Twin Skin of Raza Learners: Race, Language, and Mathematics

Through a composite counter-story from the perspective of fifth-grade Raza learners, the authors show how race and language play a role in the mathematics classroom.

Creatively Cultivating a Culturally-Responsive Mathematics Classroom

This chapter explores ways to cultivate a culturally responsive math classroom for in-person and remote learning. In doing so, readers will analyze examples and non-examples of culturally responsive teaching at work. The author will examine a conducive math classroom whose environment and climate is rooted in establishing a healthy and safe math community. She will also dissect texts and curriculum that reflect a culturally responsive math classroom or the lack thereof. In addition, this chapter will identify creative strategies that promote cultural and responsive principles for in-person and remote learning. With these five domains, environment, climate, text, curriculum, and strategies, educational leaders will become equipped to cultivate a culturally responsive math community in their classroom suited for diverse learners.

What Preservice Teachers Can Learn From a Content Area Expert

In this chapter, the author presents the negotiation between students and teachers to combat disengagement in a virtual classroom. To address this concern, the chapter presents a model that increases authentic engagement in a mathematics classroom for a group of sophomores, juniors, and seniors using an academic dialogue strategy that prepares students to think critically about what they are learning in the classroom and how these abstract learnings connect to real-world experiences. The dialogues that occur between the author and the students provide an approach that is widely used in literacy settings but may not always happen in content area instruction.

How Gaming and Formative Assessment Contribute to Learning Supplementary and Complementary Angles

This chapter presents an empirical research where the authors developed tasks based on a digital game supported by assessment strategies. The study is interpretative in nature, in a case study design. The authors designed tasks with technology and assessment strategies in a collaborative work context implemented in a mathematics classroom with 5th grade students (students 10 years old). The results evidence that the use of a digital game and formative assessment have contributed to the learning of complementary and supplementary angle pairs, giving meaning to their utilization as an effective strategy.

Teachers’ Perception and Challenges of Using ICT in Teaching Mathematics at Secondary Level

The main objectives of this study were to identify the teachers’ perceptions and challenges of using ICT tools in the mathematics classroom at the secondary level in Kathmandu. The major tool of the study was a closed-ended questionnaire consisting of 19 items. The quantitative descriptive survey design was used in this study. The researcher selected 158 teachers by using simple random method from 261 government teachers who teach compulsory mathematics at grade X of Kathmandu district in Nepal. The standardized questionnaire was administered to the sample teachers. The SPSS-25 version database was used to analyze and interpret the collected data. Teachers’ perception of using ICTs in the mathematics classroom was positive with insignificant difference in terms of gender. There were some challenges: lack of knowledge, confidence, enough experience, training, interest and access to ICT tools, lack of technical support, lack of genuine ICT Software and unstable and unreliable internet connection at the schools. Due to these challenges, teachers did not use ICT in the classroom. Therefore, teachers should learn more to improve their knowledge and skills in ICT. The government should focus on management strategies and policies to reduce the challenges faced by teachers in mathematics classrooms. By these policies, they can use the ICT tools in the classroom.

Transforming Elementary Mathematics Classroom Practice: Ideas and Innovation from a Leader’s Perspective

The purpose of this chapter is to highlight common challenges that school leaders encounter when seeking to implement change in the teaching and learning of mathematics at their schools. Specifically, the chapter will offer innovative ways that international elementary principals successfully have influenced systemic change in K-5 mathematics classroom practice. The challenges highlighted are not unique to international educators, but the context from which we speak is situated in the international educational environment. We offer practical, but theoretically based guidance for school leaders looking to implement, support, and sustain authentic change in the culture and practice surrounding the math development of students. The first half of the chapter will provide context and a situational perspective relative to the complex relationship between principals, as instructional leaders, and their ability to influence classroom change. Key events that have made conversations about the teaching and learning of mathematics prominent in schools around the world also are highlighted. The second half of the chapter details actionable ideas grounded in research that elementary principals or curriculum leaders can implement to help shift classroom teaching and learning at the elementary level. Ultimately, these shifts are designed to enable higher levels of mathematics achievement for all K-5 students.

Exploration and Research on Integrating Programming Education into Junior Middle School Mathematics Classroom

We are in the era of big data, and it is particularly important to cultivate students’ data processing ability. Python is an important auxiliary tool for data analysis, and its syntax is concise and clear, which is suitable for junior high school students to start learning code language. Making full use of modern information technology and Innovating Curriculum form is the new requirement of “China education modernization 2035”. Integrating Python into junior high school mathematics classroom is not only the innovation of mathematics curriculum form, but also a good way to cultivate students’ thinking ability and programming thought. Based on the understanding of Python software and data processing plate in junior high school mathematics curriculum, this paper analyzes the promotion of students’ thinking ability by integrating Python into junior high school mathematics classroom, and explores the strategies of applying Python in teaching combined with cases.

School Mathematics and miyō-pimōhtēwin

We want mathematics to be a process of miyō-pimōhtēwin (walking in a good way). Using a narrative inquiry methodology, we share our experiences working alongside two Cree elementary school teachers and the students in their mathematics classroom. The teachers taught principles that balance kohtawān (our spiritual being) and make curriculum into a relational space. The principles invite school mathematics to be learned and taught in a way that foregrounds self-awareness, doing things properly, learning new ways, being thankful, being humble, leaving problems behind you, helping yourself and keeping trying. This paper also demonstrates a promising practice of Indigenization in the mathematics classroom by providing a contextual way in which Cree students and teachers engaged in school mathematics in relational ways.