Justification in mathematics classrooms builds student reasoning and voice, advancing equity. This Algebra II team enhanced justification through collaboration, tasks, unit design, and practice.
From the Archives highlights articles from NCTM’s legacy journals, previously discussed during MTLT Teacher Talk.
The first few days in a mathematics classroom can serve as the start to a year of mathematical discovery and meaningful investigations if used to set such expectations.
Pre-post assessment tasks center students, replacing score-focused evaluation with reflection, growth documentation, and student agency.
Using puzzles in a middle school mathematics classroom provides an opportunity for teachers to center students’ reasoning and sense making during their learning experience.
Teachers can plot their status, using a Desmos activity, to support reflection on their classroom practice. Practical strategies are shared to help educators intentionally shift status and support student engagement.
Growing Problem Solvers provides four original, related, classroom-ready mathematical tasks, one for each grade band. Together, these tasks illustrate the trajectory of learners’ growth as problem solvers across their years of school mathematics.
Ear to the Ground features voices from several corners of the mathematics education world.
Growing Problem Solvers provides four original, related, classroom-ready mathematical tasks, one for each grade band. Together, these tasks illustrate the trajectory of learners’ growth as problem solvers across their years of school mathematics.
Instruction that connects mathematics to cultural and community contexts can encourage identity development, increase engagement, and improve access and empowerment for students.
Growing Problem Solvers provides four original, related, classroom-ready mathematical tasks, one for each grade band. Together, these tasks illustrate the trajectory of learners’ growth as problem solvers across their years of school mathematics.
A high school student and teacher collaborate to investigate Ulam’s Spiral, discovering visual patterns in primes and quadratic relationships.
Ear to the Ground features voices from several corners of the mathematics education world.
Ear to the Ground features voices from several corners of the mathematics education world.
A familiar tool for learning, but less so for equity, formative assessment was used to promote learning and build productive mathematics identities.
