by Karen Economopoulos and Megan Murray | Mar 6, 2024 |
“Equitable teaching and learning of mathematics can only proceed in an environment where students engage deeply with significant mathematical ideas,” have opportunities to express their math thinking and interact with the thinking of others, take...
by Karen Economopoulos and Megan Murray | Feb 15, 2024 |
“Equitable teaching and learning of mathematics can only proceed in an environment where students engage deeply with significant mathematical ideas,” have opportunities to express their math thinking and listen to the thinking of others, take...
by Karen Economopoulos and Megan Murray | Feb 5, 2024 |
“Equitable teaching and learning of mathematics can only take place in an environment where students engage deeply with significant mathematical ideas,” have opportunities to express their math thinking and interact with the thinking of others, take...
by The Investigations 3 Center Team | Sep 13, 2023 |
The Investigations Center for Curriculum and Professional Development is excited to announce a new web-based resource to support equitable mathematics teaching and learning in the elementary grades. The new site—the Forum for Equity in Elementary Mathematics—will be a...
by The Investigations 3 Center Team | Aug 22, 2022 |
A focus on the development of students’ mathematical ideas requires the establishment of an equitable mathematics learning community. Such a community embodies the commitment to provide access to rigorous, cognitively demanding mathematics for each and every student,...
by Lynne Godfrey | Feb 18, 2022 |
Teaching is an academic and human endeavor that involves continuous cycles of interactions of the instructional core; students, content, and teachers. There are many factors that influence our decisions about what and how to teach the children in our care. We attend...
by Marta Garcia and Annie Sussman | Jan 21, 2022 |
“An equitable learning community requires first and foremost knowing who our students are and using that knowledge to situate math learning in the lived experiences of students, building on the knowledge and skills each student brings to school and acknowledging and...
by Marta Garcia | Nov 5, 2021 |
“The space has to be a sort of aquarium that mirrors the ideas, values, attitudes, and cultures of the people who live in it.” – Loris Malaguzzi, The Hundred Languages of Children. The start of the school year is an exciting time for teachers, children, and families....
by Megan Murray | Oct 25, 2021 |
In our recent blog, A New Class, A New Year: The Role of Classroom Agreements, we discussed ways to work with students to establish classroom agreements that support the development of an equitable and inclusive mathematics learning community. In this blog, we share...
by Marta Garcia | Oct 11, 2021 |
The beginning of the year is an exciting time; one that offers us an opportunity to get to know our students. As we learn their interests, cultures, developing identities, and preferences we are simultaneously thinking about how we can create an equitable learning...
