Bringing the outside in: Building with and strengthening community-based problem-solving practices in math classrooms

Authors

Frederick Peck, University of Montana, Missoula

Document Type

Presentation Abstract

Presentation Date

4-10-2023

Abstract

Disrupting deficit ideologies around rural education, we suggest that local practices in rural communities are rich resources for learning mathematics. Through ethnographic fieldwork in rural communities in the U.S.A., we identified five community-based problem-solving practices: Resourcefulness, Care, Self-reliance, Use practical wisdom, and Try something and adjust. We describe these practices and discuss how they can be brought into mathematics classrooms, as assets that support mathematics learning.

Additional Details

April 10, 2023 at 3:00 p.m. Math 103

Recommended Citation

Peck, Frederick, "Bringing the outside in: Building with and strengthening community-based problem-solving practices in math classrooms" (2023). Colloquia of the Department of Mathematical Sciences. 656.
https://scholarworks.umt.edu/mathcolloquia/656