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)
Advanced Common Core Math Exploration: Probability and Statistics (2017)
To see all six books, please use this link: Advanced Common Core Math Explorations.
All six books are published by Prufrock Press.
Background:
Experience: 20 years of teaching talented math students
Experience: 7 years professional development/coaching
Education: M.A., Mathematics: M.A.T., Math Education