Mathematics Summer Camps
The Center for Teaching & Learning Mathematics offers PD training for districts interested in math summer enrichment camps.
See below for examples from one district in Mascoutah, Illinois, who has put this PD to good use!
One of the many goals of the summer camp will be to inspire the students' mindsets regarding how they perceive math and themselves as mathematicians. We will learn to be flexible when working with numbers and operations, and we'll also be experiencing mathematics in creative settings that involve dragonflies and chocolate milk!
One of the many goals of the summer camp will be to inspire the students' mindsets regarding how they perceive both math and themselves as mathematicians. We will be experiencing mathematics in new and creative ways as we learn how to stretch our brain muscles!
This camp is organized around three themes- algebraic problem solving, the visualization of mathematics, and making connections between representations and ideas. Woven throughout the curriculum and teaching are the actions and messages that help campers develop a growth mindset. Everyone can do well in math; mistakes, struggle, and persistence are all important. Mathematics is an open, growth subject, not a closed, fixed subject. Campers will discover that communicating, reasoning about, and justifying ideas are central acts in the work of mathematics. Campers will engage in a wide range of mathematical concepts that can be seen from individual examination of the tasks. This camp is for middle school aged campers who may not excel at math now but want to.
