Oklahoma Council of

Teachers of

Mathematics

Summer Conference

June 20, 2008

Oklahoma City Community College

Welcome to the Annual Conference of the

Oklahoma Council of Teachers of Mathematics

June 20, 2008

We are pleased to welcome you to our annual summer conference, which will be held in our Robert P. Todd Science, Engineering and Math Center (the SEM Center), located on the second floor. The easiest access is to park in lot A and use Entry 24. We hope that once again you will enjoy the activities and return home with fresh ideas, feeling renewed and inspired as you prepare for your upcoming school year. We have many enjoyable and informative sessions scheduled for all grade levels throughout the day; please study this program to maximize your time with us. In the back of your program are floor maps, space for notes and a faculty development form.

Also, be sure to find time to visit the exhibitors in the 2^nd floor corridor near the science labs. Lunch is on your own, OCCC has a variety of options in our cafeteria.

Thanks for sharing your time with us today!

Linda Knox Paul and Lisa Buckelew

OCTM Conference Chair Program Coordinators

OCTM PROGRAM

8:00 Registration Entry 24 (Lot A)

8:30—3:50 Workshops See Schedule

4:00 General Meeting/Door Prizes Math Lab

The Following Exhibitors may be found:

Texas Instruments

Cytek Media Systems

Lakeshore Learning Materials

Saxon Publishers

Nine Patch Puzzles

Wright Group/McGraw-Hill

NASA Aerospace Education

Riverside Publishing

Mathline

Teacher Created Materials

Scott Foresman/Prentice Hall

Mimio Interactive Whiteboards

It's About Time

McDougal Littell

Oklahoma Energy Resources Board

Macmillan / McGraw-Hill

Glencoe McGraw-Hill

NCTM

WORKSHOP SCHEDULE:

(An asterisk* by a session indicates that session is repeated somewhere else in the program.)

8:30-9:20 SESSIONS

*Using Homemade Manipulatives and Games to Provide Hands-On Math

Jeanne Mather, University of Science & Arts of Oklahoma

This session is designed for grades PK-2 teachers who know that manipulatives can make or break a child’s understanding, but realize that budgets make it difficult for every child to have access to get them. Learn how to make cheap manipulatives and games to help students really understand and reflect upon the math concepts you address.

Grades PK-2 ROOM 2C8 (*Additional session at 9:30)

Teaching ELL Students in an Elementary Mathematics Classroom

Sacra Nicholas, Summer Bateiha, Nidal El-Kazimi, and Levi Patrick University of Oklahoma

Are you challenged by teaching students with multiple languages in your elementary math classroom or do you anticipate you will be in the near future? Come experience what it is like to learn elementary mathematics in a “mystery language” and then explore a variety of strategies that will be beneficial to your English speakers as well as the ELL students in your classroom as they learn math.

Grades K-5 ROOM 2J6

Games for the Middle School Classroom

Kelli Ball and Lauri Stewart, Owasso 7^th Grade Center

Participants will play a variety of games to engage middle school students in mathematics. Come and play and have games to use in August!

Grades 6-8 ROOM 2J5

TIC-TOC

Renee Gruntmeir and Rocky Bargas, Cheyenne Middle School

Do you want to review past concepts to keep them fresh in your students’ minds, but just can’t find the time? Are you drowning in papers to grade and record almost nightly? We will present ideas that have solved both of these problems for us.

Grades 6-8 ROOM 2B8

NASA Smart Skies

Mike McGlone, NASA-AESP

NASA Smart Skies is a real-world type program for students to use distance-rate-time problems in the classroom. Students become air traffic controllers, pilots, and NASA scientists to apply math skills to everyday situations.

Grades 6-8 ROOM 2H6

Teach Less Learn More Pre-Calculus

Andrew Bucki and Dan Bailey, Langston University

An introduction to a system that teaches Pre-Calculus and eventually Calculus based on logic. This system says “no” to memorized processes but allows students the freedom to create their own processes. This system addresses PASS skills more thoroughly with less content.

