Strengthen understanding and build lasting fluency.
This four-part series supports secondary mathematics teachers in helping students make sense of important mathematical ideas before relying on procedures and rules. Through purposeful models, multiple representations, and student-centered strategies, participants will explore how conceptual understanding develops into accurate, efficient, and flexible mathematical thinking.
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September 1, 2026
Operations with Rational Numbers
Time: 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.
Location: Region 7 ESC – Cypress Room
Workshop: #411478
Help students move beyond rules to reasoning when working with fractions, decimals, and integers. In this session, teachers explore visual models such as number lines, fraction strips, base-ten blocks, and algebra tiles to strengthen magnitude understanding and support meaningful operations with rational numbers. Learn how to connect student strategies to efficient computation while maintaining conceptual understanding.
TEKS Alignment: 6.2B–D, 6.3A–D, 7.2A–E, 7.3A–D, 8.2C–D
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September 15, 2026
Proportional Relationships
Time: 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.
Location: Region 7 ESC – Elm Room
Workshop: #411479
Strengthen students’ multiplicative reasoning through representations that connect ratios, rates, tables, graphs, and equations. Teachers explore ratio tables, double number lines, tape diagrams, and coordinate graphs to support conceptual understanding of unit rate and prepare students for slope and linear modeling.
TEKS Alignment: 6.4H, 6.4I, 7.4A–D, 8.5B, A.3B
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September 29, 2026
Linear Functions
Time: 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.
Location: Region 7 ESC – Innovate Room
Workshop: #411483
Deepen understanding of relationships between variables through multiple representations that connect tables, graphs, equations, and verbal descriptions. Teachers explore slope triangles, mapping diagrams, and representation organizers that strengthen reasoning about rate of change and support flexible thinking with linear relationships.
TEKS Alignment: 8.5F, 8.5I, A.2A–D, A.3A
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November 2, 2026
Expressions & Equations
Time: 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.
Location: Region 7 ESC – Cypress Room
Workshop: #411480
Support students in making sense of algebra before manipulating symbols. Teachers use algebra tiles, balance models, area representations, and function tables to develop equivalence, distributive reasoning, and equation-solving strategies grounded in structure rather than memorization.
TEKS Alignment: 6.6A–C, 7.11A–B, 8.8A–C, A.5A, A.5C
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