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Mathematics Opinion

Q&A Collections: Math Instruction

By Larry Ferlazzo 鈥 August 04, 2021 5 min read
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During the summer, I am sharing thematic posts bringing together responses on similar topics from the past 10 years. You can see all those collections from the first nine years here.

Here are the ones I鈥檝e published so far:

The 11 Most Popular Classroom Q&A Posts of the Year

Race & Racism in Schools

School Closures & the Coronavirus Crisis

Classroom-Management Advice

Best Ways to Begin the School Year

Best Ways to End the School Year

Student Motivation & Social-Emotional Learning

Implementing the Common Core

Challenging Normative Gender Culture in Education

Teaching Social Studies

Cooperative & Collaborative Learning

Using Tech With Students

Student Voices

Parent Engagement in Schools

Teaching English-Language Learners

Reading Instruction

Writing Instruction

Education Policy Issues

Assessment

Differentiating Instruction

Today鈥檚 theme is on math instruction. You can see the list of posts following this excerpt from one of them:

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*'Beware of Teaching Math Vocabulary Out of Context!鈥

Three 糖心动漫vlog share their favorite math instructional strategies, including 鈥淭urn & Talk to Your Neighbor.鈥

* Four Teacher-Recommended Instructional Strategies for Math

Four teachers share their favorite strategies for math instruction, including the Concrete Representational Abstract approach.

* Don鈥檛 鈥楳ake the Math Classroom a Project-Based-Learning-Free Zone鈥

Three 糖心动漫vlog share advice on incorporating project-based learning in math classes, including asking the question 鈥淲hat鈥檚 nearby?鈥

* Using Project-Based Learning in Math Classes

Two teachers share practical strategies for using project-based learning in math classes, including one called 鈥淣otice & Wonder.鈥

* Twelve Ways to Make Math More Culturally Responsive

Four 糖心动漫vlog share ideas for using culturally responsive teaching in math class, including by helping students make community connections.

Four teachers offer remote teaching tips for math instruction, including recognizing that nothing they do is going to be anywhere near 鈥減erfect.鈥

Four math 糖心动漫vlog offer advice about remote instruction, including providing more specific targets and cultivating home connections.

Two math 糖心动漫vlog discuss how they are communicating student performance during the school closure crisis, as well as how they are taking care of themselves.

Two math 糖心动漫vlog share how they design their remote teaching math lessons and what they typically look like in practice.

Teachers explain how creative math lessons can spring from students鈥 surrounding environments and culture such as the cost of the Thanksgiving meal and the search for 鈥渕ath selfies.鈥

Math 糖心动漫vlog share their favorite lessons, including taking students for a walk around a fenced-in field, investigating student-loan costs, and working alongside a language arts teacher.

A three-part series about the mistakes made in math instruction concludes with answers from Hilary Kreisberg, Richard Robinson, Rachael Gabriel, Tamera Musiowsky, Fuchang Liu, Bonnie Tripp, Bill Wilmot, and Bradley Witzel, Ph.D.

Sunil Singh, Laney Sammons, Abby Shink, Cathy Seeley, and Shannon Jones share their ideas on the mistakes that math teachers make.

This three-part series on mistakes made in math instruction 鈥渒icks off鈥 with responses from Bobson Wong, Elissa Scillieri, Ed.D., Beth Brady, and Beth Kobett, Ed.D.

Kristan Morales, Cathy Seeley, and Madeline Whitaker Good write about how to use tech effectively in math classes.

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Bobson Wong, Elissa Scillieri, Jennifer Chang-Wathall, and Anne Jenks offer their recommendations on using tech in math classes.

Wendy Monroy, Jennifer Chang Wathall, Sunil Singh, and Matthew L. Beyranevand contribute their commentaries about the best instructional practices in secondary math classes.

David Wees, Jill Henry, Tammy L. Jones, Leslie A. Texas, and Anne Collins share their recommendations for best practices in teaching high school math.

Linda Dacey, Sandy Atkins, Andrea Clark, Mike Flynn, ReLeah Cossett Lent, and Shannon Jones share their ideas on how to incorporate writing into math instruction.

IIana Horn answers a few questions about her book.

Cathy L. Seeley, Mary Mueller, Daniel R. Venables, Nancy Villalta, Erik M. Francis, and Rik Rowe discuss the challenges facing math teachers and the best ways to respond to them.

Makeda Brome, Pia Hansen, Linda Gojak, Marian Small, Kenneth Baum, and David Krulwich share their thoughts on the biggest challenges facing math teachers.

Wendy Jennings, Yvelyne Germain-McCarthy, Billy Bender, Derek Cabrera, and Ed Thomas contribute their thoughts on differentiated algebra instruction.

Leslie Texas, Tammy Jones, and Denise Flick share their thoughts on math instruction, as do a number of readers.

Anne Collins, Sue O鈥機onnell, Alexandra Mattis, and Jos茅 Luis Vilson share their thoughts and suggestions about teaching math in Part One of a two-part series.

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Math 糖心动漫vlog Jos茅 Vilson, Shawn Cornally, and Dan Meyer contribute their responses.

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Bob Peterson and Eric Gutstein offer an excerpt from their book, Rethinking Mathematics, and Gary Rubinstein contributes an excerpt from his book, Beyond Survival.

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