Math
While NCTM’s Eight Effective Mathematics Teaching Practices can seem overwhelming and like just another thing to add to an already overwhelming list of work to do, slight adjustments to your mathematical tasks, questioning, or dialogue that might bring some or all of these effective mathematics teaching practices to life. Here you will find some ideas to shift secondary mathematics teaching.
Teaching the way I was taught wasn’t inspiring to my students. However, transitioning to a conceptual approach was a critical element in building strong foundational understanding and capacity for all students to succeed in math. Learners need opportunities to DO math, and in DOING, there is LEARNING.
