This is an exciting time of great experimentation by many people to seek out a variety of good active learning teaching techniques for mathematics. What I can contribute is an evolutionary process of my own questioning, experience, reaction, and adaptation
The Importance of Teachers Talking to Each Other
Our account suggests that district policymakers can influence teachers’ access to their expert peers, but relying solely on making student test data widely available to teachers is likely to be insufficient, due in part to the skepticism among school staff
The Map is not the Territory
“There’s nothing more real to you than your subjective experience of reality and there’s nothing more opaque to science”.1 – Michael Pollan If this is true, and I think it would be silly to argue otherwise, then any person should
What I think about when I think about thinking
What does it mean to think and develop thoughts in a particular subject or field of interest? What does it mean to say that a student knows something as opposed to them having simply repeated the answer verbatim? What does
The Conflict in Teachers Between What Feels Right & What Probably Is Right
After my last post I had a discussion with a friend and he said the following: I once raised the point with a teacher [that Learning Styles Theories lacked any corroborating evidence] and the response was that theory didn’t need