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Educators look on as students are led in a math exercise. Some 400 educators from across the state and nation converged on Des Moines July 10 through 12 to learn how to revolutionize teaching math in their classrooms. Educators learned about Cognitively Guided Instruction, or CGI, which is a professional development program aimed at making mathematics – particularly for those in elementary school – more readily understandable to each and every student. The CGI event, co-hosted by the Iowa Department of Education and Iowa State University’s Center for Excellence in Science, Mathematics and Engineering Education, focused on teaching techniques to help children understand how math is applied in the world, in addition to understanding how to use the mathematical procedures. The overarching concept behind CGI is that each student learns in different ways.