Teachers are called to be teachers. They are not called for money or for fame, but an unshakeable desire to care for children. To love them. Mathematics teacher educators are called to move in the field toward promoting and enacting more equitable practice in our methods classroom that supports equitable Read more…
Good tasks provide the opportunity for good mathematics. Good mathematics provides students the opportunity to engage in the Standards for Mathematical Practice, with the ultimate practice being to “make sense of problems and persevere in solving them”. Something we want all children to be able to do. Below is a Read more…
The purpose of this page is to share resources generated through several meetings from the PME-NA Equity Working Group. Addressing Equity and Diversity Issues Around Expansion, Displacement, and Growth in Mathematics Education (PMENA 2019) Link to the slides from the 2019 Equity Working GroupReading/Resource List from Equity Working Group
To love on an idea is to engage with an idea… During the 41st meeting of the North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, my colleagues and I had the opportunity to share some ideas that we had around promoting awareness and agency around Read more…
What are the milemarkers on you path to developing as a professional? This episode of the podcast is a bit different. In early October, I had the opportunity to present and attend the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM) Regional Conference in Nashville, TN. Also at the conference were Read more…
Behind every math teacher is a calling to invest in the lives of others. But sometimes that calling gets lost in the daily hustle and bustle of teaching. During this session at the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics Regional Conference in Nashville, TN, participants were asked to recall, refine, Read more…
#CelebrateTheStruggle Teachers of mathematics are being called to promote productive struggle in their classrooms, or as the Common Core State Standards puts it, students should be able to “make sense of problems and persevere in solving them”. But what if struggle, the thing that is necessary to persevere, is seen Read more…
What is your relationship status with mathematics? A productive way for me to think about how best to teach mathematics is to consider facilitating a relationship between a student and mathematics. What are things that I can do to improve the relationship? And how can I avoid damaging the relationship Read more…
Good tasks are out there. The rice on a chess board task. The handshake task. The names of these tasks are familiar to most math teachers (if not, google them) as classic problems that have been leveraged to teach mathematical concepts to many a math student. Finding a good task Read more…
Sometimes things do not go exactly to plan… As any teacher can attest, there are times when the intended outcomes of a lesson do not simply materialize when the bell rings. The same principle exists for the professional development of teachers. At the annual conference for the Association for Mathematics Read more…