For grades 4–8. This engaging workshop will keep you actively involved exploring geometry from many angles. You will leave with a hands–on program that will make geometry more exciting and understandable to both your regular and special needs students. Topics include work with 2– and 3–D figures, geoboards, tangrams, transformations and much more.

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Thurs., 6/24, 8:00am–3:30pm
Fri., 6/25, 8:00am–3:30pm
Wyndam Garden Hotel, 900 W. Lake Cook Road, Buffalo Grove, IL 60089
Instructor: H. Martin

For grades 5–10. Come away with a collection of proven instructional strategies that will take the unknowns out of algebra—while motivating both regular and special needs students to gain a deeper understanding. Topics include work with variables, expressions, equations, polynomials, functions, graphing and much more.

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Fri., 6/25, 4:00pm–10:00pm
Sat., 6/26, 8:00am–5:00pm
Wyndam Garden Hotel, 900 W. Lake Cook Road, Buffalo Grove, IL 60089
Instructor: D. Spangler

Engage in hands–on activities that address key middle–school Learning Standards from each of the five Illinois State Goals for Mathematics: Number Sense and Operations, Measurement, Algebra, Geometry and Statistics/Probability. A focus is on research-based instructional strategies for making Illinois Mathematics Standards accessible to the struggling student, to English Language Learners and to those who have other special needs.

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Fri., 7/16, 4:00pm–10:00pm
Sat., 7/17, 8:00am–5:00pm
Hotel Indigo Chicago-Schaumburg North, 920 E. Northwest Hwy, Palatine, IL 60074
Instructor: D. Spangler

For grades 5–10. This workshop is designed to provide participants with rich, interdisciplinary activities that will help students make connections between school math and the math of the real world. We will explore topics of great interest to students that will help make math a sense-making experience for your students. Connections are made to science, social studies, literature and much more.

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Fri., 7/23, 4:00pm–10:00pm
Sat., 7/24, 8:00am–5:00pm
Renaissance Chicago North Shore, 933 Skokie Blvd., Northbrook, IL 60062
Instructor: H. Martin

This workshop breathes life and understanding into important computation skills (both traditional and alternative algorithms), number sense concepts, and estimation/mental math strategies involving whole numbers, fractions, and decimals. Both regular and special–needs students engaged in these activities should no longer struggle with rote procedures

This is a workshop for prospective and inservice teachers. Participants will engage in activities that focus on promoting student understanding of number concepts and operations with whole numbers, fractions, and decimals. Mental math, estimation and problem solving will be integrated throughout. An important focus of the workshop is to provide instructional strategies, supported by research, that are intended to make important math concepts accessible to the struggling mathematics student—and to those students who have other special needs.

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Fri., 11/5, 4:00pm—10:00pm
Sat., 11/6, 8:00am—5:00pm
Wyndham Garden Hotel, 900 Lake Cook Road, Buffalo Grove, IL
Instructor: D. Spangler