Improving the Teaching and Learning Culture of Mathematics for Immigrant Children

Authors

  • Guillermo Mendieta

Abstract

Immigrant children are bombarded with negative messages that impact their beliefs and dispositions about schooling, authority, and themselves. Schools can counteract this by providing instruction that includes strategies such as: faculty discussing challenges immigrant students face, focusing on the big mathematics ideas, using multiple representations, and using generative language.

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Published

2024-01-23

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Vol. 1 No. 1 (2009): Teaching for Excellence and Equity in Mathematics (TEEM)

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