Ohio Journal of School Mathematics | Issue: Issue: 1(86) Fall 2020 (2020)

Volume 86 • 2020 • Fall 2020

This issue came together after the spring of 2020, when teachers moved their classrooms online almost overnight. Sandra Wilder watched that rush push some of them back toward lecture and worksheets, and she argues distance learning need not be either, sharing lessons that keep students curious and making sense of things. Much of the rest of the issue looks back at people. Steve Meiring tells the story of Rudd Crawford, a high school teacher, his student Solomon, and a Dutch baroness called Stella the Stunner. Peggy Kasten and James E. Schultz remember F. Joe Crosswhite, the NCTM president who saw the first Curriculum and Evaluation Standards approved and who left a mark on a generation of teachers.

The other thread running through the issue is where mathematics meets students’ lives. Rodney Andres Perez lays out four levels for bringing hip-hop and mathematical rap into class, drawing on the cultural knowledge students already carry. Cacey L. Wells walks teachers through building digital math trails that tie open-ended problems to a real physical space. Nenad Radakovic and Tracey Hunter-Doniger ask what it would take to make room for kindness inside the Standards for Mathematical Practice. Rounding things out, Mark D. Hogue and Dominic Scarcelli take on the stubborn misconceptions students hold about tangent lines, and Michael Flick and Debora Kuchey report the results of the 2020 State Tournament of Mathematics.