2010 Future Leader Initial NCTM Annual Meeting Attendance Awards Recipient

First Steps in Math Technology: Implementing Technology in Mathematics to Increase Student Achievement and Engagement

A Title I district in San Diego County wants to make math more engaging for students, especially English Language Learners. Budget cuts are making that difficult. We no longer have a Math and Science Coordinator and we have very limited funds for professional development. Nevertheless, we have interactive white boards, which we want to use effectively to increase test scores while maintaining our students' interest in math. Our program will send one teacher representative to NCTM's Annual Meeting. This representative will learn about effective ways to use technology in math education, ways to illicit student discourse, and ways to make math real and more engaging for struggling students. Upon returning from the conference, this representative will create two workshops for other teachers in the district that will use interactive white boards to create quality math lessons that connect math to real life and increase student engagement and discourse.