Thursday, April 14, 2011: 8:30 AM-10:00 AM
126/127 (Convention Center)
Lead Speaker:
Michelle Cirillo
Co-Speaker:
Beth Herbel-Eisenmann
Selecting good tasks and facilitating discourse that supports students’ understandings and abilities to communicate about mathematics are essential to reasoning and sense making. This session will engage participants in a rich geometry task designed to facilitate conjecturing about and the exploration of triangle congruence relationships.
Presentation Format: 9-12 Gallery Workshop
Grade Band Audience: 9 to 12, 6 to 8