Volume 3, Edition 4 – Teaching Patterns & Functions through Dance

Welcome to this edition of Best Practices Weekly. Today we’ll be discussing best practices for using multiple learning styles, including kinesthetic dance, to teach patterns and functions to elementary school students.

It is a well-accepted best practice to use multiple learning styles when teaching different concepts. In an article for Teaching Children Mathematics, researchers from the University of Toronto and a Toronto elementary school teacher demonstrate creative and effective ways to teach patterns and functions through, among other things, the use of dance.

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