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Adventures In Teaching: A Professor Goes To High School To Learn About Teaching Math, Darryl H. Yong
Adventures In Teaching: A Professor Goes To High School To Learn About Teaching Math, Darryl H. Yong
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During the 2009–2010 academic year I did something unusual for a university mathematician on sabbatical: I taught high school mathematics in a large urban school district. This might not be so strange except that my school does not have a teacher preparation program and only graduates a few students per year who intend to be teachers. Why did I do this? I, like many of you, am deeply concerned about mathematics education and I wanted to see what a typical high school in my city is like. Because I regularly work with high school mathematics teachers, I wanted to experience …