A new method of teaching math is coming to several Mesquite ISD classrooms after a teacher wanted to help struggling students.
Come and pull up a chair in Deborah Harper’s senior-level math class, there are plenty to go around because the students don’t use them.
They meet their partner for the day, are on their feet and actively work on the board on a series of math problems they’ve never seen before. "That is traditional math, I do a problem, we do a problem, now you do a problem. And as long as they can follow the exact steps, very successful, we call it mimicking," said Harper."If I'm writing and I'm talking, their brain can't process. They're just trying to keep up.
"It blew me away. This works very well. And it's worked very well for three years from day one," she said."As we gradually get through more problems, then it gets a little bit harder. That's when stuff gets more challenging. Because the first one that we just had the minus, and that was a little bit confusing, but we got it.
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