Friday, October 23, 2015: 1:30 PM-2:45 PM
313 (Atlantic City Convention Center)
Lead Speaker:
Jeanne K. Shimizu
Participants will represent numbers as rectangular arrays of counters, rectangular arrangements of Dienes blocks (e.g., base-5 and base-10), areas of rectangles, quadratic trinomials, and rectangular arrangements of algebra tiles. Connections will be made between elementary math and high school algebra in the context of multiplication and factoring.
Presentation Format: Preservice and In-Service Workshop