Tuesday, April 16, 2013: 1:20 PM
Room 203 (Colorado Convention Center)
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.