Reform mathematics

Do you love traveling? Do you ever want to travel somewhere and forget about your troubles? A place where nobody knows your name. A destination where you can sit back and relax. Just imagine it.. you visiting the Tower of London one day. Then the next you are soaking your feet in coral gardens at Bora Bora. After that, you are sightseeing at Casa Batllo in Barcelona. I always imagine myself in different places and experiencing the many different cultures and architectures worlds have to offer.…

On July 5, 2001, a portfolio manager at NorthPoint Group, Kimi Ford is considering buying some shares of Nike for the fund she manages, NorthPoint Large-Cap Fund. This fund mostly invests in Fortune 500 companies, and it’s top holdings include; ExxonMobil, General Motors, McDonald’s and 3M. Nike’s share price had declined since the beginning of the year. Since 1997, Nike’s revenues had plateaued around $9 billion, while net income had fallen from almost $800 million to $580 million, and their…

didn’t understand completely how measurement works and how it needs to be precise (Parker 213). Therefore, Ruth and Cathy decided to insert a lesson on drawing scale models of objects in order to get their students to better understand precision in mathematics and measurement. They continued to talk about what they could do differently even after the school year was over.…

This week I watched children in the class solve a word problem on the board. I decide that I wanted to observe the students in Math and make a checklist to assess their understanding of the concept skill presented. The students were suppose to master the skill of solving a word problem with pictures and then when they were done, they were to participant in a class discussion on how to solve the problem. With that being said, I decided to compose a checklist to see if students understood how to…

years old. Eratosthenes was born in Greece in a colony known as Cyrene now days called Shahhat, Lybia. He later on moved to live and work in the city of Alexandria. Eratosthenes was a man who excelled in many fields of studies such as geography, mathematics, history, poetry and others. Many of the works that Eratosthenes…

Oh mathematics. A type of study that sets people apart, but also brings groups together. A study that’s been around for generations, longer than I can count. It influences people in different ways, but for me, I would say “it’s complicated.” I learned how to count at a young age due to the fact that my mother was a Nigerian high school teacher. She began teaching me in my early years how to add numbers up to one hundred, spell all kinds of words, and recite all kinds of stories. A few years…

When presented with what seems to be a simple math “problem,” teachers from both the United States and China had different ways of approaching how to solve this “problem.” This could be attributed to the amount of education both groups of teachers have. Chinese teachers have on average eleven to twelve years of schooling while United States teachers have sixteen to eighteen. Keeping their educational backgrounds in mind, Ma presents both Chinese and United States elementary school teachers with…

My initial response to watching the video, Why Students in the US need Common Core, was a deeply emotional sigh. As I mentioned in my previous paper, my experiences with math have been marked with what I call damage to my math psyche. In relation to this course, I have yet to have that “aha” moment in which all of learning has connected. Jo Boaler points out, students, including myself, have been conditioned to think of math as a performance goal, not a learning skill. This is deeply imbedded in…

formulas, and systems, but there is also an aspect of how even certain mathematical theories lead to disorder. On the other hand, sex can be seen as a distraction, lust, or taboo, but it is also an essential aspect of life. Stoppard demonstrates how mathematics and sex are two opposing forces in the world that can clash and lead to destruction. From the start of the play, Thomasina’s curiosity about sex illuminates its taboo portrayal in society. In the…

Chapter 1- Introduction (Background of the Problem) As I am sitting with a mathematics instructional specialist in urban K-8 school in Fairfield County, Connecticut. The instructional specialistshe is describingexplaining the work she has been doing with two third grade teachers focused on improving mathematics instruction. The instructional specialist explains that teachers she is working with are vastly different. The teachers have differing opinions about the efficacy of the instructional…