
IFL Recommends 3/8
This week’s recommendation is a video that provides a history of pi. This is the second part of our two-part series on the history of mathematics. We have also included a list of Pi Day activities curated by the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM).
IFL Recommends 3/1
This week’s recommendation includes a video from TEDEd that shows a brief history of the numerical systems and a timeline of mathematics from Mathigon.
IFL Recommends 2/22
This week’s recommendation is about how student talk moves, via the implementation of high-quality instructional materials in STEM, can provide equitable learning experiences and improve academic outcomes.
IFL Recommends 2/15
This week’s recommendation is an article with some accompany short videos about a third-grade teacher’s lesson in equity and fairness.
IFL Recommends 2/8
This week’s recommendation talks about some of the benefits of yarn crafts and how knitting in particular helped summer Olympian Tom Daley.
IFL Recommends 2/1
In this week’s recommendation, contemporaries of the late activist and author bell hooks pay tribute to her.
IFL Recommends 1/25
This week’s recommendation is an excerpt from Christopher Emdin’s book Ratchetdemic: Reimagining Academic Success, an educational model that can empower students to embrace themselves, their backgrounds, and their education without sacrificing their identities.
IFL Recommends 1/18
In this week’s recommendation, a math teacher shares his experiences as a member of an integrated science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) teaching team, and how transformative professional development has helped him and his students.
IFL Recommends 1/11
This week’s recommendation is segment from Dr. Virginia Loh-Hagan’s model minority myth workshop, “Beyond the Moment: Sustaining a Movement to Amplify APIDA Communities,” from the IFL’s 2021 forum Centering Student & Teacher Voice in the Equity Agenda.
IFL Recommends 1/4
This week’s recommendation is about former kindergarten teacher, now actor, Lauren Ridloff, Marvel Cinematic Universe’s first deaf superhero.