2024 ACTM Fall Forum

Many middle school math concepts focus on relationships between quantities, especially multiplicative relationships. Understanding of and flexibility with division is key to mastering proportions, percents, slope, and more. However, many students arrive in middle school, or even high school, without solid skills. Division is hard, and the good news is that it’s possible to get better at it.

By the end of this session you will see division connections everywhere you look in your curriculum and know how to assess and build your students’ division fluency and confidence.

Come hear about three students who broke my heart, how I refused to send my 8th graders to high school without the fundamentals, and my secret weapons for practicing basic skills with dignity.