Featured Speakers: Ben Ford (Math & Stats) and Kathy Morris (Math Education, Emerita), Sonoma State University

How can robots, art, slime, and arcade games lead to deep learning of important mathematics? Many students experience school math as disconnected from things they care or wonder about—can we help them instead learn math as a set of lenses to understand things that matter? We’ll give examples of fourth- and fifth-grade curriculum projects we’re designing and testing through an NSF-funded project, in which students learn about volume with their robots, fractions and scaling with their slime, and much more.