Grades 6-12 ROOM 2A7

(8:30-9:20 continued)

EPAS: A Ready-made Vertical Alignment Tool

Matt Higdon, Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education

Are necessary skills being taught in your middle and high school? Are some skills being left out? Why does it matter? Uses EXPLORE and PLAN reports to predict success on state CRT and EOI exams. Also use EXPLORE and PLAN student reports to target specific skills for remediation. The presenter will give an overview of Oklahoma’s Educational Planning and Assessment System (OKEPAS), a comprehensive student preparation system designed as a framework for academic and career planning.

Grades 6-12 ROOM 2C4

8:30-10:20 TWO –HOUR SESSION

“Show Me the Math! Scaffolding Mathematical Learning”

Judy. S. Bishop. Wright Group/McGraw-Hill

Hands-on activities using specific manipulatives focus struggling students on PASS objectives for numbers and operations, beginning concretely and moving to abstract. Handouts provide activities and an action plan for students to Model It, Understand It, and Try It. Come see for yourself.

Grades 2-7 ROOM 2A5

9:30-10:20 SESSIONS

*Using Homemade Manipulatives and Games to Provide Hands-On Math

Jeanne Mather, University of Science & Arts of Oklahoma

Grades PK-2 ROOM 2C8 (*Additional session at 8:30)

Teach Less Learn More Pre-Algebra

Andrew Bucki and Dan Bailey, Langston University

An introduction to a system that teaches 4-8 mathematics based on the 9 properties of a field and two definitions. This system addresses PASS skills much more thoroughly with much less content than traditional systems.

Grades 3-8 ROOM 2A7

*Electronic Whiteboard for the High School Math Classroom

Brian Retzlaff, Cytek Media Systems, INC

Electronic whiteboards are great teaching tools. This session will give teachers specific skill based examples of how to integrate them into high school math classes. The focus will be on use of the board as a tool and use of the board as an interactive teaching tool.

Grades 6-12 ROOM 2H7 (*Additional session at 1:00)

(9:30-10:20 continued)

Geometric Discovery Through Paper Folding

Sharon Christensen and Barbara Meyers, Cameron University

Participants will be introduced to a variety of paper folding activities which will assist them in guiding their students in geometry. Participants will be provided with patterns that can be used in their classrooms.

Grades 6-12 ROOM 2N3

NASA Smart Skies

Mike McGlone, NASA-AESP

Grades 9-12 ROOM 2H6

Polynomial Division in a Day

Kansas Conrady Pope, Oklahoma State University Doctoral Student

The area model for polynomial multiplication and division has successfully been used with diverse student populations by providing both an organizational tool and geometric representation of the polynomial operations. Participants will leave this session with a model that can be used for factoring trinomials, multiplying polynomials, and dividing polynomials.

Grades 9-12 ROOM 2F8

Standards-Based Grading in Mathematics

Kerri White, Oklahoma State Department of Education

What is an “A”? How do I know that an “A” in my class is the same as an “A” in someone else’s class? How do I turn a rubric score into a letter grade? If you have ever asked a question like these, Dr. Robert Marzano’s research on Classroom Assessments and Grading that Work will illuminate some answers. This session will explore standards-based grading practices and how they can be implemented in math classes.

Grades K-12 ROOM 2N5

10:30-11:20 SESSIONS

Algebraic Thinking…What are you thinking?

Brandon Harvey and Diana Cullison, Macmillan/McGraw-Hill

Success in algebra is a key indicator of students who will go on to college. This workshop will show activities and games that teachers can use in their classrooms to enhance algebraic thinking skills K through 5^th grades! Handouts and materials provided.

Grades K-5 ROOM 2B8

Math & Ag in the Classroom, a Perfect Match

Mary Ann Kelsey, Oklahoma Ag in the Classroom

Experience hands-on Math lessons that incorporate Math process standards: problems solving, reasoning, communication, connections and representation. Ag in the Classroom (AITC) lessons are refreshing, relevant, reliable and involve all learners. Participants will receive classroom resources.

