Using Student Reflection to Inform a Strength-Based Approach to Math Learning
Using Student Reflection to Inform a Strength-Based Approach to Math Learning
A teacher explores how inviting her students to reflect on positive math experiences helps her acknowledge and build on students’ strengths and current understandings.
Excursions: Activities That Connect Students with Their Interests, Communities and the World
Excursions: Activities That Connect Students with Their Interests, Communities and the World
Excursions are deep and rigorous math activities that support all students in making meaningful connections between the mathematics they are learning, their interests, their communities, and the world. They support the development of a vibrant mathematics classroom in which all students feel that their identities are welcomed and engage actively and joyfully in learning.