Math, Culture, and Popular Media: Activities to Engage Middle School Students Through Film, Literature, and the Internet
By Unknown Author.
Description
Realizing that middle-grades students bring to classrooms different experiences that shape their meaning about mathematics, both from inside and outside the classroom, it seems that embracing culture…is one important way to address a need in schools - that is, high achievement in mathematics by all students. - Michaele Chappell and Denisse Thompson If your students can text like this: cul8r bff, they can solve for this: 3x+5=39+2x In the middle grades personal identity becomes more important to learning than ever. More than a decade of research tells us that effective school ...
ISBN(s)
0325021228, 9780325021225
