Many kids find math disconnected from their everyday life. Math word problems intensify this belief because, very often, they are about topics kids do not relate to. In an era of video games and social media in which creativity is a cherised learning outcome, almost all problems a student encounters have been formulated by another person.
In this ongoing project i am trying to explore ways of giving agency to students providing the affordances to create, share, solve and correct their own math homework.
Research
This project is based on different research grounds:
- situated theories of learning aiming to create a community of practice around homework.
- math problem posing: a form of creative activity that can operate within tasks involving structured “rich contexts” using real life artifacts and human interactions
- mobile learning; learning that occur through different contexts of time, topic and space.
The research phase was completed with teachers and students interviews about their pros and cons concerning homework.