Rooms for MEA/MFT in Billings

We hope that you will join us at MEA/MFT in October.  Melissa Romano, Montana's Teacher of the Year and MCTM member, will be our keynote speaker.  The hotel information for the meeting is below.  Please make your reservations soon to take advantage of the block rates.

MEA Hotel Rooms

Northern Hotel

19 North Broadway

Rooms Blocked: October 17-19, 2018

Block Name: MCMT Montana Council of Teachers

Prices: King $93 + tax; Double Queen $113 + tax

No breakfast included

RSVP by: September 17, 2018

1-406-867-6767

Country Inn & Suites

231 Main Street

Rooms Blocked: October 17-18, 2018

Block Name: MCTM (Math Teachers)

Prices: King $105 + tax

Free, hot breakfast

RSVP by: September 17, 2018

1-406-245-9995

2019 Election Nominations are open

2019 MCTM Election Nominations

Leslie Bogar, bogarleslie@gmail.com

Holly Redman, holly_redman@yahoo.com

Jake Warner, jakers00@gmail.com

The MCTM Elections Committee is now accepting recommendations for the 2019 MCTM elections. The 2019 elections will be for three (3) directors (a director for Region IV- Southcentral Montana; a middle school director; an at large director) for the MCTM Board and for a President-Elect. Board members are required to attend all Board meetings and represent the mathematics educators in their regions. The President-Elect will spend one year working in cooperation with the current President, serve a two-year term as President, one year as Past-President and one-year as NCTM Representative. Board members will attend 3 board meetings: the fall meeting is usually held in October prior to fall conference, the winter meeting is held online, and the summer meeting is held prior to a summer professional development opportunity.

Summer Course

CSCI 582 Computer Science in the Classroom: Joy & Beauty of Data is a two-credit course that runs July 23-27, 2018.  A Gianforte Foundation grant pays the tuition and fees in addition to a $1000 stipend for Montana math and science teachers. The goal of the grant is to provide training for teachers in high schools who would be willing to set up a dual enrollment computer science course. That course already exists and is titled CSCI 127: Joy and Beauty of Computing.

Here is a link to the CSCI 582 flyer: http://www.montana.edu/msse/CSCI582.pdf 

Summer online course offerings

If you are looking for online courses this summer, here is a partial list of courses being offered around the state.

University of Montana Western is offering EDU 386 - Mathematics for K-8 Schools with Pedagogy II online.  Please contact Shay Kidd with questions.

MSU Billings is offering several courses online.  Please contact Mark Jacobson or Cori Day with questions.

• M 242 - Methods of Proof
• M 329 - Modern Geometry
• M 105 - Contemporary Mathematics
• M 121 - College Algebra
• M 122 - College Trigonometry
• M 143 - Finite Mathematics
• STAT 216 - Introduction to statistics

Montana Tech is offering four online graduate courses for teachers interested in teaching at the college level or teaching dual credit courses in the high school.  Please contact Hilary Risser with questions.

Billings Math Teachers' Circle : April 25th

MCubed 2018

Hello everyone,

   Well the date for MCubed is set and registration is open.  This year, we have an exciting event planned for day 1 called a "Math Wrangle".  To learn more about this new event read here https://www.maa.org/sites/default/files/pdf/sections/math_wrangle.pdf.  

Where Mathematics Is Spectator Sport www.maa.org Math Wrangle Where Mathematics Is a Spectator Sport Although the concept of a Math Wrangle is somewhat novel to participants and spectators in the United

We will have a catered lunch on Wednesday and enjoy lunch out on Thursday.  Like last year, we will have a social event in the evening on Wednesday.  We hope you will be able to join us for the third great year of MCubed.  All the information about this year is at the MCubed website:  https://sites.google.com/site/mctmmcubed/home

 

  Hope to see you there!

Hilary

MCTM Board Election Results

Please join me in congratulating the following candidates on their election to the MCTM board:

Tom Redmon (Region 1, elementary)
Dave Thomas (Region 2, higher education)
Jake Warner (Region 3, high school)

These individuals will be installed at the June 26th board meeting in Butte.