National Council of Teachers of Mathematics 2014 Annual Meeting and Exposition

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

Bringing the (Signal and the) Noise!

Thursday, April 10, 2014

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8:00 AM-9:00 AM

Bringing Statistics to Life with Census at School
Stephen J. Miller
Grade Band Audience: 6 to 8, 9 to 12
206 (Convention Center)

8:00 AM-9:15 AM

Explore Graphing with Sir Cumference and Lady Di of Ameter
Betty B. Long, Cindy Neuschwander and Deborah A. Crocker
Grade Band Audience: PreK to 2, 3 to 5
221/222 (Convention Center)

Engaging Teachers in Statistics and Probability through STEM
Jane M. Metty and Clemmie B. Whatley
Grade Band Audience: 3 to 5, 6 to 8
R04 (Convention Center)

9:30 AM-10:30 AM

Making Sense of Inference for Sampling and Experiments
Daren Starnes
Grade Band Audience: 9 to 12
R07 (Convention Center)

9:45 AM-11:00 AM

Inference and Decision Making through Simulations and Re-randomization Experiments
J. Michael Shaughnessy
Grade Band Audience: 6 to 8, 9 to 12
Versailles (Hilton)

11:00 AM-12:00 PM

120

Help! There’s a Ton of Statistical Bricks Falling on Me!
Alan P. Maloney and Dicky N. Ng
Grade Band Audience: 6 to 8
Grand Salon 21-24 (Hilton)

11:30 AM-12:00 PM

149

Doing Statistics with Real Biology Experimental Data
Luke W. Wilcox
Grade Band Audience: 9 to 12
228/229 (Convention Center)

12:30 PM-1:30 PM

169

Exploring the Mean Absolute Deviation of Backpack Weights
Kathryn G. Shafer
Grade Band Audience: 6 to 8
Grand Salon 9-12 (Hilton)

1:00 PM-2:15 PM

196

How to "Guess Who?": Incorporating Probability Concepts with Games
Michael Daiga and Crystal Marie Vesperman
Grade Band Audience: 6 to 8
221/222 (Convention Center)

200

Common Core Statistics: What Non-Statisticians Should Know
Julie L. Graves
Grade Band Audience: 9 to 12
203/204/205 (Convention Center)

201

Making Mathematics Culturally Relevant to Students Using Problem-Based Learning
Audrea K. Bankston and Courtney Lewis
Grade Band Audience: 9 to 12
R08 (Convention Center)

3:30 PM-4:30 PM

272

Integrating Social Justice Issues Can Support and Promote Quantitative Literacy
Rachel Bates and Stacy Reeder
Grade Band Audience: 6 to 8, 9 to 12
245 (Convention Center)

Friday, April 11, 2014

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8:00 AM-9:15 AM

327

Crocodiles, Logarithms, and the Mathematical Practice Standards
Gail Burrill
Grade Band Audience: 9 to 12
244 (Convention Center)

9:30 AM-10:30 AM

353

LOCUS: A Tool For Assessing Statistical Reasoning in the CCSS
Tim Jacobbe, Douglas Whitaker and Catherine Case
Grade Band Audience: 6 to 8, 9 to 12
245 (Convention Center)

354

Rethinking Probability in the Common Core and AP Statistics
Roxy Peck
Grade Band Audience: 6 to 8, 9 to 12
Great Hall B/C (Convention Center)

360

Teach Inferential Reasoning on an Intuitive Level Early and Often!
Ruth E. Carver
Grade Band Audience: 9 to 12, Higher Education
R09 (Convention Center)

9:45 AM-11:00 AM

372

Exploring Centers and Variability with Balls, Cars, and Data
Laurie Boswell
Grade Band Audience: 3 to 5, 6 to 8
R06 (Convention Center)

378

From Mean to MAD: Building Understanding of Center and Spread
Tamara Pearson
Grade Band Audience: 6 to 8
217 (Convention Center)

381

Powerful Data Collection: Understanding Stratified Sampling and Blocked Experiments
Josh Tabor
Grade Band Audience: 9 to 12
215/216 (Convention Center)

11:00 AM-12:00 PM

407

Collaborate with Biology: Using Stats to Learn about Learning
Julie L. Smith, Amy Ward and Ruth Miller
Grade Band Audience: 9 to 12
245 (Convention Center)

12:30 PM-1:30 PM

461

Why Variances Add—And Why It Matters
Dave Bock
Grade Band Audience: 9 to 12, Higher Education
R09 (Convention Center)

1:00 PM-2:15 PM

477

Blood Count: Simulating Real-Life Data and Probability
Tom Murray
Grade Band Audience: 6 to 8
207 (Convention Center)

478

It Just Depends: Games and Simulations for Exploring Compound Events
Virginia Lewis and Maria A. Timmerman
Grade Band Audience: 6 to 8
221/222 (Convention Center)

488

Games, Chance, and Predictions: Explorations with Statistics and Probability
Linda Bridges
Grade Band Audience: 9 to 12
228/229 (Convention Center)

2:00 PM-3:00 PM

510

Standard(s) Statistics: Exploring Common Core Statistics Content and Practices
Susan A. Peters
Grade Band Audience: 6 to 8, 9 to 12
Grand Salon 9-12 (Hilton)

516

Super Mathematics of Game Shows
Bowen Kerins
Grade Band Audience: 9 to 12
R03 (Convention Center)

2:45 PM-4:00 PM

531

Strategies That Help Answer the Question: Deal or No Deal?
Eileen M. Cyr and Kelli A. Nielsen
Grade Band Audience: 6 to 8
244 (Convention Center)

532

Data and Slope and Intercepts, Oh My!
Jared E. Derksen
Grade Band Audience: 6 to 8, 9 to 12
211/212 (Convention Center)

Saturday, April 12, 2014

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8:00 AM-9:00 AM

579

Exploring the CCSS S-ID and S-IC Categories with NASA Data
Curtis R. Brown and Lori Edwards
Grade Band Audience: 9 to 12
R03 (Convention Center)

9:30 AM-10:30 AM

602

Teaching Mathematics Using Historical and Cultural Quilt Block Patterns
Edna L. Holbrook and Alicia Jefferson
Grade Band Audience: 3 to 5, 6 to 8
R07 (Convention Center)

11:30 AM-12:00 PM

651

Bringing the (Signal and the) Noise!
Brandon D. Price
Grade Band Audience: 9 to 12
228/229 (Convention Center)