Upcoming Presentations
Recent Presentations
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DPS Grants Workshop - Dartmouth, MA
Dartmouth, MA - Friday June 27th 2008
- Stephen J. Hegedus
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AERA 2008 - New York, NY
Changing Participation and Identity Through Instructional Scaffolding that Promotes Transactive Discussion
New York, NY - Wednesday, March 26th 2008
- Maria L. Blanton
- Despina A. Stylianou
Presentation; 2:15-3:45pm, New York Marriott Marquis Times Square/Majestic Complex, Winter Garden Room, 6th Floor
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NCTM 2008 Research Presession - Salt Lake City, UT
Research Paradigms on Teaching and Learning Proof Across the Grades
Salt Lake City, UT - Wednesday, March 26th 2008
- Maria Blanton
- Patricio Herbst
- Eric Knuth
- Chris Rasmussen
- Despina Stylianou
- Keith Weber
Working Session; Tuesday, April 8, 2008, 8:30-10:00am, Grand Ballroom
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SimCalc Leadership - TX:
Vision and Mission of Democratizing Access to Mathematics
Texas - Tuesday, February 19th 2008
- Stephen Hegedus
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Kauffman Foundation - Kansas City, MO:
Vision and Mission of Democratizing Access to Mathematics
Kansas City, MO - Thursday, February 7th 2008
- Stephen Hegedus
- Jeremy Roschelle
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Past Presentations
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ATMIM 2007 - Marlboro, MA:
Faster and Faster: Introducing Quadratic Functions Via Linearly Varying Speed
Marlboro, MA - Thursday, April 5th 2007
- Stephen Hegedus
- Sara Dalton
Workshop; Convention Center
Through the use of classroom connectivity, students are able to create functions on TI graphing calculators, which are aggregated into SimCalc ™ by a teacher to produce a family of functions. We aim to introduce quadratic functions by examining the function attributes in terms of an actor moving with a linearly varying speed.
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NCTM 2007 - Atlanta, GA:
Exponential Motion!
Atlanta, GA - Saturday, March 24th 2007
- Derek Beaton
- James Burke
(12:00 - 1:30 pm) Workshop; Convention Center - B409
Explore animations of actors whose motions are defined by exponential functions. How far do they travel each second? How does this relate to how fast they go? And understand the A and B in y=AeBx using SimCalc ™.
- NCTM 2007 - Atlanta, GA: Teachers and Researchers Talk About Classroom Connectivity Atlanta, GA - Friday, March 23rd 2007 - Sara Dalton - Stephen Hegedus - Catie Marchessault - Julie Sunderland - Nicole Thuestad (3:00 - 4:30 pm) Workshop; Convention Center - C206 Listen to teachers and researchers discuss their experiences using SimCalc MathWorlds™ and TI-Navigator in their high school classrooms. We share analyses of their impact on students' learning and teaching styles and beliefs from our research studies.
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NCTM 2007 - Atlanta, GA:
Can Technology-Based Representations Deepen Matheamtics Learning and Close the Gap?
Atlanta, GA - Friday, March 23rd 2007
- Jeremy Roschelle
(9:30 - 10:30 am) Session (General Interest); Convention Center - Thomas Murphy Ballroom 4
Findings will be presented from a rigorous, scientific study that used technology-based representations to democratize access to important mathematics. More than 90 teachers participated in an experiment with SimCalc software and curriculum, which incorporates dynamic, linked representations and is a free download. The research addressed Texas standards around a central concept in middle school mathematics: proportionality. Also we analyzed whether technology-enriched curriculum could deepen students' understanding of functions, representations, and rates of change, important in high school.
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NCTM 2007 - Atlanta, GA:
New Forms of Participation with Wireless Classrooms
Atlanta, GA - Thursday, March 22nd 2007
- Stephen Hegedus
- James Burke
(3:00 - 4:30 pm) Workshop; Convention Center - C206
Wirelessly connect your students' work in mathematically meaningful ways. Aggregate work into a whole-class display for comparison and generalization, and experience new forms of participation in your Algebra 1 classrooms.
