The Mission of the Tennessee Mathematics Teachers’ Association (TMTA) is to encourage the study of and improve the teaching of mathematics in all the schools and colleges of Tennessee.

Location: MTSU

Date: September 23-24, 2016

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Tammy’s sessions are listed below and:

Tea, Guinness, Crop Yields: The Faces of Statistics

Framing statistics within a historical and contextual perspective provides new opportunities in which students can read about and investigate topics.

Friday, September 23, 2016, 3:30-4:30 PM CDT, MS/HS/College/Pre-Service

Learning from Students’ Productive Struggle

Ensure that students are engaged in a productive struggle… tools, as well as lessons learned from their use will be shared to support student learning.

Saturday, September 24, 2016, 9:30-10:20 AM CDT, Grades 3-12

Young Mathematicians, Multiple Representations, and Place Value

Using multiple representations is one way that students show evidence of fluency with a topic. See how using multiple representations while investigating place value can help students deepen their understandings of this foundational topic. Children’s literature and the Group 3 Model will be shared as well.

Saturday, September 24, 2016, 12:30-1:20 PM, Grades 3-5