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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...
We Need Thinking Classrooms
Peter Liljedahl’s Building Thinking Classrooms is full of fantastic work. So much so, I’ve got 4 podcast episodes talking about it. I don’t agree exactly with everything he says, but studying it was very much worth ...
Questioning Questioning
A thing I get asked about is the difference between focusing questions and funneling questions.
You may have already noticed that there’s something off with what I just said.
That’s because when we’re talking abou...
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
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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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