Problematizing Your ImagineIT - Dreamkeepers
The focus of my ImagineIt project is to connect real life perspectives to the mathematical content that I currently teach in my classes. Students don’t often see the connections on how to apply what seems to be abstract concepts to real life scenarios. Students don’t see how this relates to what they see in their everyday lives. One reasons why students are not making the connections is because the mathematics does not identify with anything in their cultural and community identity.
In the book “ The Dream-Keepers” talked about making teaching culturally relevant to the learner. One goal while implementing the Imagine-It is to assist the students in identifying an experience or perspective that they encounter outside of the classroom and relating or comparing how this relates to the mathematical concepts. Students will identify and document how and what this looks like in their communities. By making this a shared experience, students will take ownership in extend their learning deeper in order to make better connections to the concepts.
In the book “ The Dream-Keepers” talked about making teaching culturally relevant to the learner. One goal while implementing the Imagine-It is to assist the students in identifying an experience or perspective that they encounter outside of the classroom and relating or comparing how this relates to the mathematical concepts. Students will identify and document how and what this looks like in their communities. By making this a shared experience, students will take ownership in extend their learning deeper in order to make better connections to the concepts.
