OAME Talks

Description: This is the second of three preview episodes for the OAME 2026 Conference: Let's Talk Math. We are going to hear from the keynote speaker from our virtual conference running tandem with the face to face conference, Howie Hua and from Ron Lancaster who is talking about the math walk he will be bringing teachers on. More information about OAME 2026 can be found at oame2026.ca. Registration is open now for the conference at our MCIS registration site https://oame.on.ca/mcis/ Podcast: Listen above, or subscribe or download this podcast direct from iTunes or Google Play Podcast notes: Recorded December 2025 - January 2026 Howie teaches pre service teachers, and makes math content videos and memes in Fresno, Ca. Ron is a retired teacher and avid math walker living in the GTA.

Description: This is the first of three preview episodes for the OAME 2026 Conference: Let's Talk Math. We are going to hear from the featured and keynote speakers from day one of the conference. In this episode we'll hear from Pam Harris, Alex Lawson and Cathy Marks Krpan. More information about OAME 2026 can be found at oame2026.ca. Registration is open now for the conference at our MCIS registration site https://oame.on.ca/mcis/ Podcast: Listen above, or subscribe or download this podcast direct from iTunes or Google Play Podcast notes: Recorded December 2025 - January 2026 Pam is an educational consultant and author working out of Austin, Texas. Alex is a retired teacher, and researcher. Cathy is a professor and researcher at OISE in Toronto.

Description: Discover how the TCDSB is building partnerships with Indigenous communities to foster reconciliation and bring Indigenous ways of knowing mathematics to students. Our initiatives include beading with Indigenous artists, professional learning on partnerships and decolonizing the curriculum, and an Indigenous Math Play Day. Join our sharing circle to explore how you can collaborate with your Indigenous community to integrate these teachings into your classroom and engage your students through 'Etuaptmumk-Two-Eyed Seeing' while deepening learning experiences. Registration for all webinars at https://oame.on.ca/mcis/ More info at talks.oame.on.ca/season-8 Podcast: Listen above, or subscribe or download this podcast direct from iTunes or Google Play Podcast Notes: Recorded Dec 2025.

Description: This session is all about the F-word that's likely holding your students back in math: F-E-A-R. If you're ready to stop talking about bandaid solutions to manage math anxiety in the moment, and start learning how to help students overcome it for good ' this session is for YOU! Get ready to learn about the dynamics of fear, understand the exact way it manifests into math anxiety and triggers math trauma in the classroom, and gain impactful strategies you can use RIGHT away to break the cycle of fear, anxiety, and avoidance. This session will totally transform your understanding of math anxiety and empower you to help ALL students build healthier relationships with math! Registration for all webinars at https://oame.on.ca/mcis/ More info at talks.oame.on.ca/season-8 Podcast: Listen above, or subscribe or download this podcast direct from iTunes or Google Play Podcast Notes: Recorded Nov 2025. Vanessa is a math therapist. Here new book is called Math Therapy and more info on that and here podcast can be found on her website www.maththerapy.com .

Description: This session will focus on how we can support the development of executive function skills in our math classrooms. A brief overview of what executive functions skills are and how they impact learning in math will be shared. We will then examine practical strategies that can be implemented to support students development of each executive function skill in a mathematical context. Registration for all webinars at https://oame.on.ca/mcis/ Podcast: Listen above, or subscribe or download this podcast direct from iTunes or Google Play Podcast notes: Recorded October 2025 - Stacey Teaches at OISE.

Description: In this engaging presentation, I will explore the unique experiences of neurodivergent learners in the classroom, shedding light on the challenges and triumphs they face daily. Drawing from my own journey as a neurodivergent learner, I will share firsthand insights into how learning environments can impact understanding, engagement, and confidence. We'll discuss practical strategies for fostering an inclusive environment that accommodates neurodivergent students, helping educators better support all learners. Join me for an informative session that aims to enhance awareness and promote empathy for neurodivergent experiences in education. Registration at https://oame.on.ca/mcis/ Podcast: Listen above, or subscribe or download this podcast direct from iTunes or Google Play Podcast Notes: Recorded Sept 2025. Chad is an intermediate math teacher and small group math interventionist with the Waterloo Region District School Board.

