the number lab
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Challenging traditional assumptions of math learning through a framework that enhances learning skills and understanding in a knowledge-building community.
Ending the cycle of impoverished math learning requires that teachers develop a different relationship and understanding of math. This can be achieve by PD that allows them to engage as active members of a content-focused, learning skills enhancing, knowledge-building community.
Everyone can be a math person but first we have to make math instruction more inclusive. hechingerreport.org/opinion-everyo… The way math has traditionally been taught in classrooms, as a fixed discipline, right & wrong answers, has kept too many students from realizing these benefits.
"But dismantling habits and beliefs you may have spent your whole life honing is an acquired taste, and not for the faint of heart. " -Gregg Levoy
Wednesday wisdom:
#SustainableTeaching is not about doing less, it's about doing what matters most. Let's focus on high-impact practices that make a real difference for students and create a more fulfilling and sustainable profession. #MakeTeachingSustainable
The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn ... and change. #education #teachers #leadership
Yes. This is learning.
I THINK I QUESTION I DESIGN I CREATE I STRUGGLE I COLLABORATE I TRY I SOLVE I INVENT I REFLECT I LEARN #education #teachers #leadership #autism #sped #edtech
Teaching for the purpose of connecting ideas is what makes math learning meaningful.
But, by doing small things to make your units more purposeful, students will start to see the connections between what they are learning. And, they'll realise that maths is something they can make sense of for themselves.
"We invest in students by investing in teachers." @DrBradJohnson So, let's give students every opportunity to experience rich, authentic math learning by providing PD opportunities for their teachers to experience rich, authentic math learning.
In their early math learning experiences, many children relish constructing mathematically sound ways to reason with number. This work, which illustrates the ability to engage as mathematicians, ends when teaching "standard" algorithms become the primary focus of math learning.
Many learners abandon their intuitive math sense in order to adopt the procedures being emphasized. Numeracy, at its heart, is using mathematical relationships to reason with numbers. We can help: mathisfigureoutable.com/mini1 #MathIsFigureOutAble #MTBoS #ITeachMath #MathEd
When mathematics learning is focused on ideas - and more importantly the connection of mathematical ideas, it is interesting of itself. Mathematics does not have to be "gamified" or involve "real world" problem-solving to be interesting or relevant.
Friendly reminder- on its own, maths can actually be interesting (not just a mechanical process for reaching some other goal)
The pedagogy of mathematics learning should be dynamic and robust because mathematics itself is dynamic and robust.
Math is about puzzling, problems and play. Math is also about procedures and precision. It's about inquiry and explicit instruction. It's time to embrace the full range of learning.
And "nothing matters more to understanding maths than making connections." - Michaela Epstein
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Hear The Number Lab's, Kevin Moore, discuss math with the host of Math Musings, Lauren Siegel @MathHappensOrg. Monday, October 28th, at 6:00 pm CT on Austin's @KOOPradio (koop.org/listen-live/)
Yes, let's focus on learning instead of completing a series of routine "teacher tasks".
And that is exactly what I want to try to break free from -- this 'work' mindset, this list of things to do which may or may not result in learning.
Beautiful: "Yes, we can use math as a powerful tool. But we can also use math as a balm, a meditative diversion, and a window into the soul of the universe."
The utility angle for learning mathematics is what we would call in 2024 "disinformation".
"But growth and aliveness also require a commitment to unlearning...occasionally letting go of behaviors, assumptions, mindsets, worldviews, and ways of thinking and acting that...start bringing you diminishing returns..." psychologytoday.com/us/blog/passio…
