Thursday, August 18th 4:00 – 5:30 p.m.
Facilitated by Trey Cox Room IRN 219
Let’s Do This Together! Encouragement, Collaboration, & Accountability
The first few classes of the semester can make or break a teacher’s ability to build a classroom culture of collaboration, accountability, engagement, and encouragement. This workshop will demonstrate fun, light-hearted, and relevant materials/techniques that can be applied into classrooms next semester to get everyone involved and actively doing MATH!
Thursday, September 8th 4:00 – 5:30 p.m.
Facilitated by Scott Adamson Room IRN 219
From Fractions to Linear Functions: A Quest for Coherence
According to research on how the brain learns, dendrites—the source of intellect—are grown when students are actively engaged in talking about and making sense of mathematics. Participants will experience ways that students can coherently make sense of fractions in a way that will be productive for making sense of linear functions (and maybe even quadratic functions!).
Wednesday, Sept. 21st 4:00 – 5:30 p.m.
Facilitated by Frank Wilson Room IRN 219
Inverse Functions: What Our Teachers Didn’t Tell Us
Students often struggle with the concept of inverse functions, especially when it comes to applying inverse functions in a real world context. Part of this difficulty is due to a commonly-used procedure which obscures the inverse function concept. In this workshop, we’ll investigate strategies to help students master inverse functions. This session is based on the Mathematics Teacher cover article published in March 2011.
Attend as many workshops as you can!
- Café credit available for CGCC adjunct faculty
- Participation Certificates will be provided for other faculty
- RSVP to Linda Meng
480-857-5531
linda.meng@cgcmail.maricopa.edu