12:30
2005
2040
Shifting Gears with Content
Wednesday
2039
361BE
Accelerating and Integrating Interventions
Developing Student Knowledge of Fractions: What To Do?
11:30 - 12:30
11:30 - 12:30
Kelly Threadgill,
Dave Skaggs,
SumBlox
Shifting Gears with Content
Have Sum Fun in Math!
Deep mathematical reasoning doesn’t have to come at the cost of
enjoyment and innovation. Through hands-on play and discussions,
guide your students to grasp a rich understanding about the properties of math by stacking building blocks! Students build bridges,
walls, and towers that show and assess their knowledge of the
operations of math. Bring back fun and creativity and see how math
is stacked in your favor!
11:30 - 12:30
371BE
Chonita J. Ruiz,
Pasadena ISD
2041
K-5
Shifting Gears with Content
The Sounds of Mathematical Exploration
Five out of the seven mathematics Process Standards for mathematics education require students to express their mathematical thinking. This session is designed to provide participants pedagogical
techniques to lead powerful, proactive student discourse in concert
with examining, monitoring, and cultivating all students’ mathematical thinking. Come experience how to create the sounds of
mathematical exploration in your classroom.
11:30 - 12:30
330AB
2042
3-5
Sonja Goerdt,.
Caryl Pierson,
Math Teachers Press, Inc.
Shifting Gears with Content
Even Fractions are Better [and Easier] with Chocolate!
Touch the chocolate, draw the chocolate, think the chocolate—and
eat it too? Walk through the 4 Essential Elements of RtI including
the research-based Concrete-Representational-Abstract approach to
teaching—proven very successful with ELL and special-needs students. Experience lessons with manipulatives, including chocolate
bars, to develop student understanding of fraction concepts in TEKS
Grades 3-5.
Elementary Catalog
Gearing Up for Change
11:30 - 12:30
2019
3-5
Sandra Johnson,
Kayci Schellinger,
Greenville ISD
1:00 - 2:00
1005
General Interest
Shifting Gears with Content
Teaching with Technology
You Want Me to Teach What?
This session will address the new standards for fifth grade regarding multiplying and dividing decimals and fractions. Most of us
remember how to do this with the standard algorithm from when we
were in high school, but now we are asked to teach the kids conceptually. You will leave the session with ideas, lessons, and resources
to help you address these challenging topics.
11:30 - 12:30
310A
Craig Willmore,
Origo
2044
3-5
2045
352E
2017
Nancy Balter,
Educational Insights
3-5
Join us for ready-to-use games and activities to develop metric understanding with your students. Learn about the metric staircase—a
powerful and easy-to-remember method to convert units in the
metric system. Your students will be converting from millimeters
to kilometers in no time! Come for the door prizes and stay for fun
lesson ideas.
Kelly Eleuterius,
Lubbock ISD
2046
3-5
Shifting Gears with Content
Amanda Dunn,
Carrie Huber,
Lubbock-Cooper ISD,
Plainview ISD
Blondes Cubed Are Engaging Through Hands-On Learning
Leave the worksheets behind and come learn fun, creative, and
engaging hands-on activities for centers and enrichment.
Assembly B
General Interest
John Staley,
Baltimore County Public
Schools
Shifting Gears with Content
Unlocking the Power of Problem Solving
Think for a moment about one thing you could do to change the
future of your students’ mathematical learning trajectory. Empower
them with a problem-solving process and deep understanding
of strategies so that they are equipped with tools to apply their
knowledge and skills.During this session, participants will unpack
a framework based on Poyla’s problem-solving paradigm designed
to help students think critically and communicate as they actively
engage in the problem solving process.
1007
Metric System Magic!
342BE
F
1:00 - 2:00
Shifting Gears with Content
11:30 - 12:30
1:00 - 2:00
F
Featured
Ballroom C
Debbie Silver,
Debbie Silver Presents
General Interest
Pre-service/New Teacher
Deliberate Optimism: Reclaiming the Joy in Education
Are you teaching harder and enjoying it less? Whether you are a beginning teacher, a seasoned veteran, or anyone in-between, this session will
offer you inspiration for teaching as well as positive, pragmatic steps
you can take to build or maintain a sense of sanity in today’s educational
world. Join Debbie Silver for an eye-opening session that will provide
food for thought along with plenty of humor to make the journey fun.
1:00 - 2:00
350B
Jennifer Brewer,
Texas Instruments
1008
General Interest
Shifting Gears with Content
Effective and Successful Grant Writing Strategies
This session will provide practical advice in preparing grant proposals
for federal, state, local, foundation, and corporate funds to purchase
data collection and graphing technology for classroom instruction. A
variety of resources prepared by Texas Instruments will be provided
to participants. This session is not just specific to calculator technology. You will also learn basic grant writing skills to prepare a grant
for any materials and resources you might need in your classroom.
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Mastery of number facts is an essential part of computation. This
includes confidence with strategies and fluency. These can both be
achieved easily if appropriate games are selected that meet all three
criteria—thinking, speed, and accuracy. This session will demonstrate how to use methods (based on research) that motivate and enable students to achieve this goal. It begins with appropriate visual
materials followed by three levels of games.
Educators Financial
Seminars
Planning for a financially successful retirement is the focus of the
discussion. Learn how to invest through available avenues, short
and long term, in both volatile and level times, to ensure success.
Further, you explore TRS, the Partial Lump Sum Option and 403(b)/
TSA options such as annuities (fixed and variable), mutual funds
and managed mutual funds. Diversifying your investments and
protecting your principal from market fluctuations are also covered.
Featured
Good Games Lead to Good Gains
Jay Allen Finn, CPA,
Tim Webster,
A Challenging Investment Workshop that Includes TRS and
How to Reach Personal Economic Success
1006
Shifting Gears with Content
11:30 - 12:30
352F
ELEMENTARY
2043
361CF
CAMT 2015
Gearing Up for Change
ELEMENTARY
1:00 - 2:00
352C
Governors State University
1009
General Interest
Pre-service/New Teacher
Andrea Johnson,
Tim Smith,
TODOS
Co-Teaching with Your Preservice Teachers: A Win, Win, Win
Sometimes it’s difficult to model and test pedagogical teaching
practices for preservice teachers in a methods classroom. To better
prepare them to teach students who struggle with language, conceptual understanding, and a sustained opportunity gap. Angela, Andrea, and Tim will share research findings and discuss the benefits
enjoyed by our students and themselves.
1:00 - 2:00
370BE
2047
PK-2
Wednesday
Angela Thompson,
Suzanne Hood,
Gwinnett County Public
Schools
1:00 - 2:00
2050
PK-2
Teachers will use free online APPs from The Math Learning Center
to support rigor and engagement using computational strategies.
These APPs support teachers in their learning trajectory of differentiating technology tools for the 21st century learner. These APPs can
be used on any device. The APPs provide tools for students to communicate their thinking as they navigate number lines, vocabulary,
number racks, geoboards, number frames, and number pieces.
1:00 - 2:00
382AB
Gayle Stahl,
Independent Consultant
2048
Jane Felling,
Box Cars & One-Eyed
Jacks
Shifting Gears with Content
Box Cars Power Play Games for Teaching Place Value
Come prepared to play games that incorporate the use of cards,
dice, multi-sided place value dice, and number lines. Games and
strategies will focus on naming, ordering, and comparing numbers,
beginning rounding strategies, using benchmarks on number lines,
number patterns on the hundred board, introducing expanded numbers, and more. Reproducible game boards and student samples
will be shared. Ideas are great for regular, title1, ELL, special ed,
and RtI programs.
1:00 - 2:00
340AB
Cindy Garcia,
Pasadena ISD
2051
Teaching with Technology
BYOD: Computational Fluency, There’s an APP for That
Ballroom B
K-5
Accelerating and Integrating Interventions
Mathematically Speaking: Academic Language Strategies in
the Math Classroom
This session will explore several academic language strategies that
can be used in a mathematics classroom to help support students as
they learn math vocabulary. The strategies are hands-on, interactive,
and promote student dialogue.
1:00 - 2:00
351CF
2052
K-5
PK-2
Stefani Kulhanek,
Region 4 Education Service
Center
Shifting Gears with Content
Shifting Gears with Content
Addition and Subtraction: Building a Strong Foundation
Explore instructional strategies for joining, separating, and comparing as you learn how to build a strong foundation for your youngest
learners. In this interactive session, you will use various manipulatives and math mats to increase student understanding and accelerate conceptual development. This session will address prerequisite
skills, student misconceptions, differentiation, and "pitfalls to
avoid.” A strong foundation in addition and subtraction will contribute to students' future success in mathematics.
Exploring Open Number Lines, Grades 1-3
Join us as we explore how to use open number lines to develop
students’ conceptual understandings of number concepts, addition,
and subtraction.
1:00 - 2:00
351AD
Donna Knoell,
Educational Consultant
2053
K-5
Ramping Up for College and Career Readiness
1:00 - 2:00
342CF
Lynn Rule,
MathRack
2049
PK-2
Ramping Up for College and Career Readiness
Christina Tondevold,
Mathematically Minded
BYOD Develop Relationships Needed for Fluency Using a
MathRack
MathRack's built-in structure allows students to develop more advanced strategies. Explore number relationships, addition/subtraction strategies, ways to develop meaning for operations and solving
story problems using one powerful tool!
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Employing Effective Questioning Strategies and
Mathematical Discourse to Increase Achievement
The speaker will engage attendees using effective questioning strategies applied to complex, real-world problems. Donna Knoell will
model how to design instruction where every child’s instructional
needs are addressed, thinking is visible, student feedback informs
instruction, and standards-based learning results from thinking and
application of essential concepts– not memorization. Handouts will
be provided.
Elementary Catalog
Gearing Up for Change
1:00 - 2:00
Erica Arevalo,
Corpus Christi ISD
2054
1:00 - 2:00
320C
2058
K-5
K-5
Shifting Gears with Content
Shifting Gears with Content
Jennifer NorthMorris,
Pima County Office of
Education
Math Coach's Cafe
How Big? How Much? Exploring Measurement
This session is intended for math coaches, specialists, or other
educators who support math teachers by encouraging the use of
best practices. The World Café Discussion Protocol will be used to
discuss hot topics in math education and provide participants time to
collaborate, address challenges, and celebrate successes.
How long? How far? How much? Come learn how to implement
exploration in your classroom as a teaching strategy for developing
the concepts of measurement. From collecting and interpreting data
to developing the concept of area and volume, you will consider
several investigations to help develop these ideas. Get your students
engaged and intrigued with lessons you can use immediately.
1:00 - 2:00
372CF
Christina Miller,
US Math Recovery
2055
2059
K-5
What’s in a group? This session explores ways to support children's
understanding of group structures that lead to making sense of
multiplication and division as operations. Instructional strategies
utilizing concrete materials that build strong mental images will be
shared. This session will also address ways to intentionally scaffold
from concrete materials to mental math strategies. Instructional
strategies shared are intended for both small group and full classroom instruction.
2056
K-5
Ricky Mikelman,
Staff Development for
Educators
Conquering Rigorous Problems—It's the Words!
We’re being asked to teach on a new level of depth and rigor. Learn
new strategies to attack word problems, including Singapore’s
proven Model Drawing (Strip Diagram) technique and why it works
with all students! Included will be ideas for helping your struggling
learners, English Language Learners, high achievers, and how to
bring their parents along on the journey! Leave with strategies you
can use, regardless of your current textbook.
360AD
Sara Moore,
ETA hand2mind
2057
Sherry Parrish,
Parrish and Associates, Inc.
K-5
Shifting Gears with Content
Developing Fractional Reasoning Through Number Talks
The routine of Number Talks to support the development of fractional reasoning and computational fluency will be explored through
the lens of the NCTM’s Mathematics Teaching Practices and the
Texas Process Standards. Classroom video of fraction Number
Talks will be used to discuss and analyze students’ fractional reasoning.
1:00 - 2:00
371BE
Amelia Moya,
Lake Travis ISD
2060
K-5
Accelerating and Integrating Interventions
BYOD: Ahoy, Matey! Leveled Centers that Work!
Shifting Gears with Content
1:00 - 2:00
Assembly C
K-5
Shifting Gears with Content
Integrating the Process Standards: Manipulatives to the
Rescue!
Integrating the process standards in mathematics instruction is
a critical element of improving student learning. Manipulatives
provide a scaffold for communicating about mathematics, showing
multiple representations of mathematics, and developing deeper
conceptual understanding of mathematics. Learn strategies for using
familiar tools in new ways as you strengthen mathematics teaching
and learning by integrating process and content standards.
Yo, ho, ho and a bottle of fun! In this session, you will learn about
pirate-themed math activities. These include rounding, perimeter,
and partner fact games. Students seem to be doing the same task,
but, after a closer look, you will see how the rigor is adjusted for individual learners. You can easily alter these to suit different themes,
holidays, or units.
1:00 - 2:00
361BE
Lesli Laughter,
Mentoring Minds
2061
K-5
Revving Up Everyday Assessments
Formative Assessment: A Focus on Learning
This presentation will help participants understand the importance
of creating a balanced classroom assessment approach by using
formative assessment. An emphasis will be placed on formative
assessment strategies to improve the learning process and how both
teachers and students use feedback to improve teaching and learning.
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Wednesday
Making Sense of Multiplication and Division: From Concrete
to Abstract
361CF
F
Featured
Shifting Gears with Content
1:00 - 2:00
1:00 - 2:00
ELEMENTARY
382C
CAMT 2015
Gearing Up for Change
ELEMENTARY
1:00 - 2:00
370CF
2062
3-5
Shannon Alba,
Region 4 Education Service
Center
360BE
Kewanta Michelle,
Houston ISD
2066
3-5
Shifting Gears with Content
Shifting Gears with Content
Engaging Students in Mathematics! Grades 4-5
DI: Lesson Design which Engages Multiple Intelligences
Engage students with TEKS-based “snapshot” activities that promote problem-solving, concept development, and making connections, with an emphasis on student communication, as you explore
options for ongoing formative assessment.
This fun and fast paced breakout session includes hands-on materials for differentiating your instruction for your students of multiple
intelligences. Learn to identify the multiple intelligence types and
create instructional strategies to accommodate the full range of
ability and intelligence in your classroom. Come away from this
session with the ability to engage and motivate your students with
relevant, responsive, and related lesson designs.
1:00 - 2:00
351BE
Ashley Smith,
Clear Creek ISD
2063
3-5
Accelerating and Integrating Interventions
Lara Roberts,
Pasadena ISD
Let's Get Reading... In Math?
Wednesday
1:00 - 2:00
Using math literature in the classroom engages students and helps
differentiate lessons for all learners. Join us as we explore geometry
and measurement concepts through picture books. Leave with fun
and engaging ways to integrate ELAR student expectations into
your math lessons.
1:00 - 2:00
371CF
2064
3-5
Rhonda Brady,
Little Cypress Mauriceville
ISD
Shifting Gears with Content
Algebra Readiness in Elementary, New TEKS, and Rigor,
WOW!!!
Learn how to implement the TEKS to strengthen your students’
conceptual understanding of algebra using modeling and distributed
practice. Prepare your students for the rigor of STAAR in just ten
minutes a day. Watch as their ability and confidence in math grows,
using skill-building techniques designed by teachers for teachers!
Come see the materials and strategies we use in our classrooms that
instill student confidence and success.
1:00 - 2:00
371AD
2065
3-5
John Felling,
Box Cars & One-Eyed
Jacks
Accelerating and Integrating Interventions
Math Fun”Die”Mentals—Regular Dice Games for Grades 3-5
Who knew regular dice could be used to teach so many areas of the
curriculum? Come play with this inexpensive manipulative (36
dice) and learn games for all the operations, fractions, place value,
graphing, data management, problem solving and more. Learn
ways to engage and motivate your students that allows for meaningful fact fluency practice. Game boards, student samples and journal
writing extensions will be shared. Great for regular, special ed, RTI,
ELL, and after school programs.
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1:00 - 2:00
381BC
2067
3-5
JC Sanders,
Region 13 Education
Service Center
Shifting Gears with Content
The Concrete Model of Good Math Instruction for Struggling
Students
In this session, educators will acquire strategies and ideas on how
to best adapt the general education curriculum to meet the needs of
students with disabilities. We will debunk the myth that struggling
students should not be exposed to higher mathematical concepts.
Participants will also gain ideas on how to adapt and modify curriculum while maintaining great expectations for all students.
1:00 - 2:00
370AD
Jason Cunningham,
Stockdale ISD
2068
3-5
Shifting Gears with Content
Gearing Up For a Fresh Start
The pressures of the state testing system, new Math TEKS, and the
RtI process can be overwhelming and stifling to teachers. In order
to meet all of the requirements teachers are held to, they must rely
on small group instruction. How can teachers provide their students
with small group instruction and still manage the other 20 students
in their classrooms? Work centers are the key. This session will look
at a simple, easily maintained system for centers that works well
for most grade levels, and can be applied in other subject levels for
those who teach multiple subjects. Participants will leave with editable templates for work station menus, as well as numerous ideas
for resources that provide students with engaging activities.
1:00 - 2:00
372BE
Kathy Collins,
Creative Mathematics
2069
3-5
Shifting Gears with Content
Games to Build Student Strength with Fractions!
Come learn five powerful games that practice the proportional reasoning of fractions! Kathy will use three models of fractions—area,
set, and number line. Kathy Collins, a Kim Sutton Associate, will
share Kim’s amazing ideas that all students love.
