Math Counts. Period.
Keynote speaker Christina Tondevold is a Recovering Traditionalist. She previously taught mathematics traditionally and expected the students to parrot back what she taught them. Now she gets to work with teachers in developing students’ mathematical understandings in a balanced way by developing conceptual understanding while working on procedural fluency through her site BuildMathMinds.com where you can get PD at Your Fingertips. Keeping the Momentum Keynote Session (1:00pm-2:10pm) You leave a math conference fired up. You've got new ideas, renewed energy, and a clear sense of what you want to do differently. Then Monday happens. The problem isn't motivation, it's direction. Most teachers default to the clock: more activities, more practice, more coverage. But if your compass is pointed the wrong way, doing more just gets you further off course. In this keynote, Christina Tondevold challenges math educators to stop asking "how much am I doing?" and start asking "is what I'm doing actually moving students forward?" Drawing on Simon Sinek's Golden Circle, the wisdom of Dr. Yeap Ban Har, and a powerful lens for the kind of teacher you want to be, Christina makes the case that lasting impact doesn't come from doing more, it comes from doing the right things with intention. Walk away understanding the power in knowing your WHY, seeing your classroom role through a new lens, and carrying one simple reminder: you don't need more time, you just need to point your compass in the right direction. |
Breakout Session (9:00-9:50am) | The Missing Link in Strategy Development in K-2nd Grade: Number Sense Breakout Session (2:20pm-3:10pm) Some kids invent strategies naturally. Others get stuck and stay stuck. The difference often isn't effort or the lessons in your textbook. It's number sense. When students can see how numbers relate to each other, the strategies for operating open up. In this session, you'll walk away with the 8 number sense concepts that help students move through the progression of strategy development, plus practical ways to start building them in your classroom. |
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Featured Speaker Graham Fletcher is dedicated to helping teachers and students develop a deep, conceptual understanding of elementary mathematics. With experience as a classroom teacher, math coach, and math specialist, he continuously explores innovative ways to make math meaningful and accessible. Passionate about empowering educators and sparking curiosity in students, Graham creates tools and strategies that inspire learning. He is the co-author of the Building Fact Fluency Toolkits and provides teachers with practical, research-based approaches to deepen mathematical understanding, many of which are freely available at gfletchy.com.
Pull Up a Chair: Moving Student Thinking Through Asset-Based Assessment and Math Progressions Hear Graham Describe this Session! Breakout Session (8:00am - 8:50am) | Demystifying the Fraction Rules We Teach Breakout Session (10:00am - 10:50am) Many educators have been asked to teach fractions through conceptual understanding. The problem with a conceptual approach is that many of us were taught fractions through rules, tricks, and gimmicks. In this session, we’ll identify the tricks we use, unpack why they work, and explore how we can help build a sustainable, scalable understanding of fractions in our students. |
Featured Speaker Pam Harris is shifting the way we view and teach mathematics. She is a mom, former high school math teacher and university lecturer, and the Founder of Math is Figureoutable. Math teachers around the world rave about her online Building Powerful Mathematics workshops. For over 20 years, Pam has been helping leaders and teachers reach more students in less time so that students math with confidence and success.
Reaching More Students in Less Time, K-5 Breakout Session (10:00am - 10:50am)
You've tried All The Things. You're on a mission to find a better way. Join me to learn to use class time differently than how you and I were taught AND differently than how we were taught to teach math. We're going to shift the focus from memorizing and mimicking to reasoning and mathematizing. And get results. Math is Figure-out-able! | Reaching More Students in Less Time, 6-12 Breakout Session (11:00am - 11:50am) You've tried All The Things. You're on a mission to find a better way. Join me to learn to use class time differently than how you and I were taught AND differently than how we were taught to teach math. We're going to shift the focus from memorizing and mimicking to reasoning and mathematizing. And get results. Math is Figure-out-able! |
Featured Speaker Fawn Nguyen is the Director of STEM Initiatives at Amplify. She spent 30 years teaching middle school math and three years as a math coach for a K–8 school district. he was named Ventura County Teacher of the Year and received the Math Teacher Hero Award from Raytheon in 2009. In 2005, she was honored with the Sarah D. Barder Fellowship from the Johns Hopkins Center for Talented Youth.
Fawn has led workshops and spoken at math conferences across the U.S. and internationally, including in New Zealand. Since 2011, she has served on the Mathematics Project Leadership Team at UC Santa Barbara.
She writes a teaching blog on Substack and created visualpatterns.org. In 2012, she co-founded the Math Teachers’ Circle in Thousand Oaks, California. From 2015 to 2018, she served on the Professional Development Services Committee for the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM).
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