by Pearl Ohm | May 29, 2019 | 11/12th Grade, Mathematics, Personal Authenticity, Solutions
Our students (and staff!) have so many feelings about the MTA, mostly disappointment and frustration. At the start of this semester, I wondered how I could create the final project for my Calculus to allow for them to: Share their personal lived experiences Personally...
by Pearl Ohm | Mar 15, 2019 | 11/12th Grade, Mathematics, Personal Authenticity
Last semester, I wanted my PreCalculus students to have the opportunity do what mathematicians do. I wanted to embed opportunities for my students to do authentically engage in the core practices of the discipline of mathematics, specifically for them to ask and...
by Pearl Ohm | Jan 8, 2019 | 11/12th Grade, Authenticity to the Discipline, Mathematics, Solutions
In my PreCalculus class this semester, I was excited to create opportunities for my kids to be mathematicians and pose their own questions, making their own conjectures and discoveries, and also be creatively frustrated. I speak about my problem of practice in...
by Pearl Ohm | Oct 31, 2018 | 11/12th Grade, Authenticity to the Discipline, Mathematics
Paul Lockhart’s article “A Mathematician’s Lament” speaks of a society where music is treated the way mathematics is currently treated within our school system. He pleads his case for math to be treated as an art form within society, but...
