RUME 28
2026
Alexandria, Virginia
One Prospective Secondary Mathematics Teacher’s Responsive Task Design Through a Locally-grounded Experience
Page: 1309
In this poster presentation, we share how one prospective secondary mathematics teacher designed a task that centered a local socio-ecological issue. In a secondary mathematics methods course, students were asked to engage in an activity called "Mathematizing Your World", in which they explore their local environment and reflect on the mathematics around them. This poster presents how one student's background knowledge about a local invasive species led them to design a lesson on proportional reasoning rooted in their local environment.