Teaching Mathematics with Classroom Voting

Teaching Mathematics with Classroom Voting
Author: Kelly Slater Cline
Publisher: MAA
Total Pages: 185
Release: 2011
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 1614443017

Are you looking for new ways to engage your students? Classroom voting can be a powerful way to enliven your classroom, by requiring all students to consider a question, discuss it with their peers, and vote on the answer during class. When used in the right way, students engage more deeply with the material, and have fun in the process, while you get valuable feedback when you see how they voted. But what are the best strategies to integrate voting into your lesson plans? How do you teach the full curriculum while including these voting events? How do you find the right questions for your students? This collection includes papers from faculty at institutions across the country, teaching a broad range of courses with classroom voting, including college algebra, precalculus, calculus, statistics, linear algebra, differential equations, and beyond. These faculty share their experiences and explain how they have used classroom voting to engage students, to provoke discussions, and to improve how they teach mathematics. This volume should be of interest to anyone who wants to begin using classroom voting as well as people who are already using it but would like to know what others are doing. While the authors are primarily college-level faculty, many of the papers could also be of interest to high school mathematics teachers. --Publisher description.

Mathematical Time Capsules

Mathematical Time Capsules
Author: Dick Jardine
Publisher: MAA
Total Pages: 305
Release: 2011
Genre: Computer science
ISBN: 088385984X

Mathematical Time Capsules offers teachers historical modules for immediate use in the mathematics classroom. Readers will find articles and activities from mathematics history that enhance the learning of topics covered in the undergraduate or secondary mathematics curricula. Each capsule presents at least one topic or a historical thread that can be used throughout a course. The capsules were written by experienced practitioners to provide teachers with historical background and classroom activities designed for immediate use in the classroom, along with further references and resources on the chapter subject. --Publisher description.

Teaching Mathematics for Social Justice

Teaching Mathematics for Social Justice
Author: Anita A. Wager
Publisher: National Council of Teachers of English
Total Pages: 213
Release: 2012
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 9780873536790

"This collection of original articles is the start of a compelling conversation among some of the leading figures in critical and social justice mathematics, a number of teachers and educators who have been inspired by them-and who have inspiring stories of their own to tell - and any reader interested in the intersection of education and social justice. An important read for every educator, this book shows how to teach mathematics so that all students are given the tools they need to confront issues of social justice today and in the years ahead"--page [4] of cover.

Key Ideas in Teaching Mathematics

Key Ideas in Teaching Mathematics
Author: Anne Watson
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 270
Release: 2013-02-21
Genre: Education
ISBN: 0199665516

International research is used to inform teachers and others about how students learn key ideas in higher school mathematics, what the common problems are, and the strengths and pitfalls of different teaching approaches. An associated website, hosted by the Nuffield Foundation, gives summaries of main ideas and access to sample classroom tasks.

The Civically Engaged Classroom

The Civically Engaged Classroom
Author: Mary Ehrenworth
Publisher: Heinemann Educational Books
Total Pages:
Release: 2020
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9780325120430

"This book's focus is on taking action in the world and making students better-prepared citizens"--

1868 St. Bernard Parish Massacre, The: Blood in the Cane Fields

1868 St. Bernard Parish Massacre, The: Blood in the Cane Fields
Author: C. Dier
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Total Pages: 144
Release: 2017
Genre: History
ISBN: 1625858558

Days before the tumultuous presidential election of 1868, St. Bernard Parish descended into chaos. As African American men gained the right to vote, white Democrats of the parish feared losing their majority. Armed groups mobilized to suppress these recently emancipated voters in the hopes of regaining a way of life turned upside down by the Civil War and Reconstruction. Freedpeople were dragged from their homes and murdered in cold blood. Many fled to the cane fields to hide from their attackers. The reported number of those killed varies from 35 to 135. The tragedy was hidden, but implications reverberated throughout the South and lingered for generations. Author and historian Chris Dier reveals the horrifying true story behind the St. Bernard Parish Massacre.

Mathematics for Social Justice: Resources for the College Classroom

Mathematics for Social Justice: Resources for the College Classroom
Author: Gizem Karaali
Publisher: American Mathematical Soc.
Total Pages: 288
Release: 2019-07-09
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1470449269

Mathematics for Social Justice offers a collection of resources for mathematics faculty interested in incorporating questions of social justice into their classrooms. The book begins with a series of essays from instructors experienced in integrating social justice themes into their pedagogy; these essays contain political and pedagogical motivations as well as nuts-and-bolts teaching advice. The heart of the book is a collection of fourteen classroom-tested modules featuring ready-to-use activities and investigations for the college mathematics classroom. The mathematical tools and techniques used are relevant to a wide variety of courses including college algebra, math for the liberal arts, calculus, differential equations, discrete mathematics, geometry, financial mathematics, and combinatorics. The social justice themes include human trafficking, income inequality, environmental justice, gerrymandering, voting methods, and access to education. The volume editors are leaders of the national movement to include social justice material into mathematics teaching. Gizem Karaali is Associate Professor of Mathematics at Pomona College. She is one of the founding editors of The Journal of Humanistic Mathematics, and an associate editor for The Mathematical Intelligencer and Numeracy ; she also serves on the editorial board of the MAA's Carus Mathematical Monographs. Lily Khadjavi is Associate Professor of Mathematics at Loyola Marymount University and is a past co-chair of the Infinite Possibilities Conference. She has served on the boards of Building Diversity in Science, the Barbara Jordan-Bayard Rustin Coalition, and the Harvard Gender and Sexuality Caucus.

How I Wish I'd Taught Maths

How I Wish I'd Taught Maths
Author: Craig Barton
Publisher:
Total Pages: 451
Release: 2018
Genre: Effective teaching
ISBN: 9781943920587

Brought to an American audience for the first time, How I Wish I'd Taught Maths is the story of an experienced and successful math teacher's journey into the world of research, and how it has entirely transformed his classroom.

Teaching Numeracy

Teaching Numeracy
Author: Margie Pearse
Publisher: Corwin Press
Total Pages: 241
Release: 2011-03-23
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1452224404

Transform mathematics learning from “doing” to “thinking” American students are losing ground in the global mathematical environment. What many of them lack is numeracy—the ability to think through the math and apply it outside of the classroom. Referencing the new common core and NCTM standards, the authors outline nine critical thinking habits that foster numeracy and show you how to: Monitor and repair students’ understanding Guide students to recognize patterns Encourage questioning for understanding Develop students’ mathematics vocabulary Included are several numeracy-rich lesson plans, complete with clear directions and student handouts.

Make Just One Change

Make Just One Change
Author: Dan Rothstein
Publisher: Harvard Education Press
Total Pages: 269
Release: 2011-09-01
Genre: Education
ISBN: 161250454X

The authors of Make Just One Change argue that formulating one’s own questions is “the single most essential skill for learning”—and one that should be taught to all students. They also argue that it should be taught in the simplest way possible. Drawing on twenty years of experience, the authors present the Question Formulation Technique, a concise and powerful protocol that enables learners to produce their own questions, improve their questions, and strategize how to use them. Make Just One Change features the voices and experiences of teachers in classrooms across the country to illustrate the use of the Question Formulation Technique across grade levels and subject areas and with different kinds of learners.