Document Type
Article
Department
Mathematics (HMC)
Publication Date
2012
Abstract
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 the life of a high school teacher for myself. I had neither a research project nor an agenda for changing schools or teachers.
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Recommended Citation
Darryl Yong. "Adventures in Teaching: A Professor Goes to High School to Learn about Teaching Math" Notices of the American Mathematical Society 59.10 (2012): 1408-1415.
Comments
First published in Notices of the AMS in Volume 59, Number 10, published by the American Mathematical Society.