This is our last bonus episode of the year and in it we will hear once again from each of our guests from this past season. During the season, we asked them to tell us what they learned or did while working online that they will continue to do as we move forward to more face to face interactions. We’ll here from Jason To, Lisa Anne Floyd, Carolyn Gingerich, Aleda Klassen, Cathy Chaput, Heather Theijsmeijer, Richard Duffy, Ruthie Sloan, Lisa Rossiter-Thornton and Anne Prevost Podcast: Listen above, or subscribe or download this podcast direct from iTunes or Google Play Podcast notes: Recorded September 2021 to February 2022 Jason is the Coordinator for Secondary Math and Academic Pathways with the Toronto District School Board and Tweets at @Jason_To. Lisa Anne is currently on maternity leave but will be returning to the TVDSB as the gr 9-12 math learning coordinator and Tweets at @LisaAnneFloyd. Carolyn is a Secondary Teacher (focusing on Grade 9 Destreamed Math as well as ELD Math) with the WRDSBB and Tweets at @gingerich_c, Aleda is a Secondary Itinerant Teacher Coach (teaching and supporting Grade 9 Destreamed Math) at the WRDSB and Tweets at @AledaKlassen. Cathy is a Program Coordinator at the Wellington Catholic District School Board and Tweets at @ChapCat. Heather is the Program Coordinator of 7-12 Mathematics with the Rainbow DSB and Tweets at @HTheijsmeijer. Richard is the Literacy and Numeracy Coordinator at the Rainbow DSB and Tweets at @DuffyRichard73. Ruthie is a teacher with the Peel DSB and Tweets at @RooSloan. Anne is an Educator at the Durham DSB and Lisa K-12 math coach for the Toronto DSB and Tweets at @MmeLRT.

Description: In an era where technology is reshaping every facet of education, 'Hacking Assessment in the AI Age' explores how educators can make assessments more meaningful, inclusive, and resilient against misuse. This session will showcase innovative strategies to incorporate AI tools into balanced and culturally responsive assessment practices, with a focus on fostering academic integrity, reducing math anxiety, and amplifying student voice and choice. Participants will engage with practical examples of 'AI-proof' assessment methods that prioritize student well-being and support equitable math learning. We’ll cover strategies for using AI to streamline feedback, promote metacognition, and develop assessments that are resistant to shortcuts while encouraging deeper mathematical understanding. Attendees will leave with actionable tools to integrate AI in ways that reinforce rather than replace learning, connecting mathematics to students’ real lives. Registration at https://oame.on.ca/mcis/ Podcast: Listen above, or subscribe or download this podcast direct from iTunes or Google Play Podcast Notes: Recorded Aug 2025. Jamie is a mathematics consultant with the Halton District School Board.

Description: We talked to a lot of people this season between our regular guests and our more recent guests from OAME 2025 and we asked each of them what advice they would give their 1st year teaching self? This episode compiles all of their answers. We’ll here from our regular speakers Cal Armstrong, Mike Deutsch, Kelly Cullen and Lisa Lunney Borden (Lisa is also an OAME 2025 speaker) as well as our OAME 2025 speakers Robert Durocher, Jason To, Camile Jones-Ford, Vanessa Vakharia, Jo Boaler and Nat Banting. More information about OAME 2025 can be found at oame2025.ca and registration is at https://oame.on.ca/mcis/. Podcast: Listen above, or subscribe or download this podcast direct from iTunes or Google Play Podcast notes: Recorded December 2024 - January 2025 Cal teaches in Burlington and Tweets at @sig225. Mike is an independant consultant at freshmanlabs.com and Tweets at @mdeutschmtl. Kelly is a mathematics instruction and assessment facilitator with the Simco County DSB and Tweets at @LiveLoveMath314. Lisa is a professor at St. Francis Xavier University and Tweets at @LLB_315. Robert works at the AGO as the Richard and Elizabeth Curry Chief of Education Programming and Tweets at @rjdurocher. Jason is the mathematics coordinator at the Toronto District School Board and Tweets at @Jason_To. Lisa is a Professor in the Faculty of Education at StFX and Tweets at @LLB_315. Camile teaches at the Ron Clark Academy in Atlanta, Georgia. Vanessa runs the The Math Guru tutoring service and Tweets at @TheMathGuru. Jo teaches at Standford University with resources at YouCubed.org and Tweets at @JoBoaler. Nat teaches with Saskatoon Public Schools and Tweets at @NatBanting. You can register for conference at https://oame.on.ca/mcis/index.php and the conference website is oame2025.ca

Description: This is the second of two preview episodes for the OAME 2025 Conference: Making Math Come Alive in 2025. We are going to hear from the featured and keynote speakers from day two of the conference. In this episode we'll hear from Vanessa Vakharia, Jo Boaler and Nat Banting. More information about OAME 2025 can be found at oame2025.ca. Podcast: Listen above, or subscribe or download this podcast direct from iTunes or Google Play Podcast notes: Recorded December 2024 - January 2025 Vanessa runs the The Math Guru tutoring service and Tweets at @TheMathGuru. Jo teaches at Standford University with resources at YouCubed.org and Tweets at @JoBoaler. Nat teaches with Saskatoon Public Schools and Tweets at @NatBanting. You can register for conference at https://oame.on.ca/mcis/index.php and the conference website is oame2025.ca .

