My Math Education Blog

Reimagining High School Math: Sharing

2013-06-14T11:09:00.001-07:00

I am teaching a workshop in San Francisco, June 20-21, on "reimagining high school math".
Support materials are on the workshop participants' Web site.

Participants: please use the comments below to share ideas, resources, and questions.

--Henri

Visual Algebra: Sharing

2013-06-13T08:28:00.000-07:00

I am teaching a Visual Algebra workshop in San Francisco, June 17-19.
Support materials are on the workshop participants' Web site.

Over the past couple of decades, there has been a trend to teach algebra to younger and younger students. That could actually be a good thing. But unfortunately, that has been interpreted as teaching the traditional Algebra 1 course to younger and younger students. That is not a good thing, as that course was problematic: too abstract, too authoritarian, too boring, and seemingly irrelevant. I have written much on this topic -- you can get links to my various articles here.

The purpose of the workshop is to offer some visual approaches to algebra, that make the course more accessible, deeper, and more interesting.

Participants: please use the comments below to share ideas, resources, and questions.

--Henri

Transformational Geometry, cont'd.

2013-06-09T13:53:00.000-07:00

As I mentioned in a recent post, I will be one of the presenters at the Bay Area Math Project's summer workshop on Transformational Geometry. As part of preparing for this, I went through my notes, and compiled a sort of syllabus of the relevant lessons from my Space course. Symmetry and transformations are the backbone of the course, and will grow in importance in the mainstream of high school math education if the Common Core State Standards take hold. If you will be trying to implement the CCSS, you may find my syllabus to be a useful reference. It is posted here, on the site I am building for my 2013 summer workshops.

--Henri