Grades K-8 ROOM 2C4

(10:30-11:20 continued)

Tangram Mathematics

Dr. Steven C. Wilkinson, Northeastern State University

Tangrams are excellent tools to develop many diverse mathematical concepts. We will explore as many as we can in one hour. All of the five Mathematics Process Skills are included in the activities. Topics will include geometry, fractions, algebra, and problem solving. There will also be a door prize.

Grades 3-8 ROOM 2J5

How Tall is It? How Accurate Can We Be?

Betsy Showalter, Langston University

Participants will use the mirror method to determine the height of the doorway or other designated point s in the room. The accuracy of this method of indirect measurement, in terms of percent of error, will be calculated. PASS objectives include measurement, similarity, and calculating percents.

Grades 6-12 ROOM 2J6

How Close is Too Close to Call?

Valerie Sharon and Linda Goeller, Northeastern State University and Keys High School

Have you ever wondered why it took so long for the media to call the election in Ohio (2004 Presidential election) yet Oklahoma was called as soon as the polls closed? In this exploration, we will simulate exit poll results using graphing calculators; meeting PASS skill under technology and the Data Analysis and Probability Standard.

Grades 6-12 ROOM 2C6

Implementing Response to Intervention (RtI) in Math

Kerri White, Oklahoma State Department of Education

Response to Intervention (RtI) is the best practice for implementing the No Child Left Behind, ensuring that all students receive the instruction they need to become successful adults and lifelong learners. But how do classroom teachers implement RtI, especially in math? This session will provide practical example of the RtI process for all math instructors.

Grades K-12 ROOM 2N5

10:30-12:20 TWO-HOUR SESSION

TI-Nspire Activities: Functions, Graphs, and Tables

Mary Brese, Moore High School, Moore Public Schools

Each participant will use a TI-Nspire to work with function, graphs and tables. There will also be geometry activities to choose from, depending on the area of participants’ interests. Come see and participate in multiple interactive calculator presentations.

Grades 9-12 ROOM 2A6

11:30-12:20 SESSIONS

Making Math Memorable with Foldables, Songs, and Games!

Brandon Harvey and Diana Cullison, Macmillan/McGraw-Hill

Looking for a way to “jazz” up your math lessons? This workshop will give teachers hands-on ideas to use math songs and graphic organizers called foldables to enhance the math in your classroom. This is an active session where participants will get to play the games, make the foldables, and take away items to use right away in their classrooms!

Grades K-5 ROOM 2B8

(11:30-12:20 continued)

The Amazing Mimio (SmartBoard alternative)

Vicki Vaughan and Jeff Butler, Kenneth Cooper Middle School

Mimio greatly expands the capabilities of the ordinary whiteboard. Dazzle your students and get the involved with interactive practice that is fun and memorable. Save notes from class to class and print or send to your website for students who are absent or just need more help. Come see the possibilities.

Grades 6-8 ROOM 2A7

Make and Take Origami: Folding the Stellated Octahedron

Jeanna Smith and Nancy Warden, University of Central Oklahoma and University of Science and Arts of Oklahoma

This is a make and take session. Participants will learn to fold the basic origami parallelogram piece. They will then create their own 12-piece stellated Octahedron (a circular shape with 8 pyramidal points). Other types of geometric solids will be shown and handouts will be provided.

Grades 6-12 ROOM 2F8

PASS to Personal Finance

Sue Lynn Sasser, Oklahoma Council on Economic Education

Session will provide information on Oklahoma’s new Passport to Financial Literacy focusing on the new PASS standards for Personal Finance.

Grades 7-12 ROOM 2N3

Basics on TI-Navigator

Dr. C. Eugene Hobbs, Oklahoma Baptist University

Presentation of various components for use with TI-Navigator, beginning with the basics. No previous experience needed.

Grades 9-12 ROOM 2C8

12:30-1:00 LUNCH BREAK!

Lunch is on your own, OCCC has a variety of options in our cafeteria.

