Tagged: project-based math

Crumbled white paper shaped like a brain on a grey concrete surface, with algebra formulas sketched on it (e.g., M =, y = mx + b).

Be a Shade of Gray in the Either/Or Math War

Teaching math through inquiry can be excellent. It’s a goal to aspire to. But for many struggling students, jumping straight into pure inquiry without any explicit instruction first can be paralyzing. Juliana Tapper’s Math Wars model helps teachers find the happy (gray) medium.