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Teaching for Thinking, Not Just Right Answers
Guest blog post by Susan Smith. Susan is a retired math teacher with 34 years of classroom experience. Passionate about mathematizing, she shares practical tips and strategies to make math meaningful for students.Â
...Developing Mathematical Reasoning: Avoiding the Trap of Algorithms Wins APEX Grand Prize
We are thrilled to share some exciting news: Developing Mathematical Reasoning: Avoiding the Trap of Algorithms by Pam Harris has been awarded the prestigious APEX Grand Prize for Publication Excellence.
This recog...
Why We're Obsessed with NumberClub (And Why Your Students Will Be Too)
We want to be upfront about something: Math is FigureOutAble does not often fully endorse products. Pam Harris has spent her career helping teachers move away from the idea that math is something you do to students ...
Alan Turing: He Asked the Questions Nobody Else Thought to Ask
He Imagined a Machine That Could Solve Anything. Then He Built One to Help Win a War. Then the Country He Saved Prosecuted Him.
Written by the Math is FigureOutAble Team We're a team of educators and math thinkers ...
A Year of Growth Through Problem Strings
Guest blog: Susan Smith, Elementary Math Teacher.Â
Today was a good day. A very good day. The kind of day where you feel energized and gratified to be a teacher. Today I had the opportunity to teach a Problem Strin...
Real Math vs. Fake Math: What Meaningful Math Experiences Can Do
Guest blog post by Olivia Despotidis, a South African math educator, a Math is FigureOutAble team member, and a busy mom!
What Is "Fake Math”
There is a moment I look back on often, that I wish I could redo. I ha...
Maryam Mirzakhani: The Girl Who Wanted to Read Every Book in the World
She Grew Up Wanting to Be a Writer. She Became the Greatest Mathematician of Her Generation.
Written by the Math is FigureOutAble Team We're a team of educators and math thinkers who believe persistence, curiosity,...
Celebrating the Teachers Who Change How Students See Math
Thank You, Teachers
Teacher Appreciation Week gives us a chance to say something we don’t say often enough: teaching is complex, demanding, and deeply impactful work.Â
At Math is FigureOutAble, we get a front-row ...
I Thought I Wasn’t a Math Person. It Started with Fractions.
I Thought I Wasn't a Math Person (Until I Learned What Math Actually Is)
A guest post by Kristi Gottwalt, Director of Marketing at Math is FigureOutAble
You know people like me. You may be people like me.
For nea...
Emmy Noether: Brilliant, Unpaid, Unstoppable
She Revolutionized Math and Physics Without a Salary: Here's What That Teaches Us About Persistence
Written by the Math is FigureOutAble Team
We're a team of educators and math thinkers who believe persistence, curi...
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Pam Harris
Math Educator
Pam Harris is a mom, a former high school math teacher, a university lecturer, an author, and she wants to change the way we view and teach mathematics. While Pam was teaching high school math, her four children grew and mathematized their world in a way she had never imagined. “I had always bought into the myth that math is a disconnected set of facts to memorize, with rules and procedures to mimic. I now call that fake math.” Pam’s own kids, research, and experiences teaching real math have shown her what it means to mathematize and to support learners in their own journeys. Real math is thinking mathematically, not just mimicking what a teacher does on the board. You can shift your brain from using rote memory to mathematizing. Pam helps teachers make this shift for themselves, and helps teachers teach in a way that supports students to learn real math.
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