This presentation will provide an overview and research summary of a two-year project supported by OAME, OMCA, and the Ontario Ministry of Education to enhance and support teaching and learning in Grade 9 Applied Mathematics. The University of Ottawa research team worked with nine Professional Learning Communities (PLCs) across Ontario who were focused on implementing the Grade 9 Applied Mathematics curriculum in ways that best addressed student needs. The presentation will describe the various pedagogical shifts that these school-based PLCs enacted as well as the actions that the PLC took during their monthly day-long meetings. Resources and supports that the PLCs found most effective will also be shared.

Speaker Bio:

Dr. Christine Suurtamm is a Professor of Mathematics Education at the University of Ottawa. She has been the principal investigator of a number of research projects that examine the complexity of mathematics teaching and learning, including the Principal Investigator on this Grade 9 Applied

Mathematics Project. She has served as the Canadian representative on the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM) Board of Directors, as Co-chair of Assessment Topic Study Groups at the International Congress on Mathematics Education (ICME-12 and ICME-13) and is currently on the Ontario Ministry of Education Curriculum Council.