Powerful Practices - National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

Powerful Practices

Powerful Practices

Explore Powerful Practices that promote equitable learning opportunities for all students K-12. Each of the resources below provide guidance on teaching mathematics. Explore these resources to determine which resonate with the ways that you will teach mathematics this school year.

Webinars

Webinar Expanding Equity: Approaches to Humanizing Disability in Mathematics Education

Webinar Grades and Test Scores Do Not Define Us as Math Learners: Cultivating Transformative Spaces for Anti-Racist Mathematics Education

Webinar Mathematically Productive Instructional Routines and Planning for Equity

Webinar Creating Math Environments That Allow Melanated Students to Thrive

Webinar Mathematicians: Reflecting the Brilliance of Powerful Minds

Webinar How to Help Students Become Problem Solvers, Not Math Robots

Webinar How We Move from Equality to Equity and Justice in Mathematics Teaching

Webinar Focus on Middle School: Discourse and Productive Struggle (Taking Action)

Books

Series Access and Equity series

Series Taking Action series

Book The Impact of Identity in K-8 Mathematics: Rethinking Equity-Based Practices

Book Humanizing Disability in Mathematics Education: Forging New Path

Book High School Mathematics Lessons to Explore, Understand, and Respond to Social Injustice

Articles

Article Our Children Are Not Numbers

Article Three Ways to Enhance Tasks for Multilingual Learner

Article Challenges to and Opportunities for Sustaining an Equity Focus in Mathematics Education Research

Article Practicing Culturally Responsive Mathematics Teaching

Article Culture in Early Childhood Mathematics

Looking for the best place to start learning about Powerful Practices? Try pairing the “Taking Action” series with the webinar “Practices, Practices, Practices: 8 for Teachers, 8 for Students. How Do They Relate?”

What practices will guide your mathematics instruction this year, and how so?
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