Jerry Burkhart
Consulting, Speaking, Professional Development
5280 Math Education LLC
5280math.com
Specialty: I provide practical resources, tools, and strategies for integrating depth into math programming and instruction for advanced learners. I work by getting to know you and your school or district and tailoring our efforts to meet your needs.
Speaking, Professional Development, Consulting:
- Identifying, creating, aligning, and implementing deep tasks that extend math standards for advanced learners (grades 1 – 8)
- General consulting (programming, identification, general problem solving)
- Supporting communication between teachers, parents, administrators, and other stakeholders
- Using formative and summative assessment effectively with talented math students
- Motivating talented math students
- Meeting emotional needs of talented math students
- Creating a classroom culture that supports mathematical challenge
- Implementing Advanced Common Core Math Explorations in your classroom or school (Grades 5 – 8)
- Defining and applying appropriate uses of math acceleration
Delivery of Services: Resources; instructional modeling, observation, and reflection; interactive workshops; presentations; individual and team consulting
Publications:
Advanced Common Core Math Explorations: Factors and Multiples (2014)
Advanced Common Core Math Explorations: Numbers and Operations (2014)
Advanced Common Core Math Explorations: Fractions (2014)
Advanced Common Core Math Explorations: Measurement and Polygons (2015)
Advanced Common Core Math Explorations: Ratios, Proportions, and Similarity (2016)
To see all four books, please use this link: Advanced Common Core Math Explorations from Prufrock Press.
Coming in Spring 2016: Advanced Common Core Math Explorations: Ratios, Proportions, and Similarity
Coming in Fall 2016: Advanced Common Core Math Explorations: Probability and Statistics
The Prufrock Press website is here: www.prufrock.com
Background:
- Experience: 20 years of teaching talented math students
- Experience: 7 years professional development/coaching
- Education: M.A., Mathematics: M.A.T., Math Education