2012 Annual Meeting
Philadelphia, PA • April 25-28, 2012
Mark your calendar for the nation's LARGEST math education event!
Join NCTM in the city of brotherly love to network with peers from across the nation and hear from renowned experts in education. The program will offer more than 750 presentations, including Learn-Reflect Strand sessions dedicated to technology. And you won't want to miss the Annual Meeting exhibit hall with cutting-edge vendors who bring the latest and greatest innovations to your classroom. In a competitive job market this is one event math educators can't afford to miss. Get the essential information right here to start your planning and be sure to mark your calendar for April 25-28, 2012!
Program Information
The Philadelphia Annual Meeting Program will include the latest strategies in math education, with workshops from exhibitors, hands-on activities with give-aways, and sessions from some the world's leading experts. Our Online Conference Planner will be available in November with all the program details. For now check out the details on our Opening and Closing Speakers:
Opening Session with Diane Ravitch, Historian of Education at NYU
Diane Ravitch is Research Professor of Education at New York University and a distinguished historian of American education. She is a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C. From 1991 to 1993, she was Assistant Secretary of Education and Counselor to Secretary of Education Lamar Alexander in the administration of President George H.W. Bush. Ravitch was appointed to the National Assessment Governing Board by theClinton administration.
She blogs for HuffingtonPost.com and EdWeek.org. She is the author or editor of over twenty books, including The Death and Life of the Great American School System, and her articles have appeared in numerous newspapers and magazines. A native of Houston, Ravitch lives in Brooklyn, New York.
Closing Session with Edward Burger, Williams College and Baylor University
Edward Burger is Professor of Mathematics and Lissack Professor for Social Responsibility and Personal Ethics at Williams College and Vice Provost for Strategic Educational Initiatives at Baylor University. He is the author of over 30 research articles, 12 books, and 15 video series. Burger was awarded the 2000 Northeastern Section of the Mathematical Association of America (MAA) Award for Distinguished Teaching and 2001 MAA Deborah and Franklin Tepper Haimo National Award for Distinguished Teaching of Mathematics. The MAA also named him their 2001-2003 Polya Lecturer.He was awarded the 2003 Residence Life Teaching Award from the University of Colorado at Boulder. In 2004 he was awarded Mathematical Association of America's Chauvenet Prize and in 2006 he was a recipient of the Lester R. Ford Prize. In 2007 and 2008 he received two awards for his video work. In 2007 Williams College awarded him the Nelson Bushnell Prize for Scholarship and Teaching.
Burger is an associate editor of the American Mathematical Monthly and Math Horizons Magazine and serves as a Trustee of the Kenan Institute for the Arts at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts. In 2006, Reader's Digest listed Burger in their annual "100 Best of America" as America's Best Math Teacher. In 2010 he was named the winner of the 2010 Robert Foster Cherry Award for Great Teaching---the largest and most prestigious prize in higher education teaching across all disciplines in the English speaking world. Also in 2010 he appeared on a mathematics segment for NBC-TV on the Today Show and throughout the 2010 Winter Olympic
coverage.
Most recently The Huffington Post named him one of their 2010 Game Changers; "HuffPost'sGame Changers salutes 100 innovators, visionaries, mavericks, and leaders who are reshaping their fields and changing the world."
Learn↔Reflect Strand: Technology & Mathematics: Get Connected!
Plan one full day for the Focus of the Year topic, Technology and Mathematics: Get Connected. Start your day with the morning Kickoff session, then choose from a variety of presentations throughout the day focused on Technology and Mathematics. You’ll conclude with a Reflection session at 3:30 where you’ll discuss the day’s learning through the context of the following Reflection Questions:
- What role does technology play in providing multiple representations and opportunities for communication to help students develop mathematical understanding?
- How does technology influence your instructional decisions? And, how do your instructional decisions influence your use of technology?
- How can technology increase access to significant mathematics to all students? How do you promote social justice for access to and facility with technology in learning mathematics?
- How are you thinking differently about your use of technology as a result of participating in the Learn-Reflect strand? What are some of the steps you plan to take to promote growth in your own use of technology?
Location
Annual Meeting activities will take place at the Pennsylvania Convention Center where you'll find the NCTM bookstore offering 25% off all products, the Member Showcase with resources for your classroom, the Internet Station, Calculation Nation, concurrent presentations, and more!Pennsylvania Convention Center
1101 Arch St
Philadelphia, PA 19107
Philadelphia, PA 19107
(215) 418-4750
Hotel Information
Book your room with us in September to stay at an NCTM hotel with the best networking opportunities and hotel rates. For your
planning purposes, hotel room rates will range from $179 to $339.
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