Ear to the Ground features voices from several corners of the mathematics education world.
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Emiliano Gómez, Risa A. Wolfson, and Introduction by: Trena L. Wilkerson
When implementing this task, you see multiple effective teaching practices at play (
Min Wang, Candace Walkington, and Koshi Dhingra
An example of an after-school club activity gives educators some tools and suggestions to implement such an approach in their schools.
Kathryn Lavin Brave, Mary McMullen, and Cecile Martin
The application of exact terminology benefits students when forming and supporting mathematical arguments virtually.
Amanda K. Riske, Catherine E. Cullicott, Amanda Mohammad Mirzaei, Amanda Jansen, and James Middleton
We introduce the Into Math Graph tool, which students use to graph how “into" mathematics they are over time. Using this tool can help teachers foster conversations with students and design experiences that focus on engagement from the student’s perspective.
Excerpts from discussion threads on the online MyNCTM community.
Amanda Jansen
Ear to the Ground features voices from various corners of the mathematics education world.
Rick Anderson
A few years later, I had the opportunity to be his colleague during the early years of my own teaching career. By then graphing calculators were ubiquitous in
Dane Camp, John Carter,, and David Masunaga
Song parodies are a fun way to engage others with mathematical topics. The challenge, of course, is finding a song and lyrics that fit just right. While teaching together in Honolulu, we stumbled across a popular song that turned out to be a math parody in disguise! You will notice that we have not changed the words, just how the words were displayed. You might want to try singing this yourself or sing along with the YouTube version: https://youtu.be/d1mqNdZ0obA. What do you notice? What do you wonder?
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