Associate Professor Anne Garrison Wilhelm offers new possibilities to deal with math learning losses during the pandemic.
In an opinion piece published by InsideSources.com, she believes now is the time to redress traditional ways of engaging students in math.
“Even before COVID-19, our mathematics education system was not serving most kids,” she says. “Some just assumed they didn’t “get” math; others never really understood the mathematics they were taught in school, and this manifested when they had to enroll in college remedial math courses.”
For her ideas to create new strategies and make math a part of everyday life, read her piece here. Wilhelm teaches math education and conducts research in Simmons’ Department of Teaching and Learning.