Elementary Catalog
Gearing Up for Change
1:00 - 2:00
2070
3-5
Valerie Johse,
Texas Council on Economic
Education
2:30 - 3:30
1012
Pre-service/New Teacher
Financially Fit Students
Come see how engaging stories and connected activities can help
your students master the financial literacy TEKS in a way that is
meaningful to elementary students. Find out where free, quality
materials are available to help support the teaching of personal
financial literacy TEKS.
380A
2071
3-5
Rice University School
Mathematics Project
2:30 - 3:30
1013
General Interest
Ten Excellent Reasons to Visit the TI Website
This presentation will provide an update of the latest information from Texas Instruments featuring support materials at www.
education.ti.com. Learn about thousands of free calculator activities
and lesson plans, EOC practice tests, tutorials, and on-line courses.
Learn about TEKS-specific materials for your classroom and find
information to support student preparation for exams. Check out
the new STEM Behind Hollywood materials, learn about new Math
Nspired resources, and visit TI’s fan page on Facebook—www.
facebook.com/ticalculators.
1011
F
Featured
F
Assembly C
General Interest
Harold Asturias,
University of California at
Berkeley
David Molina,
David Molina & Associates
General Interest
Revving Up Everyday Assessments
Rigor, Engagement and Discourse: The Gears that Turn Our
Students’ Success in Mathematics!
The new TEKS, STAAR, and accountability system call on teachers
to approach mathematics in a very different way. In particular, they
provide an opportunity for each student to be successful in mathematics. How do you make this happen? By using the relationships
among rigor, engagement, and discourse.
Linking Language and Learning
Finding ways to provide all students access and opportunity to
wrestle with, make sense of, and communicate about important
mathematics is the focus of this session. We will discuss how to
ensure equitable instructional practices that provide students access
to the knowledge and skills they need to be successful in school and
beyond.
2:30 - 3:30
351AD
Sheri Sowder,
Lone Star Learning
2072
PK-2
Shifting Gears with Content
Intentional Instruction
Years of research confirm that once a student's brain is engaged,
the desire to learn and the ability to retain knowledge soars! Learn
simple ways to keep all students actively engaged in your lessons.
Use response cards, play games, sing songs, and more. Watch an
amazing transformation occur in your classroom!
2:30 - 3:30
372CF
Christina Miller,
US Math Recovery
2073
PK-2
Shifting Gears with Content
Setting the Stage for Multiplication and Division
What’s in a group?! This session explores ways teachers support
children's understanding of group structures in the early years that
lead to making sense of multiplication and division as operations.
Instructional strategies utilizing concrete materials that build strong
mental images will be shared. This session will share activities for
small groups as well as the whole class that build on the work done
with skip counting in the early years.
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Vince O’Connell,
Teaching with Technology
Assembly B
TODOS
Shifting Gears with Content
Texas Instruments
2:30 - 3:30
Andrea Johnson,
Tim Smith,
Sometimes it’s difficult to model and test pedagogical teaching
practices for preservice teachers in a methods classroom. There is a
better way to prepare them to teach students who struggle with language, conceptual understanding, and a sustained opportunity gap.
Angela, Andrea, and Tim will share research findings and discuss
the benefits enjoyed by our students and themselves.
Featured
Fractions can be fun and be taught through understanding the
concept. Manipulatives and ideas for moving the concepts into
long-term memory will be modeled.
1010
Governors State University
Co-Teaching with Your Preservice Teachers: A Win, Win, Win
Fabulous Fractions
350B
Angela Thompson,
Jan Casey,
Shifting Gears with Content
2:30 - 3:30
1009
General Interest
Shifting Gears with Content
1:00 - 2:00
352C
ELEMENTARY
320B
CAMT 2015
Gearing Up for Change
ELEMENTARY
2:30 - 3:30
332AD
Kimberly Rimbey,
KP Mathematics
2074
351BE
2078
PK-2
K-5
Shifting Gears with Content
Shifting Gears with Content
Katey Arrington,
Ann Roman,
The Charles A. Dana
Center, UT Austin
Making Math Meaningful: Problem Solving with Place Value
What Are the Keys to Understanding the New K-8 TEKS?
From subitizing to multi-district operations, place value provides
a critical foundation for student success in math. Join us as we
explore concrete and visual models, mental strategies, and context
problems that make math meaningful in the early years.
How do big ideas form learning progressions across grade levels in
the new TEKS? What are the implications for teaching, learning,
and assessments? How can educators best support student success
around the new standards and performance on the test? The Dana
Center provides leadership in using standards to align teaching,
learning, and assessment. In this session, you will dive into the new
K-8 standards and begin to answer these important questions.
2:30 - 3:30
Ballroom B
2075
PK-2
Jane Felling,
Box Cars & One-Eyed
Jacks
2:30 - 3:30
Shifting Gears with Content
Graphing and Data Management Games and Activities, K-2
Wednesday
2:30 - 3:30
Come prepared to play games that incorporate the use of regular
and multi-sided dice. Games and extensions focus on organizing,
representing and interpreting data, constructing bar graphs, and
solving one- and two-step problems using data generated in a game.
Activities for teaching tallying, introductory probability will also be
shared. Game boards and student samples will be provided.
2:30 - 3:30
322
Janet Dodd,
Pasadena ISD
2076
K-5
Are you ready to incorporate work stations into your mathematics
instruction? Are you looking for ideas about the types of activities
that could be used? Are you wondering how to set up or arrange
work stations in your classroom? Join us as we explore the basics
for incorporating work stations into mathematics instruction.
2:30 - 3:30
352B
2077
K-5
K-5
Accelerating and Integrating Interventions
"I Hated Math"—Math Fact Fluency, Becoming Numerate
Gaining math fact fluency destroys the barriers that have fostered
"hating math!" Subsequently, possessing the automaticity of math
facts strengthens the foundation, structure, and confidence needed
to become a numerate being! Engaging fluency development using
online resources will be explored. Beware: fun and success ahead!
352D
Stefani Kulhanek,
Region 4 Education Service
Center
Shifting Gears with Content
Engaging Students in Mathematics! Grades 2-3
Engage students with TEKS-based “snapshot” activities that promote problem-solving, concept development, and making connections with an emphasis on student communication, as you explore
options for ongoing formative assessment.
Tony Morrow,
First In Math
2080
Work Stations 101
Connie Kilday,
ExploreLearning
2:30 - 3:30
Shifting Gears with Content
310B
2079
K-5
Teaching with Technology
Create a Generation of Thinkers with Deep Practice in
Procedural Fluency
How do you get your students to practice procedural fluency?
Experience First in Math®, the Texas Online Math Competition
built on the 24game®, where students get so excited about math
that they solve thousands of problems and soar beyond grade level.
Create more teaching time by compelling your students to immerse
themselves in Deep Practice with little direction, incorporating
procedural fluency with the basics.
2:30 - 3:30
372BE
Haily May
2081
K-5
Accelerating and Integrating Interventions
Guided Math Group and Math Tubs
Similar to guided reading groups, guided math groups provide teachers
with the ability to encourage mathematical exploration in a risk-free
environment. Students work collaboratively on a variety of levels. This
workshop provides teachers with the tools needed to form guided math
groups, set up math tubs, and effectively monitor student progress.
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Elementary Catalog
Gearing Up for Change
2:30 - 3:30
2:30 - 3:30
Elizabeth Stackhouse,
College Station ISD
2082
310A
2087
Rebecca Atnip,
Casey Pena,
Catnip's Word Walls
K-5
3-5
Accelerating and Integrating Interventions
Accelerating and Integrating Interventions
Math+Language Barriers+Disabilities=It Can Be Done! The
Universal Language of Math
It's All Greek to Them: Changing World, Changing Words
The world of math is changing fast and the words of math are
changing with it. Whether old language or new, it's all Greek to
them!! Research shows that the use of a visually engaging, interactive word wall, along with a variety of vocabulary instructional
strategies, can help break the "language" barrier for your students.
Build your Response to Intervention and your English Language
Learner toolbox with practical, student-centered methods, while
increasing fluency in the language of math!
Come learn great techniques that work for teaching mathematics to
children who experience language barriers and disabilities.
2:30 - 3:30
2083
371BE
2060
Amelia Moya,
Lake Travis ISD
K-5
Accelerating and Integrating Interventions
2:30 - 3:30
BYOD: Ahoy, Matey! Leveled Centers that Work!
2084
361BE
2061
3-5
What's Your Angle? Measuring Angles in 4th Grade
Join us as we explore activities that address measuring angles in
fourth grade. Walk away with classroom-ready activities!
Lesli Laughter,
Mentoring Minds
2:30 - 3:30
2089
Revving Up Everyday Assessments
K-5
Karen Hardin,
Rice University School
Mathematics Project
Promote student understanding by asking good questions and guiding effective interactions between all participants in your mathematics
classroom discussions. Learn effective questioning techniques to guide
your instruction and techniques to improve classroom discourse.
2086
3-5
2:30 - 3:30
382AB
Michelle Williams,
Ignited
2090
3-5
Elizabeth Ward,
Elisabeth Johnston,
Mark Georges,
Shifting Gears with Content
Visual Models and Equivalent Fractions
This session focuses on exploring hands-on activities that will offer
elementary math teachers the opportunity to deepen their understanding of of how to use visual models to create equivalent fractions.
Plymouth State University,
Accelerating and Integrating Interventions Texas Wesleyan University
¡Ya lo entiendo!: Using Math Games with ELLs
This session focuses on the importance of providing support when using
games to help ELLs develop math concepts. Math games created for the 3-5
classroom, along with strategies used to scaffold these activities with ELLs,
will be shared. In addition, presenters will engage the audience in an interactive discussion of various modifications and classroom considerations.
Stockdale ISD
The pressures of the state testing system, new Math TEKS, and the
RtI process can be overwhelming and stifling to teachers. In order
to meet all of the requirements teachers are held to, they must rely
on small group instruction. How can teachers provide their students
with small group instruction and still manage the other 20 students
in their classrooms? Work centers are the key. This session will look
at a simple, easily maintained system for centers that works well
for most grade levels, and can be applied in other subject levels for
those who teach multiple subjects. Participants will leave with editable templates for work station menus, as well as numerous ideas
for resources that provide students with engaging activities.
Effective Questioning and Classroom Discourse
370BE
Jason Cunningham,
Gearing Up For a Fresh Start
Shifting Gears with Content
2:30 - 3:30
2068
Shifting Gears with Content
This presentation will help participants understand the importance of
creating a balanced classroom assessment approach by using formative assessment. An emphasis will be placed on formative assessment
strategies to improve the learning process and how both teachers and
students use feedback to improve teaching and learning.
380A
370AD
3-5
Formative Assessment: A Focus on Learning
2085
Region 4 Education Service
Center
Shifting Gears with Content
K-5
2:30 - 3:30
Shannon Alba,
Wednesday
Yo, ho, ho and a bottle of fun! In this session, you will learn about piratethemed math activities. These include rounding, perimeter, and partner
fact games. Students seem to be doing the same task, but, after a closer
look, you will see how the rigor is adjusted for individual learners. You
can easily alter these to suit different themes, holidays, or units.
2:30 - 3:30
310C
2088
ELEMENTARY
342AD
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CAMT 2015
Gearing Up for Change
Elementary Session Listings
Thursday, June 25, 2015
Thursday Opening Sessions
F
8:00 - 9:30
Assembly A, B, C
Ervin Knezek,
Lead4Ward
The Times Are Changing with New Standards, New
Expectations, and New Solutions
Teaching for success in the new mathematics standards has a
definite order of operations–standards/(professional learning +
resources + strategies) + communication = success in learning.
In this session, we explore new ways to think about professional
learning, choosing resources, and designing assessments. But
ultimately, success in mathematics education depends on us–on
our ability to teach for depth and complexity.
F
8:00 - 9:30
Ballroom B, C
Bea Luchin, NUMBERS
Professional Development
More Rigorous Mathematics for All—Are We There Yet? If
Not, How Do We Get There—Through Equity and Pedagogy
The new mathematics TEKS require more emphasis on
problem solving, integration of algebraic thinking, and
multiple representations than ever before. Equity and
pedagogy in daily instructional practices and high levels of
student engagement are critical to getting there, and getting
there quickly! In this session, we will explore strategies that
are classroom ready and have a proven track record where
they have been implemented.
MATH-A-RAMA Sessions
1:00 - 3:30
Ballroom A
for elementary teachers
On each of three half-days of the conference (Wednesday morning,
Thursday afternoon, and Friday morning), elementary teachers (K-5)
will have the opportunity to attend different sessions, for a total of
16 different MATH-A-RAMA sessions AT CAMT 2015. The theme
for all of the sessions will be Geometry. Each day, a different set of
25-minute sessions will be repeated, so that a participant may attend
all sessions in any order. Participants who do not want to attend
every MATH-A-RAMA session may enter and leave during the
5-minute breaks between sessions. See you there!
Angela Reyes, Lauren Johnson, Lauren Preston,
Deer Park ISD
Tasty Shapes
Students use food items representing 2- and 3-dimensional shapes
to learn geometric terminology for attributes of geometric shapes
and solids including sides, faces, edges, corners, and vertices. This
activity could be extended to include other 2- and 3-dimensional
shapes and identification of bases vs. faces.
Kelly McDaniels, Maggie Revelette, Audrey Swoveland,
Hanna Deutschendorf, Kim Padua, Wendy Manion,
What’s In a Name?
Here’s a Shape, There’s a Shape, Everywhere a Shape, Shape
Midway ISD
Students use geometrical language to classify and compose 2- and
3-dimensional shapes based on their attributes. Students apply
mathematics to everyday life using tools such as manipulatives to
create real-world images such as those used in logos.
Deer Park ISD
Students go on a scavenger hunt to identify 3-dimensional solids
in the real world and will use a tally chart to create a graph of their
findings. Students classify the objects by their properties.
Barry Smith, Heather Hodges, Michelle Portis,
Arash Abnoussi, Amy Hanshew, Debbie Strouse,
The Amazing Geometric Race
To Be or Not to Be—a Hexagon!
Deer Park ISD
Students go on a race to take pictures of situations that involve
angles. They use a protractor to determine the approximate measures of the angles in the pictures and then use the measurements to
classify and order the angles.
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Midway ISD
Students compose and decompose geometric figures in order to
explore new ways to create shapes with a specific attribute—such as
six sides. Students then investigate whether or not their regular and
irregular hexagons can be partitioned into fractional parts.
Elementary Catalog
Gearing Up for Change
8:00 - 9:30
1400
F
Opening Session
General Interest
Bea Luchin,
NUMBERS Professional
Development
10:00 - 11:00
The new mathematics TEKS require more emphasis on problem
solving, integration of algebraic thinking, and multiple representations than ever before. Equity and pedagogy in daily instructional
practices and high levels of student engagement are critical to
getting there, and getting there quickly! In this session, you will
explore strategies that are classroom ready and have a proven track
record where they have been implemented.
8:00 - 9:30
Assembly A,B,C
PK-2
General Interest
Teaching for success with the new mathematics standards has a
definite order of operations—standards/(professional learning +
resources + strategies) + communication = success in learning. In
this session, you will explore new ways to think about professional
learning, choosing resources, and designing assessments. But ultimately, success in mathematics education depends on you—on your
ability to teach for depth and complexity.
F
Featured
10:00 - 11:00
381BC
2401
Laura Choate,
Fallbrook Union
Elementary
Becoming Numerically Nimble with Visual Models and Games
Be more efficient and selective about time devoted to number. Explore number relationships using visual models including dot cards,
ten frames, number lines, grids, and hundred charts. Leave with
classroom-ready strategies to help you enhance number sense and
build confidence in your students.
10:00 - 11:00
General Interest
Shifting Gears with Content
Teaching Practices You Can Count On to Develop
Procedural Fluency
Procedural fluency—the skill in carrying out arithmetic and
algebraic procedures flexibly, accurately, efficiently, and appropriately—is an important outcome for all students. Yet, many students
fail to develop such fluency despite our best efforts. This session
addresses the questions “What is procedural fluency?”, “What
instructional practices and approaches will best help all students
achieve this goal?”, and “How can I implement these practices in
my classroom?”
320A
Bob Sornson,
Early Learning Foundation
2402
PK-2
Diane Briars,
NCTM
1402
Engage your 21st century learners with this dynamic classroom
approach! Project-based learning encourages active participation
and exploration while emphasizing cooperation, collaboration, and
creativity. This session will outline project-based learning and give
specific examples of ways to incorporate it into your classroom.
Lesson plans (with TEKS) will be provided! Come for the door
prizes, but stay for the innovative teaching strategies!
Accelerating and Integrating Interventions
The Times Are Changing with New Standards, New
Expectations, and New Solutions
Assembly B
Sul Ross State University
Rio Grande College
Revitalize Your Instruction with Project-Based Learning!
PK-2
Shifting Gears with Content
10:00 - 11:00
Shifting Gears with Content
Patricia A. Nicosia,
Michael Ortiz,
Revving up Everyday Assessments
Differentiated Pre-K to Grade 3 Math Instruction
Differentiated instruction is a crucial part of a competency-based
learning system. Start with identifying essential early math skills,
then teach responsively, using differentiated learning as part of an
instructional plan that gives each child the time and support needed
to develop essential skills and concepts. Learn to use simple tools
for tracking progress toward competency.
