This article describes how mathematics and science teacher educators collaborated to promote the use of high-level tasks and inquiry-based instruction in high school classrooms. Working with a colleague in the School of Arts and Sciences, education professors developed and team-taught a model inquiry-based lesson. Then teacher candidates were…

The activity developed in an integrated high school course that was team-taught by both mathematics and science teachers examines linear equations developed from relationships in biology. These equations provide students with opportunities to see the way mathematics could be used to describe biological relationships, and then apply to solve…