NCTM 2026 Annual Meeting and Exposition

The NCTM 2026 Annual Meeting and Exposition takes over the Colorado Convention Center from October 28 to 31, bringing around 9,000 math educators from across the globe to downtown Denver. It's billed as the premier mathematics education event of the year, and the scale fits the name: hundreds of sessions running over four days, with people coming in to learn, collaborate, and take home tools they can actually use in their classrooms. This year's theme is Mathematics for a Changing World: Belonging, Learning, and Leading, and the organizers are putting teacher joy and well-being front and center.

If you're looking for a place to start, Carnegie Learning is setting up at booth #923 with a full slate of sessions. On Thursday, Oct. 29, Amy Jones Lewis leads Sharpen Your Pencils: It's Time to Do the Math from 8:00 to 9:00 AM in Room 202, and Brianne Major follows in the afternoon with Building Connections: Exploring the Arc of the Area Model from Grade 3 to Algebra 1 from 1:00 to 2:15 PM in Bluebird Ballroom 3F. Friday, Oct. 30, brings two more: Casey Andree's Powered by Play: Building Big Math Thinking Through Games from 1:00 to 2:00 PM in Room 202, and Nikea Moffett's Empowered Teaching: Anxiety-Free Learning from 1:00 to 2:15 PM in Bluebird Ballroom 3F.

Between sessions, the exhibit hall is anchored by I See What You Mean, a 40-foot Big Blue Bear by artist Lawrence Argent built from more than 4,000 interlocking triangles. And since you'll be downtown, there are a couple of local things worth a look. The Mile High City nickname itself is a bit of a local dispute: three different steps on the west side of the Colorado State Capitol all claim to sit at exactly 5,280 feet. Nearby, the Denver Art Museum's Hamilton Building by Daniel Libeskind is clad in 9,000 titanium panels, none of which run parallel or perpendicular to one another. The meeting runs October 28 through 31 at the Colorado Convention Center.