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Title: Storytelling as an Alternative Tool to Teaching Secondary Mathematics for Understanding.

Master's Project - 2020 Presentation: Link to this virtual presentation room

Time: Session 2, ~3:10 pm (Central Standard Time)
Group Name: Stretching student understanding
Audio only access via: 1-571-392-7650, PIN: 703 455 4908

Abstract:

This paper discusses how to effectively use storytelling in teaching secondary mathematics for understanding. While the benefits of storytelling for mathematical understanding may be better articulated at the elementary level, its use at the secondary level is understudied. This paper focuses on how teaching secondary mathematics for understanding through storytelling can serve as a powerful tool to enhance students’ understandings. The literature reviewed includes two parts: (1) the cognitive model underlying mathematics for understanding and the mathematical elements involved in the process of understanding; and (2) Analyzing how storytelling --and the different kinds of stories that can be told--can directly meet the requirements for teaching mathematics for understanding. While the benefits of storytelling in the secondary mathematics classroom remain understudied, this paper explores a potentially effective alternative approach for teachers to build students’ understanding that merits further research.

Contact: Zhibo Zhang, zzhang869@wisc.edu

MS, Curriculum and Instruction, Secondary Mathematics