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Preservice Teachers Examine Gender Equity in Teaching Mathematics
In this article, the author reports elementary preservice teachers examined one math teaching episode for equitable practices. They taped, transcribed, coded, and analyzed their teaching using verbal interaction categories. Next, they documented exposed inequitable teaching practices, examined their potential impact on student learning, and developed intervention plans. Many preservice teachers were surprised to find inequitable behavior in their teaching. Ways of adapting this project to address other aspects of inequitable practice is shared.
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General Classroom Strategies

• Tiering and Scaffolding: Two Strategies for Providing Access to Important Math
  This article provides examples of tiering and scaffolding to promote equity among students. The examples are tiering a third grade fractions lesson and tiering and scaffolding a second grade geometry lesson. There is also a general discussion of equity.
• Understanding and Supporting Children's Math Vocabulary
  This article identifies challenges children face in learning mathematics vocabulary and offers teaching strategies to circumvent those challenges.
• Using Tiered Lessons in Mathematics
  This article describes a step-by-step procedure to differentiate instruction through tiered lessons.

Research

Research Briefs

• Students with Difficulties - Effective Strategies
  What instructional strategies are effective in helping students with difficulties in mathematics? View research clip.
• Students with Difficulties - Characteristics of Students
  What Are the Characteristics of Students with Learning Difficulties in Mathematics? View research clip.