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NCTM 2007 Research Presession - Atlanta, GA:
Topologies and Pedagogies: Learning in and from Connected Classroms
Atlanta, GA - Tuesday, March 20th 2007
- Tobin White
- Nancy Ares
- Allan Bellman
- Stephen Hegedus
(3:00 - 4:30 pm) Working Session; Georgia World Congress Center - B313A
This session explores ways connected classrooms can support and inform learning and teaching across multiple instructional modes, variously engaging students as individuals, small groups, or a whole class. Presenters will focus on the dimensions of teaching and learning made salient by their work with classroom device networks across these levels.
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NCTM 2007 Research Presession - Atlanta, GA:
Scaling Up A Technology-Rich Innovation Using A Mutli-Tiered Trainers Model
Atlanta, GA - Tuesday, March 20th 2007
- Stephen Hegedus
- Roberta Schorr
- Jeremy Roschelle
- Jennifer Knudsen
- Margaret Dunn
- Susan Hemphill
- Richard Lesh
(8:30 - 10:00 am) Working Session; Georgia World Congress Center - B314
The SimCalc Scale-up Project is studying the "train-the-trainer" model of Professional Development within the context of a randomized trail experiment of a technology-rich innovation. We examine, froma multi-tiered perspective, the mathematical goals and related pedagogy of the intervention, as perceived by the researchers, the teacher trainers, and the teachers.
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NCTM 2007 Research Presession - Atlanta, GA:
Linking Discourcse to Student Learning in Undergraduate Matheamtics Instruction
Atlanta, GA
- Maria L. Blanton
- Despina A. Stylianou
Poster Presentation
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NCTM 2007 Research Presession - Atlanta, GA:
Interpreting a Community of Practice Perspective in University Mathematics Faculty Development
Atlanta, GA
- Maria L. Blanton
- Despina A. Stylianou
Presentation
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International Conference on Technology in Collegiate Mathematics (ICTCM) 2007 - Boston, MA:
New Forms of Participation with Wireless Classrooms
Boston, MA - Friday, February 16th 2007
- Stephen Hegedus
- Sara Dalton
- James Burke
(5:00 - 6:45 pm) Workshop; Westin Copley Place Hotel
Wirelessly connect your students' work in mathematically meaningful ways. Aggregate work into a whole class display for comparison and gernalization, and experience new forms of participation in your College Algebra classrooms.
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Joint Math Meetings 2007 - New Orleans, LA:
Algebra in the Elementary Grades: Defining Research Priorities
New Orleans, LA - January 5th - 8th 2007
- Maria L. Blanton
Presentation
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PME-NA Conference - Merida, Yucatan, MEXICO:
The Role of Gesture as a Form of Participation in Networked Classrooms
Merida, Yucatan, MEXICO - Friday, November 10th 2006 and Saturday, November 11th
- Stephen Hegedus
- Sharon Rodriguez
(12:00 - 1:00 pm) Poster Presentation
We will present findings on the role of gesture as a mechanism to understand how students make sense of mathematical structures (e.g., families of functions) in networked classrooms using SimCalc MathWorlds™.
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PME 30 Conference - Prague, Czech Republic:
Patterns of Participation in Networked Classrooms
Prague, Czech Republic - Thursday, July 22th 2006
- Stephen Hegedus
- Sara Dalton
- Laura Cambridge
- Gary Davis
(16:15- 16:55) Research Report
We study the combination of visualization software in the form of SimCalc MathWorlds™ with wireless Networks on student participation in Algebra classrooms. Such technologies allow students to create mathematical objects or motions on hand-held devices that can be aggregated within parallel software on a teacher’s desktop computer then publicly displayed and analyzed. We use work from Linguistic Anthropology to analyze the rich participation frameworks that are evident in such situations, focusing on the shifting roles of speech and physical actions (e.g., gesture and deixis), as students make mathematical meaning at a social level.
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PME 30 Conference - Prague, Czech Republic:
Modeling Teachers' Questions in High School Mathematics Classes
Prague, Czech Republic - Thursday, July 22th 2006
- Sara Dalton
- Gary Davis
- Stephen Hegedus
(14:00- 15:00) Poster Presentation
We examine teachers’ practice of asking questions in a mathematics classroom and how it relates to student response, engagement, and how questioning can set the norm for classroom flow.
