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Algebra Activities that Reach the Kids and Teach the Standards
By Bill Lombard on 5 November, 2009
I will be presenting a session at the California Math Council’s conference in southern California on 7 November, 2009 with the title of this blog article. I’ve included a link below to the conference presentation. This session will cover several pedagogical topics that have made my students successful learners, including Conceptual Layering, as well as [...]
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First North American GeoGebra Conference – Ithaca, New York
By Bill Lombard on 4 October, 2009
The First North American GeoGebra Conference will be held 27-28 July, 2010 at Ithaca College in Ithaca, New York. I’ve been honored to be a part of the Scientific Committee for this conference. This committee has the responsibility of reviewing conference proposals. I’m looking forward to an interesting experience seeing how others use the powerful [...]
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Summer Splash – the Association of Illinois Middle Schools Annual Conference
By Bill Lombard on 23 June, 2009
I just finished presenting a workshop for the Association of Illinois Middle Schools Annual Conference in Normal, Illinois (home of Illinois State Univ.) and enjoyed it tremendously. I had the pleasure of interacting with 150 middle school teachers and once again working with the AIMS staff – a real class act! Here’s what the AIMS [...]
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CMC-S (Palm Springs) and CMC-N (Asilomar) GeoGebra Updates
By Bill Lombard on 26 November, 2008
My session on GeoGebra at the CMC-S Palm Springs conference was well attended. The room seated 120, and CMC staff had to turn away at the door many folks who wanted to see this great open-source software. I was pleased to be able to share a little of the story behind GeoGebra, its creator Markus [...]
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California Math Council – Southern Section Conference, Palm Springs
By Bill Lombard on 26 October, 2008
The California Math Council – Southern Section Conference, Palm Springs math conference will be held this year on November 7-8, 2008 at the Palm Springs Convention Center. As one of the Featured Speakers, I’ll be presenting two sessions, one on Friday and one on Saturday. These sessions cover two of the topics I’m currently focused [...]
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