What if everyone of your students actually loved math?
Now, you can make the impossible a reality, and your students will race to complete your math problems.
Math teachers want more for their students than routine lessons and weekly test scores. You want them to engage in a productive struggle, without quitting in frustration. You want them to think like mathematicians. You want them to desire to learn more.
In Hacking Mathematics, teacher, author, and math consultant Denis Sheeran shows you how to hack your instructional approach and assessment procedures, in order to promote an amazing culture of mathematical inquiry and engagement that very few students ever see.
What you can do tomorrow
• Increase relevant connections between your students and the content
• Use homework effectively, removing the frustration and anxiety around it
• Connect with the global community of math educators
• Question everything, provide meaningful feedback, and teach your students to do the same
Hacking Mathematics puts you in control of the change that is happening around problem solving in math class. Read it now and embrace the change.
Denis Sheeran has done it again! Using his buoyant and breezy style of writing, he has written a critically timely book to help all math teachers navigate the complex world of digital kids, social media, and emergent pedagogy. Written with the acute and authoritative framework of a "white paper", but with the signature humor and empathy of Sheeran, Hacking Mathematics is easily one of the most accessible and desirable reads that I have come across in the crowded field of math education books! Sheeran, with his vast experience as a classroom teacher, musician, and sports coach has woven his charming prose with today's cultural references to create a book that will be an instant game-changer in every math classroom! At the vacant intersection of Practicality and Personality is where you will find the long-awaited Hacking Mathematics!
Sunil Singh
Author of Pi of Life: The Hidden Happiness of Mathematics
Denis Sheeran captures ten easy changes that any math teacher at any grade level can apply in their classrooms tomorrow to make their lessons more engaging and relevant. Busy teachers will appreciate the fact that he not only highlights changes that should be made but gives step-by-step directions for implementing each change. This book will make any teacher think critically about how their day-to-day classroom decisions can create an environment where students value and explore mathematics.
As math teachers, we naturally ask our students a lot of questions. But, are we asking our students the right questions? Denis Sheeran tackles this question and many other easy-to-implement changes that math teachers can make tomorrow to increase student engagement in their classrooms.
Sarah Carter
High School Math Teacher and Author of Math = Love Blog
Dive into this easy to read book full of hacks that solve some of the biggest problems math teachers face in their classrooms. Denis Sheeran takes on the problems created through using many of the traditional math lesson routines and provides the reader with easy to implement strategies that not only eliminate the problem, but also promote deeper student understanding. From hacks to address problems around homework, warm-up routines and math practice to making math relevant to keep students engaged in learning and loving math, it is clear that Sheeran has very carefully selected 10 problems that are worth solving in your math classroom. This is a book I would gladly give any teacher in my district to help them think differently about how we can most effectively deliver our math curriculum.Kyle PearceK-12 Mathematics Consultant
A must read for all teachers of mathematics. It's time to take an honest look at traditional math teaching, get real about that which doesn't work, and innovate around ways to "hack" our instruction in order to engage students in creative problem solving and innovation that will improve learning and improve lives.
Amy Fast
High school assistant principal and author of It's the Mission, Not the Mandates
Denis Sheeran delivers again with Hacking Mathematics. It is the perfect guide for making math come alive in the classroom with practical ideas for bringing the world into the classroom, shifting that dreaded homework review into an active practice time, and so, so much more. This book offers 10 useful math hacks that all teachers of math will be able to implement into their classrooms tomorrow. Margie Pearse, Math Consultant and Co-author of Teaching Numeracy, Learning that Never Ends, & Passing the Mathematics Test for Elementary Teachers
