{"id":133,"date":"2012-11-12T09:00:18","date_gmt":"2012-11-12T17:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newwww.hmc.edu\/about-hmc\/?p=133"},"modified":"2014-08-21T13:16:31","modified_gmt":"2014-08-21T20:16:31","slug":"hmc-math-professors-adventure-teaching-high-school-math-featured-in-ams-notices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/2012\/11\/12\/hmc-math-professors-adventure-teaching-high-school-math-featured-in-ams-notices\/","title":{"rendered":"HMC Math Professor&#8217;s Adventure Teaching High School Math Featured in AMS Notices"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_134\" style=\"width: 210px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/02\/Yong_272.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-134\" class=\"size-full wp-image-134\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/02\/Yong_272.jpg\" alt=\"Darryl Yong\" width=\"200\" height=\"235\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-134\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Darryl Yong<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Darryl Yong, associate professor of mathematics, shares his experience teaching high school math in the November issue of the American Mathematical Society publication Notices.<\/p>\n<p>For his sabbatical, Yong spent the 2009-2010 academic year teaching\u2014Algebra 1, Algebra 2, Geometry and a mathematics intervention class\u2014at a Los Angeles public high school.<\/p>\n<p>He chronicled his journey in a blog and later <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/28387606\">presented on the subject<\/a> at Park City Mathematics Institute.<\/p>\n<p>In the Notices article, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ams.org\/notices\/201210\/rtx121001408p.pdf\">Adventures in Teaching: A Professor Goes to High School to Learn about Teaching Math<\/a>,\u201d Yong discusses his experience and the four lessons he drew from it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is not the story of a professor coming down from his ivory tower and becoming outraged by the horrors of how children are taught in schools,\u201d writes Yong. \u201cThis article conveys one person\u2019s perceptions of the struggles that novice teachers face in one school and discusses what the general public rarely hears about public education.\u201d<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Read the article \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ams.org\/notices\/201210\/rtx121001408p.pdf\">Adventures in Teaching: A Professor Goes to High School to Learn about Teaching Math<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Darryl Yong, associate professor of mathematics, shares his experience teaching high school math in the November issue of the American [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"class_list":["post-133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mathematics"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}