Your lesson, should you choose to accept it, is to celebrate math in front of your students as a joyful, relevant, and inclusive subject. The special agent assigned to help you with this task is Shelby Strong of New Orleans, Louisiana.

In our conversation we discuss:

1️⃣ How “I’m not a math person” is rooted in historical inequities and self-protection

2️⃣ Why the narrative we’ve accepted about math being objective and based in rote memorization is completely false

3️⃣ The joy of disrupting how math is taught and perceived in schools

Links to check out:

• The Twitter thread that started this discussion

• “Becoming the Math Teacher You Wish You’d Had” by Tracy Zager

• Shelby’s Edutopia article “When Teachers Overcome Math Anxiety, Students Benefit”

• Interview with Agent Joanna Castellano (Conceptual Math)

• The Black In Math Movement

• Teaching Tolerance (now “Learning For Justice”)

• The #EduColor Movement

• The Disrupt Texts Movement

Shelby’s links:

• Website: www.strongermath.com

• Email: shelby@strongermath.com

• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/StrongerMath

• Twitter: https://twitter.com/Sneffleupagus