‘Mathematician’ is a real job? - Emily Dennett
This semester I’ve been a Graduate Teaching Assistant (GTA) for EDUTL 5005: Equity & Diversity in Education. I’ve immensely enjoyed meeting with my section of 16 students each week to discuss, wrestle with, and pose questions about issues of equity…
Short Book Review - Joanne Vakil
Short Book Review of Franke, Kazemi, & Turrou’s (2018) Choral Counting & Counting Collections: Transforming the PreK – 5 Math Classroom. A couple weeks ago, Dr. Chao passed around an attractive, alliterating book title which captured the image of children…
Community Garden Experience - Joanne Vakil
Our class took a pleasant community walk around Highland Elementary a few weeks ago. Our destination was the community garden. The students listened to a presentation by Jazmyn Benjamin, the overseer of the Highland Youth Garden and its participation in…
Rehearsals and Interviews: An observation of the Early Childhood/Elementary Math Methods Course - Ho-Chieh Lin
The following is an observation of Dr. Theodore Chao’s Early Childhood and Elementary Math Methods course, on a day when the students engaged in both a rehearsal teach and a problem-solving interview. The ideas expressed are from doctoral student Hochieh…
Where did I come from and where am I going? Part 2: Emily teaches a Pre-K lesson - Emily Dennett
A few weeks ago I shared some of my memories of playing math games with my dad and how these experiences were influencing my work and research interests (If you missed it, you can see it here: https://u.osu.edu/ecemathed/2018/03/01/where-did-i-come-from-and-where-am-i-going/). This post is…
Reflections on two Saturdays of professional development - Emily Dennett
By far my favorite part of being a student in the OSU STEM Education PhD program has been the opportunities I’ve had to observe or be part of spaces of mathematics education that I’ve never been in before–this is probably…
Where did I come from and where am I going? - Emily Dennett
As a Ph.D. student who spends a lot of time reading very long and theoretical articles, it’s can sometimes be easy to lose perspective on where I’ve come from and where I ultimately want to go with my work. So…
EHE Research Forum - Ho-Chieh Lin
This is my first time to attend the research forum held by our college of EHE on Feb 23, 2018. I am glad a piece of my work, male teachers in elementary schools, got accepted. Because I went to observe…
Skyping with a Mathematician - Emily Dennett
This spring I’ve been working with three fifth grade girls at Columbus Spanish Immersion Academy. These girls are amazing! They’re excited about math and ask such thoughtful and insightful questions. Together we’ve been learning about our numbering system by…
Reflections from AMTE - Dr. Theodore Chao
Ayse, Hochieh, and Theodore went to the Association of Mathematics Teacher Educator Conference in Houston, Feb 8-10, 2018. We learned a lot and had a ton of fun. Theodore presented a really fun, long session examining culture and history within…
Resources for Creating Math Lesson Plans - Dr. Theodore Chao
Here are some great places we like to go to get started with our Math Lesson Plans: nzmaths.co.nz – Awesome resource from the Ministry of Education in New Zealand, organized by topic and level. Full of culturally relevant mathematics resources…
Welcome - Dr. Theodore Chao
Hello and welcome to the Early Childhood/Elementary Mathematics blog at The Ohio State University. This blog is meant as a space for faculty, graduate students, in-service teachers, and pre-service teachers associated with OSU to write about and reflect on issues…