I’m sharing in this post some of the “theories” underpinning the lessons, learning tasks, and math teaching ideas that I blog here. This is part of the literature review of
Introducing negative numbers
One of the ways to help students to make connections among concepts is to give them problem solving tasks that have many correct solutions or answers. Another way is to
Knowledge of Teaching with ICT
In the 80’s, Lee Shulman introduced the concept of pedagogical content knowledge to differentiate it from content knowledge (CK) and knowledge of general pedagogy (PK). Pedagogical content knowledge or popularly
Keeping Math Simple is now Mathematics for Teaching
Because this blog is dedicated to discussing mathematical ideas in the context of teaching them to k-12 audience I should rename it to “Mathematics for Teaching”. I do have some