This DMT Insights demonstrates how using varied practice worksheets where students translate among story problems, visual models, and symbolic equations builds deeper mathematical understanding
Yes! Research on the brain and on education has progressed far from what we knew about learning in the 1950s. I love how you are thinking, encouraging, and guiding teachers to update their approach to leading. It is long past time! Practicing a single procedure to "mastery" has devolved into flashcard-like memorization of disconnected facts. Making deep connections between mathematical ideas is crucial, and yes, yes yes, "...moving among story, model, and symbol is not just pedagogically sound it’s cognitively powerful."
Thank you, Eric I completely agree. it’s time to move beyond memorized procedures and towards deeper, connected learning. When students can move seamlessly between models, symbols, and real-world contexts, they develop the kind of flexible understanding that lasts. It’s exciting to see more educators embracing this approach and helping math feel both meaningful and powerful again.
Yes! Research on the brain and on education has progressed far from what we knew about learning in the 1950s. I love how you are thinking, encouraging, and guiding teachers to update their approach to leading. It is long past time! Practicing a single procedure to "mastery" has devolved into flashcard-like memorization of disconnected facts. Making deep connections between mathematical ideas is crucial, and yes, yes yes, "...moving among story, model, and symbol is not just pedagogically sound it’s cognitively powerful."
Thank you, Eric I completely agree. it’s time to move beyond memorized procedures and towards deeper, connected learning. When students can move seamlessly between models, symbols, and real-world contexts, they develop the kind of flexible understanding that lasts. It’s exciting to see more educators embracing this approach and helping math feel both meaningful and powerful again.