Addressing student behavior to meet everyone’s needs
Schools too often default to removing students with behavior problems from the classroom. Alternative approaches are needed.
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Tag: December 2024
Do Holocaust education mandates work?
States hope to achieve ambitious goals like preventing future genocides and reducing antisemitism by requiring that students learn about the Holocaust.
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Beyond the math wars: Focus on teachers to improve instruction
To achieve in math, students need teachers equipped with the knowledge, skills, and mindsets to do and teach math well.
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The myth(s) of a ‘balanced’ approach
Is a balance of different types of mathematics instruction actually possible? And does the debate ignore more important questions about the purposes of school mathematics?
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Math narratives and autobiographies
Future elementary school teachers need help to form positive math identities.
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Everyone is a math person
Creating a classroom that celebrates mathematics for all is a journey worth taking.
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Building thinking classrooms in mathematics
A conversation with Peter Liljedahl
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Math, mindset, and identity
Kappan Editor-in-Chief Teresa Preston reflects on the December 2024/January 2025 issue, “The Math Education Students Need.”
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Browsing: The math education students need
Further thoughts on Kappan’s December 2024/January 2025 theme of “The Math Education Students Need.”
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Book recommendation: Troublemakers
Kappan author Paula Jakopovic recommends Troublemakers: Lessons in Freedom from Young Children at School by Carla Shalaby.
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Book Recommendation: Threshold Concepts
Kappan author William Smith recommends the book Threshold Concepts within the Disciplines
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