Empowering our Students through Reasoning and
Sense Making
Keynote Address,7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
Washington Conference
Room
This session will
include an over view of NCTM's Initiative on Reasoning and Sense Making.
Selected resources created by the Initiative, such as mathematical
investigations from publications, reasoning tasks available for free download,
and updates from NCTM's Summer Institute on Reasoning and Sense Making will
follow. If they are available at the time of the conference some video clips of
students engaged in reasoning in their classrooms, and student work collected
with Live Scribe Pens, will also be shared.
For
over thirty years Mike Shaughnessy has taught mathematics content
courses and directed professional development experiences for
mathematics teachers at all levels, including, Kâ12, community college,
and university. He has authored or co-authored, over 70 articles,
books, and book chapters on issues in teaching and learning in
mathematics education. From 1996â2008 Shaughnessy was the Director of
the Doctoral Program in Mathematics Education at Portland State
University. Throughout his career his principal research interests in
mathematics education have been in the teaching and learning of
statistics and probability, and in the teaching and learning of
geometry.
Shaughnessy received his Ph.D. degree in Mathematics Education from the
Department of Mathematics at Michigan State University in 1976.
He worked in the Department of Mathematics at Oregon State University
from 1976 until 1991, and subsequently at Portland State University in
the Department of Mathematics and Statistics from 1991â2008. He served
as a member of the Board of Directors of the National Council of
Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM) from 2001â2004, and in April 2010 began
a two-year term as NCTM President.
Conference Workshop and
Session times: Thursday Keynote Speaker
|
