1st Edition
Exploring Math with Technology Practices for Secondary Math Teachers
This timely book provides support for secondary mathematics teachers learning how to enact high-quality, equitable math instruction with dynamic, mathematics-specific technologies.
Using practical advice from their own work as well as from interviews with 23 exceptional technology-using math teachers, the authors develop a vision of teaching with technology that positions all students as powerful doers of mathematics using math-specific technologies (e.g., dynamic graphing and geometry applications, data exploration tools, computer algebra systems, virtual manipulatives). Each chapter includes sample tasks, advice from technology-using math teachers, and guiding questions to help teachers with implementation. The book offers a rich space for secondary math teachers to explore important pedagogical practices related to teaching with technology, combined with broader discussions of changing the narratives about students – emphasizing the mathematics they can do and the mathematics they deserve.
Accompanying online support materials include video vignettes of teachers and students interacting around technology-enhanced tasks in the classroom, as well as examples of more than 30 high-quality technology-enhanced tasks.
Part I: Planning for and Implementing Technology-Enhanced Math Tasks 1. Using Technology to Position Students as Math Explorers 2. Math Specific Technology Tools 3. Deciding When and What to Use 4. Selecting Technology-enhanced Tasks 5. Launching Technology-enhanced Tasks 6. Noticing and Eliciting Student Thinking in Technology-mediated Environments 7. Facilitating Whole Class Discussions in Technology-mediated Environments Part II: Putting it All Together 8. Examples of Technology-enhanced Algebra and Functions Tasks 9. Using Technology-enhanced Tasks to Support Student Exploration of Geometry 10. Using Technology-enhanced Tasks to Support Student Exploration in Statistics and Probability
Biography
Allison W. McCulloch is Professor of Mathematics Education in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of North Carolina Charlotte, USA.
Jennifer N. Lovett is Associate Professor of Mathematics Education in the Department of Mathematical Sciences at Middle Tennessee State University, USA.
This extraordinary volume features meaningful, practical tools to help you integrate technology into your classroom in ways that position your students as mathematical explorers. Rich, high-cognitive demand tasks and vignettes using those tasks in classrooms help you dig deep into teaching mathematics with technology in ways that support meaningful student engagement. The authors make connections to practices and frameworks like the 5 Practices that will help you seamlessly integrate new and innovative technology into your current mathematics teaching practices.
-- Mike Steele, Past President, Association of Mathematics Teacher Educators
McCulloch, Lovett, and the 23 brilliant secondary teachers showcased in the book are thought leaders in guiding educators on how to integrate technology in the math classroom. Positioning students as math explorers captures the essence and vision of what equitable teaching should look like when using technology to "remove barriers and provide students agency". As they share engaging exemplar lessons, vignettes with student work, and videos, educators can learn how to bring this vision to life in their own classrooms so that each and every student can use dynamic technology to build insights, deeper conceptual understanding, and confidence as mathematicians. A must-have book for all educators!
-- Jennifer Suh, Professor of Mathematics Education, George Mason University
This is a really rare examination of teachers, students, math, and technology, one with a keen understanding of their value individually but also the ways that thoughtful pedagogy can multiply that value.
-- Dan Meyer, Director of Research, Desmos Classroom
