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Dear Colleagues, Friends, & Supporters,
In this month's blog, Brian Jennings from Westfield State University talks about how he uses inquiry in his classes for future elementary school teachers. He also provides links to some of his wonderful explorations.
In his August 2017 blog "To Active Learning and Beyond: Attending to Student Thinking AND Student Experience in Active-Learning Math Classes" over at the AMS, Jess Ellis Hagman from Colorado State University reports on teaching approaches that support students from marginalized populations in active learning mathematics classrooms.
Dear Colleagues, Friends, & Supporters,
In this month's blogs, Volker and Chrissi describe how they taught for the first time Algebraic Geometry using student readings and presentations. In this context we also contemplate how to adjust our rubrics so that mistakes are being valued more.
Dear Colleagues, Friends, & Supporters,
Many (most?) people believe that they are just not "math people," that they can never learn mathematics and that making mistakes is a really bad thing. Large segments of our society have internalized this view. They do currently not have agency or access to mathematics and its (implied) advantages. Given the role of mathematics as the gatekeeper for much of science, technology and engineering, this exacerbates inequality in our country.