ICTM Fall 2024 Conference

The MathMemeTeam uses popular culture and internet memes to explore and push against mathematical tropes that have been dispelled time and time again. "Asians are naturally good at math" or "women cannot do math" have proven to be inaccurate socially constructed themes, yet still exist across the internet in mathematical internet meme (MIM) form. In this session, we will explore five such tropes and discuss how you can help push back against these flawed perspectives.

Neurodivergence (Specific Learning Disorders, ADHD, and autism) is a way of thinking and processing information, even on test days! Learn why accurate, consistent accommodations are key to student success in this interactive session. Participants are encouraged to bring their own student stories, IEP or 504 plans, and lots of questions.

Want to facilitate mathematical discourse with your students through Building Thinking Classrooms strategies? Participants will collaborate on a math task that promotes student thinking while experiencing visibly randomized teams, verbal instructions, and working on vertical whiteboards. The session closes with task consolidation that models NCTM’s 5 Practices and reflection on teacher moves necessary to facilitate this discourse with students.

For many students, Algebra 2 and precalculus are daunting options, yet these students need to meet math credit graduation requirements. Two full-year courses, Advanced Algebra with Financial Applications, and Hands-On Statistics, will be scrutinized. They provide excellent options for two upperclass core course math credits. Participants will be exposed to sample projects, lessons, and activities, and samples of student-completed finance and statistics projects.

Our talk will focus on a data science activity that uses the Traveling Salesman problem to teach data science concepts of optimization and modeling. This activity can be used with high school students as well as a tool to develop preservice teacher knowledge to teach data science