Tangent Times
March 2024
Math Curriculum Resources Corner
Collaborative Pi Tessellation Project
Each student cuts out and colors their own Pi or multiple ones.
Pi Day Activities Board
ALEKS Math Madness
Get ready for ALEKS Math Madness, the ultimate showdown for teachers to increase their students' ALEKS usage and excitement levels! With ALEKS's superpower to personalize and adapt, every student can join in on the fun, no matter what their grade or skill level is! ALEKS Math Madness is a fully inclusive and healthy competition that meets every student right where they are and is ready to unleash their math superpowers. Below are the details!
NCTM Position on Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Mathematics Teaching
Artificial Intelligence (AI)-driven tools can respond to students' thinking and interests in ways that previous tools could not. By drawing from large language sets, AI has the potential to adjust application-based problems to student interests and identify the sense students have made even in their incorrect answers.
Students will continue to need teachers' mathematical, pedagogical, and relational expertise, though teachers are also likely to benefit from AI-driven tools.
In some cases, AI may serve as a teaching assistant, but students will need teachers to help them create a bridge between prior knowledge, new knowledge, and shared knowledge.
Teachers must tell students to be very skeptical about AI results, especially about the unique challenges of using tools that may have been trained on biased datasets. This skepticism can be woven into existing pedagogical and assessment techniques.
Knowing this, educators need to be involved in developing and testing AI tools in math education to stay up to date with current AI trends to best prepare students for an AI future. Contrary to some popular opinions, this effort will require teachers with even deeper knowledge of math instruction and assessment-math teachers with more experience, not less.
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Grades 7-8 Virtual STEM Nights
Tuesday, April 2, 2024 Register HERE
Tuesday, May 7, 2024 Register HERE
Special Presentation from NCSSM Admissions
Professional Learning Opportunities
Summer Professional Learning at NCCAT (North Carolina Center for Advancement in Teaching)
Success from the Start: How to Survive and Thrive Your Frist Three Years
Week of July 15 at Cullowhee
Success from the Start: How to Survive and Thrive Your Frist Three Years
Week of July 15 at Ocracoke
Empowering Mathematicians through Hands-on Learning in the Secondary Classroom
Week of July 22 at Ocracoke
Week of July 29 at Cullowhee
Cost: The program is free for NC teachers except for transportation to and from NCCAT.
If interested, register ASAP to reserve your spot.
Submit Your Data Stories Today!!!
Are you, or someone you know, working to build early foundational data skills among your students by using data to enrich student learning? The Data Science Academy (DSA) would like to highlight teachers across North Carolina who are finding small ways to bring data and data science skills into their classrooms.
Whether you are helping young learners recognize patterns and trends in the weather or temperature, collecting and analyzing data in your science class, or exploring different and interesting ways to visualize data in art, we would love to spotlight you in our quarterly newsletter!
Math Summit 2024: Empowering Mathematical Thinkers (SAVE THE DATE)
Registration opens in May for this FREE, all day, in-person event, featuring sessions for K-12 teachers.
NCDPI Content Series
NCDPI Mathematics team continues to provide sessions for the Mathematics Content Series. Teachers, teacher leaders, coaches, district staff, and administrators have responded with overwhelmingly positive feedback. Sessions are focused on elementary, middle and high school mathematics content and pedagogy while highlighting practitioners in the field. Participants earn 2 contact hours per session. Each session meets virtually for 90 minutes with a 30-minute asynchronous reflection time. The information and resources shared are both beneficial and useful. Don't miss this opportunity.
Middle Register here: https://bit.ly/Spr2024-MSMCS
High School Register here: https://bit.ly/HSMCP2024
ESL Corner
WIDA e-Learning
Do you work with MLs in NC? Do you want to learn more about supporting ML education in the content area classroom? Do you want to earn contact hours as you grow professionally?
If you answered YES to any of these questions, explore course listings and take a course or two! Be sure to share the information with other educators of MLs in your PSUs!
- Developing Language for Learning in Mathematics
- Engaging Multilingual Learners in Science: Making Sense of Phenomena
- Exploring the WIDA PreK-3 Essential Actions (NEW!)
- Home Languages in the Classroom (ICMEE)
- Making Language Visible in the Classroom
- Newcomers: Promoting Success through Strengthening Practice (NEW!)
- Reframing Education for Long-term English Learners
- Social Studies: Engaging Multilingual Learners through Inquiry
- The WIDA ELD Standards Framework: A Collaborative Approach
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