S26-02015 DECODING THE LANGUAGE AND GENRE OF MATH WORD PROBLEMS—Grades K-5 Dina Carlucci - kdcarlucci@gmail.com 3 Credits– Inservice - June 24 — August 15 This course will explore the language barriers present in word problems in order to assist teachers/students in decoding the complexity by defining the specific word problem types and genres. For example, not all word problems are the same as they fall into one of the specific classifications of Result Unknown, Start Unknown and Change Unknown. Being able to “crack the code” and understand the different categories will assist students in reaching solutions with confidence using any of the mathematical operations of addition, subtraction, multiplication and division with flexibility. Optional Google Meet will be offered to support participant discussion, questions, and real-time collaboration.

S26-02016 FIVE FANASTIC MATH ROUTINES FOR FIVE DAYS A WEEK— Grades K—6 Dina Carlucci - kdcarlucci@gmail.com 3 Credits– Inservice - June 24 — August 15 This course will provide elementary teachers with 5 enriching meaningful math routines to engage students each day of the week. The five different routines are so unique and innovative that they promote learning and math discourse centered around the concepts of estimation, estimation with adjustment, addition, subtraction, prediction and critical thinking. Most significantly, you will be supplied with the templates and means to immediately implement these fast and flexible routines in an easy and effortless way withing your classroom. One Google Meet and a continuous Discussion Board in order to promote interaction is included.