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Connected Workshops: Math
Bring our Learning Specialists to your school and empower your teachers to help students maximize their learning every day.
Each Workshop is delivered in a relaxed atmosphere at your school site, fostering collaboration and idea sharing among your staff. Participants receive comprehensive handouts with practical tools and resources they can use the next day in class!
Choose from the following list of existing Workshop titles focused on math instruction, or let's work together to create one of your own:
Camp Connect™ Math
Overview:
This three-day workshop promotes the integration of technology into the mathematics curriculum, the improvement of teaching practice and improved student achievement in the math curriculum. Participants will acquire the skills and strategies in the areas of understanding Internet tools, accessing math resources, and integrating student activities and projects. All participants will develop a student activity or project that can be immediately used in the classroom.
Objectives:
- Explore the seven components of mathematics instruction: reasoning, numeration, operations, modeling, measurement, uncertainty/probability, and patterns/functions.
- Explore research-based and critically acclaimed programs that provide or supplement math instruction.
- Examine best practices of using computers in mathematics classrooms.
- Discuss the role of the Internet in the mathematics classroom.
- Locate and evaluate Web sites that support mathematics.
- Classify and organize Web sites according to the various areas of mathematics.
- Locate Web sites that illustrate the use of higher-level, problem-solving skills.
- Understand how to locate and/or develop Internet lesson plans.
- Locate online content and resources that support local math standards.
- Collect Internet content and resources that support project-based learning.
- Locate and integrate math activities and projects.
- Understand how to manage project-based learning in the math classroom.
- Understand how to create online projects such as hotlists, WebQuests, hunts.
- Create one online activity or project in mathematics.
Activities: May include demonstrations, guided discussion, modeling, sharing, small group and large group work, collegial interaction through brainstorming and collaborating, creating checklists, action-planning and applications tasks.
Resources: Each participant will receive a comprehensive handout of essential resources specifically designed for this workshop, including classroom activity materials, and URLs for important online tools and resources for educators.
Product: Each participant will develop an online activity or project to emphasize creative technology integration in the math curriculum.
Target Audience: K-8 Teachers, Teachers of Gifted Students, and Mentor/Lead Teachers.
Recommended Technology Skill Level: All levels
Number of Trainers: Up to 3 trainers
Number of Participants: Up to 60 participants
Duration: Up to 6 instructional hours per day
Meeting Room: Three computer labs required (one computer per participant required).
Equipment to be Provided by Customer: For each lab, a projection system (digital projector, or LCD projector for use with trainer's laptop), overhead projector (as backup projection device), Internet connectivity, whiteboard/chalkboard, 6 ft. table for trainer's laptop, equipment and other materials.
Workshop Overviews
Using Technology to Support Math Standards
This workshop will focus on the integration of technology to support the National Council of Mathematics Math Standards. Participants will be introduced to interactive math resources that will assist students in building and enhancing understanding of difficult math concepts. Participants will brainstorm difficult math concepts and use technology tools to develop a lesson that will help to increase student math knowledge while providing motivating and engaging activities.
Online Tools to Support Math Instruction
This workshop will provide participants with an introduction to Web-based resources available for the math specialist, as well as ways to integrate Internet-based activities into their classroom for the more net-savvy. Participants will review content-rich Web sites, online resources and tools, and collections of Internet activities. The workshop project will include the implementation of an Internet-based activity that meets your specific curricular needs.
Integrating Microsoft Office into the Math Classroom
This workshop will introduce participants to the power of using Microsoft Office to enrich the math classroom. Participants will learn how to create instructional and interactive math Microsoft PowerPoint presentations. Participants will learn how to create templates, graphs and formulas using Microsoft Excel. Using the Equation Editor in Microsoft Word and PowerPoint, they will also create worksheets, interactive PowerPoint presentations and tests, and explore the variety of online resources that contain lesson ideas for Microsoft Office.
To learn more about Connected Workshops and our other Math professional development programs, call us today at (800) 638-1639.
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