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AALF 4i Conference - Boston:
SimCalc Connected Classrooms: New forms of Learning, New Forms of Teaching (AAL615)
Boston, MA - Thursday, June 22nd 2006
- Stephen Hegedus
- Sara Dalton
(8:00- 2:45) Session Workshop
We will demonstrate the use of SimCalc Connected MathWorlds in a variety of mathematics classrooms and discuss the impact it can have on student participation, motivation and ability to learn, as well as teachers practice. SimCalc is a dynamic software environment that allows students to understand the mathematics of change and variation through animation and hot-linked representations (e.g. tables, position and velocity graphs). Fundamental ideas such as slope as rate, linearity, co-variation, parametric variation, periodicity are explored as the mathematics is about something they can see or relate to and change. Our software crosses the boundaries of Algebra, Pre-Calculus and Calculus, enabling students of middle and high school algebra to access the mathematics of change and variation at earlier ages and improve access to foundational ideas in Calculus, hitherto left for an elite population. We have designed curriculum units that exploit connectivity and reflect our findings of how such new classroom environments impact students’ learning but also teachers’ beliefs about teaching. Our software has connectivity at the heart of it, with a set of teaching tools that enable a teacher to control the flow of information and gradually show, or hide students’ work, building generalization and meaning-making at the whole-class level. This course will focus on software demonstration, how to use it in classrooms and new styles of teaching, focused working groups on curriculum development, findings from our research study and examples of implementation into schools and university.
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NCTM 2006 Annual Meeting and Exposition - St. Loius:
Engaging Students' Minds by Bringing Trigonometry to Life!
St. Louis, MO - Thursday, Apr. 27th 2006
- Stephen Hegedus
- Sara Dalton
(10:30 - 12:00) Session Workshop
Using software that plots and animates position functions using data from Calculator Based Ranger (tm) motion detectors, learn ways that allow students to build families of sinusoidal functions, y=asin(bx+c) + d, from walking around circles in certain ways. Aggregating and displaying work leads to powerful classroom discussion and concrete understanding of each parameter.
Location: Landmark 3 (Renaissance Grand Hotel - St. Louis) Capacity: 100
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NCTM 2005 Western Regional:
Dynamic Motion Simulations + Wireless Networks = Amazing Algebra Learning
Denver, CO - Saturday, Nov. 12th 2005, 8:30am-10:00am
- Stephen Hegedus
- Derek Beaton
(General Interest) Gallery Workshop
Experience unprecedented new algebra activities that exploit two- way, near-instant communication of the latest wireless networks of graphing calculators with dynamically editable functions and motion simulations. Slope-as-rate, linearity, simultaneous conditions, and other core algebra ideas come to life in dramatically new ways.
Location: 109/111 (Colorado Convention Center) Capacity: 160
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NCTM 2005 Southern Regional:
Dynamic Motion Simulations + Wireless Networks = Amazing Algebra Learning
Birmingham, AL - Thursday, Oct. 20th 2005, 8:30am-10:00am
- Stephen Hegedus
- Jacob Sylvia
(General Interest) Gallery Workshop
Experience unprecedented new algebra activities that exploit two- way, near-instant communication of the latest wireless networks of graphing calculators with dynamically editable functions and motion simulations. Slope-as-rate, linearity, simultaneous conditions, and her core algebra ideas come to life in dramatically new ways.
Location: Medical Forum A (Convention Center) Capacity: 110
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NCTM 2005 Eastern Regional:
Using Navigator and SimCalc to reach the Unreachable Algebra Student
Hartford, CT - Thurs, Oct. 6th 2005
- Cindy Phillips
- Don York
(6 - 12) Session Workshop
This session will demonstrate live, and show video clips of, students doing "mathematical performance" and other engaging Connected MathWorlds linear-function activities.
Location: Ballroom C (Convention Center) Capacity: 400
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NCTM 2005 Eastern Regional:
The Profound Power of Classroom Networks: From Prealgebra through Calculus
Hartford, CT - Friday, Oct. 7th 2005, 8:30am-10:00am
- Stephen Hegedus
- Sara Dalton
(General Interest) Gallery Workshop
We will demonstrate, with hands-on opportunity, how wireless classroom networks of handhelds with one teacher’s computer can transform the teaching and learning of core topics for all kinds of students. We will illustrate dramatically new kinds of activities, show video of students doing these activities, and help participants understand the costs and benefits of this potent new technology.
Location: Room 24 (Convention Center) Capacity: 120