Sue is facilitating a session and breakout room for the 2021 NCTM Virtual Conference. Join her on Feb. 5 at 3:30pm (EST) to gather ideas to “Step Back and Let Them Think: Discovering Number Concepts through Investigations and Math Talk...
MoreSue O’Connell will host two Heinemann PD sessions in the fall 2020: Oct. 27 (EST) and Dec. 10 (PT). The focus of the sessions is on strategies to teach math for understanding K-5. The sessions explore strategies, tips, and tools to make the...
MoreWhy are math facts so important? Knowledge of basic math facts provides a foundation for multi-digit addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division, but the importance of these facts goes far beyond the foundation for more complex...
MoreSue shared a presentation entitled Making the Most of Children’s Literature: A Context To Explore Math and Understand the World as a part of the NCTM 100 celebration. The session handouts are attached.NCTM_100_handouts_Sue_OConnell
MoreSue was keynote speaker for the Greater Louisville Council of Teachers of Mathematics on Oct. 16, 2019. The session focused on six types of questions that enhance math teaching and learning K-12. The session was titled: “Sparking Insights...
MoreJoin Sue at the NCTM Regional Conference in Nashville on Oct. 3 for a session on Making Sense of Mathematics Through Models, Discussion, and Discovery. While the session focuses on math concepts for grades 3-5, K-2 teachers are welcome to join us...
MoreThanks for joining me for #elemmathchat on May 9, 2019. I am attaching some of the materials we talked about in our chat. I hope these help you provide fun summer math activities for your students. These are Word documents and just meant to help...
MoreYes, games are a great way to provide fluency practice for learning math facts, but what should we look for when selecting math fact games? We certainly want a game that provides students with repetitive practice with a set of facts. We want a...
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