Comments on: Hypothetical NCTM Roster

By: Bowen Kerins

Bowen Kerins — Mon, 18 Apr 2011 03:03:39 +0000

Thanks Karim — you were 19 minutes late to get in! It was a popular talk. I didn’t take a poll to see how many people knew about it from Dan, but it’s certainly nice to get a shout out from here.

I have posted the slides as PDF:

http://patternsinpractice.wordpress.com/2011/04/17/gameshow-nctm-2011

Thanks to those who came and I wish I could have seen twice as many presentations this year.

By: Karim

Karim — Fri, 15 Apr 2011 22:35:42 +0000

@Mr. Haines:

Thanks a lot for coming, and I’m really happy you enjoyed the presentation. I hope you enjoy the lessons on Mathalicious, and please keep your eyes peeled for more. (I plan to release two new ones each week, as I develop more of the lesson guides). If you have any thoughts or comments, or if there’s anything I can do to help in any way, please don’t hesitate to email me.

Also a huge thanks to Dan. The presentation had a good showing, and I’m sure you were largely responsible. I arrived at Bowen’s session 4 minutes late, and there was already a waiting line.

By: Mr. Haines

Mr. Haines — Fri, 15 Apr 2011 21:51:44 +0000

I loved, LOVED Karim’s presentation. Engaging, well-designed, and just fun. And totally in the spirit of Dan’s WCYDWT activities. I am going to roll out a couple of the Mathalicious lessons in my class as soon as possible.

By: Bowen Kerins

Bowen Kerins — Wed, 13 Apr 2011 06:02:27 +0000

Jeez, no pressure now. I promise only that key information about Plinko will be revealed, and that someone will walk out with the most-frequently-awarded prize in the history of The Price is Right.

By: Jered

Jered — Tue, 12 Apr 2011 22:01:10 +0000

This would be amazing to attend someday. I was curious as to what the registration cost is on this.

(Their current registration link just says that it’s closed for this year’s seminar.)

By: Dan Meyer

Dan Meyer — Tue, 12 Apr 2011 17:10:51 +0000

There isn’t a livestream at NCTM, which is both unfortunate and totally understandable. There are, like, five million sessions at that thing.

By: Benji

Benji — Tue, 12 Apr 2011 15:43:03 +0000

My school won’t pay for me to go to this (and I am only a 4 hour drive away), so I was wondering if anyone knows if there is going to be a live feed of this conference? Dan, I know you have hooked us up for other conferences, albeit they were on the weekend and hi(gher)-tech conferences.

I would love to watch the game show and mathematics session.

By: Nora

Nora — Tue, 12 Apr 2011 15:20:47 +0000

Not that I know the answer to this, but I assume my district would rather pay for me to go in the summer. That way they don’t have to pay a sub to cover my classes.
Do you know that they won’t pay, or do you assume that they won’t pay?

By: R. Wright

R. Wright — Tue, 12 Apr 2011 13:36:22 +0000

Imagining things from students’ perspective, I have to strongly disagree about the message it sends them. I’d rather make do with self study, when possible.

I hope this little tangential discussion isn’t too distracting, but I’m very curious. Why wouldn’t school districts reimburse for a summer conference? I find that incredibly strange. Also, is the issue of reimbursement the only major reason attendance would be lower?

By: Telannia

Telannia — Tue, 12 Apr 2011 09:40:03 +0000

Although I will not make it this year either, I do agree that I wish they would change the time. I understand doing it through the school year to have districts pay. However, March/April is so close to testing. I wish it was in February or January. @R. Wright sometimes you need leave your students for a couple of days to learn. It shows them that you are growing too.