A secondary math teacher shares how she has made teaching and learning mathematics authentic and relevant, and has transformed herself and her students to be upstanders.
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Fostering Social Justice Through Statistics
Susie Sujin Min
From Switching Languages to Switching Units
Ayse Ozturk
Switching languages enriches the mathematical experience of all students in the classroom during the problem-solving process.
Modeling the Impact of the Chernobyl Disaster
Geena Taite, Helene Leonard, Amanda Provost, and Nicole Panorkou
In this mathematical modeling task, Algebra 1 and Algebra 2 students determine the most impactful radioactive substance(s) released at the Chernobyl disaster of 1986.
All Sorts of Quality Interactions With English Learners
Haiwen Chu and Guillermo Virgilio Lopez
English learners can make new connections and applications through small group sorting activities.
Mathematics Identity Rainbows
Emma C. Gargroetzi and Gina Y. Wei
This activity engages students with the concept of mathematics identity to expand conceptions of what mathematics is and therefore what doing mathematics and being mathematical can mean.
Mentally Making and Measuring Angles
Hamilton L. Hardison
Encourage students’ use of iteration, partitioning, and familiar angles to make sense of angular measure.
Building a Digit Classifier with MNIST
Jedediyah Williams
Students use feature engineering to build a classifier that can accurately recognize digits from images.
Strengthening Students’ Proofs Using Peer Critiques and Revisions
Brooke Krejci and Kimberly Conner
Support students’ understanding of the proving process by having them pose a conjecture, draft a proof, and then revise it using peer feedback.
Model It! Devising a Model to Represent College Football Rankings
Rachel Wiemken, Gabriel Matney, and Brandon Floro
A model eliciting activity based on our students’ outside interests sparks engagement with modeling and interesting debates.
Digital Learning Routes: An Example of Mathematical Modeling
Salomé Martínez, Flavio Guiñez, and Darío González
An online activity provides instructional strategies that can help students engage in mathematical modeling and autonomous learning.
