Unlabelled Activities with Later Subject Reflection¶

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Description¶

A proposal from the GEMS founder for bringing hidden mathematics into informal STEM activities: "Laura proposes that leaders do not label activities at the beginning but later guide students to reflect on the subject knowledge." After fun activities, leaders would ask which categories, science or mathematics, were used that day. It is a participant's proposal reported in interview, not a tested practice.

Design Implications¶

Context¶

Requirements¶

• Leaders run fun, hands-on activities without announcing the subject at the start.
• At the end, leaders guide students to reflect on the subject knowledge they used.

Constraints¶

• Reported as the founder's proposal; the article reports no implementation or outcomes.

Target Learners¶

• Girls in an informal afterschool STEM club (GEMS) and their club leaders

Target Learning Goals¶

• Recognizing the mathematics embedded in STEM activities

Related Strategies¶

• Informal Learning
• Mystery Motivator

Examples¶

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Key Sources¶

• Lili Zhou. (2023). Humanizing Mathematics through Boundary Crossing Collaboration. Proceedings of the forty-fifth annual meeting of the North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education (Vol. 2). https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED658339