Alive

Post #1 in what’ll be a small series on my August summer professional development reading. I picked up a copy of Ilana Horn‘s book Motivated: Designing Math Classrooms Where Students Want to Join In last summer, and made zero progress reading it until now. As I read the introduction properly this week, I joked to…

Week 4: Setting the groundwork, catching up on theory

Hi intrepid readers, so here’s me homeworking again. First, the classroom action: My first week of semester 2 classes has been pretty great. Both math classes have had a full 5 days of beginner-Thinking-Classroom stuff: verbally delivered problems that have interesting patterns / solutions, room for extensions, and working in visibly random groups on whiteboards…