Designing for Voice and Agency

Specific teacher moves and lesson planning can facilitate student empowerment in the middle school classroom.

A Leg Up on the Metric System

Students use a super-hero theme to compare the imperial system to the metric system.

Soccer for Real

My name is Naima Goffney, and I am an eleven-year-old seventh grader at Julius West Middle School. I am taking algebra 1 this year. I wanted to write the Math for Real because in math class I do not always think that what we are learning is related to the real world. At home, my mom shows me all the different ways I am mathematically smart, which makes me want to try harder in school during the “rougher” days. We can use math to know more about how to improve our skills and find the math we learn in school more interesting and more related to our real world as middle schoolers.

Publications

Reviews of current mathematics books and products from NCTM and other publishers.

Transforming Middle School Geometry Instruction

Students move from slides, flips, and turns into reasoning about the characteristics of rigid transformations.

Supporting Group Work with Mathematically Meaningful Roles

Three seventh graders, working as a small group in their math class, had a conversation about adding and subtracting integers. The students discussed the challenges they faced in the assigned task.

Investigating a Super-Bear

Three inquiry-based tasks highlight the planning, classroom discourse, positive results, and growth in one class's journey.

Capturing Mathematical Curiosity with Notice and Wonder

Capturing students' own observations before solving a problem propelled a culture of sense making by meeting needs typical of middle school learners.

Decomposing Rectangles

Students are given a problem to break down rectangles.

Thanks from the Editorial Panel

Listing of Department Editors and Referees/Reviewers