Please note: The NCTM conference program is subject to change.

Thursday, April 14, 2011

8:30 AM-10:00 AM


47
Formulas, Formulas Everywhere! What Do They Mean?
Teresa G. Banker and Linda B. Crawford
Grade Band Audience: 6 to 8, 3 to 5

Wabash Ballroom 2 (Convention Center)

48
Rock with Scissors and Paper
Sara Normington
Grade Band Audience: 6 to 8, 3 to 5

Sagamore Ballroom 1 (Convention Center)

49
Math Nights That Work
Sally Wood and Elizabeth Warren
Grade Band Audience: 6 to 8

Grand Ballroom VII (JW Marriott)

50
Teaching with Number Lines: The Best Kept Secret in Mathematics
Karen M. Moore and Deborah A. Turner
Grade Band Audience: 6 to 8

Marriott Ballroom 1/2 (Marriott Downtown)

52
From Comic Strips to String and Straws: Enhancing Spatial Skills
Rebecca R. Robichaux
Grade Band Audience: 9 to 12, 6 to 8

101/102 (Convention Center)

53
Rate Problems: Thinking across the Curriculum
Patrick M. Kimani and Nicole Engelke
Grade Band Audience: 9 to 12, 6 to 8

White River Ballroom I/J (JW Marriott)

54
Tools? Toys? Technology? Engaging Students in Algebra
Sara Delano Moore
Grade Band Audience: 9 to 12, 6 to 8

Sagamore Ballroom 5 (Convention Center)

10:30 AM-12:00 PM


102
3-D Geometry: New Ways to Transform Your Teaching
Aniceta Skowron
Grade Band Audience: 6 to 8, 3 to 5

White River Ballroom E (JW Marriott)

105
The Mysterious Treasure Chest of Fractions
Nancy A. Kitt and Donna J. Toll
Grade Band Audience: 6 to 8, 3 to 5

Sagamore Ballroom 7 (Convention Center)

106
It Figures: Logic Puzzles Powered by Geometry
Jeffrey J. Wanko and Gregory S. Hawk
Grade Band Audience: 6 to 8

Marriott Ballroom 7/8 (Marriott Downtown)

107
My Favorite Books and Movies for Teaching Middle-Level Mathematics
Michael Hardy
Grade Band Audience: 6 to 8

Grand Ballroom II (JW Marriott)

108
Stretching, Shrinking, and Similarity: Exploring Dilations in the Middle Grades
Terry Goodman, Ann McCoy and Sue Sundberg
Grade Band Audience: 6 to 8

144/145 (Convention Center)

109
Constructing and Transforming Vocabulary Perspectives in Your Math Classroom
Rosann Hollinger, Laura Maly and Cynthia Cuellar Rodriguez
Grade Band Audience: 6 to 8, 9 to 12

103/104 (JW Marriott)

110
Help! My Students Hate Word Problems
John W. Staley and Jennifer Henschen
Grade Band Audience: 9 to 12, 6 to 8

126/127 (Convention Center)

1:00 PM-2:30 PM


192
I Spy Geometry around Me
Susan Troutman and Carolyn L. White
Grade Band Audience: 6 to 8, 3 to 5

124 (Convention Center)

195
Come Take a Modeling Journey with Area
Erica A. Warren
Grade Band Audience: 6 to 8

White River Ballroom A/B (JW Marriott)

196
How Active Is Your Interactive Whiteboard?
Charlene Pope
Grade Band Audience: 6 to 8

Sagamore Ballroom 3 (Convention Center)

198
You Gotta Know When to Fold: Paper Folding and Geometry!
Deborah A. Crocker and Betty B. Long
Grade Band Audience: Preservice and Inservice, 6 to 8

203/204 (Convention Center)

201
NASA's Pi in the Sky
Janet L. Moore
Grade Band Audience: 9 to 12, 6 to 8

Grand Ballroom IV (JW Marriott)

