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Have your district contract with us to bring any of our sessions to you. This makes it easy for everyone to attend! Click on the session titles below for more information, and email Joe Gallegos at j.gallegos@austin.utexas.edu to discuss bringing us to your district.
Middle School Problem Solving
A two-day session
Audience:
- Teachers
- Instructional specialists and coaches
Problem solving provides an important context in which students can learn about various mathematical topics and through which teachers can assess student performance in all aspects of mathematics.
In this session, you will explore problem solving as it appears in and connects to the state standards. Working with other participants, you will examine and use a set of research-based strategies and tools to increase students’ problem-solving skills.
In particular, you will learn and practice questioning strategies that add complexity to problems and challenge students to think critically about all aspects of a given problem.
You may also be interested in Mathematics Assessment Tasks, which complements this session.