Math Playbook 2020

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Presentation
On April 2nd, YPP scholars from the Cambridge Public Schools were planning to share their ideas on how to make middle school math more engaging at the MIT Museum. Event-goers would have experienced explorations led by scholars and listened to their co-design process that highlighted creative ways to teach and learn math. Due to COVID-19, plans were changed. Instead, scholars have highlighted how imaginative, participatory, and collaborative opportunities foster meaningful learning experiences in this online presentation and playbook.

Scratch (BMM Curriculum)

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A SCRATCH curriculum binder, developed by College and High School students from YPP in Greater Boston. This work was supported by a grant from the National Science Foundation's ITEST program ("Bridging Math and Digital Media Literacy Creation").

Flagway Game Day Comic

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Comic of a Flagway game day.

Scratch Road Coloring Module

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YPP Brochure

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YPP Basics

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Flagway Campaign

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Brochure with information on YPP’s National Flagway Campaign

Learning and Teaching, Leading and Organizing

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Learning, Teaching, Leading and Organizing Workshop Outline

Mathematics and Democracy: The Case for Quantitative Literacy

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For both Dewey and Cremin, the matter becomes even more complexwhen we ask what literacy means in a society dedicated to democraticideals and informed by an ethos of individual freedom. In democratic set-tings, Cremin says, it is important to distinguish between what he calls“inert” and “liberating” literacy. As Cremin defines these terms, the for-mer is that level of verbal and numerate skill required to comprehendinstructions, perform routine procedures, and complete tasks in a rotemanner. From a social perspective, this is that measure of literacy we might expect to find applied in a cultural setting in which tradition prevails and customs are securely in place, and where opportunities for freedom, choice, and innovation are limited. To speak of literacy as “lib-erating,” however, assumes a much more challenging standard by whichindividuals command both the enabling skills needed to search out infor-mation and the power of mind necessary to critique it, reflect upon it, andapply it in making decisions. It is only this more expansive and demand-ing meaning of literacy, or what Dewey calls “popular enlightenment,”that can inform and animate a vital democracy. Indeed, Dewey reminds us, a successful democracy is conceivable only when and where individuals are able to “think for themselves,” “judge independently,” and discriminate between good and bad information.

Tiles and Cubes (Sample Math Activity)

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Tiles and Cubes Activities

QECR Policy Statement

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Quality Education as a Constitutional Right policy statement. For more info go to www.qecr.org.

Finding Our Folk Press Kit

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Finding Our Folk Overview, Articles and Pictures

NeighborCircle

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A NeighborCircle is "a good conversation over dinner with neighbors." That's pretty much it. So, why do we need a guide for this? Don't we all already know how to do that? Well, apparently not... Click here to read more.