10:00 - 11:00
Ballroom B
2403
PK-2
Jane Felling,
Box Cars & One-Eyed
Jacks
Shifting Gears with Content
On a Roll to Fact Fluency, K-2
Who knew regular dice could be used to teach so many areas of the
curriculum! Come prepared to play with this inexpensive and easily
found manipulative (36 dice) and learn games for the operations,
patterning, and more. Learn ways to engage and motivate your primary students with this fun manipulative that allows for meaningful
fact fluency practice. Great game boards, student samples, and journal writing extensions will be provided. These activities are great
for centers, whole class instruction, for regular, special ed, RtI, and
after school programs. Bring your phones and iPads for pictures.
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Thursday
F
Opening Session
Ervin Knezek,
Lead4ward
1401
Nicole Fillman,
Doral Academy of Nevada
2400
Shifting Gears with Content
More Rigorous Mathematics for All—Are We There Yet? If
Not, How Do We Get There—Through Equity and Pedagogy
350DE
ELEMENTARY
Ballroom B,C
CAMT 2015
Gearing Up for Change
ELEMENTARY
10:00 - 11:00
2404
F
Featured
Ballroom C
Barbara Novelli,
Creative Mathematics
10:00 - 11:00
2408
332BE
2079
PK-2
Connie Kilday,
ExploreLearning
K-5
Revving Up Everyday Assessments
Accelerating and Integrating Interventions
Using Games to Teach and Assess
"I Hated Math"—Math Fact Fluency, Becoming Numerate
Games provide a context for teaching math while students are having fun and learning at the same time. While students are actively
engaged in a game, the teacher can assess the student’s current
progress in understanding a math concept. Students will want to
understand the math so they can win the game! Barbara will share
great math games and many easy-to-implement techniques for
teaching and assessing math. Barbara will also share a strategy to
use journals to assess or extend the math concepts used while playing a game.
Gaining math fact fluency destroys the barriers that have fostered
"hating math!" Subsequently, possessing the automaticity of math
facts strengthens the foundation, structure, and confidence needed
to become a numerate being! Engaging fluency development using
online resources will be explored. Beware: fun and success ahead!
10:00 - 11:00
2409
361BE
Haily May
2081
K-5
10:00 - 11:00
Thursday
2405
342CF
Barbara Spotts
2012
Accelerating and Integrating Interventions
Guided Math Group and Math Tubs
K-5
Accelerating and Integrating Interventions
Number Lines . . . Oh the Places You'll Go!
In this session, over 100 Math Standards on the Open Number
Line will be modeled, including Elapsed Time, Making Change,
Subtraction with Regrouping to Equality, Probability, Measurement, Fractions/Decimals/Percentages, Geometry, Ratio/Proportion,
and more! You have to see this . . . and we guarantee you won't be
disappointed.
Similar to guided reading groups, guided math groups provide
teachers with the ability to encourage mathematical exploration in
a risk-free environment. Students work collaboratively on a variety
of levels. This workshop provides teachers with the tools needed to
form guided math groups, set up math tubs, and effectively monitor
student progress.
10:00 - 11:00
362BE
2410
K-5
10:00 - 11:00
342AD
2406
K-5
Accelerating and Integrating Interventions
Carl Juenke,
Faye Bruun,
Texas A&M UniversityCorpus Christi
Shifting Gears to Implement RtI with Tiers, Not Tears
Explore what is necessary for all students to successfully learn
mathematics. A Response to Intervention (RtI) approach can help
teachers know and understand how to support all students in acquiring mathematical proficiency. Discover what is different about RtI
mathematics content and pedagogy and increase your ability to
effectively teach mathematics to all students.
10:00 - 11:00
372AD
Debi DePaul,
ORIGO Education
2407
K-5
Revving up Everyday Assessments
Assessment, Grading, and Differentiation
In this session, we will discuss the powerful role of assessment and
grading in differentiation. The goal of this workshop is to provide a
framework for thinking about assessment, grading, standards, and
learning targets. Come learn why averaging grades and giving zeros
are counterproductive to the differentiated classroom and find out
what assessment alternatives are better.
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Jennifer Jones,
Alison Lentz,
Bastrop ISD
Shifting Gears with Content
The First 20 Days of Guided Math
You will explore the first 20 days of guided math and discuss how to
set up your math classroom for math reasoning and thinking, workstation rotations, and other routines to help get your math classroom
off on the right foot. Participants will walk away with an overview
of these days and a detailed guide for immediate implementation.
10:00 - 11:00
2411
352A
2010
Samantha Campbell,
Spring ISD
K-5
Shifting Gears with Content
Academic Talk: Using Math Discussion to Help Students
Learn
Do students use academic vocabulary in your classroom? Do you
promote productive speaking, listening, and critical thinking? Putting thoughts into words moves students to think critically. The
classroom should be a place where students are confident in their
voice to explain and participate in academic discussions. This
session will enhance your instructional tool kit with ways of using
language in teaching mathematics that will allow students to engage
in higher-order thinking and reasoning.
Elementary Catalog
Gearing Up for Change
10:00 - 11:00
2412
K-5
Revving Up Everyday Assessments
Carole Hayata,
Southern Methodist
University
10:00 - 11:00
3-5
Shifting Gears with Content
Interpreting ESTAR Universal Screening Reports
Making STEAM with Math
Universal screening is a step in the RtI process to identify students who may be at risk for success in mathematics. This session
will provide a brief overview of the ESTAR (Elementary School
Students in Texas: Algebra Ready) Universal Screener and describe
how to interpret the results. These results guide instructional
decision-making and help identify the intensity of student support in
algebra and algebra readiness skills.
10:00 - 11:00
10:00 - 11:00
310A
Sara Moore,
In today’s technology-rich world, come see how math can be integrated into daily STEAM activities using technology. Come experience
how you can use simple activities to engage students in applying concepts by designing hands-on projects to demonstrate their understanding of science, technology, engineering, and art, through mathematics.
K-5
ETA hand2mind
3-5
Shifting Gears with Content
This session uses manipulatives to model the relationships between
operations (e.g., addition and subtraction as inverses or division as
repeated subtraction). Participants will learn about these relationships and experience hands-on engagements which highlights them
for students. This brings out deeper conceptual understanding for
students and helps them extend their understanding of operations
beyond the basics to increase readiness for more advanced study.
In this session, you'll be exploring the use of the Area Model for
Multiplication. You'll investigate its use in single-digit multiplication
on through multiplying binomials. You'll look at how this model can
be used to help students devise valid strategies for multiplication and
to help them visualize what multiplication means geometrically using
students’ prior knowledge in geometry to help with multiplication
concepts. Imagine the power of a consistent model from conceptual
understanding of multiplication to factoring trinomials.
10:00 - 11:00
2414
3-5
Shifting Gears with Content
Jennie M. Bennett,
Lois Moseley,
NUMBERS Mathematics
Professional Development
Revving Up The Process Standards with Technical Reading
Participants will understand how to embed the process standards
with a problem-solving model that is aligned to Technical Reading.
10:00 - 11:00
2415
F
Featured
Assembly A
Marcy Cook,
Marcy Cook Math
3-5
Shifting Gears with Content
Motivational Starters for Number Sense and Algebraic
Thinking
Start each math period with a thinking activity to reinforce number
sense and develop algebraic thought processing. Involve all
students in meaningful mathematical activities which deal with the
language of mathematics, communication, reasoning, and problem
solving. Ensure that algebraic thinking is a constant (not a variable)
in your math program.
342BE
2418
3-5
Donna Monck,
Rock Christian
Academy,Easton,PA
Shifting Gears with Content
Mastering Measurement Skills—Fractions, Scale Drawing,
and More Easily!
Learn exciting, innovative, research-based methods and activities to teach measurement, fractions, scale drawing, perimeter,etc.
Hands-on activities provide practical application leading to student/
teacher success, ease, and enjoyment. Hand-outs and materials will
be provided. Come! Have fun! See how you measure up!
10:00 - 11:00
370CF
Shaunda Garrison,
ORIGO Education
2419
3-5
Ramping Up for College and Career Readiness
An Intentional Aim for the STAAR!
The State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness, commonly
referred to as STAAR, are mandated standardized tests used in public
primary and secondary schools to prepare students for college and
career readiness. This interactive session will focus on purposeful
examination of the four reporting categories for students in grades 3 to
5 and specific instructional strategies that make connections through
problem solving and reasoning. Participants will be able to incorporate
strategies for numerical representations and relationships, computations
and algebraic relationships, and geometry and measurement. Join this
interactive session as we make an intentional aim for the STAAR!
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Thursday
Helping Students Understand Operations in Mathematics
372CF
Mark Schmit,
The Area Model from Single-Digit Multiplication to Algebra
Shifting Gears with Content
10:00 - 11:00
371BE
2417
ETA hand2mind
2413
Bill Nebeker,
Klein ISD
2416
Jo Ann Bilderback,
Texas Education Agency
370BE
ELEMENTARY
382AB
CAMT 2015
Gearing Up for Change
ELEMENTARY
10:00 - 11:00
332AD
Round Rock ISD
2420
3-5
Shifting Gears with Content
Melissa Estes,
Carolyn Estes,,
Bryan ISD, Garland ISD
11:30 - 12:30
1403
F
Featured
Assembly A
1011
David Molina,
David Molina & Associates
General Interest
Revving Up Everyday Assessments
From Our Classrooms: Teaching 5th Grade Geometry
Without Worksheets
Rigor, Engagement and Discourse: The Gears that Turn Our
Students’ Success in Mathematics!
This session has creative geometry activities that are successful with
5th graders. We'll share original approaches to teach TEKS 5.5
"classify two-dimensional figures in a hierarchy of sets and subsets
using graphic organizers based on their attributes and properties".
We’ll include ideas for whole group discussion activities, stations,
journals, and games that get students out of their seats. Leave with
rigorous lessons that appeal to 5th graders.
11:30 - 12:30
10:00 - 11:00
351AD
2421
3-5
Thursday
Sandra Estes,
Lalonnie King,
Ector County ISD/MTM
Region 18
Shifting Gears with Content
Money Matters—It Is a Balancing Act
Participants will learn ways to teach students personal finance
and consumer math skills as they apply skills for a personal bank
account and a class store. Participants will get ideas for hands-on
experience needed to connect the newly constructed math TEKS to
their world.
10:00 - 11:00
372BE
2422
3-5
Accelerating and Integrating Interventions
Rudy Neufeld,
Thames Schools & Neufeld
Learning
352C
3-5
350B
1008
Jennifer Brewer,
Texas Instruments
General Interest
Shifting Gears with Content
Effective and Successful Grant Writing Strategies
This session will provide practical advice in preparing grant proposals for federal, state, local, foundation, and corporate funds to
purchase data collection and graphing technology for classroom
instruction. A variety of resources prepared by Texas Instruments
will be provided to participants. This session is not just specific to
calculator technology. You will also learn basic grant writing skills
to prepare a grant for any materials and resources you might need in
your classroom.
11:30 - 12:30
351BE
Sabrina McCullough,
224 Solutions
2424
PK-2
San Antonio ISD
This session will model 3 tiers for teaching fraction operations.
Attendees receive resources to model an environment involving
3-part lessons with which to address all students. The lessons help
students to catch up by using big picture concepts and then funneling them back into the next Tier 1 lesson.
2423
1404
Richard Martinez,
An RtI Model: Build, Draw, Talk, Write, Then Own Fractions
for Successful Real-World Application
10:00 - 11:00
The new TEKS, STAAR, and accountability system call on teachers
to approach mathematics in a very different way. In particular, they
provide an opportunity for each student to be successful in mathematics. How do you make this happen? By using the relationships
among rigor, engagement, and discourse.
Shifting Gears with Content
The Value of Counting on a Book
Literature books can add value to math instruction. However, how
does one begin to select the appropriate book and/or the time to use
it? During this session, participants will gear up to discover ways
to incorporate literature books aligned to the standards. Participants
will also experience the importance of creating engaging activities
based on a book that will promote exploration and understanding of
various skills and concepts.
Susie Hakansson,
TODOS: Mathematics for
All
Shifting Gears with Content
11:30 - 12:30
352E
Carolyn Olijnek,
US Math Recovery Council
2425
PK-2
Fractions on the Number Line
Accelerating and Integrating Interventions
This session will increase teachers’ conceptual understanding of
fractions using the number line approach through problem solving and discourse to include activities and materials for use in the
classroom. The English Language Proficiency Development (ELPD)
Framework will be infused. Come have some fun learning and interacting with others about fraction sense!
We’re On a Roll: Tools for Developing Early Number
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During children’s early numeracy development, they learn to say
number words in order, read and write numerals, and coordinate
counting to establish quantities. Participants will receive tools
(numeral roll, numeral track, etc.) to use in their classrooms and
discuss video clips to facilitate the development of all three aspects
of number.
Elementary Catalog
Gearing Up for Change
11:30 - 12:30
Creative Mathematics
2426
F
Featured
Kim Sutton,
11:30 - 12:30
351CF
Mollie Gabrielson,
US Math Recovery Council
2430
K-5
PK-2
Accelerating and Integrating Interventions
Shifting Gears with Content
Powerful Math Strategies for Powerful Peeps!
The Driving Force Behind Improvements in Math Instruction
This new session will focus on developing strong strategies for early
learners! You will love the practical ideas of Kim Sutton as she
teaches songs, dances, and hands-on activities through children's
literature! You will leave energized and excited about teaching
mathematics with the TEKS!
Professional development is needed for all teachers at all stages
of their careers in the area of mathematics. Research indicates that
the quality of instruction is an important factor influencing student
achievement in mathematics. When students are reflective and
when teachers are engaged in professional development, curriculum
development, and research, instruction improves. Reflective, professional practitioners are the driving force behind improvements in
education.
11:30 - 12:30
2427
320A
2025
Bob Sornson,
Early Learning Foundation
PK-2
11:30 - 12:30
Revving up Everyday Assessments
2431
Competency, Not Coverage: Pre-K to Grade 3 Essential
Math Skills
11:30 - 12:30
2428
322
2058
K-5
Jennifer NorthMorris,
Pima County Office of
Education
How Big? How Much? Exploring Measurement
How long? How far? How much? Come learn how to implement
exploration in your classroom as a teaching strategy for developing
the concepts of measurement. From collecting and interpreting data
to developing the concept of area and volume, you will consider
several investigations to help develop these ideas. Get your students
engaged and intrigued with lessons you can use immediately.
372CF
Nancy Wisker,
Dinah Zike Academy
2429
First In Math
K-5
Teaching with Technology
Create a Generation of Thinkers with Deep Practice in
Procedural Fluency
How do you get your students to practice procedural fluency?
Experience First in Math®, the Texas Online Math Competition
built on the 24game®, where students get so excited about math
that they solve thousands of problems and soar beyond grade level.
Create more teaching time by compelling your students to immerse
themselves in Deep Practice with little direction, incorporating
procedural fluency with the basics.
11:30 - 12:30
Shifting Gears with Content
11:30 - 12:30
2080
Tony Morrow,
372BE
Caren Sorrells,
Independent Consultant
2433
K-5
Shifting Gears with Content
Ann May,
Independent Consultant
Math Journals: A Math Wikipedia
Discover how to create journals with your students that can be used
as a usable reference throughout the school year. Examples from all
math strands will be included as well as foldables and suggestions
for preferred materials. Some spirals will be available, but participants are encouraged to bring their own spiral or notebook.
K-5
Shifting Gears with Content
Notebook Foldables® in the Elementary Classroom...Let's
Shift into High Gear!
Have you mastered the basics of Notebook Foldables® ? Are you
ready to shift into high gear with math journaling? Learn to create
examples that are not typically taught to audiences new to the use
of Foldables® . Discover more folds to help move your elementary
students beyond surface learning and onto the next level of interactive notebooking.
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Thursday
A competency-based learning system ensures that students master
essential skills before moving ahead to skills or content that will
overwhelm them. Identify essential skills, give kids the instruction
they need, ensure deep understanding, improve learning outcomes,
and help more students learn to love math by using this learning
system. Competency-based learning provides a pathway to success.
352D
ELEMENTARY
Assembly C
CAMT 2015
Gearing Up for Change
ELEMENTARY
11:30 - 12:30
2434
F
Ballroom C
2008
Dinah Zike Academy
371AD
3-5
Shifting Gears with Content
If teachers want students to retain and understand complex concepts
and content-laden vocabulary, the best way to help the learners’
brains manage the new information is by organizing the information
in a useable, recallable way. Notebook Foldables® are effective,
student-centered tools that enable students to record and process
new words and concepts in a hands-on, kinesthetic way. Create
your own mini-composition book filled with examples that are
classroom-tested and ready for immediate application.
Ballroom B
2435
K-5
Jane Felling,
Box Cars & One-Eyed
Jacks
Shifting Gears with Content
Rolling in the Dough—Money Games, K-5
Come prepared to play games and learn strategies to help you cover
financial literacy concepts. The games use play money and dice and
are easy to integrate into your centers for small group work, or are
easily adapted for whole class instruction. The games will cover
the following concepts: identifying coins and their values, trading
and value relationships between the coins, counting coins, counting
mixed change, making purchases and figuring out change owed, and
calculating tax. This is a fast-paced workshop that will help teach
abstract money concepts in a hands-on way. There might even be an
auction or two! Game boards and student samples will be shared.
