Journal article
“I Eat What You Grow”: High School Partners Write about Geometry across a Big Backyard
International journal of the humanities, Vol.9(9), pp.233-250
2012
DOI: 10.18848/1447-9508/CGP/v09i09/43340
Abstract
This article investigates how high school students, marginalized by geography, ethnicity, social class, and test scores, collaborate and solve problems when they write across 1500 miles. Begun through a grant-funded pilot project, this classroom partnership links disparate and institutionally misunderstood cultures. Rural Iowa and urban Massachusetts students converse about geometry with “low-tech” media (paper, pencil, and mail), and “distance” technologies (Skype, disposable cameras, and email). We document what happens when we link writing and math, urban and rural, allow students to share, articulate, and apply geometric concepts. Under testing pressures, across language and cultural differences—students explore, problem-solve, and describe how the curriculum fits into their (and one another’s) worlds. It illustrates how theory, practice, and research intersect in learning and teaching Math and English.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- “I Eat What You Grow”: High School Partners Write about Geometry across a Big Backyard
- Creators
- Bonnie S. SunsteinRossina Z. LiuArthur W. HunsickerDeidra F. Baker
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- International journal of the humanities, Vol.9(9), pp.233-250
- DOI
- 10.18848/1447-9508/CGP/v09i09/43340
- ISSN
- 1447-9508
- eISSN
- 1447-9559
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 2012
- Academic Unit
- English; Teaching and Learning
- Record Identifier
- 9984371301002771
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