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Yundan Pi admits that she was not prepared for her duties as a teaching fellow.
The Cambridge Public School Committee met with a group of mathematics experts last night for a roundtable discussion on the latest trends in teaching mathematics in public schools.
Committee members also discussed the need for more creativity in teaching math to children. Nat Stahl—representing the nonprofit math education organization, The Math Project—emphasized the need for math “to be a discussion of ideas rather than development of skills.?...
Pi, a third-year graduate student in the Earth and Planetary Sciences Department, served as a teaching fellow for an advanced course in her department last spring, but she says she did not feel completely comfortable communicating with her students.
So when the Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning extended a pilot pedagogy course this spring targeted at graduate students who are non-native English speakers, Pi says she pounced on the “wonderful opportunity.”