11:30 - 12:30
332BE
Cori Spellane,
Los Fresnos CISD
2436
K-5
Pre-service/New Teacher
BYOD: Beat the Clock! Teach More in Less Time
Involved in this presentation is a set of classroom strategies and
beliefs that will give the teacher more time to teach. It gives teachers the tools to manage their classroom in a way that even the most
difficult student can learn. The information presented is researchbased and is used nationwide.
11:30 - 12:30
381BC
2437
3-5
Leigh Childs,
San Diego County Office of
Education
Accelerating and Integrating Interventions
Create Numerically Nimble Students
How can we work smarter? Experience engaging activities and
discover effective ways to improve students' numeric competence
and confidence. The handout includes many high-interest games to
enhance mathematical reasoning, numeric sense-making, and algebraic reasoning, as students improve their numeric competence.
Lymeda Singleton,
Texas A&M–Commerce
2438
K-5
ScafFOLDing Vocabulary Instruction via Notebook
Foldables®
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11:30 - 12:30
Shifting Gears with Content
Featured
11:30 - 12:30
Thursday
Dinah Zike,
Indian Corn and Pumpkins Across the Disciplines
As participants make their own Indian corn and pumpkin, they will
study perimeter, area, nets, volume, and surface area, then extensions into history, geography, science, and literature will be made.
11:30 - 12:30
2439
332AD
2420
3-5
Shifting Gears with Content
Sandra Estes,
Round Rock ISD
Melissa Estes,
Carolyn Estes,,
Bryan ISD, Garland ISD
From Our Classrooms: Teaching 5th Grade Geometry
Without Worksheets
This session has creative geometry activities that are successful with
5th graders. We'll share original approaches to teach TEKS 5.5
"classify two-dimensional figures in a hierarchy of sets and subsets
using graphic organizers based on their attributes and properties".
We’ll include ideas for whole group discussion activities, stations,
journals, and games that get students out of their seats. Leave with
rigorous lessons that appeal to 5th graders.
11:30 - 12:30
2440
370CF
2419
Shaunda Garrison,
ORIGO Education
3-5
Ramping Up for College and Career Readiness
An Intentional Aim for the STAAR!
The State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness, commonly referred to as STAAR, are mandated standardized tests used
in public primary and secondary schools to prepare students for
college and career readiness. This interactive session will focus on
purposeful examination of the four reporting categories for students
in grades 3 to 5 and specific instructional strategies that make connections through problem solving and reasoning. Participants will
be able to incorporate strategies for numerical representations and
relationships, computations and algebraic relationships, and geometry and measurement. Join this interactive session as we make an
intentional aim for the STAAR!
11:30 - 12:30
2441
342BE
2418
3-5
Donna Monck,
Rock Christian
Academy,Easton,PA
Shifting Gears with Content
Mastering Measurement Skills—Fractions, Scale Drawing,
and More Easily!
Learn exciting, innovative, research-based methods and activities to teach measurement, fractions, scale drawing, perimeter,etc.
Hands-on activities provide practical application leading to student/
teacher success, ease, and enjoyment. Hand-outs and materials will
be provided. Come! Have fun! See how you measure up!
Elementary Catalog
Gearing Up for Change
11:30 - 12:30
2042
3-5
Sonja Goerdt,
Caryl Pierson,
Math Teachers Press, Inc.
1:00 - 2:00
1405
Touch the chocolate, draw the chocolate, think the chocolate—and
eat it too? Walk through the 4 Essential Elements of RtI including
the research-based Concrete-Representational-Abstract approach to
teaching—proven very successful with ELL and special-needs students. Experience lessons with manipulatives, including chocolate
bars, to develop student understanding of fraction concepts in TEKS
Grades 3-5.
2443
371CF
2064
3-5
Rhonda Brady,
Little Cypress Mauriceville
ISD
Shifting Gears with Content
Learn how to implement the TEKS to strengthen your students’
conceptual understanding of algebra using modeling and distributed
practice. Prepare your students for the rigor of STAAR in just ten
minutes a day. Watch as their ability and confidence in math grows,
using skill-building techniques designed by teachers for teachers!
Come see the materials and strategies we use in our classrooms that
instill student confidence and success.
2444
352C
2423
3-5
TODOS: Mathematics for
All
Fractions on the Number Line
This session will increase teachers’ conceptual understanding of
fractions using the number line approach through problem solving and discourse to include activities and materials for use in the
classroom. The English Language Proficiency Development (ELPD)
Framework will be infused. Come have some fun learning and interacting with others about fraction sense!
380A
2445
3-5
General Interest
Math is Supposed to Make Sense! The Most Important
Mathematical Habit of Mind
Checking whether an answer is reasonable is part of every problemsolving model and every list of mathematical processes, practices,
or habits of mind. But becoming a mathematical thinker involves
more than routinely checking for reasonableness of answers. It
involves expecting that mathematics will make sense. How can you
help your students become so grounded in mathematical thinking
that alarms go off in their heads if something doesn’t make sense,
driving them to rethink, reconsider, or recalculate if it doesn’t?
Because math is supposed to make sense!
1:00 - 2:00
Laura LeRoy,
Rice University School
Mathematics Project
Shifting Gears with Content
Math Instruction. . .”A la Flipped Classroom”
Participants will experience math instruction through a flipped
classroom model. Ways to implement the model to differentiate
instruction will be explored.
371AD
1406
General Interest
Paula Moeller,
The University of Texas at
Austin
Shifting Gears with Content
So You Want to be a CAMT Speaker...
Join us for an informative session to learn how you can be a CAMT
speaker. Learn to speak up now and be the change in mathematics!
1:00 - 2:00
352C
1407
General Interest
Susie Hakansson,
Shifting Gears with Content
11:30 - 12:30
Independent Consultant
Iskra Nunez,
The University of Texas–
Pan American
Pre-service/New Teacher
This Is What Injustice Looks Like in Mathematics Education
The purpose of this session is to provide a wide range of examples
of what are considered injustices within mathematics education in
the U.S-Mexico borderland.
1:00 - 2:00
371BE
Donna Boucher,
Katy ISD
2446
PK-2
Shifting Gears with Content
Daily Routines for Building Number Sense
Meet the new math TEKS with quick, engaging daily number sense
routines. Gain a clear understanding of how children develop number sense along with tools you can use in your classroom tomorrow.
Experience 5 and 10 frames, rekenreks, dot cards, and other tools
for subsidizing and composing/decomposing numbers, and see how
to easily differentiate activities to meet all your students' needs.
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Thursday
Algebra Readiness in Elementary, New TEKS, and Rigor,
WOW!!!
11:30 - 12:30
Cathy Seeley,
Shifting Gears with Content
Even Fractions are Better [and Easier] with Chocolate!
11:30 - 12:30
F
Featured
Shifting Gears with Content
Assembly B
ELEMENTARY
2442
330AB
CAMT 2015
Gearing Up for Change
ELEMENTARY
1:00 - 2:00
320B
Carolyn Elender,
Retired, Pasadena ISD
2447
PK-2
Shifting Gears with Content
Valerie Johse,
Retired Pearland ISD
Making Basic Facts Stick Without the Use of Fingers and
Toes
Basic facts are the sight words of mathematics. So, how many of
your students are fluent in both addition and subtraction? We’ll
share what we’ve learned through a pilot program, Slow and Steady,
designed to focus learning in order to maximize results. Learn techniques for moving basic facts strategies straight into problem solving. Chants, a simple manipulative, and games will be highlighted.
1:00 - 2:00
Ballroom B
2448
PK-2
Box Cars & One-Eyed
Jacks
Thursday
Domino Math Games—Connecting the Dots for K-2
Come prepared to play games that incorporate the use of sets of
standard dominoes that teach the following concepts: numeration,
patterns, place value, graphing, basic operations, and more. This
manipulative is easy to use and integrate into your math program
and the games are appealing for all learners to use. Great game
boards, journal-writing extensions, time-saving resource management tips, and ideas to use at the start of the school year will be
shared. Games are great for regular, title 1, special ed, RtI, and
other school programs.
342AD
Jennifer Hylemon,
Grapevine-Colleyville ISD
2449
Shifting Gears with Content
Stop Summer Slide!
Come experience how one district leveraged its community connections to combat summer slide, build math fact fluency, and tackle
difficult to learn math TEKS through game play. The games align
to Texas Pre-K guidelines for math or revised math TEKS for K-8.
Participants will take home several games.
2450
351CF
2040
K-5
Kelly Threadgill,
Dave Skaggs,
SumBlox
Shifting Gears with Content
Have Sum Fun in Math!
Deep mathematical reasoning doesn’t have to come at the cost of
enjoyment and innovation. Through hands-on play and discussions,
guide your students to grasp a rich understanding about the properties of math by stacking building blocks! Students build bridges,
walls, and towers that show and assess their knowledge of the
operations of math. Bring back fun and creativity and see how math
is stacked in your favor!
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F
Featured
Assembly A
Jennifer Taylor-Cox,
Taylor-Cox Instruction
K-5
Shifting Gears with Content
Math Rocks: Guided Math Instruction in Action!
Learn how to offer small group, guided math instruction. We will
focus on building the math proficiency of students, using formative
assessments to identify the specific needs of students, increasing the
quantity and quality of math discourse in the classroom, analyzing
best practices, and providing strategic intervention and meaningful
enrichment to help all students strengthen academic performance.
2452
372CF
2429
Nancy Wisker,
Dinah Zike Academy
K-5
Shifting Gears with Content
Notebook Foldables® in the Elementary Classroom...Let's
Shift into High Gear!
Have you mastered the basics of Notebook Foldables® ? Are you
ready to shift into high gear with math journaling? Learn to create
examples that are not typically taught to audiences new to the use
of Foldables® . Discover more folds to help move your elementary
students beyond surface learning and onto the next level of interactive notebooking.
1:00 - 2:00
2454
352E
2057
Sara Moore,
ETA hand2mind
K-5
Shifting Gears with Content
Integrating the Process Standards: Manipulatives to the
Rescue!
K-5
1:00 - 2:00
2451
1:00 - 2:00
Jane Felling,
Shifting Gears with Content
1:00 - 2:00
1:00 - 2:00
Integrating the process standards in mathematics instruction is
a critical element of improving student learning. Manipulatives
provide a scaffold for communicating about mathematics, showing
multiple representations of mathematics, and developing deeper
conceptual understanding of mathematics. Learn strategies for using
familiar tools in new ways as you strengthen mathematics teaching
and learning by integrating process and content standards.
Elementary Catalog
Gearing Up for Change
1:00 - 2:00
Sheri Sowder,
Lone Star Learning
2455
1:00 - 2:00
320A
Nicholas Restivo,
Mineola UFSD
2459
3-5
3-5
Shifting Gears with Content
Revving up Everyday Assessments
Oh, Now I Get It
Gearing Up for Excitement in Problem Solving
You will be amazed at what your students can remember! Discover brain-compatible methods for learning and remembering
mathematical concepts through songs, graphic organizers, and
daily, interactive bulletin board programs. See methods of teaching
problem solving, vocabulary, and various concepts such as fractions,
decimals etc., through active learning.
Generate excitement for, and interest in mathematical problem
solving among your students. Energize and enrich your curriculum
by encouraging your students to take risks in problem solving while
reminding them that a real problem is not the same as a practice
exercise. Utilizing the methods and the types of questions discussed
in this session will reduce the need for teachers and students to cram
for any state assessment.
1:00 - 2:00
372AD
2456
3-5
Faye Bruun,
Carl Juenke,
Texas A&M Corpus Christi
1:00 - 2:00
3-5
Shifting Gears with Content
Using the What Works Clearinghouse’s five research-based recommendations with practical strategies for classroom use, learn how to
pull out some of the “tried and true” tools and put some new tools
into your tool belt to gear up for change next year.
372BE
2457
3-5
Susan Hemphill,
Region 13 Education
Service Center
Accelerating and Integrating Interventions
Using Open Numberlines as Models of Thinking and Models
for Thinking
Our new math standards list open numberlines as a strategy and
tool at several grade levels. In this session, participants will use
numberlines to show their thinking as well as a tool to help them
solve problems.
1:00 - 2:00
332BE
2458
3-5
Ricky Mikelman,
Staff Development for
Educators
Shifting Gears with Content
Fractions without Fear
Understanding fractions is a big challenge! This hands-on session
will explore the important, foundational TEKS of unit fractions,
and move to comparing fractions. You will explore the complex
algorithm of adding and subtracting fractions using the concrete
to pictorial to abstract model that helps students understand WHY
so they retain HOW. You’ll focus on the Mathematical Process
standards as you delve into rigorous anchor tasks, games, and strip
diagrams with fractions.
Revving up Everyday Assessments
Cassandra Hatfield,
Deni Basaraba,
Brea Ratliff,
Southern Methodist
University
The Anatomy of High-Quality Multiple Choice Assessment
Items
In this session, participants will learn the different purposes for
giving students assessment items, how to develop high-quality items
that adhere to best practices in assessment development, how items
can be crafted to target increasingly sophisticated levels of understanding, and how to use data obtained from multiple-choice items
to inform instruction.
1:00 - 2:00
362BE
2461
3-5
Alison Lentz,
Jennifer Jones,
Bastrop ISD
Shifting Gears with Content
Wacky and Wild Workstations for 3-5
Teachers will learn how to incorporate TEKS-based workstations
related to place value, number operations, and algebraic reasoning
to increase student engagement while incorporating higher-level
thinking skills, problem solving, student accountability, and fun!
Teachers will walk away with workstation ideas and activities to
meet the needs of their diverse classrooms!
1:00 - 2:00
340AB
Mary Evans,
Waco ISD
2462
3-5
Accelerating and Integrating Interventions
Lisa Hudson,
MaryEllen Maddox,
McGregor ISD
Help Me Reach Them, So I Can Teach Them!!
When it comes to teaching math to the reluctant learner, building a
solid student to teacher relationship matters! Learn how to connect
with students from the first day by collecting student data that can
be used the entire year! This session will focus on reaching at-risk
students by providing techniques that will change students’ negative attitudes about math. Pre-Service and all grade levels will take
away great tips and be inspired to reach and teach all "at promise"
students!
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Thursday
Gearing up for Change: Improving Mathematical Problem
Solving
1:00 - 2:00
350DE
2460
ELEMENTARY
330AB
CAMT 2015
Gearing Up for Change
ELEMENTARY
1:00 - 2:00
2463
F
Featured
Ballroom C
3-5
MaryAlice Hatchett,
Texas Council of Teachers
of Mathematics
1408
Why are fractions so hard to teach? Why are they so hard to understand? During this interactive session, the gear cogs you’ll view
are conceptual understanding, fraction progression from grades 3
to 5, academic language, and student learning through games. All
materials will be available electronically.
370AD
Ellen Mulligan
2464
3-5
381BC
Jane Scott,
MetaMetrics
3-5
Accelerating and Integrating Interventions
What if math objectives could offer insight toward closing the
gap of a student’s math schema? Using Quantiles.com, you will
investigate the difficulty level of math objectives at all grade levels.
Participants will explore the relationship of the math standards at
their grade level, how to gauge which math objectives students have
the readiness to tackle, and leave with free math resources that can
be used to differentiate math instruction.
362CF
Adrian Mendoza,
San Marcos CISD
2466
3-5
Shifting Gears with Content
Math/Science Gestures and Motion
Come learn fun ways to learn math concepts and vocabulary words
through gestures and motion. More than 120 math vocabulary
words and almost all math lessons can be introduced, learned, and
practiced with gestures and movement. Participants will practice
movements of vocabulary words, games, and activities that will
engage students in their classroom.
350B
1010
Syndy Lynch,
Texas Instruments
General Interest
Teaching with Technology
Ten Excellent Reasons to Visit the TI Website
This presentation will provide an update of the latest information from Texas Instruments featuring support materials at www.
education.ti.com. Learn about thousands of free calculator activities
and lesson plans, EOC practice tests, tutorials, and on-line courses.
Learn about TEKS-specific materials for your classroom and find
information to support student preparation for exams. Check out
the new STEM Behind Hollywood materials, learn about new Math
Nspired resources, and visit TI’s fan page on Facebook—www.
facebook.com/ticalculators.
2:30 - 3:30
Is 1-2-3 Really That Easy?
1:00 - 2:00
General Interest
NUMBERS Professional
Development
The new mathematics TEKS requires more emphasis on problem
solving, integration of algebraic thinking, and multiple representations than ever before. Equity and pedagogy in daily instructional
practices and high levels of student engagement are critical to
getting there, and getting there quickly! In this session, you will
explore strategies that are classroom ready and have a proven track
record where they have been implemented.
1409
This session is an interactive session that will empower instructors
with the skills to produce students who can think, write, and explain
mathematically. State and National Standards and Practices will
be the basis for establishing the important math discussions that
should follow skillfully created questions. These discussions will
help students make connections, justify solutions, and form a sound
foundation for understanding math concepts.
2465
1400
Bea Luchin,
More Rigorous Mathematics for All—Are We There Yet? If
Not, How Do We Get There—Through Equity and Pedagogy
2:30 - 3:30
Do You Speak Math?
