{"id":78,"date":"2017-04-20T00:27:58","date_gmt":"2017-04-20T00:27:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/suzannenewell\/?p=78"},"modified":"2017-04-21T02:16:18","modified_gmt":"2017-04-21T02:16:18","slug":"what-techniques-worked-to-change-students-attitudes-about-math","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/suzannenewell\/2017\/04\/20\/what-techniques-worked-to-change-students-attitudes-about-math\/","title":{"rendered":"What techniques worked to change students&#8217; attitudes about math?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There were many things that I tried in my class to try to change the attitudes of my students about math. Most of the techniques that I tried came from Jo Boaler&#8217;s book, &#8220;Mathematical Mindset&#8221; and from the website (co-founded by Boaler) called youcubed.<\/p>\n<p>Below is a link to the presentation that I shared with the staff about my action plan:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/presentation\/d\/1clq2UoHoZ3N576gz31spJB6W3y4DhqwCEQQnPoybTrg\/embed?start=false&#038;loop=false&#038;delayms=3000\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"480\" height=\"299\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" mozallowfullscreen=\"true\" webkitallowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The four things that worked the best were:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Educating students about current brain research. I did this by sharing videos from the youcubed website. These videos are very kid-friendly and promote great discussion.<\/li>\n<li>Addressing negative &#8220;fixed&#8221; mindset statements. We did this by dissecting negative statements. We then changed them into &#8220;growth&#8221; mindset statements. For example, &#8220;I&#8217;m not good at math&#8221; to &#8220;I can&#8217;t do this yet, but I will get it.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Using low-floor\/high ceiling tasks that enable all students to participate in problem-solving situations.<\/li>\n<li>Valuing mistakes. We learned to appreciate the mistakes we made. This was liberating because it allowed all of my learners to take risks.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>I found that my students were very open to all of these initiatives. They became part of the &#8220;norm&#8221; in my classroom and we embraced challenges and making mistakes.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There were many things that I tried in my class to try to change the attitudes of my students about math. Most of the techniques that I tried came from <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/suzannenewell\/2017\/04\/20\/what-techniques-worked-to-change-students-attitudes-about-math\/\">Continue Reading &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":137,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-face-2-face-sessions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/suzannenewell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/suzannenewell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/suzannenewell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/suzannenewell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/137"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/suzannenewell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/suzannenewell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":102,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/suzannenewell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78\/revisions\/102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/suzannenewell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/suzannenewell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/suzannenewell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}