AMTRA members: Mark your calendars

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Highlights from the conference were:

•	Activities, projects, and standards at all levels K - college
•	Integrating technology in the classroom
•	Workshops for Mathematics & Science
•	Great lessons that motivate kids without using technology
•	Using graphing calculators for data collection and analysis
•	Goodie-Bags include T-Shirt, CD with presentations & materials, and much more
•	Wine & Cheese Social Friday evening included in registration fee
•	Lunch Saturday included in registration fee
•	Vendors, Publishers, & Exhibits Friday & Saturday
•	Door Prizes

 

Keynote Speaker Kay Toliver

With more than 27 years of teaching grades one through eight in East Harlem, Kay Toliver has developed the philosophy:  “All students can learn.  It is a teacher’s job to expand minds and take children from the known to the unknown.”  Toliver is a Senior Associate of the Foundation for Advancement in Science & Education (FASE), she has created a FASE-produced instructional television series The Eddie Files, and has received numerous awards including the Presidential Award in Secondary Mathematics, the Disney American Teacher Award, and the Reliance Award for Excellence in Education.

 

The Association of Mathematics Teachers of the Rochester Area is an organization dedicated to the support of mathematics teachers at all levels. Its purpose is fourfold:

• to ensure better coordination of all activities of mathematics groups in the region,
  

• to afford a medium of exchange of view regarding the teaching of mathematics (K - 16),
  

• to further the cooperative study of problems relating to the teaching of mathematics at all four levels: elementary, junior high, senior high, and college,
  

• to encourage active interest in mathematics and mathematics education.

AMTRA  was organized in 1976 and currently has over 300 members.