What we’ve learned this year

12/17/24 • 35 min

In this episode of Room to Grow, Joanie and Curtis reflect on their personal and professional experiences of 2024 and what they learned. Reflect – conferences, books, podcast guests. Thinking differently about teaching and learning math. Hope you’ll take the time to reflect and capture your own learning.

Curtis and Joanie reference these episodes of Room to Grow which aired in 2024:

· Teaching and Learning Math: Students’ Perspectives Part 1 (aired August 28, 2024) and Part 2 (aired September 17, 2024)

· Routines for Supporting Student Thinking with Grace Kelemanik and Amy Lucenta (aired October 16, 2023)

· Unleashing the Mathematical Brilliance of All Students with Rachel Lambert (aired April 10, 2023)

· Balancing Instructional Modalities (aired March 12, 2024)

· Asset-Based Teaching to Transform Math Class with Mike Steele and Joleigh Honey (aired October 15, 2024)

· A Conversation with the National Teacher of the Year with Rebecka Peterson (aired February 13, 2024)

· High School Mathematics Reimagined Revitalized and Relevant with Latrenda Knighten and Kevin Dykema (aired November 12, 2024)

Additional referenced content includes:

· The book Transform Your Math Class Using Asset-Based Teaching for Grades 6-12

· The work of Liping Ma, including her book Knowing and Teaching Elementary Mathematics

· Rachel Lambert’s research and resources at mathematizing4all.com

· Kevin Dykema’s President’s Message on Balancing Instructional Strategies in the Math Classroom

· NCTM’s Reimagining High School Mathematics resources on the NCTM webpage

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Curtis and Joanie reference these episodes of Room to Grow which aired in 2024:

· Teaching and Learning Math: Students’ Perspectives Part 1 (aired August 28, 2024) and Part 2 (aired September 17, 2024)

· Routines for Supporting Student Thinking with Grace Kelemanik and Amy Lucenta (aired October 16, 2023)

· Unleashing the Mathematical Brilliance of All Students with Rachel Lambert (aired April 10, 2023)

· Balancing Instructional Modalities (aired March 12, 2024)

· Asset-Based Teaching to Transform Math Class with Mike Steele and Joleigh Honey (aired October 15, 2024)

· A Conversation with the National Teacher of the Year with Rebecka Peterson (aired February 13, 2024)

· High School Mathematics Reimagined Revitalized and Relevant with Latrenda Knighten and Kevin Dykema (aired November 12, 2024)

Additional referenced content includes:

· The book Transform Your Math Class Using Asset-Based Teaching for Grades 6-12

· The work of Liping Ma, including her book Knowing and Teaching Elementary Mathematics

· Rachel Lambert’s research and resources at mathematizing4all.com

· Kevin Dykema’s President’s Message on Balancing Instructional Strategies in the Math Classroom

· NCTM’s Reimagining High School Mathematics resources on the NCTM webpage

Did you enjoy this episode of Room to Grow? Please leave a review and share the episode with others. Share your feedback, comments, and suggestions for future episode topics by emailing roomt

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High School Mathematics Reimagined Revitalized and Relevant

In this episode of Room to Grow, Joanie and Curtis speak with leaders of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM) about their recent publication, High School Mathematics Reimagined, Revitalized and Relevant. Latrenda Knighten, NCTM President and Kevin Dykema, NCTM Past-President share a great overview of how rethinking how and what we teach in high school math can be improved so that more students leave high school prepared. This preparation involves not only knowing more mathematics, but believing in their capability as math learners and in their preparation for whatever path they have chosen for themselves after graduating.

The new “three Rs” of high school math build on NCTM’s previous high school publication, Catalyzing Change in High School Mathematics: Initiating Critical Conversations from 2018, and give practical examples and suggestions to engage students in mathematical and statistical modeling, make connections across major concepts, and using mathematical and statistical processes as a frame for student thinking.

We encourage you to explore the resources below, referenced in this episode:

o You can find NCTM’s webpage dedicated to supporting the book HERE

o NCTM’s webinar about the book was recorded and is available to all HERE

o More information about the Launch Years Pathways work out of the Charles A. Dana Center at the University of Texas at Austin can be found HERE

o Guidelines for Assessment and Instruction in Statistics Education (GAISE) reports can be found HERE

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Facilitating Meaningful Mathematics Discourse

In this episode of Room to Grow, Joanie and Curtis begin a season 5 series on the Mathematics Teaching Practices from NCTM’s Principles to Actions, celebrating it’s 10th anniversary. This month’s practice is “Facilitating Meaningful Mathematics Discourse.” Our hosts first identify what they mean by discourse and why it is important: that students are able to communicate their mathematical thinking in ways that others can clearly understand for the purpose of furthering their own mathematics learning.

Next, Curtis and Joanie unpack how to get students talking in math class, a necessary condition for meaningful math discourse. Classroom culture is a key element to ensure that students feel safe and comfortable enough to share their mathematical thinking. Implied in this is that the teacher must hold themselves to precision of language as well, and should understand when to require precision from students and when to be more flexible with informal language.

Finally, their conversation suggests that effective math discourse is not improvisational, but rather something teachers can and should plan for, and use as a strategy for an equitable classroom.

Additional referenced content includes:

· NCTM’s Principles to Actions

· NCTM’s Taking Action series for grades K-5, grades 6-8, and grades 9-12

· Strategies for facilitating math discourse in the classroom

· Latrenda Knighten, NCTM President’s message on Let’s Give Students the Gift of Time