National Council of Teachers of Mathematics 2013 Research Presession

Please note: The NCTM conference program is subject to change.

Tuesday, April 16, 2013: 1:20 PM
Room 203 (Colorado Convention Center)
Michael Gilbert , University of Massachusetts, Boston, MA
Barbara Gilbert , Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Description:
Teacher’s ability to create sociomathematical norms to successfully support student learning may depend on teacher’s appropriate alignment to students’ cultural context. We broaden the construct to include the effect of cultural context in advancing mathematical learning, and we unpack an example of a teacher who engaged students in the oral tradition of Aó, a teaching method extended from Hawaiian culture.