with Susan Jo Russell & Deborah Schifter
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Join two legends of mathematics education, Susan Jo Russell & Deborah Schifter, to learn from the 10 years of research they have conducted on how OBSERVING students’ thinking, especially in those uncomfortable pauses, can provide a space for EQUITY & ACCESS for all your students to genuinely EXPERIENCE mathematical reasoning.
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Deborah Schifter has worked as an applied mathematician; has taught elementary, secondary, and college level mathematics; and, since 1985, has been a mathematics teacher educator and educational researcher at Mount Holyoke College and at the Education Development Center. She authored Reconstructing Mathematics Education: Stories of Teachers Meeting the Challenge of Reform and edited a two-volume anthology of teachers' writing, What's Happening in Math Class? She was a writer for The Mathematical Education of Teachers as well as the second and third editions of the K-5 curriculum, Investigations in Number, Data, and Space. With Virginia Bastable and Susan Jo Russell, she produced the professional development series, Developing Mathematical Ideas, and Connecting Arithmetic to Algebra, a book which is used as the basis for an on-line course for teachers of grades 1 to 6. Their book, But Why Does It Work? Mathematical Argument in the Elementary Grades, focuses on students’ ability to notice, articulate, prove, and apply generalizations about the behavior of the operations. Schifter and Russell have recently published Interweaving Equitable Participation and Deep Mathematics: Creating Community in the Elementary Classroom, which is based on videos taken from Boston Public Schools.
Dr. Susan Jo Russell has been an elementary classroom teacher, a math coach, a university instructor, and, for over 40 years, a senior researcher at the Education Research Collaborative at TERC in Cambridge, MA. She co-directed the original development of the K-5 mathematics curriculum, Investigations in Number, Data and Space, and the professional development series, Developing Mathematical Ideas. Publications include three co-authored books: 1) Connecting Arithmetic and Algebra: Strategies for Building Algebraic Thinking in the Elementary Grades, 2) But Why Does It Work?: Mathematical Argument in the Elementary Classroom, a resource for teachers who want to learn how to integrate mathematical argument into their instruction, and 3) Interweaving Equitable Participation and Deep Mathematics: Building Community in the Elementary Classroom, a text and video resource for educators based on a partnership with teachers in Boston Public Schools.
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