Time: 10:00 AM – 3:00 PM EST

Location: Macon Marriott Convention Center
240 Coliseum Dr.
Macon, GA 31217

Description: The goals for the workshop are to help teachers: (a) understand how the K–5 geometry and measurement standards support students’ work in algebraic thinking and fractions, (b) understand how the hands-on approach to geometry builds students intuitive understandings of congruence and similarity in grades 6–8, and (c) understand how to introduce students to abstract geometric reasoning and geometric modeling in high school.

Participant outcomes will include the ability to: (a) orchestrate productive classroom discussions fostering student reasoning that connects geometry and measurement to arithmetic (e.g., using area models to understand the properties of operations), (b) use physical and virtual manipulatives with students to help them informally express their geometric reasoning, and (c) help students find an appropriate level of precision in writing proofs of geometric theorems without getting bogged down in formalistic language or proof schemes.

Research Alliance: Improving Instruction of Mathematics Research Alliance

Audience: The primary audience will include mathematics specialists from Georgia’s 16 regional educational service agencies (RESA), district-level curriculum supervisors, and school-level teacher leaders.

Speakers: Bill McCallum, Ph.D. Professor Emeritus in Mathematics, University of Arizona and President of Illustrative Mathematics