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ERIC Number: EJ1402635
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2023
Pages: 10
Abstractor: ERIC
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: ISSN-0025-5769
EISSN: EISSN-2330-0582
My Problematic Fave: A Guide for Revising Tasks with Harmful Contexts
Neihaus, Aubrey; Kalinec-Craig, Crystal; Prasad, Priya V.; Wood, Marcy B.
Mathematics Teacher: Learning and Teaching PK-12, v116 n9 p650-658 2023
Mathematics teachers, are always making and remaking their curricula to better serve the needs of their students. Sometimes, these revisions happen while they are teaching a new task. At other times, as they grow in their thinking, they become aware that some of the tasks they've used for years--and might even name as favorites for their potential to be mathematically productive for students--are problematic in nature. They may become aware of how the context is outdated, offensive, or just irrelevant to their students' lived experiences. Regardless of whether the task is one they have used multiple times or just once, they need a way to revise tasks to mitigate the harm inflicted by the context, while keeping the content relevant to the learning goal. In this article, the authors share a framework for how they have altered tasks in an effort to continually improve their teaching practice and better support our students.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
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Language: English
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