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Math Moments with Maggie WATCH YOUR LANGUAGE. What You Say Makes All The Difference
Maggie Martin Connell | 03/31/2010
There is a certain hurley-burley in education these days as the urgency to correct the math problem heightens. The search for a remedy is acute as research points to the need to make meaning — curricula are reshaped and programs are rewritten — all important changes. But equally important are those smaller shifts we can all make in daily practice. One of those shifts is in the way we make (or break) meaning, by the words we choose to talk about the math we see. You see, here’s the thing, in our quest to make it easier for our students, we sometimes use bad language. We give them ‘non-sense’ rules and terms to memorize, we expect them to simp... Read More...
Relevant Tags: ,number, math, language, rectangle, watch language, maggie martin, add zero, math moments, moments with, martin connell
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Math Moments with Maggie Full Contact Math
MAGGIE MARTIN CONNELL | 11/20/2009
It’s 8:30 a.m. and the buzz and chatter in the room subside. “Good morning,”says the announcer to the 60-plus teachers sitting at tables throughout the room, each hopeful that the day will be worthwhile, bringing new light to his/her math teaching. Introductions are delivered and the guest speaker steps up to the micro-phone.There is a brief pause. “Has anyone here ever eaten a mango?” she asks. The audience hesitates briefly before several hands go up. Maria’s hand is not raised.The speaker addresses the rest of the group. “I would like the rest of you to explain mangoes to Maria so that she understands. Can you do that?” Read More...
Relevant Tags: math, education, speaker, personal contact, math moments, direct personal, many rows
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Math Moments With Maggie 3 is Not Three - The Art of Digit Dancing
Maggie Martin Connell | 08/26/2009
Where would you be without 3? China maybe! All cultures have specific marks and words we use to communicate a distinct idea related to quantity — ‘three-ness’. The special word and mark we assign to that idea distinguishes it from other ideas, like ‘two-ness,’or ‘four-ness’ or any other ‘ness’. But the mark is not the idea itself any more than a map of a territory is the territory itself. And therein lies the problem at the very heart of our modern math woes. Read More...
Relevant Tags: ideas, mark, math, digit dancing, related quantity, collection marks, art digit, maggie martin, way record
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