202
Touch It, Create It, Learn It: Hands-On Gives Ownership
Nancy Elaine Bergfeld and Trish Goddard
Grade Band Audience: 6 to 8, 9 to 12

121/122 (Convention Center)

3:00 PM-4:30 PM


250
Geometry and Geology: Connections between Mathematics and Earth Science
Jason L. Ermer and Lynn Kirby
Grade Band Audience: 6 to 8

Sagamore Ballroom 7 (Convention Center)

251
Hundreds-Grid: Keys to the Kingdom—Fractions, Decimals, Percents
Trudy Mitchell
Grade Band Audience: 6 to 8

144/145 (Convention Center)

252
What Our Textbooks Don't Tell Us about Fractions
Kit Norris
Grade Band Audience: 6 to 8

Grand Ballroom II (JW Marriott)

253
From Squares to Conics: Hands-On Geometry Using Free NCTM Resources
Julia Zurkovsky
Grade Band Audience: 9 to 12, 6 to 8

Sagamore Ballroom 5 (Convention Center)

254
Models for Challenging Word Problems: Finding Solutions the Singapore Way
Anni Elizabeth Stipek
Grade Band Audience: 9 to 12, 6 to 8

Marriott Ballroom 1/2 (Marriott Downtown)

256
FlexBook Workshop: Using Twenty-first-Century Teaching Tools in the Classroom
Julia Ash, Rochelle Ferran and Neeru Khosla
Grade Band Audience: 9 to 12

White River Ballroom I/J (JW Marriott)

Friday, April 15, 2011

8:30 AM-10:00 AM


340
Real-World Math for Earth's Sake
Jodi Bondy
Grade Band Audience: 6 to 8, 3 to 5

103/104 (JW Marriott)

341
Teach, Assess Fractions through Problem Solving, Students' Communications, and Modeling
Philip Halloran
Grade Band Audience: 6 to 8, 3 to 5

205/206 (Convention Center)

342
Engaging Students Through Engaging Mathematics
Rick Billstein
Grade Band Audience: 6 to 8

101/102 (Convention Center)

343
Putting a Positive Spin on Negative Numbers
Shelley R. Hunter
Grade Band Audience: 6 to 8

Sagamore Ballroom 3 (Convention Center)

344
What's That Polygon in the Mirror?
Christie Perry and Vivian F. Cyrus
Grade Band Audience: 6 to 8

Grand Ballroom II (JW Marriott)

345
Yes, All Middle School Students Can Reason Proportionally
Michael Lutz
Grade Band Audience: 6 to 8

Sagamore Ballroom 7 (Convention Center)

346
Folding and Unfolding: Making Sense of Surface Area
Ziv Feldman and Matthew Chedister
Grade Band Audience: Preservice and Inservice, 6 to 8

Marriott Ballroom 7/8 (Marriott Downtown)

10:30 AM-12:00 PM


397
Algebraic Thinking: Becoming Proficient with Patterns (Discovering the Explicit Rules)
Linda S. West and Phyllis A. Kelsch
Grade Band Audience: 6 to 8, 3 to 5

White River Ballroom A/B (JW Marriott)

398
Missing Links in Proportional Reasoning
Kathleen Lynch-Davis, Signe Kastberg and Beatriz D'Ambrosio
Grade Band Audience: 6 to 8, 3 to 5

White River Ballroom E (JW Marriott)

399
What's Vocabulary Got to Do with Equity in Mathematics?
Ruth Chamberlin and Shairlyn Fish
Grade Band Audience: 6 to 8, 3 to 5

Sagamore Ballroom 1 (Convention Center)

400
Engaging Young Women in Geometric Investigations
Elizabeth Yanik and Marvin Harrell
Grade Band Audience: 6 to 8

Sagamore Ballroom 7 (Convention Center)

401
Fantastic Flexible Foldables for the Middle-School Classroom
Carol J. DeFreese
Grade Band Audience: 6 to 8

124 (Convention Center)

