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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...
Math Reimagined
Guest blog: Susan Smith, Elementary Math Teacher.
This post explores a topic that we also feature in our upcoming book, Developing Mathematical Reasoning: The Strategies, Models, and Lessons to Teach the Big Ideas ...
What is the purpose of math class?
Would you agree with me that many, if not most of us, were in classrooms as students where the purpose of math class was to get answers. We were taught the most straightforward, non-confusing, easy, step-by-step way...
Developing Mathematical Reasoning Part 4
Throughout this series we have discussed each of the stages of the Development of Mathematical Reasoning. In order to identify where students are in their development and to nudge them to more sophisticated ways o...
Why Doesn't Everyone Teach Real Mathematics?
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Have you taken THE QUIZ?
We can only change what we know.Â
In the quiz post, I make the case that our distortions of what mathematics is and what it means to teach mathematics influence the way that we teach.Â
...I Have, You Need - Part 2
Listen to Kim as she explains to teachers about the "I Have, You Need" routine and why it is so important.
How could you apply this routine in your classroom?
Miss part one of this series? See it here.
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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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