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2025 Election Results for MCTM Board |
Thank you for participating in the 2025 Elections for the MCTM Board. We are excited to announce the newly elected MCTM Board members. Their terms begin on April 26th at the conclusion of the 2025 Spring Conference. Congratulations and Welcome to the MCTM Board. Vice President for Junior High/Middle School: Jillian Tomsche, Mounds View Public Schools Vice President for Higher Education: Christine Quisely, Southwest Minnesota State University Region 3 Director: Mark Kingsbury, Eden Prairie Schools Region 6 Director: Megan Schmidt, Anoka-Hennepin School District
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Our conference theme this year is “From Standards to Success: Creating Pathways for Each and Every Learner.” Kicking off the conference will be Howie Hua during Friday's opening session. For our closing session, we’re thrilled to welcome Latrenda Knighten, the newly inducted president of NCTM. Early bird registrations end on April 18.
Check out the 2025 Hotel Options Reserved hotel blocks with conference rates begin to expire in March. Some hotel blocks are already sold out!
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Symposium Description: As many teachers look to add high-yield tasks to their repertoire, the struggle to make it all work becomes real. Let's examine how problem-based lessons can be used throughout the scope of a unit and how we can harness their power to move student thinking forward. We'll identify strategies and explore tasks that help us find a healthy balance between application, conceptual understanding, and procedural fluency.
The Progression Videos are a series of videos that show how math concepts build and grown through the grade levels.
This session will address the proposed 2022 MN Academic Standard for Mathematics Number Five, Number Relationships.
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“All of us are smarter than one of us.” – Graham Fletcher
WHEN: Thursday, April 24, 2025 9:00A.M. - 3:30P.M.
WHERE: Duluth, DECC on Harbor Side
PRESENTER: Graham Fletcher, Lead presenter with Howie Hua as a featured guest
COST: 1-4 participants $220 per person, after 4 registrations from the same district/group, the next 5 or more participants are at $175. One free administrator registration for every four 4 registrations.
Limit of 10 registrations per district
REGISTRATION INCLUDES:
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Announcement of Elementary Professional Development Fund
The Minnesota Council of Teachers of Mathematics (MCTM) is pleased to announce the creation of a donor-advised fund to support the organization's ongoing professional learning in mathematics for elementary teachers across the state of Minnesota. The fund, to be administered by the St. Paul Minnesota Foundation, will begin to support programming in 2026. Read more here! |
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Assessment in a System of Practice This month's MathBits continues to explore new professional development materials found on the Minnesota STEM Teacher Center website. Looking at a larger 'System of Practice' model as a framework, the role of assessment is explored. Assessment is not an exit slip. That's a tool. Assessment is an act of interpretation of data gathered before a lesson (prior knowledge), during the lesson (formative assessment), and after a unit has been completed (summative assessment). The type of feedback is also outlined. Read more! James Brickwedde, Project for Elementary Mathematics
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Foundation Update: March 2025 Check out this month's Foundation Update for information about the Arnie Cutler Scholarship for Mathematics Coursework for Middle School Teachers (Applications due March 31st). There is also information about how you can join the MCTM foundation or ways to donate.
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About the Mathematics: Making Sense of the Commutative Property or Multiplication
A recent visit to a third grade intervention math class led to an interesting conversation around the commutative property of multiplication. In spite of its seemingly simple explanation, the commutative property has some abstract complexities to it. This requires deeper conversations for students to engage in so they build a more robust understanding of this key algebraic property. Read more! James Brickwedde, Project for Elementary Mathematics |
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Free MDE Assessment/MN Math Leaders Webinar (this week): Title: TI or Desmos on MCA: Which calculator should students use? (and how do you prep them?)
Date: March, March 4th, 2025
Time: 4:00-4:45 p.m.
Presenters: MDE Assessment Specialists Amy Nolte and Mike Huberty with MDE Standards Specialist Sara VanDerWerf
Description: Did you know on the 2025 Math MCA’s, all students will have access to two (2) calculators on every calculator enabled item? All students will have access to both a Texas Instrument and Desmos calculator. What will it look like? How do you prepare students for using them. The MDE math team will share 3 specific ways you can prepare students for using both calculators on this year’s MCA’s. Join us for a short (30-45 minutes) webinar and get access to resources you can use tomorrow. Register for Zoom link |
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2025 Math Leader Book Clubs
Sign-ups for the 2025 (January - April) Minnesota Math Leader Book Club Group sign-ups are open on the MCTM Events Page soon. You can also sign up for the book clubs HERE. Groups will meet virtually 3-5 evenings in informal conversations centered around the book. More information will come out soon. Buy your books and join MN Math Leaders in deepening your learning around mathematics learning and instruction. All groups are free to join. BYOB (bring your own book). Your facilitators will reach out to you as the book clubs get underway. Questions: mctm@mctm.org |
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One Stop Shop Page for all MN Math Links and Resources
Are you struggling to find a Minnesota Math link or Resource? Try starting with the One-stop shop google doc that links to Minnesota Math standards, assessment links, videos and more. On this page you will find an updated 2024-25 PD calendar and information on MDE office hours. It is recommended you bookmark this page as it is updated often. ProTip ‘Ctrl F’ or ‘Command F’ allows you to FIND a word you are looking for on the document.
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MN Math Leaders has its own page on the MCTM website!
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The MN Math Leaders Group has its own page on the MCTM website. More information will be coming to this page soon. Did you know it is FREE to join this group? Find the link to join the group on this page and please share with others. We are on a mission to have at least one person from all 500+ MN school districts connected to this group.
As a reminder, the MN Math Leader group has monthly PLC meetings on the 3rd Tuesday (from 12:30-2:30 p.m) and 3rd Thursday’s (from 4-6 p.m.). This group is open to all MN Math teachers and district leaders. March's PLC dates are March 18 (12:30) and March 20 (4:00). |
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NCTM Professional Development Opportunities - 2025 Virtual Conference, April 2-5: OnDemand Leaning for 30 Days
- Two Upcoming NCTM Book Studies
- High School Mathematics Reimagined, Revitalized, and Relevant - Started Jan. 15, 2025
- Catalyzing Change Through Proactive Mathematics Coaching - starts Feb. 19, 2025
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NCTM Podcast: Adding It All Up Latest Episode: 2024 in Review - Mathematics Education Evolved and What's Next in 2025 NCTM’s Kevin Dykema and Latrenda Knighten recap the 2024 year, highlighting areas of growth in meeting the needs of students, publications, and conferences and discussing what they hope to see in 2025. Listen to the podcast here. |
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Did you know MCTM has an active YouTube Channel?
Are you subscribed to MCTM’s YouTube Channel?
In the 2024-25 School year MCTM will be releasing over a dozen Math PD videos, most of which come with PD module links in the description to be used by MN sites/districts to support math learning across the state. |
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This fall we have released 7 videos of recent MCTM webinars:
If you are interested in creating math content for the MCTM YouTube channel, reach out to mctm@mctm.org . |
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