"Dear Math is a book co-authored by a 15 year veteran math teacher and one of her current high school student. The two come together to dig into the words of hundreds of middle and high school students as they reflect on their experiences with math both in and out of school. Dread, unnecessary, oppression, intimidation, and feelings of being not good enough emerge and the authors explore antidotes to these negative feelings. Then the authors explore the positive words that emerge from student writing, things like beauty, ...
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"Dear Math is a book co-authored by a 15 year veteran math teacher and one of her current high school student. The two come together to dig into the words of hundreds of middle and high school students as they reflect on their experiences with math both in and out of school. Dread, unnecessary, oppression, intimidation, and feelings of being not good enough emerge and the authors explore antidotes to these negative feelings. Then the authors explore the positive words that emerge from student writing, things like beauty, powerful, important, fun, and useful and listen to ways that students have come to experience these in math class and how we might pursue this more wholly as teachers"--
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