As the call to teach mathematics through collaborative problem-solving reaches a wider audience, more secondary school teachers are grappling with the difficulties inherent in facilitating learning through problems. Open problems provide opportunities for students to engage in authentic disciplinary practices such as formulating and evaluating conjectures, considering the costs and affordances of various problem-solving approaches, […]

Geometry for Teachers (GeT) is a course at South Dakota State University (SDSU) that is entirely made up of mathematics majors who are planning to become certified to teach middle and high school mathematics. It is typically the first mathematics course that our preservice teachers take that includes pedagogy. Since I want the students to […]

​​Four questions with Stephen Szydlik, Professor of Mathematics at the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh

When I first began my career as a high school geometry teacher (in 2000), neither I nor my colleagues had ever heard of “π Day”. In perusing one of the many practitioner journals, I learned about other secondary mathematics teachers celebrating March 14th with their students in a variety of ways, including pie-eating and baking […]