Volume 1, Edition 31 – Using a Student-Friendly Rubric for Writing about Math

Welcome to this week’s edition of Best Practices Weekly. Today we’ll be discussing using a student-friendly rubric to help teach students how to write about math.

Teachers know that in math instruction it’s effective for students to write about their mathematical thinking and that in writing instruction it’s effective to use clear, student-friendly rubrics. In an article for Teaching Children Mathematics, a mathematics education instructor at Bucknell University and a classroom teacher discuss a useful way to combine the two practices.

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