@joboaler Two knee-jerk hypotheses:
Districts are struggling more and more to provide funding for high quality PD
Teachers are burnt out in higher numbers and not wanting to spend more time in work-related activity
A good night's sleep and a return to the research this morning has produced some interesting results. I think the fear of calculators in the classroom is stigma not based in fact. #mtbos#iteachmath
Good evening #MTBOS, #iteachmath, etc, I'm a high school math teacher and have found myself more and more in the camp of "using calculators is eroding number sense." (1/3)
A meta-analysis by Aimee Ellington in 2003 found that calculators "did not hinder the development of mathematical skills" but actually improved problem solving when calculators were used in class and during tests.
Good evening #MTBOS, #iteachmath, etc, I'm a high school math teacher and have found myself more and more in the camp of "using calculators is eroding number sense." (1/3)
I've struggled to find sound, quantitative analysis supporting or debunking this hypothesis of mine. Would any of y'all happen to know of research showing an increase or decrease in number sense, mathematical fluency, etc. while using calculators vs. not? Preferably HS. (3/3)
Good evening #MTBOS, #iteachmath, etc, I'm a high school math teacher and have found myself more and more in the camp of "using calculators is eroding number sense." (1/3)
@MrCorleyMath@Meta Agreed! I’m not a fan of thinking Zuck is the winner in all this. Maybe Twitter gets sold again and it’s fixed, or maybe Mastodon is the answer. *shrug*
2 Twitter accounts and it’s interesting how much more discussion there is in personal network compared to professional about @Meta Threads. I have noticed that there’s no hashtag so it may be hard to find conversations like #mtbos or #thinkingclassroom. Maybe I’m missing it.