2024 Northwest Mathematics Conference

Although there are certainly many people who like math because they see it as narrow and predictable, we lose many students who value the chance to be more creative. We will talk about how much richer both your and your students' experience in math class is when we celebrate diverse responses rather than only consistent responses from all students. We want to help students see that there are many opportunities in math to display creativity and that the whole class benefits from these situations. Much of the session will focus on how to set tasks to encourage students to take risks to show the rest of us their personal approaches.