I have trouble talking about my teaching. Part of the reason for this is that teaching is so damn complicated. This makes it hard for me to have conversations about how my students learn — especially to teachers that I don’t know. Sometimes I just avoid talking about myself because I fear the incoherent answers … Continue reading “I have trouble talking about my teaching”
I’m going to go ahead and say it. I think there needs to be more disorder in our classrooms. By disorder, I don’t mean kids throwing chairs and running amok. Instead, I’m thinking about those instances when teachers give students largely unstructured time and space to land on their own ways of thinking the content. … Continue reading “The case for disorder in the classroom”
One of my summer reads has been The Brilliance of Black Children in Mathematics by Jacqueline Leonard and Danny B. Martin (inspired by Annie Perkins). I’m almost three-quarters of the way through it. It is rather dense because it’s packed with research, but I’ve been enjoying it. Chapter 6 has stood out. It focused on the … Continue reading “#blackbrillance + social justice + problem-based learning”
With so much problem-based learning happening this year, I’ve been mixing in plenty of algebra by example-esque problems. They work really well because they get kids to analyze math work on their own and then use it to solve a similar problem. I’ve been writing some of these problems from scratch (horribly), but DeltaMath has shown … Continue reading “Example analysis from DeltaMath”
