The Math Inquirer

An important message for math teachers to hear as we start the year… when we support self-directed learning through inquiry we achieve rigor in math that is equitable and fulfilling for learners.

Starting the year by listening to my students and supporting their metacognitive skills.

This is the most excited I’ve been for a new school year in a long time! So many fresh ideas to empower learners T-minus 2 days!

Calm before the storm. T-minus one week! Can’t wait for another school year! And can’t wait to share more inquiry math learning! This year I’ll be doing a deep dive on metacognition in math learning 🧠 🤔

How do we model our own curiosities in the math classroom? How can we model, as teachers, curiosity and inquiry as it relates to math? Doing a DEEP DIVE at the moment. Blog loading… 😀

Next on the summer reading list 😀. Love Keith Devlin and am really looking forward to this one!

First book of the summer!! .boaler

First book of the summer!

Awesome way to finish the year! Algebra + safari = authenticity

What happens when we put math confidence first. Student perceptions of math changes- and a new appreciation for learning is born. ♥️

Algebra project to finish the year. Creating their own safari companies 🏕️ 🐆 🐘

Looking forward to bringing Spider Web discussions to my math classroom. This was a great read!

Introducing linear sequences today. This was a great thinking routine to help students connect to, and visualize, the concept!

Tried something today… how are numbers and operations connected. Doing this as a continuation of our inquiry into order of operations. Same problem- many different shapes, thinking, and approaches.

Skip the acronyms when introducing order of operations! This think-pair-share routine was all about allowing students to make conceptual, contextually-driven connections to ‘why’ order of operations is important!

A powerful message for math teachers, and what inspires me to bring confidence and equity to math classrooms. It’s time to break the cycle of math teaching and learning being a performance-based, comparative discipline.

Chapter two loading… how we can remove coercion in math classrooms and re-establish intrinsically motivated learning. ❤️ 💻 📖

🤔 what is this a graph of? This was a great thinking exercise this morning. Mathematical thinking> mathematics!

PYPx finished. Back to learning.

❤️ when one of your PYP exhibition groups use coordinates to show the effects of war, highlighting the impact of war on communities and refugees.

Authenticity matters. This student-constructed inquiry shows just how important connections to learning are. Data handling is important to our lives and can have an impact on how we live our lives. This student brought his phone in to better connect to our inquiry- perhaps resulting in some meaningful action in the process.

I love the options explosion thinking routine to help students find the creativity in upcoming units. No idea too creative, no idea too silly. This routine helped us write an inquiry into how data and graphs lead to lifestyle changes. Can’t wait for this one! 😃

Connection before content! Collaborative learning relies on empathy and connection before content. I love helping students connect in fun yet meaningful ways before we dive into collaborative math inquiries. .littlefield thanks for the inspiration and the work you do.

Back from spring break and can’t wait to dive into this book. Keith Devlin brings such an important voice to mathematics, particularly the unique potential we all inherently have as learners.

➡️ swipe! My students are busy making unit of measurement trading cards. This is a rich math activity that links both concepts and skills. We’re using the key concept of connection to guide our inquiry.

When you let your students write their own inquiry into converting units of measurement 😂

Fun thinking routine this morning. Look at how the thinking went from surface level to deeper understanding 👀

Why does math education make this transition in our schools? How and why do we go from intrinsic motivation to coercion. Why do classrooms teach the creativity out of math through comparative, performance-driven and skills heavy teaching and learning?

Here’s the answer… What’s the question? Engaging way to have students think critically and creatively about previously learned skills and topics.

Coordinates and maps tell stories. Integrating story telling and creative writing with coordinates and mapping. 🤙