1:00 - 2:00
Ballroom C
Shifting Gears with Content
Shifting Gears from Good to Great with Fractions
1:00 - 2:00
F
Featured
Shifting Gears with Content
Shifting Gears with Content
Thursday
2:30 - 3:30
330AB
Bon Crowder,
The Monarch School
1410
General Interest
Shifting Gears with Content
BYOD: Pinterest for Math Teachers
Pinterest is the number one social media site to find, curate, and
share classroom activities. It's fast to set up, easy to use, and a great
resource to find engaging activities, handouts, posters, and teaching
ideas for all grade levels. In this session, you'll learn how to search
and find lessons and resources that work for your students. You'll
also learn how (and what it means) to repin, like, comment and
share activities you find, as well as ones you create yourself. New
users can set up their Pinterest account during this session too!
2:30 - 3:30
1411
352C
1407
General Interest
Iskra Nunez,
The University of Texas–
Pan American
Pre-service/New Teacher
This Is What Injustice Looks Like in Mathematics Education
The purpose of this session is to provide a wide range of examples
of what are considered injustices within mathematics education in
the U.S-Mexico borderland.
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Elementary Catalog
Gearing Up for Change
2:30 - 3:30
1412
General Interest
Dusty Jones,
Sam Houston State
University
2:30 - 3:30
352D
2469
K-5
Vicki Breneman,
Moorhead Area Public
Schools
Ramping Up for College and Career Readiness
Accelerating and Integrating Interventions
AMTE-TX Business Meeting
Connecting Research to Practice
The Association of Mathematics Teacher Education-Texas Section
will hold their regular business meeting. Members and interested
individuals are welcome.
Effective teaching requires connecting current research to practice. When
teachers design and deliver purposeful instruction, students develop
strategies to be confident mathematical thinkers. Diagnostic assessments
and knowledge of how children learn math results in instruction that leads
to conceptual understanding. Inquiry-based teaching enables students to
be flexible thinkers and construct understanding of numeracy.
2:30 - 3:30
370AD
1413
General Interest
Timothy Lee,
Texas Retired Teachers
Association
2:30 - 3:30
2470
Pre-service/New Teacher
K-5
Is Someone Trying to Take Your Money?
TRTA is working to protect your future retirement and we want to
ensure your retirement is safe!
320A
Rob Nickerson,
ORIGO Education
2467
PK-2
Accelerating and Integrating Interventions
Early Intervention Strategies that Bridge Thinking
Providing interventions for struggling students in grades K to 2
requires a step-by-step instructional approach and the use of visual
models. Visual models bridge the thinking between concrete and
abstract. By coupling the visual models with direct, explicit instruction, the nature of intervention instruction is created. What are
other instructional strategies for intervention? Come explore the
complexities of intervention instruction through bridging thinking!
2:30 - 3:30
2468
320B
2447
PK-2
Shifting Gears with Content
Carolyn Elender,
Retired, Pasadena ISD
Valerie Johse,
Retired Pearland ISD
Making Basic Facts Stick Without the Use of Fingers and Toes
Basic facts are the sight words of mathematics. So, how many of
your students are fluent in both addition and subtraction? We’ll
share what we’ve learned through a pilot program, Slow and Steady,
designed to focus learning in order to maximize results. Learn techniques for moving basic facts strategies straight into problem solving. Chants, a simple manipulative, and games will be highlighted.
Nikki Bitzer Coree
Covington,
Texas Education Centers
Accelerating and Integrating Interventions
Nikki's Work It: Easy, Effective, and Efficient Classroom
Management that Works!
This is a "one-of-a-kind" classroom management system that will help
you shave hours of time off your busy schedule while raising math scores
in your district. This system can be easily implemented in any classroom.
Nikki will show you how to incorporate all the fun activities you're
learning here at CAMT. Learn how to track all those math papers, receive
hints for grading, and learn how to manage cooperative learning groups.
As Harry Wong says, "Effective teachers jealously guard their instructional time!" Learn how to be more jealous and effective with your time!
2:30 - 3:30
332CF
2471
K-5
JC Sanders,
Region 13 Education
Service Center
Accelerating and Integrating Interventions
Accommodations for the Math Classroom
All students are expected to take the same standardized test, but we
know not all students learn the same way or at the same pace. Accommodations are a critical component for students with disabilities
to access the general curriculum. In this session, participants will
experience some accommodations that can be used in the classroom
to help all students access and make progress in the general setting.
2:30 - 3:30
2472
F
Featured
Assembly A
Cheryl Rose Tobey,
Mathematics Consultant
K-5
Revving Up Everyday Assessments
Moving Learning Forward by Uncovering Student Thinking:
Get the FACTS!
Come learn a variety of short, easy-to-administer diagnostic assessment probes and formative assessment classroom techniques (FACTS).
FACTS are designed to uncover student misconceptions, engage and
motivate students, activate thinking and promote metacognition, provide stimuli for mathematical discussion, and improve questioning and
responses. Participants will learn about, practice, and discuss ideas for
eliciting and interpreting students’ mathematical ideas and how to use
the information to support students’ reflective thinking.
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Thursday
2:30 - 3:30
310C
ELEMENTARY
352B
CAMT 2015
Gearing Up for Change
ELEMENTARY
2:30 - 3:30
2473
K-5
Jane Felling,
Box Cars & One-Eyed
Jacks
2:30 - 3:30
2477
310A
2041
Chonita J. Ruiz,
Pasadena ISD
K-5
Shifting Gears with Content
Shifting Gears with Content
Million Dollar Math Class on a Dollar Store Budget, K-5
The Sounds of Mathematical Exploration
In this workshop, author Jane Felling shares her favorite dollar store
finds that she uses in her math classes. Come prepared with your
iPads or phones to take pictures of great items you can find for free,
or next to nothing, from a dollar store. With tight budgets, all teachers are looking for ways to save money! Ideas shared will be: items
to help with class management of manipulatives/storage, items to
help teach place value concepts, items to help teach the operations,
measurement, and more. Last year's session was described as a
hands-on, live Pinterest Board Fiesta.
Five out of the seven mathematics Process Standards for mathematics education require students to express their mathematical thinking. This session is designed to provide participants pedagogical
techniques to lead powerful, proactive student discourse in concert
with examining, monitoring, and cultivating all students’ mathematical thinking. Come experience how to create the sounds of
mathematical exploration in your classroom.
2:30 - 3:30
2474
Thursday
Ballroom B
372AD
2407
Debi DePaul,
Assessment, Grading, and Differentiation
In this session, we will discuss the powerful role of assessment and
grading in differentiation. The goal of this workshop is to provide a
framework for thinking about assessment, grading, standards, and
learning targets. Come learn why averaging grades and giving zeros
are counterproductive to the differentiated classroom and find out
what assessment alternatives are better.
381BC
2006
AnsMar Publishers, Inc.
K-5
Strategies to Meet the New TEKS Requirements: 7 Proven
Methods
Presenting effective Instructional Strategies, attendees will learn tips
to engage and reach students and emphasize critical thinking instead
of fill in the blank answers. Using seven successful strategies, teachers will be able to measure the development of student learning and
take on the demands of the new TEKS. This facilitates development
of knowledge and skills as specified in TEKS standards.
362BE
Davina Stringer,
Leander ISD
2476
K-5
Shifting Gears with Content
Amelia Moya,
Lake Travis ISD
Problem Solving Through “Tell Me What You See”
Amp up your problem-solving lessons while increasing engagement
and student math talk with your ELLs and low SES. After attending
the first TODOS Mathematics for All Conference, we learned a new
approach to problem solving that gets every student confident and
involved. We will show you several ways to integrate it into your
lessons and break down language barriers every day.
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Independent Consultant
3-5
Shifting Gears with Content
Come explore instructional strategies to use Cuisenaire Rods® in
your classroom. This often overlooked manipulative is a useful and
powerful tool for many concepts in grades 3 to 5: measurement, operations, fractions, patterns, functions, and more. You'll be amazed!
2:30 - 3:30
2479
351AD
2421
3-5
Bob Parrish,
Revving up Everyday Assessments
2:30 - 3:30
Gayle Stahl,
Cuisenaire Rods®—A Powerful Tool
Revving up Everyday Assessments
2475
361CF
2478
ORIGO Education
K-5
2:30 - 3:30
2:30 - 3:30
Lalonnie King,
Ector County ISD/MTM
Region 18
Shifting Gears with Content
Money Matters—It Is a Balancing Act
Participants will learn ways to teach students personal finance
and consumer math skills as they apply skills for a personal bank
account and a class store. Participants will get ideas for hands-on
experience needed to connect the newly constructed math TEKS to
their world.
2:30 - 3:30
2480
F
Featured
Assembly C
Kim Sutton,
Creative Mathematics
3-5
Shifting Gears with Content
Round Them Up With Rounding Readiness!
There are many skills that go into rounding readiness! You will
discover many motivating ways to give your grade 3 to 5 students
successful practice for rounding. Come ready to sing, dance, and
learn ways to make rounding more meaningful!
Elementary Catalog
Gearing Up for Change
2:30 - 3:30
2:30 - 3:30
Jennifer Hylemon,
Grapevine-Colleyville ISD
2481
332BE
2484
2458
3-5
3-5
Accelerating and Integrating Interventions
Shifting Gears with Content
Ricky Mikelman,
Staff Development for
Educators
Redefining Intervention
Fractions without Fear
Is summer school eating into your vacation? Come hear how one
district turned summer math intervention into a once-a-month
Saturday Math Academy to engage students in grades 2 to 8 in need
of Tier II intervention. We will share strategies for identification,
communication, and instruction as well as data analysis.
Understanding fractions is a big challenge! This hands-on session
will explore the important, foundational TEKS of unit fractions,
and move to comparing fractions. You will explore the complex
algorithm of adding and subtracting fractions using the concrete
to pictorial to abstract model that helps students understand WHY
so they retain HOW. You’ll focus on the Mathematical Process
standards as you delve into rigorous anchor tasks, games, and strip
diagrams with fractions.
2:30 - 3:30
2482
372BE
2457
3-5
Susan Hemphill,
Region 13 Education
Service Center
2:30 - 3:30
Accelerating and Integrating Interventions
Using Open Numberlines as Models of Thinking and Models
for Thinking
Making STEAM with Math
In today’s technology-rich world, come see how math can be
integrated into daily STEAM activities using technology. Come
experience how you can use simple activities to engage students in
applying concepts by designing hands-on projects to demonstrate
their understanding of science, technology, engineering, and art,
through mathematics.
Caren Sorrells,
Ann May,
Shifting Gears with Content
Klein ISD
3-5
Independent Consultant
3-5
Bill Nebeker,
Independent Consultant
Adding Rigor—What Does That Really Mean?
Everyone is talking about adding rigor, but what do they really
mean? In this session, we will look at STAAR items and use them
to demonstrate how to construct rigorous activities in lessons to get
students to the rigor needed in today's classrooms.
Clear the Room Policy
To provide equal opportunity to sessions for each attendee, it
is the policy of the CAMT Board that rooms are to be cleared
of all participants at the end of each session. The Board
respectfully requests voluntary compliance with this policy.
CAMT Catalog Online
We have made every attempt to provide adequate seating
for participants at the conference, but for your safety and
due to fire regulations, only those with seats will be allowed
in meeting rooms. To comply with fire codes, it will be
necessary to ask any person sitting on the floor or standing to
leave the room.
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Please remember:
Use our online, searchable catalog to find the right course for
you. Search by day and time, presenter, affiliation, topic, or
any keyword you wish. The online catalog also lists the latest
updates on cancelled, moved, and new sessions.
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All meeting rooms will be cleared between presentations.
All seats are available on a first-come, first-served basis.
Reserving spaces in line or saving seats is not permitted.
Persons with disabilities and their assistants do not have
to clear the session room as others do.
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Thursday
351BE
2483
2416
Shifting Gears with Content
Our new math standards list open numberlines as a strategy and
tool at several grade levels. In this session, participants will use
numberlines to show their thinking as well as a tool to help them
solve problems.
2:30 - 3:30
370BE
2485
ELEMENTARY
342AD
CAMT 2015
Gearing Up for Change
Elementary Session Listings
8:30 - 9:30
1600
F
Assembly B
General Interest
Pam Harris,
Independent Consultant
Shifting Gears with Content
Friday, June 26, 2015
8:30 - 9:30
1601
F
Ballroom C
General Interest
Matt Larson,
Lincoln Public Schools
Accelerating and Integrating Interventions
Building Powerful Matematizers: Numeracy
Overcoming Obstacles to Make Mathematics Work for All
You can empower all students to mathematize! Mathematizing is
about having a dense brain structure with multiple connections and
relationships to draw from instead of having a sparse brain structure
with one and only one rote-memorized procedure. In this session,
you will learn how to help your students build powerful numeracy.
Students who are constructing powerful numeracy solve problems
by thinking, reasoning, using relationships and connections, and
cognitively reorganizing to make sense of intriguing situations. The
problem string lesson structure helps students and teachers work together to build efficient, sophisticated, and elegant problem solvers.
New content standards may improve overall student achievement,
but are unlikely to reduce existing learning differentials. In order to
raise the achievement of all students and simultaneously close learning differentials, program improvement efforts must simultaneously
address six program shifts as well as persistent obstacles that have
stood in the way of making mathematics work for all students. This
session will address specific actions you can take to overcome these
obstacles, implement highly effective mathematics programs, and
ensure that mathematics works for all students.
MATH-A-RAMA Sessions
8:30 - 11:30
Ballroom A
for elementary teachers
On each of three half-days of the conference (Wednesday morning,
Thursday afternoon, and Friday morning), elementary teachers (K-5)
will have the opportunity to attend different sessions, for a total of
16 different MATH-A-RAMA sessions AT CAMT 2015. The theme
for all of the sessions will be Geometry. Each day, a different set of
25-minute sessions will be repeated, so that a participant may attend
all sessions in any order. Participants who do not want to attend every
MATH-A-RAMA session may enter and leave during the 5-minute
breaks between sessions. See you there!
Ashley Beck, Sarah Smith, Michelle Buckert,
Deer Park ISD
Flashback Friday with Geometry
Using graphic organizers, students classify two-dimensional figures
in a hierarchy of sets and subsets based on their properties. Students
learn terminology, construct samples of shapes using geoboards,
and classify shapes based on their attributes.
Jamie Penick, Jeanne Mills, Kimberly Ayala,
Deer Park ISD
Going Geo
Students use geoboards to compose and decompose a variety of
polygons with specific attributes. Students analyze the two-dimensional shapes they create to determine whether they are examples or
nonexamples of polygons.
Sheri Bourque, Casey Dixon, Amy Fiedler,
Deer Park ISD
Polygons from Triangles
Students identify polygons using the attributes of angles and sides.
Students decompose given polygons into triangles. Then students
create polygons using a variety of triangles.
Jami Kouba, Angela Nelson, Savannah Byerly,
Deer Park ISD
Marshmallow Shape Madness
Students use marshmallows for vertices and toothpicks for sides to
create, classify, and sort polygons with 12 or fewer sides according
to attributes, including identifying the number of sides and number
of vertices. Students may extend this investigation to include examples and nonexamples of shapes with given attributes.
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Melissa McCroskey, Samantha Moore, Kristina Goehring,
Deer Park ISD
Bigger, Better, Best!
Students represent real-world relationships between different units
of length and width to determine area in a variety of ways. Students
create concrete representations to calculate area in different ways
for regular and irregular shapes.
Kristina Hernandez, Kristan Sandel, Whitney Rich ,
Deer Park ISD
The “Perfect” Angle
Students apply knowledge of angles to identify acute, right and
obtuse triangles within triangles. Students apply mathematical process standards to analyze geometric attributes in order to develop
generalizations about the properties of the angles and triangles.
Elementary Catalog
Gearing Up for Change
1600
F
Featured
Assembly B
Pam Harris,
Independent Consultant
8:30 - 9:30
342BE
Haily May
2601
General Interest
PK-2
Shifting Gears with Content
Accelerating and Integrating Interventions
Building Powerful Matematizers: Numeracy
Guided Math Groups and Math Tubs (K-2)
You can empower all students to mathematize! Mathematizing is
about having a dense brain structure with multiple connections and
relationships to draw from instead of having a sparse brain structure
with one and only one rote-memorized procedure. In this session,
you will learn how to help your students build powerful numeracy.
Students who are constructing powerful numeracy solve problems
by thinking, reasoning, using relationships and connections, and
cognitively reorganizing to make sense of intriguing situations. The
problem string lesson structure helps students and teachers work together to build efficient, sophisticated, and elegant problem solvers.
Similar to guided reading groups, guided math groups provide
teachers with the ability to encourage mathematical exploration in
a risk-free environment. Students work collaboratively on a variety
of levels. This workshop provides teachers with the tools needed to
form guided math groups, set up math tubs, and effectively monitor
student progress.
8:30 - 9:30
1601
Lincoln Public Schools
General Interest
Overcoming Obstacles to Make Mathematics Work for All
New content standards may improve overall student achievement,
but are unlikely to reduce existing learning differentials. In order to
raise the achievement of all students and simultaneously close learning differentials, program improvement efforts must simultaneously
address six program shifts as well as persistent obstacles that have
stood in the way of making mathematics work for all students. This
session will address specific actions you can take to overcome these
obstacles, implement highly effective mathematics programs, and
ensure that mathematics works for all students.
371AD
2600
PK-2
Rosemary Irons,
Early Childhood
Mathematics Consultant
Shifting Gears with Content
Number and Language in Pre K and K
Number is natural for young children. At the same time, it can be a
complex concept unless it’s developed carefully. This session will
outline stages for Number that are based on language—everyday,
materials, mathematical, and symbolic. The session will also describe mathematical aspects of Number (counting, quantity, relative
position and label). Are you ready for the children who will arrive
into your learning environment with various Number knowledge?
