Caution: Your Math Attitudes May Be Hazardous to Your Students!

"I hate math!"
"I'm not a math person."
"I can't do math."

These are the kinds of things we routinely hear from our students, and that many of us may feel ourselves. Research shows that these kinds of attitudes can be contagious - if we have negative feelings about math in general or about our math abilities, those attitudes can spread to our students and negatively affect their performance in math classes.

In this workshop, we will spend time:

• identifying our own attitudes towards math
• exploring where those attitudes came from
• experimenting with reframing our negative math attitudes from a more positive, growth-oriented perspective
• addressing how to respond when students or colleagues express negative or self-deprecating math attitudes

Flex Credit

Flex credit is available for this event. Event Code 210823.

Audience

All are welcome.

Presenters

PRIE Committee Tri-chairs

• Lili Knobloch
  
• Gayle Pitman
  
• Rick Woodmansee

Organizer

This workshop is sponsored by the PRIE Committee, which spent the 2020-21 academic identifying actionable steps towards improving math course success rates.

ADA Accessibility

For ADA accessibility accommodations, please contact David Lockwood at LockwoD@scc.losrios.edu. Contact David for disability accommodations only. For general inquiries, please use the contact information listed above.