2008 Advance

Summer Institute

Deltas make up a substantial portion of our offerings and they are purchased separately (affiliated MitC schools receive a discount). Deltas are two-day mini-institutes. Both local and national participation is encouraged. DELTAS will be directly linked to the Contexts for Learning Mathematics materials as a way to provide support for teachers using these materials. Each month we will also mail the listing to all affiliated MitC schools.
The fee is $500 per participant, per Delta..

Application to DELTA Institutes is required. Please download the application form from our website, mitcccny.org, or call us at (212-650-6346) to request one.

Institute # 1: Exploring Routines, Games, and Mini-lessons in Early Childhood

(Antonia Cameron)

This 2-day workshop will introduce K-1 teachers to many of the Math in the City Games and explore how each game provides rich opportunities and possibilities for learning. Emphasis will also be placed on ways to maximize learning with routines and minilessons.

Institute # 2: Bunk Beds and Apple Boxes: Developing Early Number Sense

(Joan Backer)

This 2-day workshop will provide an overview of the kindergarten unit, Bunk Beds and Apple Boxes. Emphasis will be placed on the mathematics in the unit, including the big ideas, strategies and models important for early number sense.

Institute # 3: The Double-Decker Bus: Using the Arithmetic Rack

(Maarten Dolk and Nina Liu)

This 2-day session will introduce K-2 teachers to the arithmetic rack. They will learn how the apparatus supports the use of the five and ten structures and facilitates the automatizing of the basic facts. The Double-Decker Bus will be explored as a context to accompany work with the rack

Institute # 4: Developing and Extending Place Value

(Cathy Fosnot)

This is a 2-day institute on the development of place value. Real classrooms will be examined via digital environments and connections will be made to the units, Organizing and Collecting (grades 1-2) and The T-Shirt Factory (grades 2-3).

Institute # 5: An Algebra Course for Teachers

(Bill Jacob)

This mini-institute is a content math course for K-6 teachers taught in an inquiry fashion by a renowned mathematician and a distinguished NSF Teaching Scholar. It is four days long, comprised of two Deltas. Level I is for beginners and Level II is for the group of teachers who took the course last year and want to continue.

Institute # 6: Best Buys, Ratios, and Rates: Proportional Reasoning

(Bill Jacob)

This two-part series is designed for grades 4-6 teachers. The content of proportional reasoning will be examined using a variety of contexts and models, i.e. the ratio table and the double number line. The first two days will be held at CCNY. The last two days will be held on-site as intervisitations. Participants can enroll in only Part One, or both.

Institute # 7: Ages and Timelines: Developing an Understanding of Subtraction

(Stephanie Slabic)

This mini-institute will be particularly helpful for teachers, grades 2-3. The context of age differences will be used to examine a variety of models of subtraction. Emphasis will be placed on the use of the open number line to support mental arithmetic.

Institute # 8: Assessment to Inform Instruction

(Mike Askew)

The role of assessment in supporting instruction (K-6) will be examined. Participants will learn a variety of ways to design helpful assessments, and will explore the landscape of learning as a way to document individual pathways. This session is particularly helpful for those involved in the DYO projects.

Institute # 9: Facilitating Powerful Math Talk

(Janan Hamm)

What does powerful math talk look like across the grades (K-6) and through the year? This 2-day mini-institute will examine the role of questioning, paraphrasing, pair talk, and other strategies, as well as how powerful talk can support proof and generalization.

#10: The Power of Mathematical Models: The Ratio Table and the Array

(Toni Cameron)

This mini-institute is designed for teachers (grades 3-5) interested in the topic of multiplication. The first day will be focused on developing the ratio table to support multiplicative reasoning with a connection made to the unit, The Big Dinner. The second day will focus on the development of the array with a connection made to the unit, Muffles Truffles.

#11: Measuring for the Art Show: Developing the Open Number Line

(Stephanie Slabic & Dennis Kortright)

This 2-day mini-institute, designed for teachers (grades 1-3) will focus on the development of the open number line as a powerful tool for addition and subtraction.

