Aug. 16, Candace Walkington, associate professor at Simmons in the Department of Teaching and Learning at SMU Dallas, for sharing five tips to “personalize” math and better engage students. Published in the aggregator Inside Sources, which has over 300 affiliate publications that can use its content: https://www.insidesources.com/five-ways-to-make-math-more-meaningful/
We all want the best outcomes when teaching math to students. But how many teachers and parents are passing up golden opportunities to present math principles alongside the real-life pursuits of our kids?
Math is omnipresent — found in video games, participatory sports and even on walks to the park. Seizing on these opportunities to incorporate math has been called personalized learning.
“Personalized learning” is a popular phrase in education. In mathematics, personalized learning is often equated with self-paced, computer-assisted instruction, or with intelligent tutoring systems that adjust based on learner knowledge and actions. These are forms of adaptive learning, defined by Jan Plass as “an approach to the design of a learning system in which each learner is provided with the kind of experience he or she needs at any given time in order to be successful in reaching the intended learning outcomes.”