A Culturally Responsive Approach to Students’ Math Anxiety
Larisa Bukalov and I wrote an article for Education Week outlining culturally responsive techniques to deal with students’ math anxiety. In this…
What Teachers Need from Districts During the Pandemic
Teaching during this pandemic has been an incredible challenge. The unfamiliarity and isolation of our situation has often made me…
Math Instruction in Times of Crisis
Nowadays, teachers have had to make major changes in our instruction. My colleague Larisa Bukalov and I just wrote an…
Interview on “Talk Out of Schools” Radio Show
Today, I was one of three New York City public school teachers interviewed by Leonie Haimson, executive director of the…
“The Math Teacher’s Toolbox” Published
After two years of seemingly endless writing, revising, and proofreading, The Math Teacher’s Toolbox – the book that my colleague Larisa Bukalov…
The Mean-Product Method of Solving Quadratic Equations
Solving quadratic equations (equations that can be written in the form ax2 + bx + c = 0, where a ≠ 0) is a major topic in high…