Research
Focus Group Video
Catherine
Catherine shows us how she feels as she goes through the process of solving math problems. Her collage clearly expresses her difficulties and successes with math.
Publication
The Anatomy of Our Focus Groups
When The Math inquiries Project (MiP) decided to sit down with eighth graders to talk about their attitudes and experiences regarding math and algebra, we knew we had to be extremely creative in our approach. While teens love to talk and text message each other for hours on end, would they open up ... Read the full text | See All Reports & Publications →
Focus Group Collages
Chelsea’s Collage
"Some of the words I have are “work,” “to accomplish.”? And in math you have to work, I usually work pretty hard at getting the right answer. Sometimes you have to go back and check your work because before when I was younger, sometimes I wouldn’t read the instructions all the way through, or I wouldn’t like go back and recheck all my work. And that’s what made me get a lot of things wrong because I didn’t go back and check." View the Collage | See All of the Collages →
Focus Group Collages
Haley’s Collage
"I like being creative on how to solve the problem, because sometimes you’re given a problem and you might not have any idea how to solve it; but then half the fun is just trying to work around that problem." View the Collage | See All of the Collages →