Description: This is the first of two preview episodes for the OAME 2025 Conference: Making Math Come Alive in 2025. We are going to hear from the featured and keynote speakers from day one of the conference. In this episode we'll hear from Robert Durocher, Jason To, Lisa Lunney Borden and Camile Jones-Ford. More information about OAME 2025 can be found at oame2025.ca. Podcast: Listen above, or subscribe or download this podcast direct from iTunes or Google Play Podcast notes: Recorded December 2024 - January 2025 Robert works at the AGO as the Richard and Elizabeth Curry Chief of Education Programming and Tweets at @rjdurocher. Jason is the mathematics coordinator at the Toronto District School Board and Tweets at @Jason_To. Lisa is a Professor in the Faculty of Education at StFX and Tweets at @LLB_315. Camile teaches at the Ron Clark Academy in Atlanta, Georgia. You can register for conference at https://oame.on.ca/mcis/index.php and the conference website is oame2025.ca .

Description: This session will involve exploring a multi-faceted approach to enacting greater equity in mathematics classrooms. By examining key concepts related to expectations, Elder knowledge, ethics, and epistemology, we will consider what these ideas look like when enacted in mathematics classrooms. Examples will draw from K to 12 classrooms allowing all participants to find ideas they can take back to their own classroom. We will work with numerous hands-on activities that have been developed in partnership with Indigenous and Black communities. Podcast: Listen above, or subscribe or download this podcast direct from iTunes or Google Play Podcast Notes: Recorded Dec 2024. Lisa is a professor at St. Francis Xavier University. She Tweets at @LLB_315. Her Padlet with links can be found here. OAME members can register for the webinar at https://oame.on.ca/mcis/index.php.

Description: Picture walking into your classroom and the room abuzz with chatter about the lesson. Students throughout the room are using materials to make physical and meaningful connections to math concepts. During this workshop, we will explore implementing rich math tasks into the classroom without the need for a worksheet. We’ll learn how to document student thinking through oral conversations and observations and discover tools to enrich mathematical understanding. Podcast: Listen above, or subscribe or download this podcast direct from iTunes or Google Play Podcast Notes: Recorded Nov 2024. Kelly is a mathematics instruction and assessment facilitator with the Simcoe County DSB. She Tweets at @LiveLoveMath314.

Description: Some of our favourite math instructional routines also work beautifully for teaching coding! They generate talk and create space for seeing and thinking differently—a perfect way to explore and consolidate concepts, skills, and project builds. Get a taste of sensemaking routines adapted for teaching elementary and middle-grade coding. No coding experience is assumed. Bring these routines back to your classroom, or a colleague’s, and help make code truly graspable and accessible, just like math. Podcast: Listen above, or subscribe or download this podcast direct from iTunes or Google Play Podcast Notes: Recorded in September 2024. Mike is an independant consultant at freshmanlabs.com. He Tweets at @mdeutschmtl

Description: This is the latest companion podcast to the new Coding in the Classroom column of the OAME Gazette. It’s produced by Iain Brodie and Beyza Sezer and this month they interview Derek Tangredi. OAME members can see the full column in the Sept. 2024 issue of the Gazette Podcast: Listen above, or subscribe or download this podcast direct from iTunes or Google Play Podcast Notes: Podcast Notes: Recorded Summer 2024. Iain has been an elementary school educator for 28 years, and is now into a second career, teaching in-service and preservice teachers. He teaches face-to-face at Ontario Tech University and virtually at Western University. He Tweets at @IainBro. Beyza is a former teacher and long-term researcher. She is currently a graduate student in education at Western University, and her research focus is the integration of computational thinking into mathematics education. Both are editors of the Math+Code ‘Zine.

ChatGPT is a general-purpose artificial intelligence - that doesn't work for a community that is focused on math education, but more particularly, on Ontario-designed (and often world-leading) curricula, pedagogy and assessment. This session will showcase the ChatGPT that has been designed for Ontario math educators, but will work for any ChatGPT service. We'll also encounter errors (and how we've built it to minimize them) and the persistent issue of bias. Come play with ChatOAME! Podcast: Listen above, or subscribe or download this podcast direct from iTunes or Google Play Podcast Notes: Recorded Summer 2024. Cal teaches in Burlington and Tweets at @sig225.