1:00-1:50 SESSIONS

Making the Abstract Concrete by Building Volume Units

Richard Carter, Lee Elementary

This presentation will address PASS skills 4.4a and 4.4b for 4^th grade, 4.3 and 4.4 for 5^th grade. My students have a hard time visualizing the size of different larger units of volume and length in order to give an accurate estimate. We have found if we take time to build a cubic foot, cubic yard, and cubic meter using rulers, yard sticks, and meter sticks, the concrete model allows us to better visualize abstract problems. We also build a
decameter out of people to give an idea of metric length that is larger than a meter then discuss this relationship to other units of length measurement. This class will involve some hands-on and make-it take-it.

Grades 3-5 ROOM 2C6

(1:00-1:50 continued)

Assessing Students Using the Indigo Handheld System

Robin Coffman, Hooker High School

The Indigo System by LearningSoft is a handheld student assessment device allowing for multiple choice, fill in the blank and essay answers. Assessment questions can be made by the teacher, imported or used from the existing question bank that is aligned to NCTM standards. The system also has the ability to browse teacher specified websites.

Grades 3-12 ROOM 2J6

*Electronic Whiteboard for the High School Math Classroom

Brian Retzlaff, Cytek Media Systems, INC

Grades 6-12 ROOM 2H7 (*Additional session at 9:30)

Alphabetizing Your Math: What Comes First?

Mary Brese, Moore High School, Moore Public Schools

Many concepts in the math classroom are taught in paired terminology; like, denominator and numerator, or x-axis and y-axis, also horizontal and vertical. From fractions to calculus, I have an alphabetical way of presenting math content in a way that helps students remember the correct use and application of daily content and terminology.

Grades 6-12 ROOM 2A6

TI Graphing Calculators: Tips and Tricks of the Trade

Robb Wilson, Texas Instruments

This hands-on session will explore some often forgotten but useful features of the TI-83/84 Plus graphing calculator. Topics will include memory management, deleting games and programs, line-of-best-fit, split screens, zoom store, equation solver, and grouping. Do you know how to put a circle graph or bar graph on your calculator? Come join the fun.

Grades 6-16 ROOM 2C4

Mathematics Education Programs and NCATE Program Reviews…Ideas Anyone?

Dr. Nancy Warden, University of Science and Arts of Oklahoma

This session is aimed at bringing together college level mathematics faculty and mathematics educators (all levels) to discuss and share ideas for improving mathematics instruction at the university level. In addition, discussion will be engaged about writing the NCATE (NCTM) program review in secondary mathematics (e.g. sharing our questions, assessments, successes and disappointments, etc.) Bring any materials you would like to share (e.g. assessments and scoring guides, teaching methods curriculum, etc.). Nancy Warden will facilitate the discussion.

For College Faculty and Mathematics Educators ROOM 2F8

2:00-2:50 SESSIONS

Algebra Activities with the TI-Navigator System

Robb Wilson, Texas Instruments

This hands-on demonstration will use the TI-Navigator classroom learning system to develop algebraic concepts thru interactive activities with the computer and graphing calculators. The system features polling, screen captures, grades benchmark assignments collected from calculators, and provides an item analysis report. It will be worth your time just to find out what it’s all about, and you might win a door prize!

Grades 6-16 ROOM 2C4

Impacting High School Students for a Lifetime

Nancy LaBrue, Gunter High School

Illustrate how personal finance topics will impact the students’ futures. Provide teachers with projects to tie classroom knowledge to the students’ lives. Give techniques to help all students be successful. PASS Objectives: addresses primarily Math of Finance objectives but also some Algebra I and Algebra II objectives.

Grades 9-12 ROOM 2A5

Closing the Gap in Algebra

Steve Bowlware and Lorna Williams, Edmond Memorial High School

Four years ago Edmond Public Schools made the decision to eliminate remedial math classes and place everyone in at least Algebra I in the ninth grade. This class will focus on what Memorial High School has done to help low achieving students close the gap while they are taking Algebra. It has been a success story the every school district will want to hear about.

Grades 9-12 ROOM 2N3

The One, Two, Three to Improving Student Achievement

David Helm, OCTM District #1 Board, John Marshall Instructional Facilitator OKCPS

This is an overview of what methods research has found to most affect student achievement, mixed with a personal journey over four years of seeing Algebra I EOI scores go from 17 to 96% satisfactory.

