ICTM Newsletter for July 2025
 

This month's newsletter focuses on the Building Thinking Classrooms workshops in August and our 2025 conference in October. Register for one or both today!

ICTM is Building Connected Relationships with Math!

Join us at our fall pre-conference workshops and conference October 20-21.  

Conference Keynote Speaker

Vanessa Vakharia

  • Reframing Failure: Help Students Actually Connect with Math
  • Math Therapy 101: Understanding Math Trauma & How to Overcome It!

Featured Speakers

Dan Meyer

  • Three Gifts That Technology Can Give To (Or Take Away From) Your Math Class
  • Math Is Power, Not Punishment

John SanGiovanni

  • Better Problem Solving: From Number Pluckers to Thinkers and Doers
  • Number Sense and Numeracy
Dr. Raj Shah
  • Exploding Dots - A Visual Model that Illuminates K-12 Mathematics
  • Every Child is Brilliant (and So are You)


Dr. Marian Small

  • Do They Really Understand?
  • Reaching All Students

Pre-Conference Workshop Facilitators

Dr. Marian Small 
Uncomplicating Fractions (elementary focus)

Dr. Raj Shah 
Making Math Irresistible (secondary focus)
More Info, Fees & and Registration

Building Thinking Classrooms Workshops

Join Chase Orton, a member of Peter Liljedahl's Building Thinking Classrooms team, for an interactive overview of some of the research-based teaching practices that will transform your mathematics classroom and get your students engaged, talking, thinking, and taking responsibility for their own learning. 

Introduction to Building Thinking Classrooms
August 6

We will dive deep into BTC practices 1-6 and also experience a lesson framework you can use to teach your curriculum standards.

How We Extend the Collective Experience to Individual Understanding in a Thinking Classroom
August 7 

You've built a culture of thinking in your classroom by using vertical surfaces, random groupings, and non-curricular tasks. Now it's time to learn about practice 7-11 and how to move students from collective knowing and doing to individual knowing and doing. 
More Info, Fees, & Registration

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