{"id":4452,"date":"2025-09-25T10:15:45","date_gmt":"2025-09-25T15:15:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mctmmathbits.org\/?p=4452"},"modified":"2025-09-20T10:27:58","modified_gmt":"2025-09-20T15:27:58","slug":"from-the-nctm-desk-looking-ahead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mctmmathbits.org\/?p=4452","title":{"rendered":"From the NCTM Desk: Looking Ahead!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mark your calendars! The next two NCTM Annual Meetings &amp; Expositions are <\/span><b>October 15\u201318, 2025, in Atlanta, GA<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, and <\/span><b>October 28\u201331, 2026, in Denver, CO<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. The 2026 theme is <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mathematics for a Changing World: Belonging, Learning, and Leading<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, and the <\/span><b>call for speakers is open now<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (And don\u2019t forget: our<\/span><b> MCTM Conference<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is set for <\/span><b>April 24\u201325, 2026<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2014right here in Duluth.)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Member Resource Spotlight:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> NCTM members have access to<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nctm.org\/illuminations\/\"><b><i>Illuminations<\/i><\/b><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2014a collection of rich lesson plans and activities for Pre-K\u201312. With interactive tools, teaching notes, and <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ready-to-use<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> tasks, it\u2019s a great way to engage students in problem solving and reasoning.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Classroom Tip: Same But Different:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Present two problems, graphs, or shapes that look similar but have key differences, and ask students to compare and contrast. This routine promotes critical thinking, communication, and connections between mathematical ideas.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Find more at <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/nctm.org\"><b>nctm.org<\/b><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, and reach out if you have questions about NCTM membership or resources!<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mark your calendars! The next two NCTM Annual Meetings &amp; Expositions are October 15\u201318, 2025, in Atlanta, GA, and October<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5riSd-19O","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mctmmathbits.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4452","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mctmmathbits.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mctmmathbits.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mctmmathbits.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mctmmathbits.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4452"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mctmmathbits.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4452\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4453,"href":"https:\/\/www.mctmmathbits.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4452\/revisions\/4453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mctmmathbits.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mctmmathbits.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mctmmathbits.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}