Middle school math teachers met with mathematicians Anna Varvak and Amanda Serenevy, and educational psychologist Julie Turner to discuss teaching for conceptual understanding. Participants examined the concepts underlying conventional procedures, shared teaching strategies that promote learning of the underlying concepts, and developed lesson plans that engage conceptual learning in the process of strengthening procedural knowledge. Topics included multiplication, division, place value, integer operations, linear relationships, fractions, decimals, percents, and measurement.
Dates: Jun 23, 2008 – Jun 27, 2008
Brown Intermediate Center
