Author Archives: Yvonne Lai

From Teaching Math to Teaching Students Math

Posted on October 17, 2021 by Yvonne Lai

by Yvonne Lai (University of Nebraska-Lincoln) I did not want to present. Someone had selected my solution to a geometry problem to present at a Mathfest 1996 session. I wasn’t sure who this person was, but I knew already that … Continue reading →

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Best-Laid Co-Plans for a Lesson on Creating a Mathematical Definition

Posted on May 6, 2021 by Yvonne Lai

By: Steven Boyce, Portland State University Michael Ion, University of Michigan Yvonne Lai, University of Nebraska-Lincoln Kevin McLeod, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Laura Pyzdrowski, West Virginia University Ruthmae Sears, University of South Florida Julia St. Goar, Merrimack College All authors contributed … Continue reading →

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Mastery Grading for Future Elementary School Teachers

Posted on February 26, 2021 by Yvonne Lai

By Emily McMillon and George Nasr (University of Nebraska-Lincoln) We—Emily McMillon and George Nasr—are graduate students at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. We implemented mastery based testing for two sections of a course on geometry for pre-service elementary teachers during the … Continue reading →

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The Calculus of Context

Posted on November 30, 2020 by Yvonne Lai

by Yvonne Lai (University of Nebraska-Lincoln) It is 2020. You are taking a high school mathematics teacher licensure exam. Suppose you see these questions. What do you do? What do you think? (Warning: Your head may spin. These are not … Continue reading →

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Square peg in an octagonal hole

Posted on April 14, 2020 by Yvonne Lai

Interview with Ari Nieh, with commentary from Yvonne Lai Like many of us, I began teaching online this Spring. Unlike many of us, I began doing so at the start of the semester. I am co-teaching a class at Michigan … Continue reading →

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Help! I need to teach my course online and I’ve never done this before

Posted on March 16, 2020 by Yvonne Lai

By: Yvonne Lai, University of Nebraska-Lincoln Ray Levy, Mathematical Association of America This is cross-posted in MathValues and Abbe Herzig has written a companion post. Additional resources and future meetings are also available here: https://tinyurl.com/OnlineTalkshop. In times of crisis we … Continue reading →

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Teaching math in prison

Posted on February 6, 2020 by Yvonne Lai

By: Kristin Pfabe, Nebraska Wesleyan University “I am sad this class is going to be over,” said one student. “What am I going to do with myself?” asked another during the last week of an Intermediate Algebra class that I … Continue reading →

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