2030
PK-2
Matt Larson,
Accelerating and Integrating Interventions
8:30 - 9:30
2602
330AB
Courtney Klemcke,
Children’s Museum of
Houston
Shifting Gears with Content
Playing with Math!
Stop by to pick up some hands-on, minds-on math ideas to use in
your classroom. From quick math activities to intense problemsolving challenges, we have the math your students can’t wait to
play with!
8:30 - 9:30
362BE
2603
K-5
Friday
F
Featured
Ballroom C
8:30 - 9:30
ELEMENTARY
8:30 - 9:30
Vicki Breneman,
Moorhead Area Public
Schools
Shifting Gears with Content
Great Minds Don’t Think Alike In Problem Solving
Effective teaching requires connecting current research to practice.
When teachers design and deliver purposeful instruction, students
develop strategies to be confident mathematical thinkers. Diagnostic
assessments and knowledge of how children learn math results in
instruction that leads to conceptual understanding. Inquiry-based
teaching enables students to be flexible thinkers and construct understanding of numeracy.
8:30 - 9:30
322
Carolyn Olijnek,
US Math Recovery Council
2604
K-5
Shifting Gears with Content
Leaders Looking for Math In All the Right Places
As teachers gear up for changes in assessment and instruction, principals and curriculum leaders may ask themselves what to look for
in a changed mathematical classroom. Using Cathy Seeley’s 2014
book Smarter Than We Think as a guide, this session will provide
checklists, thoughts, and expectations of what to see in today’s math
classroom.
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Gearing Up for Change
ELEMENTARY
8:30 - 9:30
361BE
Rebecca Klemm,
NumbersAlive!
2605
332BE
2609
K-5
K-5
Shifting Gears with Content
Shifting Gears with Content
Alison Lentz,
Jennifer Jones,
Bastrop ISD
Foundational Math Concepts Through Number Links
Using Interactive Math Notebooks
Start each class with Number Links to warm up students’ brains
with high-level mental connections. Number Links is a fun activity
that helps students see math as part of daily life, while learning
pattern recognition via multiple disciplines. For example: What do
a lucky clover and a ukulele have in common? (Answer: 4. 4 leaves
and 4 strings.) Questions range in difficulty to challenge students at
all levels K-12. Students will want to create their own.
Join us as we explore how to implement and set up interactive math
notebooks! We will share ideas, templates, and examples of how to
use an interactive notebook to meet the diverse needs of all students,
as well as how to incorporate more writing into your everyday
math instruction. Participants will walk away with classroom-ready
activities to use the first day of school!
8:30 - 9:30
2606
F
Featured
Assembly A
Marcy Cook,
Marcy Cook Math
Independent task time should be an integral part of the math program. Hear tips for planning, organizing, and managing centers
with simple resources/materials. Utilize tile task cards for students
to practice what has been taught, to differentiate, to provide cooperative activities, and to provoke thought.
351AD
Cathy Fosnot,
City College of New York
2607
K-5
Shifting Gears with Content
Reweaving the Tapestry: a Blended Learning Model for Both
Professional and Student Learning
An NSF-funded digital video of exemplary Math in the City classrooms will be used to transport participants into New York City
classrooms where teachers are engaging students in rich learning
opportunities during math workshops. Using a developmental learning trajectory comprised of three domains (big ideas, the progression of strategies, and the development of representation), you will
engage in analyzing children’s work on a specific problem, examine
appropriate ways to question and confer, plan a math congress to
support development, and assess children’s growth and development
over time.
8:30 - 9:30
342AD
2608
K-5
Stacia Prince,
Stephen F. Austin State
University
Shifting Gears with Content
Connecting Mathematical Thinking
Learn how to use manipulatives and models to connect mathematical thinking from Kindergarten through Algebra 1.
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320A
2610
K-5
Shifting Gears with Content
Math Centers for the K-5 Classroom
8:30 - 9:30
8:30 - 9:30
K-5
Revving up Everyday Assessments
Friday
8:30 - 9:30
Rebecca Dougharty,
Dana Barrier,
Pat Clos,
Jasper ISD, Lufkin ISD
Mathnificent Melodies
Looking for new ideas to make your elementary math class more
exciting? This session uses chants and familiar tunes to teach difficult concepts and strategies to make math fun and engaging! Math
+ Melodies = Mathnificent!
8:30 - 9:30
2611
362CF
2055
Christina Miller,
US Math Recovery
K-5
Shifting Gears with Content
Making Sense of Multiplication and Division: From Concrete
to Abstract
What’s in a group? This session explores ways to support children's
understanding of group structures that lead to making sense of
multiplication and division as operations. Instructional strategies
utilizing concrete materials that build strong mental images will be
shared. This session will also address ways to intentionally scaffold
from concrete materials to mental math strategies. Instructional
strategies shared are intended for both small group and full classroom instruction.
Elementary Catalog
Gearing Up for Change
380A
2613
K-5
Carolyn White,
Rice University School
Mathematics Project
8:30 - 9:30
360AD
Theresa Tefertiller,
Lone Star Learning
2617
3-5
Shifting Gears with Content
Shifting Gears with Content
Where Is Number in Algebraic Reasoning?
Visual Vocabulary—Are They Getting the Picture?
Get ready to experience engaging algebraic reasoning activities that
transform arithmetic and real-world problems into opportunities for
discovering numerical patterns, making generalizations, and justifying solutions. Leave with classroom-ready activities and ideas that
you can use immediately.
Math vocabulary can be overwhelming. Math terms with multiple
meanings could be muddying the waters. Learn how using powerful visuals, mnemonics, and easy strategies to intentionally focus
on vocabulary during math instruction can make a huge difference.
This will be fun, fast-paced, and full of ideas to use immediately.
8:30 - 9:30
352F
2614
3-5
Shifting Gears with Content
Wendy Curtner,
Faith Schwope, Nancy
Trent,
Region 11 Education
Service Center
Mathematical Models for Thinking Grades 3-8
8:30 - 9:30
320C
2615
3-5
Jessica Finley,
US Math Recovery
Council®
310A
2618
3-5
Debbie Grady,
Aimee Tijerina-Lara,
Judson ISD
Shifting Gears with Content
The Writing BUG—Writing Prompts Aligned to TEKS for
Grades 3-5
Writing to learn mathematics should move beyond the simple
"explain how you solved your problem." If you want to gear up for
critical writing that embeds the process standards, then this is the
session for you! Come learn how to assess students' understanding
of mathematics and walk away with TEKS-aligned Writing BUGs.
8:30 - 9:30
2619
320B
Ellen Mulligan
2464
3-5
Shifting Gears with Content
Revving up Everyday Assessments
Designing Differentiation that Moves
Do You Speak Math?
Differentiated instruction does not happen by accident. Differentiation in the classroom is all about understanding that you are dealing
with a group of diverse individuals and adapting your teaching to
ensure that all of them have access to learn. How do you, as teachers, teach the whole class with the individual student in mind? This
session examines how to find out what children know and need and
then how to design instruction that advances all students' mathematical thinking and success. This session’s focus will be on addition
and subtraction.
This session is an interactive session that will empower instructors
with the skills to produce students who can think, write, and explain
mathematically. State and National Standards and Practices will
be the basis for establishing the important math discussions that
should follow skillfully created questions. These discussions will
help students make connections, justify solutions, and form a sound
foundation for understanding math concepts.
8:30 - 9:30
371CF
Sabrina McCullough,
224 Solutions
2616
3-5
Shifting Gears with Content
The Value of Counting on a Book
Literature books can add value to math instruction. However, how
does one begin to select the appropriate book and/or the time to use
it? During this session, participants will gear up to discover ways
to incorporate literature books aligned to the standards. Participants
will also experience the importance of creating engaging activities
based on a book that will promote exploration and understanding of
various skills and concepts.
8:30 - 9:30
2620
372BE
2422
3-5
Accelerating and Integrating Interventions
Rudy Neufeld,
Thames Schools & Neufeld
Learning
Richard Martinez,
San Antonio ISD
An RtI Model: Build, Draw, Talk, Write, Then Own Fractions
for Successful Real-World Application
This session will model 3 tiers for teaching fraction operations.
Attendees receive resources to model an environment involving
3-part lessons with which to address all students. The lessons help
students to catch up by using big picture concepts and then funneling them back into the next Tier 1 lesson.
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This session will focus on a variety of ways to model mathematical
situations as described in the new mathematics standards. Participants will engage in an approach to numeracy that emphasizes
multiple representations, such as strip diagrams, open number lines,
and ratio tables that lead to more engagement, confidence, and success in higher mathematics.
8:30 - 9:30
ELEMENTARY
8:30 - 9:30
CAMT 2015
Gearing Up for Change
ELEMENTARY
8:30 - 9:30
332AD
Brad Fountain
8:30 - 9:30
2625
2621
3-5
6-8
Shifting Gears with Content
Revving up Everyday Assessments
50 Ways to Integrate Discovery Education Streaming Into
Your Math Classroom
Discovery Education Streaming is a resource many of us have had
access to for years, but what is in there for math teachers? Learn
about some of the great resources beyond videos that can be utilized
to support math instruction and walk away with practical math ideas
you can begin using tomorrow in your class. Regardless of your
grade level or familiarity with Discovery Education, your eyes will
be opened to a wealth of new ideas and instructional strategies.
8:30 - 9:30
362AD
Rob Nickerson,
ORIGO Education
2622
Bridging Thinking: Strategies for Intervention
Providing Targeted Intervention (Tier II) in mathematics requires
a step-by-step instructional approach and visual models. Visual
models play an integral part in bridging the thinking for struggling
learners from concrete to abstract thinking. What are the other two
instructional strategies that bridge learning for students? Come
explore these strategies to orchestrate interventions for struggling
math students in this interactive session.
2623
351BE
2437
3-5
Leigh Childs,
San Diego County Office of
Education
Accelerating and Integrating Interventions
Create Numerically Nimble Students
How can we work smarter? Experience engaging activities and
discover effective ways to improve students' numeric competence
and confidence. The handout includes many high-interest games to
enhance mathematical reasoning, numeric sense-making and algebraic reasoning, as students improve their numeric competence.
In this session, participants will learn the different purposes for
giving students assessment items, how to develop high-quality items
that adhere to best practices in assessment development, how items
can be crafted to target increasingly sophisticated levels of understanding, and how to use data obtained from multiple-choice items
to inform instruction.
10:00 - 11:00
332CF
Ballroom B
2624
3-5
John Felling,
Box Cars & One-Eyed
Jacks
Shifting Gears with Content
Box Cars Power Play Games for Teaching Place Value,
Grades 3-5
Come play games that incorporate the use of cards, dice, number
lines, and multi-sided place-value dice. Games and strategies focus
on naming, ordering, and comparing large numbers, decimal concepts, rounding and expanding numbers, written and standard form,
identifying place value, estimation, and patterns. Game boards and
student samples will be provided and many practical strategies will
be shared for this important part of the curriculum.
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Kathy Collins,
Creative Mathematics
2626
PK-2
Primary Games to “Power Up” Your Classroom!
Kathy Collins will present the motivating games of Kim Sutton!
Get ready to go over ideas for developing strong number sense that
include place value, addition, and subtraction! You will love how
engaging the games are! Come prepared to play and learn!
10:00 - 11:00
2627
351BE
2401
PK-2
Laura Choate,
Fallbrook Union
Elementary
Accelerating and Integrating Interventions
Becoming Numerically Nimble with Visual Models and
Games
Be more efficient and selective about time devoted to number. Explore number relationships using visual models including dot cards,
ten frames, number lines, grids, and hundred charts. Leave with
classroom-ready strategies to help you enhance number sense and
build confidence in your students.
10:00 - 11:00
330AB
2628
8:30 - 9:30
Southern Methodist
University
Shifting Gears with Content
Accelerating and Integrating Interventions
8:30 - 9:30
Cassandra Hatfield,
Deni Basaraba,
Brea Ratliff,
The Anatomy of High-Quality Multiple Choice Assessment
Items
3-5
Friday
350DE
PK-2
Holly Rojas,
Children’s Museum of
Houston
Teaching with Technology
BYOD: Integrating Fun Apps into Your Math Lessons
Take advantage of your students’ interest in technology by using
apps that improve math and problem-solving skills in your classroom. We’ll show you some fun educational apps and how to use
them in your everyday math lessons!
Elementary Catalog
Gearing Up for Change
362AD
Erica Arevalo,
Corpus Christi ISD
2629
K-5
10:00 - 11:00
F
Barbara Novelli,
Creative Mathematics
2633
Featured
Shifting Gears with Content
Ballroom C
K-5
Shifting Gears with Content
Just Anchor It!
Science Brings Relevance and Meaning to Math
Anchor charts are beneficial math tools. This session will focus on
why you should create them and how to use them effectively. Teachers will leave with ideas for creating their own student-centered
anchor charts that will help students comprehend new math vocabulary and strategies while becoming self-directed learners.
Meaningful science investigations create a tremendous opportunity
to teach and reinforce math concepts and skills. Science is the perfect context to do and learn mathematics. For the reluctant learner,
or English Language Learner, this integrated approach provides an
excellent opportunity for language acquisition. Come spend time
with Barbara making the science-math connection.
10:00 - 11:00
2630
F
Featured
Assembly C
Kim Sutton,
Creative Mathematics
10:00 - 11:00
2634
K-5
2610
K-5
Shifting Gears with Content
Let's Give Them Math to Talk About!
342BE
Donna Boucher,
Katy ISD
2631
Shifting Gears with Content
Looking for new ideas to make your elementary math class more
exciting? This session uses chants and familiar tunes to teach difficult concepts and strategies to make math fun and engaging! Math
+ Melodies = Mathnificent!
10:00 - 11:00
K-5
Experience a simple mnemonic device that will take your math
instruction and student engagement to the next level, while incorporating the Math Process Standards.
2632
2430
Marjie Padzielinsky,
Teaching with Technology
The ABC’s of Number Sense
370BE
382C
Conroe ISD
Shifting Gears with Content
10:00 - 11:00
Jasper ISD, Lufkin ISD
Mathnificent Melodies
2635
K-5
Rebecca Dougharty,
Dana Barrier,
Pat Clos,
Mollie Gabrielson,
US Math Recovery Council
BYOD: Math APPS in the Classroom
This session will use math apps on portable devices. A list of math
apps suitable for K to 5 will be available.
10:00 - 11:00
381BC
2013
K-5
K-5
Accelerating and Integrating Interventions
Revving Up Everyday Assessments
The Driving Force Behind Improvements in Math Instruction
Professional development is needed for all teachers at all stages
of their careers in the area of mathematics. Research indicates that
the quality of instruction is an important factor influencing student
achievement in mathematics. When students are reflective and
when teachers are engaged in professional development, curriculum
development, and research, instruction improves. Reflective, professional practitioners are the driving force behind improvements in
education.
Cassandra Hatfield,
Southern Methodist
University
Jo Ann Bilderback,
TX Education Agency
Interpreting ESTAR Diagnostic Assessment Reports
In the RtI process, diagnostic assessments are given to students
in order to determine what areas and specific misconceptions a
student might hold. This session will provide a brief overview of
the ESTAR (Elementary School Students in Texas: Algebra Ready)
Diagnostic Assessment and describe how to interpret the results.
These results guide instructional decision-making and help direct
teachers to necessary content needed for interventions.
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Come experience the motivating style of Kim Sutton as she addresses the value of using correct mathematical language with elementary
students! You will sing, dance, and come away with practical ideas
for making your math time more intensive and meaningful!
10:00 - 11:00
320A
ELEMENTARY
10:00 - 11:00
CAMT 2015
Gearing Up for Change
ELEMENTARY
10:00 - 11:00
372BE
Davina Stringer,
Leander ISD
2636
10:00 - 11:00
2640
2044
Calvin Irons,
Math Consultant
K-5
3-5
Teaching with Technology
Shifting Gears with Content
BYOD: Flipped Over Schoology!
Good Games Lead to Good Gains
Schoology is a free learning management system (LMS) that transforms learning with unique features such as the ability for students
to safely communicate and collaborate. Using an access code
required for entrance, students experience engaging social media
components which enable instructors to encourage active participation by all levels. Schoology can be used for the flipped classroom,
stations/centers, assignments, assessments, reviews, tests, presentations, and collaborative projects.
Mastery of number facts is an essential part of computation. This
includes confidence with strategies and fluency. These can both be
achieved easily if appropriate games are selected that meet all three
criteria—thinking, speed, and accuracy. This session will demonstrate how to use methods (based on research) that motivate and enable students to achieve this goal. It begins with appropriate visual
materials followed by three levels of games.
10:00 - 11:00
2637
360AD
2617
Theresa Tefertiller,
Lone Star Learning
10:00 - 11:00
Visual Vocabulary—Are They Getting the Picture?
Math vocabulary can be overwhelming. Math terms with multiple
meanings could be muddying the waters. Learn how using powerful visuals, mnemonics, and easy strategies to intentionally focus
on vocabulary during math instruction can make a huge difference!
This will be fun, fast-paced, and full of ideas to use immediately.
370CF
Winifred Mallam,
Texas Woman's University
2638
Suntex International
3-5
Mental Math Mastery: A Hands-On Workshop Using Several
Editions of the Popular 24® Game Series
Attendees will learn new ways to help students become excited
about and interested in mathematics through game play. They will
learn problem-solving strategies, pattern sensing, the engaging
aspects of game play, and the quality outcomes these activities produce. Attendees will also experience how friendly competition can
stimulate students to achieve.
