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Our Guiding Principles |
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MathAction strives to:
Engage learners
Without engagement, there is no learning. We create high quality, rigorous math units and a learning culture in which mathematics is challenging, relevant, and useful.
Deepen learning, independently and in community
Learning is a process over time. Learners excel by working independently as well as collaboratively on teams. Provide support - combined with embedded assessment - to maximize progress. Hands-on professional development, coaching, online support and access to the MathAction® online community enable teachers and students to collaborate, learn and adapt approaches and materials.
Provide access to quality instructional strategies and materials in mathematics
We strongly support the open educational resources (OER) movement and seek ways to ensure that MathAction is available to everyone who wants it.
Combine mathematical excellence and civil discourse
We heed the call to strengthen math and global literacies. Global challenges are complex, can be explored using a variety of perspectives and models - and subject to disagreement. We actively encourage and teach participants to embrace multiple perspectives, increasing both critical thinking and social-emotional intelligence.
Incorporate systems thinking
Global issues often involve complex interdependencies and one solution designed to solve a problem may reveal or create other problems. By exploring trade-offs and consequences, MathAction students develop the capacity to distinguish between – and integrate – the precision of mathematics with the inevitable ambiguities of complex social issues.
Utilize the most advanced interactive technologies available
Incorporate blended learning and online platforms to make learning easy, interactive and efficient. Create a virtual platform allowing learners from around the world to use the lens of mathematics to explore, create, collaborate and innovate to address real-world challenges together.
Embrace trans-disciplinary learning
Research has shown that many breakthrough innovations occur on the “edges” or intersections across disciplines, and that integrating disciplines deepens learning.
Fully align with US Common Core State Standards for Mathematics
MathAction's approach and instructional materials are aligned with Common Core (focus, coherence, rigor) using the EQuIP Rubric.
Engage learners
Without engagement, there is no learning. We create high quality, rigorous math units and a learning culture in which mathematics is challenging, relevant, and useful.
Deepen learning, independently and in community
Learning is a process over time. Learners excel by working independently as well as collaboratively on teams. Provide support - combined with embedded assessment - to maximize progress. Hands-on professional development, coaching, online support and access to the MathAction® online community enable teachers and students to collaborate, learn and adapt approaches and materials.
Provide access to quality instructional strategies and materials in mathematics
We strongly support the open educational resources (OER) movement and seek ways to ensure that MathAction is available to everyone who wants it.
Combine mathematical excellence and civil discourse
We heed the call to strengthen math and global literacies. Global challenges are complex, can be explored using a variety of perspectives and models - and subject to disagreement. We actively encourage and teach participants to embrace multiple perspectives, increasing both critical thinking and social-emotional intelligence.
Incorporate systems thinking
Global issues often involve complex interdependencies and one solution designed to solve a problem may reveal or create other problems. By exploring trade-offs and consequences, MathAction students develop the capacity to distinguish between – and integrate – the precision of mathematics with the inevitable ambiguities of complex social issues.
Utilize the most advanced interactive technologies available
Incorporate blended learning and online platforms to make learning easy, interactive and efficient. Create a virtual platform allowing learners from around the world to use the lens of mathematics to explore, create, collaborate and innovate to address real-world challenges together.
Embrace trans-disciplinary learning
Research has shown that many breakthrough innovations occur on the “edges” or intersections across disciplines, and that integrating disciplines deepens learning.
Fully align with US Common Core State Standards for Mathematics
MathAction's approach and instructional materials are aligned with Common Core (focus, coherence, rigor) using the EQuIP Rubric.
