Thank you for joining us at the ST Math Symposium: The Quest for Next Level Learning.
Keep the learning going! Find recorded sessions and resources on demand below.
ST Math users across the nation were invited to meet virtually for a day of learning and networking. Featuring speakers ranging from ST Math leaders to users like you, Next-Level Learning is an opportunity to connect, learn, and get inspired to amplify math culture with your students.
Stay tuned for details on the next ST Math user event!
Opening Keynote:
Too Brave to Fail;
How to Create Meaningful Experiences in Math
Twana Young, MIND Education
To create a learning environment that provides equity and access to high-quality mathematics education for all students, we must invite students into each lesson. See how math can be taught in ways that leverage how the brain learns and how together, we can end the math crisis and empower students to be brave and bold mathematicians.
Bring on the party the first week of school! Get materials to launch ST Math with a bang!
Resources: ST Math Launch Toolkit
Come ready to play - we've got new games, expanded content coverage, and great features to make your life easier. Learn from our Product team and share feedback directly with them as well.
Resources: What's New
Use ST Math as the catalyst for academic discourse in your classroom. Build vocabulary, challenge thinking, and build routines that get students jazzed about discussing mathematics.
Resources: Puzzle Talks
Join this hands-on session tailored toward new users to think through technology procedures, setting a schedule, introducing ST Math, celebrating success, and modeling struggle to set your year up well from the start. Resources: Getting Started
Many elementary teachers didn’t become teachers because of their confidence in mathematics and need a little encouragement to see math in a more flexible way.
Join MIND's Chief Data Science Officer, Andrew Coulson, to understand the latest, most insightful perspective on how ST Math works its magic.
Math workshop and small groups can be a powerful tool for increasing student success in the math classroom. Come learn how ST Math can decrease the amount of time you spend prepping for stations and increase the learning in your math classroom.
“Keep, Change, Flip!” “The alligator eats the bigger number” “Please excuse my dear aunt sally”These are all math tricks you may have used in your math classroom. They are fun! They are catchy! But they mystify students' schema! In this session, we will investigate some commonly taught math tricks, discover why these tricks cause long-term confusion, and demystify the tricks with ST Math.
Learn from Moline Coal Valley District how they improved their implementation year over year, and about the results they've seen because of it. Spoiler alert - it's not just test scores that have gone up!
Your students are experiencing meaningful math learning just by playing ST Math, but that’s only the beginning! Come discover three simple ways to supercharge your JiJi culture through social media with insights from what’s worked for other schools!
Resources: Special Event Resources
Did you know MIND has a Math Week specifically designed to engage families? Join Sandra Consilio and Damon Neiser to learn about how it was designed and how you could implement it in your own district.
Resources: Sample Math Week
Closing Keynote: Transforming the Culture of Math
Nina Wu, MIND Education
Learning happens when we break and challenge and add to our schemas. Let's expand our schemas and rethink what mathematical thinking and creative thinking look like to best support our students in finding their way as confident mathematicians.
We loved getting to meet and hear from our ST Math users at this conference –
so much that we're planning another event!
Stay tuned for more information about
another ST Math Leadership Symposium coming soon.
Check out the ST Math impact at schools and districts
across the country.
ST Math Pre-Kindergarten is a comprehensive blended learning curriculum that includes the five mathematics domains identified in the Texas Prekindergarten Guidelines by TEA: counting skills, adding to/taking away skills, geometry and spatial sense skills, measurement skills and classification and patterns skills. The program combines:
Learn more about ST Math: Early Learning.
Interested in bringing ST Math to your students?
There are several funding options including the Texas Math Innovation Zones* grant.
Grade K Numbers & Operations: K.3.A
Model the action of joining to represent addition and the action of separating to represent subtraction.
These puzzles ask students to model addition and subtraction by joining and separating birds on a telephone line. Students use the manipulative to find the total number of birds.
Grade 2 Numbers & Operations: 2.6.B
Model, create, and describe contextual division situations in which a set of concrete objects is separated into equivalent sets.
In this example the student has determined that if each purple monster eats 2 pears, as shown by the rate in the top left corner, than 8 pears should be separated equally to feed 4 purple monsters.
Grade 4 Numbers & Operations: 4.3.E
Represent and solve addition and subtraction of fractions with equal denominators using objects and pictorial models that build to the number line and properties of operations.
This puzzle asks students to match a collection of fractions represented with a circular model to a single point on the number line. The blue pieces represent positive numbers, the red indicates a negative number.
Grade 7 Expressions & Equations: 7.10.B
Represent solutions for one-variable, two-step equations and inequalities on number lines.
In this example, the student must find the value of variable “a”. This two-step equation, 4 + 3a = 7, is represented on a number line.
These puzzles ask students to model addition and subtraction by joining and separating birds on a telephone line. Students use the manipulative to find the total number of birds.
Represent and solve addition and subtraction of fractions with equal denominators using objects and pictorial models that build to the number line and properties of operations.
This puzzle asks students to match a collection of fractions represented with a circular model to a single point on the number line. The blue pieces represent positive numbers, the red indicates a negative number.
Represent solutions for one-variable, two-step equations and inequalities on number lines.
In this example, the student must find the value of variable “a”. This two-step equation, 4 + 3a = 7, is represented on a number line.
Exhibitor: Garrett Girouard
Presence: J. Ivan Alfaro, Wendy Coffman & Garrett Girouard
ST Math® aligns with the TEKS to ensure Texas students develop deep, conceptual understanding of math concepts to equip them for the challenges of the 21st century. Below is a small sample of ST Math puzzles that were designed to meet the rigorous demands of the Texas math standards.
Grade K Numbers & Operations: K.3.A |
Grade 2 Numbers & Operations: 2.6.B |
Grade 4 Numbers & Operations: 4.3.E |
Grade 7 Expressions & Equations: 7.10.B |
Download the Texas Scope & Sequences for a full view into how ST Math learning objectives target key grade-level concepts and skills.
Grade K Numbers & Operations: K.3.A |
Grade 2 Numbers & Operations: 2.6.B |
Grade 4 Numbers & Operations: 4.3.E |
Grade 7 Expressions & Equations: 7.10.B |