For the Love of Mathematics
In our attempts to make a concept easier, we may hinder student learning.
Students are given a problem to break down rectangles.
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.
Since its inception, the Mathematical Lens column has provided teachers with resources to use with their students to make connections between mathematics and the world around us through the use of photographs. The editors and the dozens of teachers who submitted material for columns have taken all of us on a journey around the world to discover where mathematics lives. These columns have offered teachers a license to do mathematics everywhere and to travel far with their students with a full tank of resources.
A monthly set of problems targets a variety of ability levels.