Ohio Journal of School Mathematics | Issue: Issue: 1(93) Spring 2023 (2023)

Volume 93 • 2023 • Spring 2023

Much of this issue is about the students who usually sit at the edge of the math class, and about meeting them where they actually are. Jaworski and Walker follow Danny, a high school teacher in Israel, as he tries to build a sense of belonging in at-risk youth by tying the curriculum to their lives. Herzberg, Wild, and Rosenblum show how four teachers taught the braille math code through activities that keep students with visual impairments in the general classroom. Miller, Zhang, DeLoach Johnson, and Yang share a novice teacher’s first year with English language learners who spoke many home languages, down to the anchor charts and sentence frames she leaned on. Matney, Fischer, and Jackson go a step further out and ask students in China, Fiji, and the United States to draw what doing mathematics feels like.

The rest owes nothing to that theme and is no less welcome for it. Michael and Katie Waters have students walk out an ellipse with markers, paper, and string before they ever touch dynamic geometry. Sinha and Chakraborty give a one-picture proof for the sum of even powers. Yao uses the Horse Rider problem to show how careful task sequencing nurtures structural thinking, and Meiring writes about the emotional circuitry that decides how long a student keeps working before giving up.