Topic: Wendy Ward Hoffer

As we determine which tasks to present to students, we have opportunities to not only offer challenges but also ensure that their work is standards-driven, lifeworthy, aspirational, and culturally sustaining. Read the excerpt from All Minds on Mathematics.

Creating opportunities for students to justify their thinking invites learners to make sense for themselves and others in novel ways. Suggestions for teaching academic talk and sentence starters.

For too many, math triggers distress, which causes the brain to opt out rather than to engage in mathematical sense-making. Unpack math anxiety, bias, stereotypes, and stereotype threat.

All students can be capable mathematicians who possess the following skills: productive dispositions; number sense; conceptual understanding; and problem-solving capabilities.

Even if you think you're not a math person, you're doing it every day. Quit running yourself down. We do not need to pass these insecurities on to the next generation. Why not teach students that they, like you, are indeed mathematicians already?

Learn how to scaffold productive and engaging conversations with your students from the author of Phenomenal Teaching, Wendy Ward Hoffer.

Phenomenal Teaching charts a pathway for teachers to cultivate agency and foster understanding for every learner.

Math has moved on: now, instead of merely memorizing multiplication tables, students are expected to know what multiplication means and use more than one strategy to solve, then explain their thinking to peers and teachers. Let’s talk about why that is and how parents can help.

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