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Math Medic Foundation Presents Thinking Classrooms for All: Motivation, Meaning, and Neurodivergence
Presented by Dwaina Sookhoo. In this session, we explored how to adapt Building Thinking Classrooms (BTC) routines to support students with disabilities—particularly those with autism and learning disabilities—in becoming active, valued participants in mathematical thinking.
Read More Eliminating Gatekeeping in AP Mathematics
Join our All-Star panel of experts as they discuss the issue of gatekeeping in Advanced Placement (AP) mathematics and offer steps we can all take to eliminate the practice – with Rebecka Peterson, Nate Bowling, Matt Vriesman, and Luke Wilcox.
Read More Exploring Implicit Bias
A Math Medic Foundation Webinar. Join Sarah and Pete as they guide participants to engage in a variety of activities to explore implicit bias and the ways in which it can affect our classrooms. Participants will leave with a number of useful strategies that can reduce the harmful effects of implicit bias and increase classroom…
Read More Equity in Mathematics
What messages are we sending to students? Join Luke, Lindsey, and Sarah as they facilitate discussion around how our teacher moves and decisions about classroom policies and curriculum send messages to students that can disrupt or reinforce patterns of inequity.
Read More 4 Reasons Why Math Education Needs Our Help
It feels like a tale as old as time. We’ve been hearing how the United States education system has fallen behind other countries for decades, at least since the Nation at Risk report in 1983. The good news is that, when you dig a little deeper into the details, you find that we’re doing okay in certain…
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