Innovative Practice for Deeper Math Learning

Harvard HGSE

In this course, educators investigate and enact teaching methods that position students as powerful math problem solvers. We frame math classrooms as sites of distinct cultural activity, where teachers build the structures, practices, routines, and techniques that equip and motivate students to be active thinkers and doers of rigorous mathematics. Mathematical themes of sense- and mistake-making, motivation, fluency, curiosity, relevance, discussion, achievement, and collaboration…