Tapping Into the News to Teach Math (Forrest Hinton)
“Forrest Hinton is a math instructor at the North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics, a STEM-focused public boarding school for high school juniors and seniors in Durham, North Carolina. He teaches a wide range of core and elective math courses in his department and for programs like Summer Accelerator and ENC STEM. He also serves as the coordinator of the Teaching Contemporary Mathematics Conference. In his work, he inspires students to critically examine and improve systems by using analytical tools from mathematics and statistics. He is strongly committed to making the study of advanced mathematics more accessible to students who have traditionally been underrepresented in the field.”
This article appeared in Edutopia, June 7, 2019
“Why should the people who work hard and earn more money foot most of the tax bill?”
“People at the bottom need their dollars more than those at the top.”
These are snippets of a political debate that many would expect to read in The Washington Post. They wouldn’t expect to hear these ideas in a high school math class. Yet these are the types of ideas I regularly hear in my classroom. Sure, my students solve equations and graph curves like all students, but they also apply CONTINUE READING: Tapping Into the News to Teach Math (Forrest Hinton) | Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice