Post #4: Disciplinary Text Set
When investigating my inquiry topic, the Pythagorean Theorem, I went about finding texts for a specific group of students. I imagine to be teaching an 8th grade classroom of math students, since that is when the Pythagorean Theorem is first introduced and used. I also picture the group of students to be wonderfully diverse! This means a couple different things. Not only would the students be culturally diverse, but also very neurologically diverse. I wanted texts that would support the learning needs of students with nuero-diversity, specifically thinking of students with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD)- to match my certificate in ASD. I think these texts work really well together. I have a couple texts, such as the Interactive GeoGebra activity and the Math is Fun website's explanation of the Pythagorean Theorem's proof, that are great for introducing the topic. I then would use my Cut-The-Knot website article to help students dive deeper into different versions of the proof th...
