Associate Professor (Ret'd.) University of Connecticut Storrs, Connecticut, United States
Short Description: Too often talented elementary students are given enrichment worksheets that amount to busy work with harder computation. They need so much more! Explore NAGC award-winning investigations in advanced number concepts which encourage critical and creating thinking. They are research-based and have been field tested in both differentiated classrooms and gifted programs. Students love the investigations and so will you!
Learning Objectives:
Challenge talented math students to explore and reason about advanced number concepts across elementary grade levels.
Use high-level questions to encourage critical and creative thinking with their talented math students.
Implement the advanced number investigations explored in the session whether they are teaching in a regular math classroom or in a gifted classroom.
