NCTCA 2025

We develop our Frameworks over the years, through education, exploration, and experience, creating an ever-more complex map of How Things Work that lets us be fluent with the ideas and operations we know, and helps us to learn and adapt to the new things we encounter. They help us become confident, powerful learners ready to take on new challenges. This session will explore a few of the key Big Ideas of Number, and examine how to Frame those ideas in ways that Learners can use to build increasingly-complex understandings of Number.. We will follow the learner as those initial tools and tactics are leveraged into helping to develop increasingly complex ways of handling number, from simply counting and organizing to developing Additive thinking, Multiplicative thinking, and to dealing with ever-increasing complexity in the numbers themselves… bigger numbers, decimals, fractions and integers.