Tiny Polka Dot at home: First-grade Fun during Crisis Distance Learning
The award winning game Tiny Polka Dot by Math for Love is anything but a single game, rather its a deck of multiple representations of the numbers zero to ten […]
Author Archives: Dr. Zavala
Bird of Paradise: A Hip-Hop Journalist’s Journey through Time
“I start senior year at the same and possibly large High School in the Bronx that Angel went to. I feel like I’m entering a prison every morning. Thousands of […]
Talking Race and Math with Kids: Infusing Quantitative Lenses into Read-Alouds
Summary: This is a very long post about essentially this: Young children are brilliant. Traditional schooling, whether at home or in brick and mortar buildings, socializes a lot of the […]
Of Past, Present, and Future STEM Selves
Representation matters. Kids need to see people who look like themselves reflected in the world around them, and in jobs and roles that perhaps they haven’t thought about as accessible […]
Back to School Part II: Listening to Learn about Mathematics Equity and Social Justice
As you might have noticed, I wrote a back to school blog part 1, and then promptly stopped writing blog entries. This is because much of creative energy since September […]
Back to School Part 1: Challenging Deficit Language in the Math Classroom
“Let’s talk about the common misconceptions kids have with fractions.” I cringe. I, like many others, have been thinking a lot about the language we use to describe children in […]
Top 5 (er, 6 or 7) Resources for Mathematics Teacher Educators
The Association of Mathematics Teacher Educators recently invited me to join the Equity Committee. I am very excited to announce that I agreed, and am honored to be able […]
TODOS Keynote 2018: Embracing Personal and Professional Disequilibrium in a Quest for Social Justice in Mathematics Education
I had the distinct pleasure of being invited to give the TODOS: Math for All! 2018 Conference Keynote address on June 21, 2018 in Scottsdale, Arizona. This blog post is the […]
Teaching, Learning, and Loving Mathematics 