2024 Northwest Mathematics Conference

Are you noticing that many of our students are coming to our math classes without that intrinsic sense of number that is usually developed in the early years? How do we move forward with the math concepts being taught in the middle years that are rooted in these foundational skills? Join Kim as she shares her experiences working as a LAT/Numeracy Support teacher and shares strategies and techniques that have worked for her. You will leave this workshop with some new practices and ideas that will help your students to build on the knowledge they currently have and to ensure that they see themselves as mathematicians at home, work and school.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Large Language Models (LLM) have burst into the public eye over the past year. But how does this "intelligence" work, and is it going to lead to Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) that will lead us to a brighter future? And what does it all have to do with plain old linear equations? (spoiler: everything) We will do some hands-on thinking about how LLMs and other neural networks actually work and how they relate to middle school and secondary mathematics topics, and then close off with some thoughts and discussion on how to understand the larger claims of AI with a critical lens.

Come see how art and math can collide and build a project to take home!
Angela teaches a weekly Art in Math elective to students in grades 6-8 including many with disabilities. We explore Math concepts, especially in Geometry, while creating art projects. Several sample projects with instructions will be shared that can be used in an ongoing course or as a stand alone project. Come and build one project yourself!

While building tetrahedron kites out of drinking straws, paper ribbons, and tissue paper is fun and colorful, we will not forget to look at the mathematics that might be hidden in them. We can count lengths and perimeter along the edges, see the areas on the faces and touch the volumes built in the kites. And then we will look for, find and discover all of the hidden tetrahedron numbers and find the connection between similar shapes. Why does the volume get to n^3.