The Five Pursuits - 2025 by Aris Winger

ariswinger — 2025-06-24 10:34:20 UTC

ariswinger — 2025-06-24 10:35:09 UTC

ariswinger — 2025-06-24 10:38:59 UTC

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Student choice.

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Identity

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Students bringing their own interests and stories into math

Any celebration or current events in math

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Include ethnic/cultural names and situations in word problems

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Visibility and acknowledgment

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using tasks that feel/are authentic... maybe students can see themselves needing/doing that math

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Basing math on where the students are located

Gather information about our students. Google forms asking them to give their input/interests/opinions to use towards creating tasks that they connect with

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give multiple entry points, connect to their interests

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Create problems based on things familiar or meaningful to students

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Offer students the opportunity to incorporate their likes and dislikes into the work.

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Students' Interest

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We can make people feel like they like math and want to keep going and have a math identity

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Unsure

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noticing different cultures and using them in math problems

By giving students a chance to make connections to their own experience when introducing a new concept.

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student surveys

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making everyone feel welcome at the start of the year

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By including people with different skills to different ways to do math

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Bringing more games into the classroom.

Ask students about their interests, background .

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criticality

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studying their struggles

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incorporate technology!

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Real-world student experiences

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Identify the issues that matter to your students and community

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Students doing more exploring than teachers telling them what to do

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Teach the concept and have students create math task for each other can solve

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Teach in a culturally sensitive way. Reference a variety of interests, cultural references, cities, etc. in assignments and tasks.

312956_1 — 2025-06-24 13:57:05 UTC

Make the lessons fun

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Incorporating STEM into mathematics.

Open-ended Questioning, allowing students to relate the tasks to what they know!

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Via class discussions

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incorporating math standards

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knowing when to implement technology

More experiences

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Using their interests, experiences/background knowledge in tasks

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Criticality

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give students a voice in the class

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each class period is like a little family

student surveys

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Don't give too much scaffolding.

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Is Intellect just learning new concepts?

Creating opportunities for all students to enter the problem/task

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More discussion on the why

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Learning

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Read the room...if the students are disinterested or checked out...shift, change...abort!

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Criticality requires us to look at our community with a thoughtful and inquisitive mode

open-ended tasks that encourage exploration

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Co-creation

ebronstacy — 2025-06-24 13:57:59 UTC

Have students co-create math tasks. I let them design word problems and then use those the following year.

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Incorporating Global math and reading skills.

Being harsh but not too harsh

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Allow for the messy

Some of our schools have populations that are largely polarized politically. Gaining buy-in will be difficult.

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Making students feel heard to come out to you

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How do we bring this into the math classroom?

In class discussion about the topic

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Explaining problems with real world examples

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let the students have a voice

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Sometimes it's because we don't relate with the background or community where each are from

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Listening and learning

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being aware of culture and how to approach

Connect the skills to real-world examples so students can see how to implement the skills in real life.

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More learning

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rewording the problem so they can understand more

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High expectations and rigor!

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This pursuit would be much easier to incorporate into a social studies classroom than a math classroom.

Making the teachings more fun

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be authentic, be accountable, be reflective

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Student Voice and Choice

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Make the topics fun and relevant

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intellect

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Criticality

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be authentic, be accountable, be reflective

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Allow students to explore their thinking, even if its messy/not straight and narrow

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Being reflective

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Making sure there’s understanding to build skills

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The most difficult seems to be critically, but hoping as we develop I find that it isn't as intimidating as it feels right now.

All tasks should have an academic focus

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Misjudging who you have in front of you

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Fun task

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Criticality

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Knowing our students

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extending the task into students/community everyday life

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What might seem critical to Adults may not be critical to students because some connections may not have connected. Example:The President's policies on Education.

ericamuhammad — 2025-06-24 13:59:24 UTC

Adding challenge questions to promote critical thinking, number talk...

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Make them understanding practice help improve their skills

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Identity

having more options for students to talk about the real reason we are here. Instead of them adults talking and arguing about things that don't matter and don't involve them

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Hands on math task

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more enthusiasm

Incorporating current events into Math, acknowledging culture in math, connecting with real world experiences

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Critical thinking

Discussion which involves critical thinking

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Know your audience intimately. Be honest and vulnerable with them.

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getting to know you activities

Tasks that are more fun - more than just worksheets

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Academic basis

Making the students talk about them self but bringing math in it

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Allowing them the opportunity to be right and or wrong in a non-judgement zone

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Teamwork and achievements celebration

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having students explain and support their reasoning

Ask them to come with examples connecting real world

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Understanding math

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Criticality

surindersandhu — 2025-06-24 14:01:12 UTC

Criticality as it requires critical thinking....

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Include activities they enjoy,like games

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Sharing their thinking

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offer an opportunity to voice concerns about what holds students up and how math/education can offer a chance to lift themselves and their community up.

Incorporating standards, repetition, checking for understanding in multiple ways

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Learning more and understanding while your on the way

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Make it relatable and interactive

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I think we are doing good.

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criticality

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thinking critically

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Celebrate personal success and lift others as well. Pause and celebrate!

Criticality - I feel less prepared/confident/comfortable to make these conversations part of our math routine.

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class discussion about social issues

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Is this a necessity in math classes daily?

Increasing opportunities for discourse, PBL assignments, requiring explanations

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Relate real world issues to math standards

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Does criticality need to be a regular pursuit in the math classroom?

making math fun by incorporating student interests, technology, games, etc.

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Criticality

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Be empowered

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By making math fun like my math teacher we learned a lot from her

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Teachers keep spending too much time arguing and debating about seemingly pointless or irrelevant topics that distract from student voices and make the entire experience unbearable and incredibly boring

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i think we’re doing pretty good

maybe critically thinking

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Learn about students

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Knowing how to teach math from the student's perspective.