TERC Staff Presenting at the NCTM Annual Meeting 2025
The following sessions feature TERC Staff who will be presenting at the NCTM Annual Meeting & Exposition October 15th-18th in Atlanta, GA. We’ll also have booth #1408 in the exhibit hall, come stop by for resources!
Tear-free Assessments: Finding out what math students learn through hands-on activities
Thursday, October 16th – 1:00 PM – 2:15 PM
Location: Georgia World Congress Center, B204
Description: Come learn about maker tasks, designed to assess mathematical learning in a hands-on math program: topics include measurement (dice box), volume (plant starter), tessellations and transformations (stamps), and symmetry (hojalata). This more open form of hands-on assessment provides each and every student the opportunity to show what they’ve learned and leave with something they’ve made. Participants will do the same.
Presenters: Teresa Lara-Meloy, Ken Rafanan, Elise Levin-Güracar, Jennifer Knudsen, and Jad Eways
Helping Young Learners Build Good Arguments for Mathematical Claims
Thursday, October 16th – 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM
Location: Omni Hotel Grand Ballroom D1 & D2
Description: Grades K–5 teachers explore how a learning progressions approach can be used to develop children’s understanding of strong arguments for general mathematical claims. They examine the strengths and weaknesses of different types of arguments, the challenges students have with them, and how tasks and instruction can be designed and sequenced to develop students’ understanding of strong representation-based arguments.
Presenter: Maria Blanton
Crushing it – Exploring mathematics with homeruns and ballpark dimensions
Friday, October 17th – 9:45 AM-11:00 AM
Location: Georgia World Congress Center, A410
Description: One of the key recommendations of Catalyzing Change is to broaden the purposes for learning mathematics. As such, we will share tasks using real-world sports contexts that make mathematics relevant, fun, and provide an opportunity to engage a class of students who are exploring the geometry concepts outlined in standards. During this workshop, participants will explore tasks to discuss how we empowered middle school students to use their geometric reasoning to investigate real-world problems.
Presenters: George Roy, Farshid Safi, Matthew Cunningham, Ken Rafanan, and Dawson Tate
Seeing Ourselves, Seeing Others: Activities that Support Student Identity and Agency in Mathematics
Friday, October 17th – 1:00 PM-2:15 PM
Location: Georgia World Congress Center, A406-A407
Description: Students need to see themselves, their families, and people in their communities—as well as those from other communities—as doers of mathematics. Participants will consider sequences of related classroom activities, Excursions, that provide students with the opportunity to uncover their diverse competencies, experiences, ideas, and interests while applying grade-level mathematics to new contexts that expand their views of their relationship to mathematics in the world.
Presenters: Megan Murray and Arusha Hollister