I found this article on Edutopia.org about reading and writing in the math classroom. I like how this specific articles gives specific examples on how to incorporate reading and writing into a math classroom in upper level grades. It also talks about how generally writing in math concentrates on meta cognitive thinking, such as how a student feels about a concept or topic or how they think they are doing with a specific task. I like how the article connects math and reading by saying how they both utilize both hemispheres of the brain in encoding and transfer of information, it shows how similar these subjects and learning styles can be. One of the ideas I found in the article was about how this teacher had her students create a magazine filled with math references and it showed how they could connect their learning to real world experiences. I feel like this shows how there's more texts in any classroom than just a text book. For math, students have word problems, equations, formulas, all things that they have to be able to read to perform well in math.
Edutopia in general has good information for teachers, under the "Topics" tab there's items such as assessment, teacher development, technology integration, etc. There's multiple videos and articles that pertain to all subjects and even articles about how schools implemented certain ideas such as student-ran museums and art integration that can help engage your classroom. I found a lot of articles specifically about incorporating literacy into the classroom, in science and math classrooms too.
Articles Mentioned:
Reading and Writing in Math Class
Using Science to Bring Literature to Life
Using Stories to Teach Math
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