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Albany (Loudonville), NY
Aug. 1-3
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SPEAKER
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Nicholas Restivo |
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GRADES
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6-8 | ||
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TITLE
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Generating Student (and Teacher) Excitement for Mathematical Problem Solving | ||
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DESCRIPTION
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Real problems must be appropriately challenging, have multiple means to solve them, and lead students to a better understanding of math concepts. Discover ways for students to become better problem solvers. | ||
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SPEAKER
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Nicholas Restivo |
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GRADES
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3-5 | ||
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TITLE
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UNPACKING GEOMETRY PROBLEMS FROM BOXES YOU MAKE | ||
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DESCRIPTION
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Participants will transform greeting cards into boxes, while discovering real-life geometry concepts, making conjectures, and probing the properties of parallelograms, rectangles, squares and other quadrilaterals. | ||