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