Motivated: Designing Math Classrooms Where Students Want to Join In

by Ilana Seidel Horn

Do your math students offer one- or two-word responses in class? Do your carefully planned lessons feel unsuccessful? "I've tried everything," you think. "Shouldn't math be a little more engaging?" Ilana Seidel Horn understands your frustration. Participating in math class feels socially risky to students. Staying silent often feels safer. In Motivated , Ilana shows why certain teaching strategies create classroom climates where students want to join in. Five factors of motivational math classrooms She introduces six different math teachers, in a range of school settings, who found that motivation requires more than an interesting problem. Their experiences highlight five factors that lower the risks and raise the benefits of These features of motivational math classrooms are explored in-depth. You'll find suggestions for identifying what impedes each factor, along with strategies for weaving them into your instruction. You'll also be introduced to an online community who support each other's efforts to teach this way. A guidebook for motivating math students
Motivated is a guidebook for teachers unsatisfied with questions met by silence. By examining what works in other classrooms and following the example of been-there teachers, you'll start changing slumped shoulders and blank stares into energetic, engaged learners.

Genres: Education, Mathematics

136 pages, Paperback

Published July 28, 2017

Reviews

[kar · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is/will be a wonderful resource for teachers of math at any grade level. It outlines several factors (belongingness; meaningfulness; competence; accountability; autonomy) that affect student engagement and motivation to participate during lessons, and provides examples to remedy those concerns. Thank you to Heinemann and NetGalley for the advanced copy!

[Leighanne Medina · Rating 5 out of 5]

What an incredible book on math education!! This is one I will revisit time and time again!!

[Dave · Rating 5 out of 5]

Summer PD!! Lots of great tips for helping me with my 7th grade classroom. I struggle with giving students more freedom, instead relying on the “I do/we do/you do” method of teaching. The ideas I got from this book will help me create a more student-centered learning environment this coming year.

[Yvette Rosario-Perez · Rating 5 out of 5]

This was an excellent book. You can apply this to any classroom not just a math class.

[Madison Galvin]

I listened to this as an audiobook and really enjoyed it. Very eye opening!