I’ve always liked the month of January. That’s probably because my birthday is in the middle of the month. Some years, I get lucky and have the day off thanks to the holiday honoring Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. On other years, I end up teaching on my birthday.
This year, my birthday landed on the first day of the semester for two of my classes. I’m always excited to begin a new class, learn about my students, and help them understand mathematics better. I try to be careful and introduce concepts in a way that makes sense to them, and I resist the urge to introduce an algorithm before it makes sense to the students. For an illustration of what may happen when algorithms are introduced too early, I encourage you to watch the six-minute video of Rachel (http://www.sci.sdsu.edu/CRMSE/sdsu-pdc/nickerson/imap/files/clips/Rachel.mov) as she explains how to change a mixed number into an improper fraction. Her comments from 1:10 to 2:00 remind me that my students need to be the ones making sense of the mathematics, not me. Finally, I would like to share the work of Dr. Crystal Kalinec-Craig at the University of Texas at San Antonio. She wrote an influential piece in Democracy & Education about the Rights of the Learner to promote equity in mathematics education (https://democracyeducationjournal.org/home/vol25/iss2/5/) . Briefly, they are as follows:
Thank you for all that you do for your students. I appreciate your efforts. Sincerely, Dusty Jones Sam Houston State University [email protected] Twitter: @jonesmathed
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