Bluffton University will offer five summer mathematics workshops for middle and high school math teachers and intervention specialists, beginning June 8.

The 23rd annual workshops, hosted by adjunct faculty member Duane Bollenbacher, are all three-day sessions, from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. each day. Each workshop may be taken for 22.5 contact hours of Local Professional Development Committee credit, at a cost of $125, or, on a pass/fail basis, for one semester hour of graduate workshop credit, for $275.

Participants may pay an additional $25 for a one-year membership in the Ohio Council of Teachers of Mathematics (OCTM). Lunches are included; other meals and housing are available.

Bollenbacher, a past president of OCTM and its 1991 Mathematics Teacher of the Year, will teach the first three workshops-"HQT Certification for Intervention Specialist in Mathematics Content," from June 8-10; "Mathematics for the Family and Consumer Science Teacher," a new offering this year, from June 14-16; and "205 Things that Every High School Mathematics Teacher Should Know," from June 21-23. Registration deadlines for the three courses are May 31, June 6 and June 13, respectively.

The final two workshops are both Aug. 9-11. Marilyn Link, a retired teacher from Coldwater, Ohio, will teach another new offering, "Become a Master Teacher in Middle School Probability and Statistics Topics," while Bollenbacher will be the instructor for "Using Rich Problems to Learn and to Teach Good High School Mathematics, Course 2," which is different from last year's similarly named workshop. Aug. 1 is the registration deadline for both courses.

Completion of any two of the five workshops will qualify intervention specialists for Highly Qualified Teacher certification in math content.

For more information, contact Bollenbacher at 419-358-3296 (work), 419-358-7365 (home) or at [email protected].