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As someone who considers herself a "writing person," it was really interesting for me to think about how the literacy requirements in math are different from in English. As an English teacher, we're always navigating our way through lots of dense ...
I agree with the idea that books that are simpler and explicit are more helpful in teaching math and science as well.As a student i would actually seek out any books that would simplyfy a
concept. Today not many students will do this but as teache...
Lauren,
It is amazing really how much writing and reading there is in math. At the teacher to teacher workshop I had attended a session on math. The amount of writing they had their junior high school students was quite amazing, however, I didn't ...
i also feel that it's important for Math teachers to teach literacy because of the word problems the students have to do for tests. Math books still scare me. I think they should be more student friendly in terms of having more simplistic explanat...
The quote that stood out to me the most is “The mathematicians also emphasize that letters and symbols signify specific meanings in some cases but, as variables, change their meanings in other. Being able to read these symbols embedded in both Eng...
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The quote that stood out to me the most is “The mathematicians also emphasize that letters and symbols signify specific meanings in some cases but, as variables, change their meanings in other. Being able to read these symbols embedded in both English prose and algebraic equations were considered to be crucial."
This stood out to me the most because I am a math teacher. I see this everyday in my classes. If I don’t explain the math terms to my students they would have no idea what I was talking… Continue
This stood out to me the most because I am a math teacher. I see this everyday in my classes. If I don’t explain the math terms to my students they would have no idea what I was talking… Continue
Posted on April 23, 2009 at 3:59pm — 4 Comments
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