403
Mathematics in the Sky
William C. Luke and Gregory Luke
Grade Band Audience: 9 to 12, 6 to 8

Grand Ballroom VII (JW Marriott)

404
Using Free NCTM Resources to Promote an Understanding of Proportion
G. Patrick Vennebush
Grade Band Audience: 9 to 12, 6 to 8

Sagamore Ballroom 5 (Convention Center)

1:00 PM-2:30 PM


489
Math Success for All: Effective Coteaching with Inclusion
Heather Sparks, Alex Countryman and David Woodside
Grade Band Audience: 6 to 8

Grand Ballroom II (JW Marriott)

490
Oh, What a View: The Mathematics in Astronaut Photography!
Marshalyn E. Baker, Michele R. Mailhot and Paige V. Graff
Grade Band Audience: 6 to 8

Marriott Ballroom 5 (Marriott Downtown)

491
Thinking Proportionally with Origami Cubes
Diane Devine
Grade Band Audience: 6 to 8

203/204 (Convention Center)

492
Inspiring Middle School Students to Be Geometry Problem Solvers
Winnie Miller and Cathy Brown
Grade Band Audience: Preservice and Inservice, 6 to 8

White River Ballroom I/J (JW Marriott)

493
Thirteen Formulas or One Idea? Area, Volume, Dissections, and Proof
Cindy Carter and Keith Civin
Grade Band Audience: 6 to 8, 9 to 12

Sagamore Ballroom 3 (Convention Center)

3:00 PM-4:30 PM


542
Connecting Proportional Reasoning and Algebraic Thinking
Gloria Beswick and Rhonda Niemi
Grade Band Audience: 6 to 8, 3 to 5

Marriott Ballroom 1/2 (Marriott Downtown)

545
Making Sense of Fractions, Decimals, and Percents
Josea Eggink and Stephanie Whitney
Grade Band Audience: 6 to 8, 3 to 5

Sagamore Ballroom 1 (Convention Center)

548
I Hate Math, Ma'am! Yes I Do, Sam I Am!
Rachel Chaplin, Marcia Myers and Helen Rowland
Grade Band Audience: 6 to 8

White River Ballroom A/B (JW Marriott)

549
Paper-Folding Magic
Joy W. Black
Grade Band Audience: Preservice and Inservice, 6 to 8

105/106 (Convention Center)

551
Real-World Lessons the Mathalicious Way
Karim Kai Logue
Grade Band Audience: 9 to 12, 6 to 8

205/206 (Convention Center)

Saturday, April 16, 2011

8:30 AM-10:00 AM


616
Finding the Mean: Not Just an Application of Long Division
Robin O'Dell
Grade Band Audience: 6 to 8, 3 to 5

124 (Convention Center)

617
Radical Math: Math Games for Middle School
John Felling
Grade Band Audience: 6 to 8

Sagamore Ballroom 5 (Convention Center)

618
Investigating Area, Volume: Manipulatives, The Geometers’ Sketchpad® (GSP), TinkerPlots™
Hyunyi Jung and Diana V. Lambdin
Grade Band Audience: 6 to 8, Preservice and Inservice

Wabash Ballroom 2 (Convention Center)

10:30 AM-12:00 PM


647
CANCELLED
Rotate, Reflect, Project, and Flatten: Transformers of the World, Unite!
Polina Sabinin
Grade Band Audience: 6 to 8, 3 to 5

105/106 (Convention Center)

649
A Touchable Mathematics with the 4D Frame
Hogul Park, Inchul Jung and Mangoo Park
Grade Band Audience: 6 to 8

121/122 (Convention Center)

650
Math and Music Connections Using Rational Numbers
Shelly Jones and Dunn Pearson
Grade Band Audience: 6 to 8

126/127 (Convention Center)

651
Operations on Fractions Using NCTM Resources
Sarah Marie DeLeeuw
Grade Band Audience: 6 to 8

Sagamore Ballroom 3 (Convention Center)