Dr. Nicola Hodkowski

1/4 New: Another math expert explains why conceptual understanding is far more important than learning the "correct" steps & procedures. And why inquiry-based teaching works better than direct instruction to help kids develop that conceptual understanding: is.gd/xuISGZ

Engaging math students through concepts rather than processes can drive deeper understanding and retention. Learn how @NHodkowski,and @MINDEduOrg are transforming math education. @EdSurge #MathEducation #MINDEducation hubs.li/Q02zKWbl0

Affirmative action was never a complete answer in the drive towards a more just society. But for generations of students who had been systematically excluded from most of America’s key institutions—it gave us the chance to show we more than deserved a seat at the table. In the wake of the Supreme Court’s recent decision, it’s time to redouble our efforts.

I wanted to share some of my thoughts on today's Supreme Court decision on affirmative action:

Nationally, mathematics achievement on average remains low with glaring inequities across racial and ethnic groups. In this new @EdSurge piece, @NHodkowski and @BrizardJC urge us to focus on approaches that recognize learners’ existing knowledge: bit.ly/45YtzZ9

The "curse of knowledge" can be a dangerous thing, especially as it relates to how we are teaching our students mathematics. This was an insightful piece about how we can begin to close the math achievement gap. edsurge.com/news/2023-06-0… #edtech via @NHodkowski @BrizardJC @EdSurge

To foster success in mathematics, we need to consider what students already know as a way to advance what they don’t yet know, argue Senior Mathematics Education Researcher @NHodkowski and President & CEO @BrizardJC. Read their new @EdSurge piece for more: bit.ly/45YtzZ9

To Close the Math Achievement Gap, We Must Recognize What Students Bring to the Classroom edsurge.com/news/2023-06-0… #edtech via @EdSurge

"To foster success in mathematics, we need to consider what students already know as a way to advance what they don’t yet know." buff.ly/3WXDBWc

2/2 #edWebinar Let’s Get All Your Students Talking and Thinking More About Math @NHodkowski @roschelle63 @DigitalPromise @CignitionTutor home.edweb.net/webinar/math20…

Let’s Get All Your Students Talking and Thinking More About Math 2/2 #edWebinar @NHodkowski @CignitionTutor home.edweb.net/webinar/math20…

Come work with me! Hiring a Mathematics Education Researcher. digitalpromise.org/about/jobs/

I’m a coauthor on this article Our team created & validated a multiplicative reasoning assessment that can serve as a proxy for a student interview. 50 days free access. sciencedirect.com/science/articl… @HthrLynnJ @BingqianWei

"Assessment of multiplicative reasoning validated using Rasch modelling." #OpenAccess free copies of this piece by Ron Tzur, @HthrLynnJ, @NHodkowski, et al. available here: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

@ajpetrosino @HthrLynnJ @COGandINSTR Thank you.

@HthrLynnJ @COGandINSTR @NHodkowski Congratulations on this! Wonderful work---

"Relating children’s spontaneous additive strategy (counting-on, doubling, or break-apart-make-ten) to their multiplicative reasoning." Read more from Ron Tzur, @HthrLynnJ, @NHodkowski, et al. here: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

@geonz @HthrLynnJ @geonz love how you brought this to video life! Would also like to spread.

@HthrLynnJ @NHodkowski Even to my standards it wants more and better visuals -- and maybe it would make everybody just cringe (I'm okay with that!) ... but I'd love to help get this Out There. I really think it's a brain changer.

@geonz @HthrLynnJ Yes! :)

@HthrLynnJ @NHodkowski First I looked at the image w/ one cube different color and wondered why... then realized it was The Thing To Count to figure out how many groups there were. It's such a gateway to deeper thinking ;)

@roschelle63 @DigitalPromise @roschelle63 thank you.

@HthrLynnJ Thanks @HthrLynnJ Purpose of the arrows in the diagram is to represent a possible student’s thinking process when engaging in multiplicative reasoning with tracking both towers and cubes together. The color, well, that’s just what was doable and seemed to work. ;)