RUSMP showcased at CAMT

RUSMP showcased at CAMT

The Rice University School Mathematics Project (RUSMP) played a major role in the 2018 Conference for the Advancement of Mathematics Teaching at the George R. Brown Convention Center on July 16-18. Richard Parr, RUSMP executive director, served on the program committee, a position he has held for several years. RUSMP had a dedicated room at the conference in which RUSMP directors and master teachers were showcased. Photos from the RUSMP room at CAMT are available here.
The RUSMP sessions included:

Monday July 16

10:00 am - 11:00 am

Using Coffee Stirrers to Develop and Test Geometric Concepts

Carolyn White and Susan Troutman

10:00 am - 11:00 am

Building Conceptual Understanding Using a Beaded Number Line and a Rekenrek

Erica Gil

1:00 pm - 2:00 pm

Algebraic Thinking for All Students

Carolyn White and Susan Troutman

4:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Dare to Dive Into Data

Susan Troutman and Carolyn White

Tuesday, July 17

10:00 am - 11:00 am

Connecting Mathematics and Coding—TI Codes Ten Minutes a Week

Alice Fisher

1:00 pm - 2:00 pm

Making Mathematics Connections through Conic Sections

Richard Parr

4:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Colorful Transformation and Dilations with TI-84 Calculators

Patricia McMorris

Wednesday, July 18

10:00 am - 11:00 am

Games to Actively Engage your Algebra II Students in Learning

Joanna Papakonstantinou and Anne Papakonstantinou

11:30 am - 12:30 pm

A Tale of Two Functions: Exploring Cubic Functions

Anne Papakonstantinou and Joanna Papakonstantinou

4:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Exploring Parametric Representation

Richard Parr