As an educator, I teach students life skills such as perseverance and self-compassion through mathematics, but how often do we push our own growth in those same ways? Once we find what “works” for us, we get comfortable and often become complacent.
The March 2020 issue of the Journal for Research in Mathematics Education published a study titled “Parental Beliefs on the Efficacy of Productive Struggle and Their Relation to Homework-Helping Behavior.
As a CPM math teacher and tutor, I can instantly spot a student who has been taught with the CPM curriculum.
I am not going to answer the question in the title for you, but instead tell you a story.
I feel blessed to be a part of the pilot for CPM’s new 8th grade support course, Inspirations & Ideas.
Last fall, at the NCTM Regional Conference in Seattle, I attended Steve Leinwand’s session on quality lessons.
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