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24: Voices from the Field with Andrew Gael
From The Educators MathCast · Hosted by Mike Flynn & Zak Champagne
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In this episode of The Educators MathCast: In this Voices from the Field episode, Zak sits down with Andrew Gael, a mathematics teacher at the Cooke School and Institute in New York City. Andrew shares what he has learned from teaching mathematics to students with disabilities and how those experiences have shaped the way he thinks about access, independence, and what it means to do rigorous mathematics. The conversation explores how we can create math classrooms that honor the different ways students think and…
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In this Voices from the Field episode, Zak sits down with Andrew Gael, a mathematics teacher at the Cooke School and Institute in New York City. Andrew shares what he has learned from teaching mathematics to students with disabilities and how those experiences have shaped the way he thinks about access, independence, and what it means to do rigorous mathematics. The conversation explores how we can create math classrooms that honor the different ways students think and learn, without lowering our expectations for what they are capable of.