Linking Language and Learning Mathematics
October 26, 2016 • Phoenix
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Workshop Overview
Goal
- Provide teachers with a handful of easy to implement, high leverage strategies for helping students, particularly English learners, have access to the language and the mathematics of word problems by linking language and reasoning development.
Outcomes
Participants will:
- Understand the value of using language as a thinking tool
- Understand a design framework for creating access to both language and mathematics
- Learn a handful of strategies that give students access to mathematical reasoning through language
- Understand how these strategies help students use language functions: receptive and productive
- Engage in planning to use the design framework and strategies learned
Who Should Attend
- Grades 4 - 12 mathematics teachers
Facilitators
- Johannah Nikula
- Harold Asturias
Schedule
9:00 a.m. – 10:30 a.m.
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Part 1: How do we use language as a thinking tool in mathematics? What do English learners need? |
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| 10:30 a.m. – 10:45 a.m. |
Break |
10:45 a.m. – 12:15 p.m.
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Part 2: Understanding diagrams as a communication and thinking tool |
12:15 p.m. – 1:00 p.m.
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Lunch (included in registration fee)
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1:00 p.m. – 2:30 p.m.
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Part 3: Increasing English learners' access to word problems: Three Reads and Problem Stem |
2:30 p.m. – 2:45 p.m.
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Break |
| 2:45 p.m. – 4:30 p.m. |
Part 4: Implications for Instruction: Designing instructional events that incorporate the strategies learned |
Registration Information
Preregistration required.
Rates:
With Conference Registration: $145
Workshop Only: $185