Women and Math Education

Autonomous Learning Behaviors Vs. Learned Helplessness: What’s Gender Got to Do with It? Part II

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Apr 20, 20215 min read

Autonomous Learning Behaviors Vs. Learned Helplessness: What’s Gender Got to Do with It? Part II

Kenny, an 11th grader at a school where I am the academic director, is struggling universally in all his classes. The school which Kenny...

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How Great Female Math Teaching Creates a More Just Society

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Nov 11, 20196 min read

How Great Female Math Teaching Creates a More Just Society

**By Bill Davidson Guest Blogger “I’m going to project two problems that I’d like you to solve on a piece of scrap paper,” I said,...

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The Writing on the Wall: Creating Greater Gender Equity through Classroom RE-Design Part I

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Aug 26, 20194 min read

The Writing on the Wall: Creating Greater Gender Equity through Classroom RE-Design Part I

When I started working for the first time as an educational leader in a school with an elementary level program, I realized quickly that...

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Understanding Mediators and Gender Assumptions: Focusing on the Sin not the Sinner

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Jun 24, 20193 min read

Understanding Mediators and Gender Assumptions: Focusing on the Sin not the Sinner

Students want you to know who they are as individuals and they desperately want to seamlessly meld into the crowd, unnoticed and left...

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Education and Dissonance: The Gordian Knot

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Jun 11, 20192 min read

Education and Dissonance: The Gordian Knot

Potentially the greatest challenge in education is how do you understand the mind of someone who is learning something for the first...

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May 20, 20197 min read

Barbara Wagner and “Macho” Education

Everyone is a giddy fan of someone. Some people have Arianna Grande or Bono, some have Venus Williams or Lebron James. Me? I have...

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The Myth of my "Fuzzy" Brain: Access and Confidence for Girls in STEM

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May 6, 20196 min read

The Myth of my "Fuzzy" Brain: Access and Confidence for Girls in STEM

Guest Blogger: Alisha Pedowitz I remember exactly when it was that I realized that my brain just isn’t wired for math: 10th grade Algebra...

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Cardboard Cutouts and Humanizing Assessment

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Apr 29, 20196 min read

Cardboard Cutouts and Humanizing Assessment

For three years, Chris, a very thoughtful and committed science teacher, and I conducted an informal experiment during one of the most...

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What Does It Mean to be a Teacher of Math?(Just Meet Daphne Orenshein)

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Jan 28, 20193 min read

What Does It Mean to be a Teacher of Math?(Just Meet Daphne Orenshein)

On Saturdays, Daphne walks. She does not do it alone. She has a group of friends who get on their working shoes and do their power walk....

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Stereotype Threat: Definitely for Girls, Also for Boys

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Jan 7, 20193 min read

Stereotype Threat: Definitely for Girls, Also for Boys

Stereotype threat is real. The discussion about stereotyping is a strange one because we often spend an inordinate amount of time...

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Jan 2, 20192 min read

Talking to your Daughters about Math

Here’s what you should talk about when you talk to your daughters about math. 1) Tell them that hard work matters the most. No one is...

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