Grades 9-12 ROOM 2A7

2:00-3:50 TWO-HOUR SESSIONS

Rethinking Addition and Subtraction K-2

Jennifer Wisdom, Sangre Ridge Elementary School

Participants will view and discuss video clips of students working addition and subtraction problems within a conceptual mathematics curriculum. Participants will rethink strategies for arithmetic and learn how to teach students to find efficient strategies that build on their own math understandings. This session addresses all PASS objectives relating to number sense and addition/subtraction computation.

Grades K-2 ROOM 2N5

Teaching Division of Fractions

Dr. Juliana Utley and Adrienne Redmond, Oklahoma State University

This session will provide participants with hands-on activities that allow students to build an understanding of division of fractions.

Grades 6-8 ROOM 2B8

(continued: 2:00-3:50 TWO-HOUR SESSIONS)

Basics on the TI-Nspire

Dr. C. Eugene Hobbs, Oklahoma Baptist University

Presentation of various opportunities in problem solving on the INSPIRE calculator, beginning with the basics.

Grades 9-12 ROOM 2C8

3:00-3:50 SESSIONS

Have Your Cake and Eat It Too with Clickers!

David Helm, OCTM District #1 Board, John Marshall Instructional Facilitator OKCPS

This is a demonstration of several ways to use a Classroom Performance System (CPS), the “clickers.” You will learn to simultaneously teach, assess and record grades with 100% student engagement as you sit back and eat a big piece of double fudge chocolate cake!

Grades K-12 ROOM 2A7

What Can You Do with a SMART Board?

Mary Brese, Moore High School, Moore Public Schools

Teaching with technology at your fingertips: learn many ways the SMART Board can enhance your daily lesson presentation. Record lessons for playback and make your own worksheets. Find interactive lessons that students can “play with” in the SMART Board.

Grades K-12 ROOM 2H6

Making Numbers Make Sense

Jan Sands, Putnam City and SWOSU

Use games and fun activities to explore and understand numbers. Handouts will be provided.

Grades 3-5 ROOM 2F8

Fraction Frenzy

Dr. Carol Lucas and Ms. Adele Hanlon, University of Central Oklahoma

Fraction games and activities. Grade 3 – content 2.2, Grade 4 – content 2.3, Grade 5 – content 2.1, 3.2, Grade 6 – content 2.1-2.3, Grade 7 – content 2.2, and Grade 8 content 1.1.

Grades 3-8 ROOM 2C6

TAG: Some Connections Between Trigonometry, Algebra, and Geometry

Dr. John Woods, SWOSU Mathematics Department

We will look at vectors and their use in making strong TAG connections. Emphasis will be placed on clarity and understandability of some key concepts. Vectors are a unifying tool. (All PASS Skills)

Grades 9-12 ROOM 2J5

Where is the ON button?

Martha Wissler, Edmond Memorial High School

Is technology speeding by? Learn the basics of the graphing calculator.

Grades 9-12 ROOM 2A6

4:00-4:30

Short Business Meeting, Math Lab

Door Prizes

(Must be present to win)

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Be sure to mark your calendars for these upcoming events:

August 6-8, 2008:

TI-Nspire Three Day Workshop

Content-specific classroom activities for Algebra I though Calculus.

Oklahoma City Community College

Contact Linda Knox: lknox@occc.edu

November 15, 2008:

OKLAHOMA Texas Instruments One Day Conference

Edmond Memorial High School; Edmond, OK

Contact Martha Wissler: mwissler@cox.net

February 20-21, 2009:

T³ Regional Conference

Edmond, OK

Contact Martha Wissler: mwissler@cox.net

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We hope you had a pleasant experience here at the OCTM Conference. Thank you to all of the presenters and exhibitors who helped to make this conference such a successful event!

Stacey Weinand , OCTM President

Linda Knox, Conference Chair

Paul and Lisa Buckelew, Program Coordinators