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Whole-Body Math for Educators

WORKSHOPS | COACHING | ON-SITE

Whole-body math professional learning workshops are offered as 3- or 6-hour sessions (but Malke is happy to discuss more comprehensive options). The workshops are a mix of hands-on experience with the core lessons of Math in Your Feet and other scaled-up math activities, but also address the teaching and learning that happens in a moving math classroom.  As a part of each session participants observe and unpack student work. 

Educator workshops are for classroom teachers of grades 3-6, PE and music specialists, and home educators. K-2 and 6-8 teachers will find the material adaptable for the younger and older grades.

Learn how to: use simple foot-based dance patterns to orient students in space; apply problem solving strategies to the choreographic process;  challenge students to learn and apply principles of transformation and symmetry to dance patterns; infuse your classroom with math vocabulary used in context; help students communicate their creative work using written reflections, word studies, graphs, symbols, and maps.

A PDF of all classroom materials provided.

The mathematical content of all activities was developed in collaboration with  award-winning math education specialist Jane Cooney.  In recent years, the content and pedagogy of Math in Your Feet has been significantly deepened through productive collaborations between Malke and her Teaching Artist Journal colleagues, as well as Dr. Maria Droujkova and Dr. Christopher Danielson, both leading math education thinkers and educators.

For more details, please visit the Math in Your Feet for Students page on this site.

"Malke was phenomenal. I’m very excited to take this workshop and use it in my classroom." -Elementary Teacher

"Within five minutes of participating in a workshop [Malke] led for interdisciplinary arts teachers, I was inspired and curious about the mathematical ideas that were surfacing in our work ... my participation in [the] workshop changed the way I think about teaching symmetry with my future elementary teachers. Malke's work gave me a way to structure the study of transformations and symmetry that grounds my students’ learning in their physical experience and in words that meaningfully describe that experience." 
-Dr. Christopher Danielson, Author of Talking Math with Your Kids and Common Core Math for Parents for Dummies

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"Malke was a dynamic teacher, demonstrating useful formative assessment and constructive feedback, and leading conversations that helped build content and connections as well as the classroom community." -Dr. John Golden Associate Professor of Mathematics Grand Valley State University

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"Malke did a wonderful job combining concepts, math vocabulary, and practical ideas for using it in the classroom."  
- Elementary Teacher

"The three hours flew by." 
- Elementary Teacher

"I wanted to let you know that Math in Your Feet is in full force in the fifth grade at Weston.  The kids LOVE it!!!  Thank you so much for introducing this to us." - Elementary Teacher

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MATH IN YOUR FEET HAS BEEN PRESENTED AT:

• Tyler, TX ISD, 6 hour educator workshop. August, 2016
  
• Epsilon Camp, A gathering of children captivated by math, 2016
• University of Michigan Math Department, March 2016.Undergraduate Math Club; Middle School Math Circle;  FEMMES STEM Capstone Event for girls grades 4-6. 
• Day-long educator workshop, Grand Valley State University, Allendale Campus, October 14, 2015. Workshops with GVSU pre-service teachers October 13, 2015. Sponsored by the Regional Math & Science Center. More info.
• Keynote Speaker & Presenter, Saskatchewan Understands Math (SUM) Conference, May 1 & 2, 2015.
• Clowes Memorial Hall, Butler University, Indianapolis, IN. Math in Your Feet 2: Symmetry & Transformations, April 16, 2015
• Clowes Memorial Hall, Butler University, Indianapolis, IN. Math in Your Feet 1: Geometry & Mathematical Patterns, March 19, 2015
• Beyond Inspiration: Developing New Tools For Documenting, Sharing, and Improving Our Work as Teaching Artists, one-day professional development workshop, October 25, 2014, Minneapolis, IN

• Twitter Math Camp, July 24-27, 2014,  Tulsa, OK. Embodied Mathematics: Tools, Manipulatives, and Meaningful Movement in Math Class, 6 hour course, Co-presenting with Christopher Danielson
  
• ​​Connecticut Association for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance, 6 hour course, Central CT State University, Detrick, July 2014
• Lee County Schools, Fort Myers, FL, June 2014, 
• Richland Institute for Professional Learning, Union College, KY.  June 16-18, 2014. 
• ​Artist to Artist Network (Teachers and Teaching Artists), Minneapolis, MN 2013
• Connecticut HOT Schools Summer Institute, 2013
• Clowes Memorial Hall, Butler University, Indianapolis, IN 2007, 2008, 2009, 2011, 2014, 2015
• Lighthouse Academy Charter School, National Conference 2012
• Blue Valley School District, Overland Park, KS 2012
• NCTM 2006, 2011 
• ICTM 2006
• Young Audiences of Indiana, National Conference 2011
• Young Audiences of Northeast Ohio, Conference 2012
• Indiana Physical Education Teachers Summer Conference 2012
• Indianapolis, IN and area schools 2007 to present