For the Love of Mathematics
For two decades, teacher educators have called for practice-based approaches in teacher education (
Try these meaningful alternative approaches to helping students make sense of word problems.
In our attempts to make a concept easier, we may hinder student learning.
Students are given a problem to break down rectangles.
Modify activities according to these principles and suggestions.
Using surveys and focus groups in an inquiry project, the authors learned that four research-based pedagogical moves improved their teaching and inspired students to persist in problem solving.
Three inquiry-based tasks highlight the planning, classroom discourse, positive results, and growth in one class's journey.
Students use a super-hero theme to compare the imperial system to the metric system.