Evaluation of Empowerment in a High School Geometry Class

摘要

Since the publication of the Curriculum and Evaluation Standards for School Mathematics in 1989, the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics has been encouraging teachers to give more responsibility and choice to students. Students become mathematically empowered as they solve problems together in a community of learners, communicate with one another concerning mathematical ideas, and use reason and logic to defend their work. To teach in accordance with these standards has required teachers to shift the ways in which they view and manage their classrooms (Frye 1991). Teachers are talking less and students are talking more. Students learn to question one another and to present their ideas clearly.