MSU at 2025 NCSM, NCTM Annual Meetings
Several PRIME members will be presenting at this year’s NCSM conference and the NCTM Annual Meeting and Exposition 2025, both hosted in Atlanta, Georgia, during the week of October 13th.
NCSM, the National Council of Supervisors of Mathematics, will hold it's annual conference first, on October 13-15, 2025.
Founded in 1969, NCSM is one of the prominent leadership organizations in the US, dedicated to mathematics education. NCSM’s mission is to engage “in leadership that supports, sustains, and inspires high quality mathematics teaching and learning every day for each and every learner”.
Hosting their 57th annual NCSM conference in Atlanta aligns with NCSM’s vision, since
Atlanta is a city of historically important civil rights protests and leaders.
This year’s NCSM conference is focusing on the following strands:
- Accelerating Student Learning;
- Elevating Mathematics Instruction Through Bold Leadership;
- Equity Rising: Transformative Practices in Mathematics Education;
- Lifting Teacher Practice Through Coaching.
Gail Burrill, Alden “AJ” Edson, and Elizabeth “Betty” Phillips are this year’s MSU math-ed presenters and speakers at the NCSM conference.
In her Presidential Awardees discussion and workshop session titled “Ctrl+Alt+Educate: Rethinking Mathematics Teaching, Tools, and Equity for the Next Generation”, Gail, with other awardees, will be touching upon the fundamental ideas in teaching mathematics in an era of technology and artificial intelligence, AI, particularly the essentiality of skills in mathematics, navigating changes as teachers when students are to use newer technologies, and most importantly, the questions worth posing in a mathematics classroom when computer is there to solve the traditional problems. In another session titled “Teaching and Learning Mathematics in an AI World”, she is going to carry forward her engagement with similar concerns specifically by exploring a framework for designing and choosing tasks that go beyond using AI as an “answer getter” and help students in reasoning and thinking about the mathematics, and, how AI can support teachers in designing lessons.
Left to Right: Gail Burrill, AJ Edson, Betty Phillips
In their workshop presentation titled “AI for Mathematics Leadership: Developing and Implementing Resources to Elevate Equity and Engagement in Problem-Based Classrooms”, AJ and Betty will be exploring with participants how mathematics leaders can use artificial intelligence to support teachers in implementing problem-based curriculum materials. In their second presentation titled “Artificial Intelligence and School Algebra: Changing What, How, and Why We Teach”, they will be discussing how AI can support teaching and assessing students’ understanding of the essential algebraic and functional concepts in school algebra.
The same three PRIME members are also presenting at the NCTM Annual Meeting and Exposition 2025 held in the same city, Atlanta, during October 15-18, 2025.
Founded in 1920, National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM) is the world’s largest mathematics education organization with members from all over the US and abroad. The organization is now in their NCTM 100 timeline, dedicating their second century of leadership vision particularly toward the organization’s contributions and accomplishments, placing them in a broader historical, educational, and mathematical context.
In their annual meeting and exposition this year, NCTM will honor the historical and contemporary contributions of mathematics educators to classrooms and communities, and celebrate and elevate the creative teaching practices that have transformed math learning for each and every student.
This year’s NCTM Annual Meeting features MSU doctoral alumna Lateefah Id-Deen from Kennesaw State University, Georgia who is the Opening Session Speaker. Lateefah will be presenting “Multiplying Meaning: Empowering Students in Mathematics.”
In their NCTM session titled “Using AI to Identify, Support, and Track Proportional Reasoning in Problem-Based Classrooms”, AJ and Betty will be discussing how the Connected Mathematics Project is using artificial intelligence to support teachers and students during the Launch-Explore-Summarize instructional model.
Gail, in the first of her two sessions, titled “Using Technology and Real Data to Reimagine High School Algebra”, is going to explore ways to integrate interactive dynamic technology, data, and the mathematics all students need as part of the high school curriculum. In her other session titled “Modeling, Thinking, and Communicating Great Math - Lessons from Presidential Awardees”, she will be a co-discussant as a Presidential Awardee, on active lessons that emphasize how mathematical modeling, communication, and problem-solving skills build deeper conceptual knowledge.
See below for details of MSU math ed participation at both conferences.
MSU Presentations
57th NCSM Annual Conference
All sessions are held in the hotel Atlanta Marriott Marquis, 265 Peachtree Center Ave NE, Atlanta, GA 30303
Monday, October 13, 2025
1:30 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.
International Salon C
Ctrl+Alt+Educate: Rethinking Mathematics Teaching, Tools, and Equity for the Next Generation
Linda Antinone (CPAM - Council of Presidential Awardees in Mathematics), Jill Gough (Trinity School), Gail Burrill (Michigan State University)
Tuesday, October 14, 2025
8:15 a.m. - 9:15 a.m.
M-102
Teaching and Learning Mathematics in an AI World
Gail Burrill
Wednesday, October 15, 2025
9:15 a.m. - 10:15 a.m.
M-102
AI for Mathematics Leadership: Developing and Implementing Resources to Elevate Equity and Engagement in Problem-Based Classrooms
Alden “AJ” Edson and Elizabeth “Betty” Phillips
Wednesday, October 15, 2025
12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.
International Salon 10
Artificial Intelligence and School Algebra: Changing What, How, and Why We Teach
Alden “AJ” Edson and Elizabeth “Betty” Phillips
2025 NCTM Annual Meeting and Exposition Presentations
Thursday, October 16, 2025
11am to 12pm
Georgia World Congress Center – Room Thomas Murphy 4
Using AI to Identify, Support, and Track Proportional Reasoning in Problem-Based Classrooms
Alden “AJ” Edson and Elizabeth “Betty” Phillips
Friday, October 17, 2025
11:00 a.m.–12:00 p.m.
Omni Hotel, International Ballroom F
Using Technology and Real Data to Reimagine High School Algebra
Gail Burrill
Saturday, October 18, 2025
9:30 a.m.–10:30 a.m.
Georgia World Congress Center, Room Thomas Murphy 1
Modeling, Thinking, and Communicating Great Math - Lessons from Presidential Awardees
Linda Antinone (CPAM; Council of Presidential Awardees in Mathematics), Gail Burrill (Michigan State University)