10:00 - 11:00
2642
3-5
2483
3-5
Shifting Gears with Content
Caren Sorrells,
Independent Consultant
Ann May,
Independent Consultant
Adding Rigor—What Does That Really Mean?
Everyone is talking about adding rigor, but what do they really
mean? In this session, we will look at STAAR items and use them
to demonstrate how to construct rigorous activities in lessons to get
students to the rigor needed in today's classrooms.
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MetaMetrics
Accelerating and Integrating Interventions
Quilting is a skill that uses problem solving, geometry, and patterns.
Quilts can be constructed using squares. However crazy quilting
starts with a polygon that "grows" to a larger polygon. Examples of
how students can construct a crazy quilt will be demonstrated, along
with relevant math concepts and skills. Literature showcasing quilting and mathematics will be shared.
2639
Jane Scott,
3-5
We Are Crazy About Math!
342CF
371BE
2465
Shifting Gears with Content
10:00 - 11:00
Nancy Kane,
Shifting Gears with Content
Shifting Gears with Content
10:00 - 11:00
351CF
2641
3-5
Friday
322
Is 1-2-3 Really That Easy?
What if math objectives could offer insight toward closing the
gap of a student’s math schema? Using Quantiles.com, you will
investigate the difficulty level of math objectives at all grade levels.
Participants will explore the relationship of the math standards at
their grade level, how to gauge which math objectives students have
the readiness to tackle, and leave with free math resources that can
be used to differentiate math instruction.
10:00 - 11:00
332BE
2643
3-5
Lalonnie King,
Ector County ISD/MTM
Region 18
Shifting Gears with Content
Guided Math in the Elementary Classroom
Guided Math allows the teacher to meet the needs of each student
as they teach the rigor of the TEKS. Participants in this session will
take away techniques,tips, and tools that will be useful in beginning
Guided Math in an elementary classroom.
Elementary Catalog
Gearing Up for Change
351AD
Sandra Whte,
Shallowater ISD
2644
10:00 - 11:00
320C
Michelle Reynolds,
Santa Fe ISD
2648
3-5
3-5
Shifting Gears with Content
Shifting Gears with Content
Multiplication Mastered from Concepts to Problem Solving
Journaling Your Way to Student Success. . . and More!
Make sure concepts click and multiplication facts are mastered in
10 minutes a day for just 10 days using color, mnemonic devices,
movement, games, rhyme, and short, consistent reviews—ensuring
success for every student, from concepts to problem solving. Watch
overwhelming fear disappear as students realize they truly are Magnificent Mathematicians!
Do you want to journal in your classroom? Journaling or Interactive
notebooks (INB’s) are an invaluable tool to increase engagement
and improve retention of content in math. The easy part is setting
up your journal. The hard part is maintaining it and encouraging
your students to use it. Join us as we dive headfirst into the wonders
of journaling! You will leave with the tools to get started, a basic
journal set up, and the tools to successfully use student journals for
classroom success.
10:00 - 11:00
Ballroom B
2645
3-5
John Felling,
Box Cars & One-Eyed
Jacks
10:00 - 11:00
3-5
Number Line Math for Grades 3-5
2646
2618
3-5
Debbie Grady,
Aimee Tijerina-Lara,
The Writing BUG—Writing Prompts Aligned to TEKS for
Grades 3-5
Writing to learn mathematics should move beyond the simple
"explain how you solved your problem." If you want to gear up for
critical writing that embeds the process standards, then this is the
session for you! Come learn how to assess students' understanding
of mathematics and walk away with TEKS-aligned Writing BUGs.
360BE
Ariel Pena,
Pasadena ISD
2647
Communicating in Math: Meeting Student Needs Through
Math Journaling
Helping students to better communicate mathematical ideas is essential to success with the new TEKS. The use of a math journal
in conjunction with TTM provides additional opportunities for
students to build their conceptual understanding of mathematics and
increase their ability to effectively communicate that understanding.
11:30 - 12:30
2650
3-5
Gifted/Talented
Math Workshop: From Classic to Techie
Learn how to transform your classic math workshop into a technology-based rotational model to reach student engagement and increase
achievement in math. Electronic portfolios, interactive whiteboard,
LRS, Edmodo, ETools, Web 2.0, Istation Math, ThinkThroughMath, and BLearning/In-Flipped classroom strategies are among the
resources shared in this session.
342BE
2446
Donna Boucher,
Katy ISD
PK-2
Judson ISD
Shifting Gears with Content
10:00 - 11:00
Teaching with Technology
Shifting Gears with Content
Daily Routines for Building Number Sense
Meet the new math TEKS with quick, engaging daily number sense
routines. Gain a clear understanding of how children develop number sense along with tools you can use in your classroom tomorrow.
Experience 5 and 10 frames, rekenreks, dot cards, and other tools
for subsidizing and composing/decomposing numbers, and see how
to easily differentiate activities to meet all your students' needs.
11:30 - 12:30
2651
371AD
2600
PK-2
Rosemary Irons,
Early Childhood
Mathematics Consultant
Shifting Gears with Content
Number and Language in Pre K and K
Number is natural for young children. At the same time, it can be a
complex concept unless it’s developed carefully. This session will
outline stages for Number that are based on language—everyday,
materials, mathematical, and symbolic. The session will also describe mathematical aspects of Number (counting, quantity, relative
position and label). Are you ready for the children who will arrive
into your learning environment with various Number knowledge?
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Number lines are easy to find, versatile, and are great for teaching
many concepts at the elementary level. Come prepared to play
games and learn strategies for teaching the following concepts:
simple division with remainders, operations using estimation,
mental math strategies, place value including rounding strategies,
decimals to 100th's, and adding and subtracting decimals. Handouts
will include game boards with rules, and ideas to use right away.
Student samples will also be shared. These are great for regular,
special ed, RtI and after school programs.
310A
Jayne Shanklin,
Think Through Math
2649
Shifting Gears with Content
10:00 - 11:00
382AB
ELEMENTARY
10:00 - 11:00
CAMT 2015
Gearing Up for Change
ELEMENTARY
11:30 - 12:30
2652
332CF
2626
Kathy Collins,
Creative Mathematics
PK-2
Primary Games to “Power Up” Your Classroom!
Kathy Collins will present the motivating games of Kim Sutton!
Get ready to go over ideas for developing strong number sense that
include place value, addition, and subtraction! You will love how
engaging the games are! Come prepared to play and learn!
352C
2653
PK-2
2656
F
Featured
Shifting Gears with Content
11:30 - 12:30
11:30 - 12:30
Mamie Tice,
Region 17 Education
Service Center
Friday
Discover how purposeful poetry selections can plant important
problem-solving skills and powerful language opportunities into
your math class. “Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of
logical ideas.” Albert Einstein.
2654
2031
Debbie Perry,
Midway ISD
PK-2
Revving Up Everyday Assessments
Standards-Based Assessment Tools for First Grade
Mathematics
First grade teachers will explore standards-based assessment tools
created by the first grade new standards integration team of Midway
ISD. Teachers will receive links to a complete set of assessments
for first grade mathematics, as well as instructions for their use.
11:30 - 12:30
370CF
2655
PK-2
Tammy Zunker,
Amy Barber,
Conroe ISD
Shifting Gears with Content
New TEKS in Motion with Number Concept Development
Get in motion with activities to help students embrace the new Math
TEKS with developmentally appropriate activities to build number
concept skills. Walk away ready to begin the school year by getting
to know your students’ number sense capabilities.
Jo Ann Bilderback,
Julie Guthrie,
James Slack,
Texas Education Agency
TEA Update for Elementary Mathematics
This session will present the most current information regarding
curriculum and assessment of mathematics K to 5. Critical issues,
such as state and federal requirements, revised TEKS, STAAR assessments, ESTAR/MSTAR initiatives, TxAIR, and Project Share
resources will be discussed. Attendees will be given the opportunity
to ask questions.
11:30 - 12:30
The Importance of Poetry in Early Childhood Mathematics
361CF
K-5
Texas Curriculum and Assessment
(STAAR, EOC, TEKS Revisions)
Ballroom B
2657
Accelerating and Integrating Interventions
11:30 - 12:30
Assembly B
K-5
John Felling,
Box Cars & One-Eyed
Jacks
Shifting Gears with Content
Math in a Minute
Use every minute of class time for instruction! Math games and
activities that last only 1 or 2 minutes each can still be purposeful. They are great for before or after recess, lunch, or dismissal.
Concepts include: place value, operations, number sense, mental
math, and fractions. Gain back 10 to 20 days of class time every
year - one or two minutes at a time. Bring your iPads or phones to
take pictures and video clips.
11:30 - 12:30
370BE
Dittika Gupta,
Midwestern University
2658
K-5
Pre-service/New Teacher
Activities, Activities, Activities….Oh Wow!
This session is all about using activities to get elementary kids excited about learning! Many different math concepts will be shared
using hands-on activities that are fun. Participants will also engage
in using children’s literature to do math in an exciting and fun way.
Everyone will leave with a handout that has ideas and activities to
make your classroom lively and fun!
11:30 - 12:30
340AB
2659
K-5
Hazel Russell,
Russell’s Educational
Consulting
Shifting Gears with Content
M3 = Making Mathematics Meaningful
This session will offer practical math activities that are fun and
engaging. The activities promote increased student achievement.
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Elementary Catalog
Gearing Up for Change
310B
Phillip Hubler,
Austin ISD
2660
11:30 - 12:30
350DE
Houston ISD
2664
K-5
3-5
Shifting Gears with Content
Teaching with Technology
How Many Times Do I Have to Ask?
Our students today are bombarded with so many distractions that
math is the last thing on their mind. In addition, sometimes we
find we’ve run out of time and are unable to deliver the rest of our
content. Learn how to eliminate unnecessary interruptions during
teaching time, increase productive learning time, and raise the standard of student accountability to foster their learning.
11:30 - 12:30
342AD
Mary Russ,
Bryan ISD
2661
K-5
11:30 - 12:30
322
2662
3-5
320B
Leslie Hilderbrand,
Rhonda Davis,
Fairplay Middle School
3-5
Suzanne Hood,
Gwinnett County Public
Schools
Teaching with Technology
BYOD: Computational Fluency, There’s an APP for That
Teachers will use free online APPs from The Math Learning Center
to support rigor and engagement using computational strategies.
These APPs support teachers in their learning trajectory of differentiating technology tools for the 21st century learner. These APPs can
be used on any device. The APPs provide tools for students to communicate their thinking as they navigate number lines, vocabulary,
number racks, geo-boards, number frames, and number pieces.
Shifting Gears with Content
Outstanding Math Guide—OMG
11:30 - 12:30
Come make an OMG student reference containing graphic organizers with steps, examples, and vocabulary for key concepts taught
throughout the year. This creative guide will transform your classroom and help students become self-sufficient learners! You must
see it to believe it!
2666
11:30 - 12:30
310C
Donna Knoell,
Educational Consultant
2663
3-5
Ramping Up for College and Career Readiness
Developing Mathematical Reasoning and Problem-Solving
Proficiency
The speaker will discuss the importance of developing effective discourse to build mathematical concepts, reasoning, and vocabulary,
as key components of problem solving. She will actively engage
attendees in real-life problem solving and will offer strategies to
identify the question, eliminate non-relevant information, select
a workable strategy, and translate information into mathematical
equations. Handouts will be given.
360AD
3-5
Donna Monck,
Rock Christian
Academy,Easton,PA
Shifting Gears with Content
Moving Forward with Metric!
5K races, 2 liter soft drinks, milligrams of medicine—metric is
here! Learn methods to teach the metric system with hands-on
activities and meet standards. Have fun! Hand-outs and materials
will be provided.
11:30 - 12:30
351AD
Sandra White,
Shallowater ISD
2667
3-5
Shifting Gears with Content
STAARVing for Simple Solutions
Is STAAR preparation leaving you STAARved for time, STAARved
for space, and STAARved for sanity? Learn simple solutions to
stave off your hunger! Feed your students' minds with meaningful
visuals, activities, and time-saving instructional tips to ensure success for all! Leave this session full of inexpensive ideas sure to be
gobbled right up by your students. (Session not guaranteed to assist
in weight loss or hair loss! No chin ups required.)
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Students can’t learn if they are not engaged. Come participate in
easy to implement strategies that will help you authentically engage
your learners in problem solving and higher-level thinking while
making math fun! Come ready to participate, get new ideas, and
share yours!
University of Houston teachHOUSTON
The TI-Nspire CX™ handhelds are not just for high school students
anymore! Learn how we modified several middle and high school
activities so younger kids could explore carnival physics, solving
crimes, superheroes, and zombies at a summer camp. We will discuss the specific modifications and the results, for better or worse,
which you can implement in your elementary schools to better
engage all students. TI-Nspire CX™ handhelds will be available for
use.
2665
Engage Me Please
Maria Benzon,
Engaging TI-Nspire™ Activities for Upper Elementary
Grades
11:30 - 12:30
Shifting Gears with Content
Rodolfo Morales,
ELEMENTARY
11:30 - 12:30
CAMT 2015
Gearing Up for Change
ELEMENTARY
11:30 - 12:30
Ballroom C
Creative Mathematics
2668
F
Featured
Barbara Novelli,
2672
352C
2653
3-5
PK-2
Revving Up Everyday Assessments
Mamie Tice,
Region 17 Education
Service Center
Accelerating and Integrating Interventions
Using Games to Teach and Assess
The Importance of Poetry in Early Childhood Mathematics
Games provide a context for teaching math while students are having fun and learning at the same time. While students are actively
engaged in a game, the teacher can assess the student’s current
progress in understanding a math concept. Students will want to
understand the math so they can win the game! Barbara will share
great math games and many easy-to-implement techniques for
teaching and assessing math. Barbara will also share a strategy to
use journals to assess or extend the math concepts used while playing a game.
Discover how purposeful poetry selections can plant important
problem-solving skills and powerful language opportunities into
your math class. “Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of
logical ideas.” Albert Einstein.
11:30 - 12:30
2669
352A
2459
Nicholas Restivo,
Mineola UFSD
3-5
Revving up Everyday Assessments
Friday
1:00 - 2:00
Gearing Up for Excitement in Problem Solving
Generate excitement for, and interest in mathematical problem
solving among your students. Energize and enrich your curriculum
by encouraging your students to take risks in problem solving while
reminding them that a real problem is not the same as a practice
exercise. Utilizing the methods and the types of questions discussed
in this session will reduce the need for teachers and students to cram
for any state assessment.
11:30 - 12:30
332BE
Jean James,
Borenson and Associates
2671
3-5
1:00 - 2:00
2673
370CF
2655
PK-2
Tammy Zunker,
Amy Barber,
Conroe ISD
Shifting Gears with Content
New TEKS in Motion with Number Concept Development
Get in motion with activities to help students embrace the new Math
TEKS with developmentally appropriate activities to build number
concept skills. Walk away ready to begin the school year by getting
to know your students’ number sense capabilities.
1:00 - 2:00
2674
F
Featured
Assembly B
2606
Marcy Cook,
Marcy Cook Math
K-5
Revving up Everyday Assessments
Math Centers For The K-5 Classroom
Independent task time should be an integral part of the math program. Hear tips for planning, organizing, and managing centers
with simple resources/materials. Utilize tile task cards for students
to practice what has been taught, to differentiate, to provide cooperative activities, and to provoke thought.
Shifting Gears with Content
Making Algebra Child’s Play with Hands-On Equations
1:00 - 2:00
Experience this visual and kinesthetic approach to introducing algebraic concepts to young students. This makes 4x+2=2x+10 child’s
play!
2675
1:00 - 2:00
381BC
1603
General Interest
Revving Up Everyday Assessments
Jason Bell,
Southern Methodist
University
Marilea Jungman,
Texas Education Agency
RtI Guidance at Your Fingertips
This session will inform teachers and administrators about an ongoing initiative by the Texas Education Agency to support educators’
understanding of Response to Intervention (RtI). The RtI iOS project delivers best practices in RtI through a mobile application and
complementary website. This delivery mechanism is intended to
provide educators with evidence-based guidance at their fingertips.
Participants are encouraged to bring their own device and take part
in a guided exploration of the RtI app.
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330AB
Veronica August,
Pasadena ISD
K-5
Shifting Gears with Content
Coaching Teams with Purposeful TEKS-Based Instructional
Planning
This session will focus on a Math Coach’s perspective for offering
strategies to support teachers’ deeper understanding of our Math
TEKS with purposeful instructional planning! You will explore lessons learned as well as a framework for bringing teachers together
by grade level in order to guide their planning process through our
newly adopted Math TEKS and collaboratively understand, discuss,
and plan purposeful instruction.
Elementary Catalog
Gearing Up for Change
342AD
Mary Russ,
Bryan ISD
2676
1:00 - 2:00
382C
Kimberly Rimbey,
KP Mathematics
2678
K-5
3-5
Shifting Gears with Content
Shifting Gears with Content
Stations are Too Much Trouble…Seriously!
Making Math Meaningful: Decimals are Fractions, Too!
Shift your way of thinking about stations. Come learn time saving,
easy to implement techniques to turn old math ideas into engaging
learning stations.
