Welcome to the Annual Idaho STEM Conference, presented by ICTM, ISTA, IDEEA, and CSTA! Join us on July 30th and 31st at Mountain View High School in Meridian, Idaho. An optional field trip day will be held on August 1st at various locations.
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Principles to Action: Ensuring Mathematical Success for All (NCTM 2014, p.24) states, “Effective teaching of mathematics engages students in making connections among mathematical representation to deepen understanding of mathematics concepts and procedures and as tools for problem solving.”
Participants in this session will practice connecting visual, numeric, symbolic, and verbal representations as a lesson planning tool. A simple graphic organizer helps math teachers think about appropriate mathematical representations for math concepts they regularly teach and how to guide their students in making connections among these representations.
Paul Johanson has been involved in math education for thirty years. He taught high school mathematics for the first ten years of his career and trained future math teachers at BYU-Idaho for the past twenty years. At BYU-Idaho he served on the Education Coordinating Council and as... Read More →
