From mclstrainee at gmail.com Wed Jul 8 13:21:33 2020 From: mclstrainee at gmail.com (MCLS Trainee) Date: Wed, 8 Jul 2020 15:21:33 -0400 Subject: [MATHLINK] #MCLSonline2020 and Announcements Message-ID: Dear MCLS Community, Happy July! Some big announcements from the MCLS Training Board and Conference Committee. 1. We successfully held our first elections and now have a full Training Board! A huge congratulations to our new Research Chair Ilse Coolen, Policy and Practice co-Chairs Dana Miller-Cotto and Rebecca Merkley, and Communications Chair Venera Gashaj. Congratulations also to everyone who ran ? we had some really close elections with over 150 votes. 2. The #MCLSonline2020 conference is officially underway! Thanks so much to our first symposium presenters Katie Allen, Elena Soto Calvo, and David Giofr? as well as organizer Fiona Simmons for your great presentation last week. The video is now posted on the YouTube channel which is also up to date with all our preconference presentations. 3. The full conference program is LIVE! You can download the program here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Bj6zYw2f4fleg4vdUiJX7UfX1wBOoOAy/view?usp=sharing and the weekly calendar by itself here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1_J331uimPGAtSz1FPI0Yp6rPm5FLnQhR/view?usp=sharing . Thanks to everyone who submitted a presentation ? if you were not scheduled for 2020, please keep an eye out for an email in the fall scheduling into 2021. 4. Be sure to register to attend both Thursday 9am EST//2pm BST ( https://pitt.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJwvf-GvqzkpG9B3hk_qbHpz6K9xGqCS4CcC ) and Friday 11am EST//4pm BST ( https://pitt.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJUqdOiurzkpG9ZlSZ5p_RSlyJr7VgrUJp3z ) presentations. These are set up as recurring meetings so you only have to register once. 5. Finally, please join us for our conversation with math educators on Friday! We?ll be talking about ways to bring research into the classroom in ways that are meaningful for educators, as well as how to make research more diverse and inclusive to reflect what teachers see in classrooms around North America. Thanks so much! The MCLS Training Board and Conference Committee From mclstrainee at gmail.com Wed Jul 22 10:18:05 2020 From: mclstrainee at gmail.com (MCLS Trainee) Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2020 12:18:05 -0400 Subject: [MATHLINK] MCLS Conference Announcements July 22 Message-ID: Dear MCLS Community, We hope everyone is holding up and doing relatively well! A few quick announcements. 1. Our chat with educators is up on the YouTube channel: https://youtu.be/bV4HI6zyrvw. It was truly one of the best and most thought-provoking presentations yet, so please make a point to watch it! 2. Please join us for our next symposium this Friday, July 24 at 11am EST//4pm BST. Sabrina Di Lonardo Burr (Carleton University), David Braithwaite (Florida State University), Kelsey MacKay (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven), and Tom Faulkenberry (Tarleton State University) will be presenting ?Representations and knowledge structures for fractions and rational numbers.? The abstract is below. Make sure you?ve pre-registered for Friday talks! 3. Be sure to mark your calendars for our first poster and lightning talk session next Thursday, July 30 at 9am EST//2pm BST! Virtual posters will be posted on the @MCLStrainee twitter account and authors will be available both on Zoom and on Twitter to respond to your questions. Thanks and looking forward to seeing you Friday! The MCLS Training Board and Conference Committee *Representations and knowledge structures for fractions and rational numbers* Over the last two decades, researchers in numerical cognition have expanded their investigations beyond the context of single-digit numbers and have started to consider issues concerning numbers with more complex mathematical structure. In this symposium, we will focus on fractions and rational numbers, a field in which many open questions remain. As a result of the added complexity that fractions present, a number of new techniques and theoretical models have been brought to the field in order to tackle these open questions. This symposium will feature four talks from researchers who, as a group, reflect diverse international perspectives and multiple career stages. The talks will each provide a unique perspective on central questions about representations and knowledge structures for fractions and rational numbers, including procedural and conceptual knowledge in rational number arithmetic, number line estimation with children, the role of the base-10 system in fraction magnitude representation, and mathematical modeling of processing architectures with symbolic fractions.