 PSCTM was founded to encourage continual professional growth among local mathematics teachers. The organization sponsors
three major activities during the year: a fall, a winter, and a spring dinner. A variety of programs are presented at these
events, ranging from using a given manipulative in grades K-12 to the role teachers are playing in the new assessments.
Shoreline Center Spartan Room
18560 1st Avenue N.E.,
Shoreline, WA. 98155.
5:00 Social
6:00 Dinner
7:00 Presentation
Spring Dinner - May 4th, 2009
Jerry Johnson
Western Washington University
"Dear OSPI, Educators, and Parents....Yadda Yadda Yadda....P.S. P.S."
For more than thirty years, people, organizations, and books have stressed the important role of problem solving in mathematics education K-12. That emphasis now flickers like a problematic light-bulb and in some instances has faded away. Using exemplary problems important to me as a mathematics teacher, I will try to illustrate the power of mathematics students who are problem solvers. I know....I am speaking to the Choir....but the Choir needs to sing even louder now than ever before. Plus, it will be a fun retrospective, introspective journey.
Winter Dinner - February 9th, 2009
Lisa M. Jilk
University of Washington
Research Associate and Mathematics Education Coach
How students participate in their mathematics classrooms affects what they learn and understand. To support more students to achieve in mathematics, it is critically important for educators to find ways that encourage participation. Lisa will share data from her research which supports pedagogical practices that are more congruent with students' personal identities and supports them in becoming more involved in their own mathematical learning.
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