US Math Recovery Council®
2023 National Conference
April 24 - 26, 2023
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The Davenport Grand
Spokane, WA
Make The Case To Attend
Attending the US Math Recovery® Conference provides valuable professional development opportunities to enhance your skills and help build a collegial support system. To aid in the discussion with your administrator, please feel free to utilize the Talking Points document below to support your request for conference attendance. Additionally, the second page includes a request letter which can be copied and personalized.
Keynote Speakers
Igniting a Bright Future!Click each title to learn more
Minding Your Own Mathematics
Dr. Anderson Norton
Professor of Mathematics Education, Virginia Tech
Teaching Mathematics Conceptually:
Examining the U.S. Math Recovery Council’s Guiding Principles
Dr. Beth MacDonald
Associate Professor of Early Childhood Mathematics Education, Illinois State University
Dr. Jonathan Thomas
Associate Professor of Mathematics Education,
Chair of the Department of STEM Education, University of Kentucky
Minding Your Own Mathematics
Dr. Norton frames mathematics as a product of psychology, and more specifically, as a coordination of mental actions. Following a Piagetian perspective, mathematical operations are characterized as mental actions that are reversible and composable, thus rendering them both reliable and fruitful. Long chains of such mental actions can be carried out with perfect reliability and form all kinds of mathematical objects through the coordination of operations, within group-like structures. To illustrate, we start with the simple example of reflections about a line in the plane: a reversible mental action with primitive roots. By composing such reflections with one another, we can generate rotations, translations, and glide reflections. In turn, those transformations define the objects of Euclidean geometry and their properties. For example, we can rely on mental rotations to intuitively prove that the sum of the interior angles in any triangle is π.
Teaching Mathematics Conceptually: Examining the U.S. Math Recovery Council’s Guiding Principles
Drs. MacDonald and Thomas provide an overview of the structure and dive deep into portions of their new book, Teaching Mathematics Conceptually: Guiding Instructional Principles for 5–10-year-olds. Throughout this discussion, they discuss some of the unique contributions this book provides by diving deeper into four key chapters.
- Connections between learning progressions/trajectories with several frameworks utilized in the Math Recovery series.
- The impact teachers’ noticing and monitoring of students’ mathematics in classroom practices has with how instructional decisions are shaped in a mathematics classroom.
- Delve into rich theoretical relationships between children’s mathematics learning and their reflective activity while solving mathematical tasks.
- Explicate equitable practices in mathematics classrooms.
Final take-aways from this discussion will include practical ways educators can connect these guiding principles to effective student and teaching practices in mathematics education.
Featured Speakers
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Five Recommendations to Empower Students with Disabilities as Doers and Thinkers of Mathematics
Dr. Jessica Hunt
Associate Professor, Mathematics Education and Special Education, Teacher Education and Learning Sciences, North Carolina State University
Digging Into Dyscalculia and Equitable Mathematics Instruction and the “Rights of the Learner”
Dawn Dibley
Course and Implementation Specialist, US Math Recovery Council®
Five Recommendations to Empower Students with Disabilities as Doers and Thinkers of Mathematics
Calls for equitable mathematics learning opportunities for students with disabilities have routinely been made over the past 30 years. Framing mathematics intervention from a position of “What do students know and how can I use it?” creates and sustains views of students as mathematically enabled, removing the “problem” from the student and placing it, as a challenge, on the instructional design and interactions between teachers and students.
In this talk, Dr. Hunt shares her own research and experiences empowering students with disabilities in mathematics. Through five actionable recommendations, Hunt aims to inspire teachers and educational leaders to structure interventions as asset-oriented spaces that work to restore students' agency, belonging, and opportunities to make sense of their own reasoning.
Digging Into Dyscalculia and Equitable Mathematics Instruction and the “Rights of the Learner”
Digging into Dyscalculia
Dyscalculia is a specific learning disability affecting approximately 5% of students. This session will explore definitions of dyscalculia, learning difficulties associated with dyscalculia, and specific interventions that have been found to be successful in remediating the difficulties experienced by students with dyscalculia. (Spoiler alert, many of these interventions align with Math Recovery teaching practices.)
Equitable Mathematics Instruction and the “Rights of the Learner”
Do learners have rights? What rights do they have? Come and explore how the “Rights of the Learner” support equitable mathematics instruction and how Math Recovery® teaching practices can ensure that the rights of each and every learner are acknowledged, respected, and met.
2023 Registration Rates
Registration will be open thru April 21, 2023 or until sold out
Early Bird Payment is due upon registration and no later than the early bird
deadline on February 21, 2023, otherwise you will be charged regular rates.
Registration Fee is non-refundable after
March 24, 2023. Registration can still be transferred to another person by calling (952) 491-9852.
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2023 US Math Recovery Council® Conference Rates |
EARLY BIRD DISCOUNT Register before February 21, 2023 |
REGULAR RATES February 22 – April 21, 2023 |
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Pre-conference
(choice of any 2 half-day sessions) Full Day, April 24 Includes Breakfast & Lunch |
$305 You will be required to choose sessions at the time of registration |
$340 You will be required to choose sessions at the time of registration |
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Pre-conference
(choice of any 1 half-day session) Half Day, April 24 AM session includes Breakfast PM session includes Lunch |
$175 You will be required to choose sessions at the time of registration |
$210 You will be required to choose sessions at the time of registration |
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Full 2-Day Conference
April 25 - 26 Includes Breakfast & Lunch Complimentary Hors d’oeuvres Reception on April 25th |
$480 | $530 | $550 | $600 |
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Single Day Conference
April 25 OR April 26 Includes Breakfast & Lunch on a single day |
$270 | $320 | $330 | $380 |
* If your account is not deducting the discount for membership, please contact USMRC office at 952-491-9858 BEFORE finalizing and submitting payment for your registration.
Discounts: If you are accepted to speak at the conference, one lead speaker will receive a registration discount code for $100 off registration for the conference.
Travel & Logistics
Spokane International Airport
Fly into Spokane International Airport
Distance: 8 miles
Address
333 W Spokane Falls Blvd
Spokane, WA 99201
Phone: (509) 458-3330
Parking
Discounted overnight self-parking is available for guests at $17.00/night. Daily Self-Parking is $6.00 for hours 1-4/$2.00/hr. additional. Valet Rates are $22/daily or $32/overnight.
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Registration
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Sessions & Offerings
During the registration process, you will be prompted to select optional pre-conference sessions. To learn more about each pre-conference session offering, hover over the icon on the registration page or see the schedule. You do not have to register for the pre-conference to register for the 2-day main conference event.
