Jansen’s “Rough Draft” work builds on these ideas by encouraging a discussion-based mathematics classroom that asks students to share their thinking before their ideas are fully refined or their work ...

Although our experience is primarily in the math classroom, we believe that many of these ideas are applicable to education generally. 1. Consider Class Sets or BYOSD (Bring Your Own Specified Device) ...

Instructional techniques that are culturally responsive support teachers as they build math achievement in diverse classroom settings. Here are four ideas to make K-12 math instruction more ...

When placed in a highly decorated classroom ... you have your maps during math, and so forth.” Fisher also found that even the simplest decorations could be distracting.

According to Vanderbilt education researcher Ilana Horn, a humanizing math classroom is “one where kids can bring their ideas and interact with their ideas about math to be able to make sense of it.” ...

When students process and engage in sharing, they gain problem-solving perspectives and address misconceptions or incompleteness in their ideas more than if they worked independently (Webb et al., ...

It’s part of her broader goal to encourage deep thinking in her classroom. Often ... 4th grade is a transition point for some big ideas in math. It’s around this time that many of her students ...

Helping students see their own potential to learn and grow can promote wellness in general and remove negative feelings around math. Creating a positive classroom environment to mitigate tensions for ...