Project News

Teachers are saying about teaching the materials

• Teaching math using the Mindset materials is more fun.
•  I find myself not dreading planning or teaching the same old material in class.
• The MINDSET materials have made me more enthusiastic about teaching mathematics and have helped me realize that students can get notes without being lectured to. 
• The MINDSET materials have made me aware at how little students are expected to think independently prior to a concept being taught.
• Teaching linear programming max and min in context is the best way to teach it.
• This material made me realize that even simple math taught in a real-world context can be a powerful tool to motivate students and get them excited about learning math.

Teachers are saying about their students

• The MINDSET material has surprised me.  I have noticed that my students are better able to take notes without direct instruction.  Since all learning is problem based, students must decide what is important and ensure that it goes into their notes. 
• My students are engaged in class and this makes my life easier. 
• My students enjoy coming to class and working on the concepts. 
• They were all engaged and were thinking at a higher level...it was amazing to see as a teacher.
• Students like the fact that they are not just taking notes and doing worksheets
• Students really enjoyed the real-world usefulness of this.
• They took real ownership of the problem because they got to make decisions based on their own preferences and rankings. They enjoyed completing the problem.
• My students did really well with the car insurance problem.  They were excited to learn new terms like “premium” and “deductible.”  They worked well together and were thinking at a higher level.
• My students really got into the NASA problem.  They found it interesting that despite the probability of an accident, space shuttles were still launched.  They were engaged in our discussion of this problem.

What Student's are saying....

• "I was really excited to finally learn some math I would use in the future."
• "One thing that excited me was that we don't just do Algebra, we do things I've never even heard of!"
• “When I did the critical paths, I was happy about how well I understood it and I actually could use that in my everyday life but did not know.”
  

Thanks to Krystle Corbin, Margaret Lumsden, Caroline Geel, Jamie Blanchard, Robin Dixon and Rob Sharpe for submitting their feedback forms and supplying these excerpts.