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Students in my classroom are not as engaged as I would like for them to be able to succeed in mathematics. They are timid when asked to express themselves or offer solutions. They also have been so used to isolation from distance learning during quarantine that they are rarely engaging one another in collaborative discourse when needing to "solve a problem". In short, I want to surround my classroom with writing surfaces for students to work at in collaborative settings. With multiple whiteboards around my classroom, I can give students space and equipment that facilitates meaningful discourse, promotes team building, and gives them greater visualization of solutions through multiple expressions. This will help overcome some of the deficiencies I have noticed that seem exacerbated by distance learning. My hope is that in getting kids out of their seats, working regularly in small groups, they will gain confidence in their ability to express themselves, arrive at solutions, make connections, and see multiple modes of representation. There are many NVACs standards that will be promoted from these shared workspaces, but one in particular is: F-IF.C: Analyze functions using different representations. Also, the quick access to large surfaces and readily available coordinate grids will make working with data and graphing considerably faster and more approachable for students, thus meeting standards: S-ID.A, and B: Summarizing, representing, and interpreting categorical and quantitative data.
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