EPISODE · Jun 3, 2021 · 31 MIN
Episode 47: Farshid Safi: Sense-Making and Adjusting
from Teaching Math Teaching Podcast · host Eva Thanheiser, Dusty Jones, Joel Amidon, Jennifer Wolfe
Farshid Safi shares how learning experiences and life experiences should be connected. We are all influenced by our life experiences, where we are engaged in sense-making, exploration, adjusting, and working with other people towards a goal. These life experiences can inform, and be the setting for, learning experiences in mathematics. He advises us all to be at least as patient with ourselves professionally and personally as we would be with our students. Online resources mentioned in this episode: Mathigon https://mathigon.org/ Desmos https://www.desmos.com/ GeoGebra https://www.geogebra.org/ Field Analysis of Mathematics Education (FAME) Project http://www.projectfame.net/ TMT Podcast Virtual Suggestion Box https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSflSk_-4AvHf0K5Zr9inSynd0pHdF86kx90OLFpl03RvEUaow/viewformSpecial Guest: Farshid Safi.
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Farshid Safi shares how learning experiences and life experiences should be connected. We are all influenced by our life experiences, where we are engaged in sense-making, exploration, adjusting, and working with other people towards a goal. These life experiences can inform, and be the setting for, learning experiences in mathematics. He advises us all to be at least as patient with ourselves professionally and personally as we would be with our students. Online resources mentioned in this episode: Mathigon https://mathigon.org/ Desmos https://www.desmos.com/ GeoGebra https://www.geogebra.org/ Field Analysis of Mathematics Education (FAME) Project http://www.projectfame.net/ TMT Podcast Virtual Suggestion Box https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSflSk_-4AvHf0K5Zr9inSynd0pHdF86kx90OLFpl03RvEUaow/viewformSpecial Guest: Farshid Safi.
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