Making sense of decimal concepts and operations requires strong
connections between fractions and place value. Come explore
decimal fraction multiplication using concrete and visual models
connected to written work and grounded in problem solving.
1:00 - 2:00
2677
Ballroom C
2463
Featured
3-5
MaryAlice Hatchett,
Texas Council of Teachers
of Mathematics
Shifting Gears with Content
Shifting Gears from Good to Great with Fractions
1:00 - 2:00
340AB
2679
3-5
Stephanie Bourgeois,
Mashawndria Hodges,
Channelview ISD
Shifting Gears with Content
Think Math, Talk Math, Write Math!
Participants in this session will explore ways to be deliberate and
diligent in incorporating Process Standards into daily math instruction. Come discuss ways to help students explain, reason, justify,
represent, and communicate their mathematical thinking. We must
change the way in which we instruct in order to be successful with
the Revised TEKS. Leave with ideas to use right away in your
classroom.
Clear the Room Policy
To provide equal opportunity to sessions for each attendee, it
is the policy of the CAMT Board that rooms are to be cleared
of all participants at the end of each session. The Board
respectfully requests voluntary compliance with this policy.
CAMT Catalog Online
We have made every attempt to provide adequate seating
for participants at the conference, but for your safety and
due to fire regulations, only those with seats will be allowed
in meeting rooms. To comply with fire codes, it will be
necessary to ask any person sitting on the floor or standing to
leave the room.
The CAMT Catalog is now online!
Please remember:
Use our online, searchable catalog to find the right course for
you. Search by day and time, presenter, affiliation, topic, or
any keyword you wish. The online catalog also lists the latest
updates on cancelled, moved, and new sessions.
www.camtcatalog.net
All meeting rooms will be cleared between presentations.
All seats are available on a first-come, first-served basis.
Reserving spaces in line or saving seats is not permitted.
Persons with disabilities and their assistants do not have
to clear the session room as others do.
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Why are fractions so hard to teach? Why are they so hard to understand? During this interactive session, the gear cogs you’ll view
are conceptual understanding, fraction progression from grades 3
to 5, academic language, and student learning through games. All
materials will be available electronically.
ELEMENTARY
1:00 - 2:00
CAMT 2015
index of speakers
index of speakers
Presenter’s Name
Abuan, Rodelio
Adams, Dennis
Alba, Shannon
Arevalo, Erica
Arrington, Katey
Asturias, Harold
Atnip, Rebecca
August, Veronica
Balter, Nancy
Barber, Amy
Barrier, Dana
Basaraba, Deni
Bell, Jason
Bennett, Jennie M.
Benzon, Maria
Bilderback, Jo Ann
Bitzer, Nikki
Boucher, Donna
Bourgeois, Stephanie
Brady, Rhonda
Breneman, Vicki
Brewer, Jennifer
Briars, Diane
Bruun, Faye
Campbell, Samantha
Casey, Jan
Childs, Leigh
Choate, Laura
Clos, Pat
Collins, Kathy
Cook, Marcy
Covington, Coree
Crowder, Bon
Cunningham, Jason
Curtner, Wendy
Davis, Ramona
Davis, Rhonda
DePaul, Debi
Dodd, Janet
Dougharty, Rebecca
Dunn, Amanda
Elender, Carolyn
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Session Number(s)
2007, 2038
2002, 2028
2062, 2088
2054, 2629
2078
1013
2087
2675
2017, 2045
2655, 2673
2610, 2634
2013, 2460, 2625
1603
2414
2664
1602, 2013, 2412, 2460, 2625, 2656
2037, 2470
2446, 2631, 2650
2679
2064, 2443
2469, 2603
1008, 1404
1402
2406, 2456
2010, 2411
2071
2437, 2623
2401, 2627
2610, 2634
2069, 2626, 2652
2033, 2415, 2606, 2674
2037, 2470
1410
2068, 2089
2614
1004
2662
2407, 2474
2076
2610, 2634
2046
2447, 2468
Presenter’s Name
Eleuterius, Kelly
Estes, Carolyn
Estes, Melissa
Estes, Sandra
Evans, Mary
Felling, Jane
Felling, John
Fillman, Nicole
Finley, Jessica
Finn, CPA, Jay Allen
Fletcher, Carol
Fosnot, Cathy
Fountain, Brad
Gabrielson, Mollie
Garcia, Cindy
Garrison, Shaunda
Georges, Mark
Goerdt, Sonja
Gojak, Linda
Grady, Debbie
Grahmann, Hellen
Gupta, Dittika
Guthrie, Julie
Hakansson, Susie
Hardin, Karen
Harris, Pam
Hatchett, MaryAlice
Hatfield, Cassandra
Hayata, Carole
Hemphill, Susan
Hilderbrand, Leslie
Hodges, Mashawndria
Hood, Suzanne
Hopkins, Bill
Huber, Carrie
Hubler, Phillip
Hudson, Lisa
Hylemon, Jennifer
Irons, Calvin
Irons, Rosemary
James, Jean
Session Number(s)
2046
2420, 2439
2420, 2439
2420, 2439
2462
2023, 2029, 2050, 2075, 2403, 2435,
2448, 2473
2022, 2048, 2624, 2645, 2657
2400
2001, 2615
1005
1406
2607
2621
2430, 2632
2051
2419, 2440
2024, 2086
2042, 2442
2011
2618, 2646
2016
2658
2656
2423, 2444
2085
1600
2463, 2677
2013, 2460, 2625
2412
2457, 2482
2662
2679
2047, 2665
2078
2046
2660
2462
2449, 2481
2640
2600, 2651
2671
Elementary Catalog
Gearing Up for Change
Session Number(s)
1009, 1012
2019, 2043
2024, 2086
2004, 2070, 2447, 2468
1412
2009, 2026, 2410, 2461, 2609
2406, 2456
1602, 1603
2641
2422, 2620
2079, 2408
2421, 2479, 2643
2030, 2602
2605
1401
2053, 2663
2052, 2077
1601
2061, 2084
1413
2009, 2026, 2410, 2461, 2609
2445
1400, 1408
1409
2462
2638
2034
2422, 2620
2433, 2483, 2639
2081, 2409, 2601
2424, 2616
2466
2021, 2066
2056, 2458, 2484
2055, 2073, 2611
1406
1011, 1403
2418, 2441, 2666
2057, 2413, 2454
2664
2080, 2431
2414
Presenter’s Name
Moya, Amelia
Mulligan, Ellen
Nebeker, Bill
Neufeld, Rudy
Ngoma, Abe
Nickerson, Rob
Nicosia, Patricia
NorthMorris, Jennifer
Novelli, Barbara
November, Alan
Nunez, Iskra
O’Connell, Vince
Olijnek, Carolyn
Ortiz, Michael
Padzielinsky, Marjie
Parrish, Bob
Parrish, Sherry
Pena, Ariel
Pena, Casey
Perry, Debbie
Pierson, Caryl
Price, Katy
Prince, Stacia
Ratliff, Brea
Restivo, Nicholas
Reynolds, Michelle
Rhoades, Sharisa
Rimbey, Kimberly
Roberts, Lara
Rojas, Holly
Roman, Ann
Ruiz, Chonita J.
Rule, Lynn
Russ, Mary
Russell, Hazel
Sanders, JC
Schellinger, Kayci
Schmit, Mark
Schwope, Faith
Scott, Jane
Scruggs, Tami
Seeley, Cathy
Session Number(s)
1004, 2060, 2083, 2476, 2636
2464, 2619
2416, 2485
2422, 2620
2422, 2620
2467, 2622
2400
2058, 2428
2404, 2633, 2668
1000, 1003
1407, 1411
1010
2425, 2604
2400
2635
2006, 2475
2015, 2059
2647
2087
2031, 2654
2042, 2442
2037, 2470
2036, 2608
2013, 2460, 2625
2459, 2669
2648
2032
2074, 2678
2000, 2063
2628
2078
index of speakers
Presenter’s Name
Johnson, Andrea
Johnson, Sandra
Johnston, Elisabeth
Johse, Valerie
Jones, Dusty
Jones, Jennifer
Juenke, Carl
Jungman, Marilea
Kane, Nancy
Kendall, Monica
Kilday, Connie
King, Lalonnie
Klemcke, Courtney
Klemm, Rebecca
Knezek, Ervin
Knoell, Donna
Kulhanek, Stefani
Larson, Matt
Laughter, Lesli
Lee, Timothy
Lentz, Alison
LeRoy, Laura
Luchin, Bea
Lynch, Syndy
Maddox, MaryEllen
Mallam, Winifred
Mallory, Kelli
Martinez, Richard
May, Ann
May, Haily
McCullough, Sabrina
Mendoza, Adrian
Michelle, Kewanta
Mikelman, Ricky
Miller, Christina
Moeller, Paula
Molina, David
Monck, Donna
Moore, Sara
Morales, Rodolfo
Morrow, Tony
Moseley, Lois
2041, 2477
2003, 2049
2661, 2676
2659
2067, 2471
2019, 2043
2417
2614
2465, 2642
2016
1405
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index of speakers
index of speakers
Presenter’s Name
Shanklin, Jayne
Silver, Debbie
Singleton, Lymeda
Skaggs, Dave
Slack, James
Smith, Ashley
Smith, Tim
Sornson, Bob
Sorrells, Caren
Sowder, Sheri
Spellane, Cori
Spotts, Barbara
Stackhouse, Elizabeth
Stahl, Gayle
Staley, John
Stringer, Davina
Sutton, Kim
Tabor, Glenna
Taylor-Cox, Jennifer
Tefertiller, Theresa
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Session Number(s)
2649
1001, 1007
2438
2040, 2450
2656
2000, 2063
1009, 1012
2025, 2402, 2427
2433, 2483, 2639
2072, 2455
2436
2012, 2405
2082
2048, 2478
1006
2476, 2636
2020, 2426, 2480, 2630
2005, 2039
2451
2617, 2637
Presenter’s Name
Thompson, Angela
Threadgill, Kelly
Tice, Mamie
Tijerina-Lara, Aimee
Tobey, Cheryl Rose
Tondevold, Christina
Trent, Nancy
Ward, Elizabeth
Webster, Tim
Whisnant, Susie
White, Carolyn
Whte, Sandra
Williams, Michelle
Willmore, Craig
Wilson, Robb
Wisker, Nancy
Zhang, Xiaofen
Zike, Dinah
Zunker, Tammy
Session Number(s)
1009, 1012
2040, 2450
2653, 2672
2618, 2646
2472
2003, 2049
2614
2024, 2086
1005
2018, 2027
2613
2644, 2667
2090
2044
1002
2429, 2452
2035
2008, 2434
2655, 2673
Elementary Catalog
Gearing Up for Change
index of speakers
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CAMT 2015
Gearing Up for Change
schedule
7:00 a.m.
8:00 a.m.
9:00 a.m.
10:00 a.m.
Noon
1:00 p.m.
2:00 p.m.
3:00 p.m.
4:00 p.m.
5:00 p.m.
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Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
Elementary Catalog
Gearing Up for Change
alternate
schedule
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
7:00 a.m.
8:00 a.m.
9:00 a.m.
10:00 a.m.
Noon
1:00 p.m.
2:00 p.m.
3:00 p.m.
4:00 p.m.
5:00 p.m.
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Gearing Up for Change
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Co ntinuing Prof e ssi ona l E d u c a tio n Cr e d it Fo r m
Conference for the Advancement of Mathematics Teaching
Gearing Up forHouston,
Change
Texas – June 24-26, 2015
The Conference for the Advancement of Mathematics Teaching has been approved by the State Board of Educator Certification to
be a provider of Continuing Professional Education (CPE) credit (CPE Provider # 500190). To receive CPE credit for CAMT 2015,
complete this form in its entirety and take it with you when you leave the conference.
Name____________________________________________________
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Time
Session Title
Speaker Name
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Complete the information for each session attended. Count the exact amount of time in a session, i.e. 60 minutes. The STEPS and
MATH-A-RAMA sessions credit are 30 minutes each. Speakers receive double credit for the sessions they present.)
Signature ____________________________________________________ Date__________________________
Total Hours CPE credit__________________________
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The Conference for the Advancement of Mathematics Teaching has been approved by the state Board for Educator
Certification to be a provider of Continuing Professional Education (CPE) credit (CPE Provider # 500190).
Executive Director, CAMT
Anita Hopkins
In recognition of attendance and participation at CAMT 2015
Houston, Texas – June 24-26, 2015
This certificate is presented to
Co ntinuing Prof e ssi ona l E d u c a tio n Cr e d it Fo r m
Conference for the Advancement of Mathematics Teaching
July 21-23, 2014
Elementary Catalog
Gearing Up for Change
Guidelines for Speakers
Speakers are accepted each year for CAMT by the
Program Committee, subject to CAMT Board approval.
Decisions are based on the guidelines with input from
evaluation of speakers and sessions from previous
meetings. No speaker is guaranteed an opportunity to
speak at CAMT.
Speakers are expected to exhibit a high level of professionalism suitable for professional mathematics education.
Speakers should begin and end their sessions on time.
Speakers should avoid the use of language that could
be construed as sexist or as derogatory toward any
group.
Speakers are not to promote a commercial product for
personal profit or for the profit of others. Commercial
products such as software programs, innovative instructional strategies presented in articles or books, or
specific manipulative materials may be demonstrated if
done in a non-promotional way. Promotional literature/
brochures may not be handed out at the presentation.
Major commercial affiliations of a speaker (relevant to
the presentation) are to be communicated clearly in the
program, in the presentation, and in any printed material given to the participants.
Speakers are encouraged, but not required, to provide
participants with bibliographies or handouts where
appropriate. There should be at least 30 percent more
than room capacity to make sure you have plenty. If
transparencies are used, they should be readable from
any part of a large room.
Speakers are encouraged, but not required, to allow
their session to be taped at the request of a participant
or at the request of the Program Committee.
Participants who have a specific comment on a session
or speaker are encouraged to communicate directly
with a member of the Program Committee or to present
written feedback at the registration desk addressed to
the attention of the Program Committee.
Violations of these guidelines may result in a speaker
not being accepted for future CAMT programs.
Adopted by the CAMT Board, February 17, 1989
CAMT 2015 Committees
Program Committee
Sherita Wilson-Rodgers, CAMT 2015 Program Chair Spring ISD
Rebecca Barlow, Katy ISD
Beth Bos, Texas State University
Jennifer Chauvot, University of Houston
Ramona Davis, Cypress-Fairbanks ISD
Diane Dewease, Waller ISD
Catherine Holden, Spring ISD
Anne Hoskin, Cypress-Fairbanks ISD
Crystal Munsinger, Region 4 ESC
Patti Nicodemo, Region 4 ESC
Richard Parr, Rice University
Tiffany Reyes, Spring ISD
Cynthia Schimek, Independent Consultant
Nicole Shanahan, HCDE
Demetra Skinner, Aldine ISD
Mandy Stutts, Katy ISD
Linsey Tipton, Spring ISD
MATH-A-RAMA
Dinah Chancellor, Consultant
Janie Schielack, Texas A&M University
STEPS
ShelleyBolen-Abbott, Region 4 Education Service Center
Jerri LaMirand, Eanes ISD
Registration Chair
Cynthia Schneider, CAMT Board
Volunteers Chair
Kelly Meshell, Austin ISD
Exhibits Committee
Jennifer Law, Exhibits Chair, Klein ISD
Kathy Riley, Exhibits Chair, Fort Bend ISD
Technology Committee
Bill Hopkins, Chair, Charles A. Dana Center
Dawn Domasig, Birdville ISD
Leann Hall, Tyler ISD
Georgeanna Jones, Tyler ISD
Lindsey Lott, Tyler ISD
Jana Monk, Tyler ISD
Sarah Platten, Tyler ISD
Kyle Seipp, Northwest ISD
Administrators’ Conference
Brenda Aleman, Crosby ISD
Kym Faircloth, Northside ISD
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CAMT 2015
Conference for the Advancement of Mathematics Teaching
Elementary Catalog
June 24-26, 2015
George R. Brown Convention Center
1001 Avenida De Las Americas
Houston, TX 77010
(713) 853-8000
sessions for Elementary School teachers
MATH-A-RAMA
Internationally-known speakers
CAMT 2016
Schedule of Events
Tuesday, June 23
On-Site Registration
2:00 p.m.–7:00 p.m.
Program Book Pick-Up
2:00 p.m.–7:00 p.m.
TASM Business Meeting/Reception
5:30 p.m.–8:30 p.m.
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Wednesday, June 24
On-Site Registration
7:00 a.m.–3:00 p.m.
Elementary Administrators’ Conference
8:00 a.m.–4:00 p.m.
Presentation and Activity Sessions
8:00 a.m.–3:30 p.m.
Exhibits
10:00 a.m.–4:30 p.m.
Thursday, June 25
On-Site Registration
7:00 a.m.–3:00 p.m.
Secondary Administrators’ Conference
8:00 a.m.–4:00 p.m.
Presentation and Activity Sessions
8:00 a.m.–3:30 p.m.
Exhibits
10:00 a.m.–4:30 p.m.
AMTE-TX Business Meeting
2:30 p.m.–3:30 p.m.
TCTM Business Meeting and Reception
4:30 p.m.–7:00 p.m.
Friday, June 26
On-Site Registration
7:00 a.m.–9:00 a.m.
Presentation and Activity Sessions
8:30 a.m.–2:00 p.m.
Exhibits
9:00 a.m.–1:00 p.m.
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