We had a bunch of speakers this season and besides what each of them were talking about, we asked each of them how they defined mathematical fluency. This episode compiles all of there answers. We’ll here from Peter Liljedahl, Octavia Beckles, Jenna Laib, Aleda Klassen, Marian Small, Lisa Lunney Borden, Nat Banting, Lance Patrie, Sunil Singh, Fawn Nguyen, Robert Durocher, Megan Whitington, Wing-Yee Hui, Florence Glanfield, Alex Overwijk, Elli Weisdorf, Jordan Rappaport, Heather Boychuk, Crystal Watson, Lauren Baucom and Elham Kazemi. More information about OAME 2024 can be found at oame2024.ca and registration is at https://oame.on.ca/mcis/ . Podcast: Listen above, or subscribe or download this podcast direct from iTunes or Google Play Podcast notes: Recorded August 2023 - January 2024 Peter Works at Simon Fraser University, Tweets at @pgliljedahl and is the author of Building Thinking Classrooms. Octavia works at the York Regional District School Board and Tweets at @BecklesOctavia. Jenna teaches at the Public Schools for Brookline, Tweets at @JennaLaib and has created Slow Reveal Graphs. Aleda works at the Waterloo District School Board and tweets at @AledaKlassen. Marian is an independent consultant and author and Tweets at @Marian_Small. Lisa Teaches at St. Francis Xavier University and Tweets at @LLB_315. Nat teaches high school in Saskatchewan and Tweets at @NatBanting. Lance also teaches at LaSalle Secondary School in Sudbury. Sunil is an independent consultant and author and tweets a @MathGarden. Fawn is Math Teaching and Learning Specialist at Amplify and Tweets at @fawnpnguyen. Robert is a Centrally Assigned Vice-Principal of Indigenous Education at the Urban Indigenous Education Centre (TDSB) and Tweets at @rjdurocher. Wing-Yee and Megan both teach at the TDSB. Florence is a professor of math at the University of Alberta and Tweets at @FGlanfield. Alex teaches with the Ottawa Carlton School board and Tweets at @AlexOverwijk. Elli was a Math facilitator and is now seconded and Tweets at @ElliWeisdorf. Jordan was a Math facilitator and is now an equity consultant with his school board and Tweets at @JRappaport27 . Heather teaches at LaSalle Secondary School in Sudbury and Tweets at @BoychukMath. Crystal is a principal in a PreK-6 grade school in Cincinnati and Tweets at @CrystalMWatson and can be found online at crystalmwatson.com. Lauren has been a teacher for two decades. Elham teaches at the University of Washington.

This is the third of three preview episodes for the OAME 2024 Conference: Embracing Change...Moving Forward...Continuing to Grow. We are going to hear from the Deep Dive speakers who are doing two double sessions each on their chosen topic so that participants can get a deeper view of that topic. In this episode we'll hear from Elham Kazemi, Alex Overwijk, Lisa Lunney Borden and Fawn Nguyen. More information about OAME 2024 can be found at oame2024.ca and registration is at https://oame.on.ca/mcis/ . Podcast: Listen above, or subscribe or download this podcast direct from iTunes or Google Play Podcast notes: Recorded December 2023 - January 2024 Elham teaches at the University of Washington. Alex teaches with the Ottawa Carlton School board and Tweets at @AlexOverwijk. Lisa Teaches at St. Francis Xavier University and Tweets at @LLB_315. Fawn is Math Teaching and Learning Specialist at Amplify and Tweets at @fawnpnguyen.

This is the second of three preview episodes for the OAME 2024 Conference: Embracing Change...Moving Forward...Continuing to Grow. We are going to hear from the featured speakers from day two of the conference. In this episode we'll hear from Sunil Singh, Nat Banting, Florence Glanfield, Marian Small and Lauren Baucom. More information about OAME 2024 can be found at oame2024.ca. Podcast: Listen above, or subscribe or download this podcast direct from iTunes or Google Play Podcast notes: Recorded December 2023 - January 2024 Sunil is an independent consultant and author and tweets a @MathGarden. Nat teaches high school in Saskatchewan and Tweets at @NatBanting. Florence is a professor of math at the University of Alberta and Tweets at @FGlanfield. Marian is an independent consultant and author and Tweets at @Marian_Small. Lauren has been a teacher for two decades.

This is the first of three preview episodes for the OAME 2024 Conference: Embracing Change...Moving Forward...Continuing to Grow. We are going to hear from the featured speakers from day one of the conference. In this episode we'll hear from Aleda Klassen, Peter Liljedahl, Octavia Beckles, Jenna Laib and Crystal Watson. More information about OAME 2024 can be found at oame2024.ca. Podcast: Listen above, or subscribe or download this podcast direct from iTunes or Google Play Podcast notes: Recorded December 2023 - January 2024 Aleda works at the Waterloo District School Board and tweets at @AledaKlassen. Peter Works at Simon Fraser University, Tweets at @pgliljedahl and is the author of Building Thinking Classrooms. Octavia works at the York Regional District School Board and Tweets at @BecklesOctavia. Jenna teaches at the Public Schools for Brookline, Tweets at @JennaLaib and has created Slow Reveal Graphs. Crystal is a principal in a PreK-6 grade school in Cincinnati and Tweets at @CrystalMWatson and can be found online at crystalmwatson.com.