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
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