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Making Math Easy
Presented by
Laura Candler or Pat Calfee
Targeted for Grade 3-5 Teachers
No public dates currently scheduled; email Pat Calfee to
bring this workshop to your school or district!
| Time: 8:30 to 4:00 Date: TBA Location: TBA Registration Deadline: TBA |
Workshop Highlights
Registration Includes
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Making Math Easy
Why is it that so many students struggle in math? Maybe they've never had a teacher who could break down difficult concepts into bite-sized chunks that they could easily master. After attending this workshop, you can be that teacher! Laura will share dozens of easy and practical strategies for teaching each of the basic math content strands. You'll learn specific strategies for teaching whole numbers, decimals, fractions, geometry, and measurement. During the workshop, you will be actively engaged in the learning process. You'll experience the strategies first-hand and will learn the management strategies to make them work in your own classroom. You'll discover ways to make math fun and easy!
Mastery Learning in Action
This workshop is designed as a follow-up to The Dynamic Duo: Putting the Punch in Math Instruction. In that workshop, the Mastery Learning framework is presented as an effective system for differentiating math instruction. Making Math Easy provides additional strategies for each math strand and is based on the Mastery Learning approach. It's not necessary to attend the Dynamic Duo workshop first, but if you can only attend one day, it's recommended that you start with the Dynamic Duo workshop. Ideally, you would take both workshops as a 2-day seminar. Please be aware that since these are separate workshops, they each have their own registration form.
Making Math Easy Workshop Content
- Classroom-tested activities for teaching math in a way that makes sense to kids
- Strategies to help you implement the Mastery Learning model in mathematics
- How to use cooperative learning effectively in the mathematics classroom
- Active engagement strategies to motivate your struggling learners as well as challenge your advanced learners
- Easy ways to incorporate interactive white boards in math
- Loads of simple yet effective classroom management techniques
- Specific strategies to help you meet NCTM standards for place value, decimals, fractions, geometry, measurement, and more!
Teachers who attended Making Math Easy commented...
- This workshop was better than I could have imagined! Usually I feel bad for taking the time or spending the money to attend a training, but not this time. Every second was worth it, and I drove from Florida with two middle-schoolers in the back seat! The materials are incredible, and I like the opportunity to talk and process the information. This training has completely defined what I will do. Since I'm starting fresh, never having taught math before, I feel like I will be on solid ground and making it fun! I CAN'T WAIT till school starts! ~ Heather Dobbs
- This has made me refocus as a teacher! All the wonderful resources are ready. This will make math fun and meaningful for my LD students. I will use these strategies as soon as I start to school and share them with my colleagues. I learned that working in a group or with a partner is much better than being alone! Come to Bermuda and share your strategies! ~ Tamara Adderly
- I loved all the activities and concepts. I loved the fraction pizza game and how we did all the activities which helped with concepts. Fabulous workshop!
- This workshop gave a very hands-on and fun approach with fractions. My kids have trouble with fractions. The fractions were wonderful , but I feel every aspect of the workshop has value! ~ Jerrod Bridges
- I loved how I was able to do the activities myself before incorporating them into the classroom. I loved the place value mat for decimals and Fishbowl Multiplication. ~ Anonymous
- I really enjoyed this workshop because it had a lot of hands-on activities and we were able to get out of our chairs and move. Kids don't like to sit for long periods of time. This workshop was really terrific! ~ Anonymous
- This workshop went above and beyond my expectations. Your ideas were stimulating and gave me a springboard for great thoughts. I will incorporate more engaging activities into my classroom to strengthen my students' skills as well as enriching their opportunities. Thank you! Thank you! I'm so excited to return to my school! ~ Anonymous
Who Should Attend
- Teachers of grades 3 - 5 (Note: Other teachers K-12 would find the Mastery Learning and Cooperative Problem Solving strategies beneficial, but the workshop activities are specifically designed for teachers of grades 3 - 5).
- Elementary School Administrators
- Instructional Coaches and Math Coaches (School or District Level)
- District Level Math Directors
- Students enrolled in teacher education programs