Marcy Cook | Don Fraser| Jerry Johnson | Dr. Johnny Lott | Kim Sutton | Greg Tang

Master educator, author, and math specialist, has presented workshops and seminars for teachers throughout the USA as well as in over two dozen foreign countries. She taught two years in the International School in Thessaloniki Greece. 

With a Bachelor of Arts from the University of California, Santa Barbara, and a Masters Degree from Stanford University, she has been in the field of education for more than thirty years. She has taught all elementary grades, junior high, senior high, and university level. She currently is an independent math consultant for public and private schools.

Author of over 165 mini math centers and 90 books, Marcy continually motivates teachers to make math a meaningful and exciting experience. For many years her TILING activities have been favorites with students and teachers in grades Kindergarten through middle school/junior high. Marcy's problem solving books, especially MATH STARTERS & STUMPERS, have also been popular in motivating students to think. Marcy's expertise in elementary and middle school mathematics combined with her enthusiasm for children and teaching make her an excellent source for inspiration; she has 100+ ideas at her finger tips and is ready and eager to share this knowledge and enthusiasm with others.

Marcy's rapid fire presentations focus on involvement. They move quickly, cover a lot of ground, and actively engage the participants. As a result, teachers leave her workshops with dozens of practical ideas and much more enthusiasm for math and teaching!

Make Sense of Numbers: Provide opportunities for students to visualize and explore numbers. Utilize starters daily to involve all students with number concepts. Focus on communication and thinking.

THINK Relationships: Prepare students for algebra success by developing an awareness for relationships and functions. Starters, Mental Math, Independent Task Time and Pursuit Problems will be explored.

Internationally sought-after speaker and twice voted Teacher-of-the-Year, shares his humor and experience in teaching math to young students. Professor Fraser has delivered inspiring and motivational talks at conferences across North America ranging from California to Newfoundland and from Alaska to Florida.

Tricks and Treats: Experience at least a dozen math-based tricks which offer computational practice and pattern seeking. Many of the surprising results can be proven to be true with basic algebra. However the workshop itself will be heavy on the tricks and light on the algebra. Your students will build their 'math esteem' by dazzling their friends and family at home with the tricks!

Math and Laugh: That's right. Math can be fun for students and teachers alike! Through newspaper and internet articles, current events, and a series of fun interactive activities from the world of math, Don will have you laughing and learning. Your students will be engaged and they'll never quite look at numbers in the same way again. Don will bring the activities. You bring a sense of humor!

Yogi Berra's Guide to Teaching Mathematics:  Its Like Deja Vu All Over Again:  Yogi's inane quotes provide both the motivation and insight underlying questions about simple mathematics that can perplex, entice, and challenge students at all levels of understandings.  Fortunately or unfortunately, these questions do not separate students from teachers...rather they turn all of us into learners working together as we explore interesting mathematics. 

Director, Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning, Professor of Education, and Professor of Mathematics at the University of Mississippi, Professor Emeritus from the University of Montana, Department of Mathematical Sciences.

A Past Board member and President of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM), he received his Ph. D. from Georgia State University in mathematics education. Lott served as Chair of the Editorial Panels for the Arithmetic Teacher, Teaching Children Mathematics, Student Math Notes, and Mathematics Education Dialogues for NCTM.

He was co-director of the Systemic Initiative for Montana Mathematics and Science (SIMMS Project) and the project manager for Figure This! for NCTM. Books which Lott has co-authored or edited include Standards and Curriculum: A View from the Nation, A Joint Report of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM) and the Association of State Supervisors of Mathematics (ASSM)(2004); Navigating through Probability in Grades 9-12 (2004); and A Problem-Solving Approach to Mathematics for Elementary Teachers (2006). Additionally, he serves as editor for high school papers produced at the Park City Mathematics Institute, manages the International Seminar, and works with the Designing and Delivering Professional Group there.

Teach/Test or Test/Teach: Pre-test and then teach; teach and then test; mix both teaching and testing? Whatever we do, it must be done with thought and care. Sample test items will be considered.

Kim Sutton is a fabulous presenter, who has taught thousands of teachers the joy and excitement of "hands-on" math. Kim’s teaching experience includes over 20 years of classroom teaching, regional math specialist and university instructor. Kim has worked with over 150 districts nationally and internationally as a staff development consultant. A former Associate Director of Project AIMS, Kim has a master’s degree in Mathematics Education.

Kim was the keynote speaker for Northwest Conference, Texas CAMT and Kansas State Math Conference. Kim has written many articles about pattern blocks, classroom management and is the author of Math Engineers, Math Focus Activities, Visual Tools, Number Line Workbook, Making Math Books With Children, Powerful Numbers 0-100 and Place Value With Pizzazz.

Experience what others have learned—Kim Sutton is a dynamic, extraordinary educator whose enthusiasm and love for teaching are contagious! She gives you practical, easy to implement information and ideas that you will use for years. Don’t miss this wonderful opportunity to be thrilled, challenged and energized!

The Role of Motivation in the Mathematics Classroom: Come experience strategies to motivate even the reluctant math student.

Building Algebraic Thinking K-2: Come experience practical strategies to boost the thinking behind algebra

Math Literacy - The Next Frontier: Did you ever feel like you were missing the "math gene?" Well it wasn't missing - it was just waiting to be discovered! Join best selling author, Greg Tang, (Grapes of Math) in exploring  an amazingly simple yet effective way to think about numbers, arithmetic, and problem-solving. Discover how poems, art and even art history can make math engaging, enlightening, even exciting. Math will never be the same!

Algebraic Teaching - The Missing Piece: The goal of every good math teacher.  Quick - can you explain what it means?  So hard to define and even harder to teach.  The secret?  Algebraic teaching!  Join bestselling Grapes of Math author Greg Tang in exploring the difference between algebraic and non-algebraic teaching, and see why algebraic teaching may represent the paradigm shift that can end the math wars and lead to programs and methods that actually work.

An Algebraic Approach to Teaching Place Value: Perhaps the most important concept in elementary school math.  It's the key to working with big numbers and understanding traditional algorithms. But does anybody really understand it?  Or do most know just enough to almost get by?  In this mind-stretching session, we'll see how place value can be taught algebraically, and why traditional algorithms are so important for kids to learn and understand