S6-E05: Cultivating community and fluency

11/15/23 • 33 min

Tune in to Episode 5, where we dive back into our season-long discussion of math fluency with classroom teacher Lauren Carr. Listen as Lauren shares how she allows her students to approach mathematical thinking and learning with joy and fun to encourage the development of math fluency.
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S6-E04: "Making Black Girls Count," with Dr. Nicole Joseph

Join us for a special episode of Math Teacher lounge where we take a break from our focus on math fluency to talk with scholar and author Nicole M. Joseph Ph.D. Tune in to this important conversation where Dr. Joseph shares her research and discusses how we can begin to uplift Black girls and empower them in our math classrooms.
For more from Dr. Joseph, check out the following resources:

Read Dr. Joseph’s new book Making Black Girls Count in Math Education: A Black Feminist Vision for Transformative Teaching.
Check out Dr. Joseph’s Virtual Book Talk with Harvard Graduate School of Education.
For more resources from Dr. Joseph, check out her website.
To hear the latest from Dr. Joseph, follow her on X.

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S6-E06: Nurturing fluency through student strengths

Join us for Episode 6, where we discuss how to take an asset-based approach to building math fluency with John W. Staley, Ph.D., who has spent decades in math classrooms. In this episode Dr. Staley shares his experiences and research to provide strategies on how to utilize student strengths to encourage growth.
For more from Dr. Staley, check out the following resources:

Follow John on X at @JStaley06.
Learn more from John by checking out his NCTM articles.
Read John’s book, High School Mathematics Lessons to Explore, Understand, and Respond to Social Injustice.
Read John’s book, Middle School Mathematics Lessons to Explore, Understand, and Respond to Social Injustice.

Math Teacher Lounge - S6-E05: Cultivating community and fluency

Transcript

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There's an idea of what fluency looks like. There's this little tests , you gotta sit there quiet, write all your answers as quickly as you can. And I'm like, that's not, not all students learn that way.

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Hi, and welcome to another episode of Math Teacher Lounge. I'm Bethany Lockhart Johnson .

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And I'm Dan Meyer.

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