Title of Presentation or Performance
Spaces for History in the Secondary Mathematics Classroom
Submission Type
Event
Expected Graduation Date
2013
Location
Beckman Auditorium, Ames Library, Illinois Wesleyan University
Start Date
4-20-2013 10:00 AM
End Date
4-20-2013 11:00 AM
Disciplines
Education
Abstract
Teachers committed to issues of social justice actively search for ways to infuse multicultural perspectives into lessons and the classroom. As a pre-service mathematics teacher, I realized the value in looking outside the numbers and symbols to investigate the culture of historical math perspectives. With this study, I incorporated math history into the curriculum and explored student interest and motivation as it related to the integration of history. Data included student designed presentations, individual evaluations, and content-based assessments. The findings of this study point to the need for continued study of interdisciplinary classroom atmospheres as well as student interest when integrating topics.
Spaces for History in the Secondary Mathematics Classroom
Beckman Auditorium, Ames Library, Illinois Wesleyan University
Teachers committed to issues of social justice actively search for ways to infuse multicultural perspectives into lessons and the classroom. As a pre-service mathematics teacher, I realized the value in looking outside the numbers and symbols to investigate the culture of historical math perspectives. With this study, I incorporated math history into the curriculum and explored student interest and motivation as it related to the integration of history. Data included student designed presentations, individual evaluations, and content-based assessments. The findings of this study point to the need for continued study of interdisciplinary classroom atmospheres as well as student interest when integrating topics.