Template+Tutoring+Mathematics


 * Template Tutoring Mathematics **


 * Assignment Due 9/25/2012[[image:http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/50/120px-Hexahedron-slowturn.gif width="144" height="144" align="right"]] **
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 * Please write each question above your response to it.**


 * Topic Questions: **

1. What do you think might happen to drop out rates if other schools that have students not succeeding in math participated in ** The Algebra Project? ** Why do you think this?

2. Which of the strategies from the synopsis of ** "Reading Coaching for Math Word Problems" ** might have helped you when learning math in elementary, middle, and high school? Did you use any of these or different ones? Are there strategies you still use today?

3. What are you thinking about math and yourself as a math learner after reading
 * "Kids Master Mathematics When They Are Challenged But Supported"? **


 * Assignment Resources: **

Dr. Bob Moses, Founder of the Algebra Project , past recipient of a MacArthur Genius Grant, young leader in the student activist group, SNCC, formed in the late 1960s Civil Rights Era, speaks about the importance of learning algebra for all high school students and why math and algebra are the new civil rights for American students today.

1. Advance the video player to 12:30 in the video timeline to **view a 13 minute video** about Robert Moses and students participating in the Algebra Project.

2. Read the synopsis of Reading Coaching for Math Word Problems by Robert Maloy, Sharon Edwards, and Gordon Anderson on this page below.

**"Most of the literature describes student engagement and motivation as having to do with their attitudes about math -- whether they like it or not," Schorr says. "That's different from the engagement we've found. When students are working on conceptually complex problems in a supportive environment, they do better. They report feeling frustrated, but also satisfaction, pride and a willingness to work harder next time ."**

**3.** ** Read ** **the article** Kids Master Mathematics When They're Challenged, But Supported = =


 * Anxiety Affects Learning **

(insert here the picture of the girl at the computer)

Thinking about what might happen to girls' ideas about themselves as math students in a classroom taught by a female teacher, might you insist that a male teach math to your female child in first and second grade?

" Female Teachers' Math Anxiety Affects Girls' Math Achievement, "

In a 2010 study, researchers from the University of Chicago found that female elementary school teachers who have anxiety toward math can pass those misconceptions on to their students, and first and second grade girls who adopt these attitudes perform worse in math.

One of the research authors stated: "It may be that first- and second-grade girls are more likely to be influenced by their teachers' anxieties than their male classmates, because most early-elementary school teachers are female, and the high levels of math anxiety in this teacher population confirm a societal stereotype about girls' math ability."

Solving Puzzles
 * Puzzles require that we try something and if it is a mistake, to continue to try other strategies, similar to solving math problems. The puzzle below may appear hard to do, but there are multiple strategies that you could use to solve it. What can you try first? What might you do second? **