#12: The Box Factory: Developing Multiplicative Thinking

(Miki Jensen & Cathy Fosnot)

Designed for grade 4/5 teachers, this mini-institute will explore how geometry can be integrated with the teaching of multiplication. The focus will be area, volume, nets, and the associative property of multiplication.

#13: Minilessons for Fractions, Decimals, and Percents

(Kara Imm)

Designed for teachers of grades 5-8, this two-day series will focus on the development of a variety of mental arithmetic strategies for calculating with rational numbers.

#14: Trades, Jumps, and Stops: Algebra in grades 2/3

(Trish Lent & Cathy Fosnot)

Equivalence, proof, deductive rules, and early functions will be the focus of this mini-institute, all taught and explored through realistic contexts meaningful to children in grades 2/3. Sample children’s work will be examined.

#15: The Mystery of the Meter: A Context for Teaching Decimals

(Bill Jacob)

The analog electric meter (measuring kilowatts of energy) is used as a context to explore decimals. Emphasis is placed on equivalence, place value, and calculations with decimal numbers. This workshop is specifically designed for teachers, grades 4-6.

#16: Shifting from the Individual to the Community

(Mike Askew)

This two-day mini-institute is designed for teachers K-8 interested in exploring the connection between community and learning. Building on constructivist learning theory, this workshop will extend the theory to explore the role of the social. Participants will examine ways to develop community in their classrooms and ensure powerful learning results.

#17: The Teachers’ Lounge: Developing Division

(Chris Natale & Cathy Fosnot)

This 2-day mini-institute is designed for teachers in grades 3-5 interested in exploring realistic contexts to support children in constructing the big ideas and strategies important for division. Both mental math strategies and the standard algorithm will be explored.

#18: Multiplication and Division Minilessons

(Stephanie Slabic & Toni Cameron)

Quick ten-minute minilessons can be used, designed around strings of related problems, to ensure that powerful mental arithmetic strategies result. This 2-day institute will deepen teachers’ own mental arithmetic strategies and enable them to design their own strings.

#19: Beads, Shoes, and Making Twos: Developing Early Number Sense

(Madeline Chang & Cathy Fosnot)

This workshop designed for teachers (grades K-2) will focus on the development of doubles, doubles +/-, and the exploring of odd and even numbers. Various contexts meaningful to the young child will be explored. Connections will be made to using children’s literature as a source of inspiration.

#20: What Role Does Writing and Reflection Play in Mathematical Development

(Toni Cameron)

This two-day mini-institute will explore the role of writing, poster-making, developing justifications and arguments that will hold up in math congresses, gallery walks, and final socio-historical walls for documentation of learning and reflection.

#21: Automatizing the Basic Facts with the Arithmetic Rack

(Maarten Dolk)

Do many of your children still need support in developing the basic facts for addition and subtraction? This two-day mini-institute will focus on how to use the arithmetic rack to provide children with support that makes use of the five and ten structures and supports the use of the relationships between the basic addition and subtraction facts. Parents wanting to work with their children throughout the summer are welcome as participants on the second day, and they should bring their child.

#22: Automatizing the Basic Multiplication Facts

(Stephanie Slabic)

Do many of your children still need support in developing the basic multiplication facts? This two-day mini-institute will focus on how to use array cards and the ratio table to provide children with support that makes use of multiplicative reasoning and supports the use of relationships between the facts. Parents wanting to work with their children throughout the summer are welcome as participants on the second day, and they should bring their child.

#23: Developing Addition and Subtraction of Fractions

(Bill Jacob)

Do many of your children still need support in developing strategies for addition and subtraction of fractions? This two-day mini-institute will focus on how to use the double open number line, the clock, money, and other models to support development. Parents wanting to work with their children throughout the summer are welcome as participants on the second day, and they should bring their child.