The COVID pandemic has been a great challenge for the Chilean school system. All primary and secondary schools closed just when the school year was starting. This situation has mobilized the Chilean Ministry of Education, school communities, and universities, to provide support and guidance for teachers, parents, and children. For instance, a prioritized curriculum was developed for 2020-2021, as well as new orientations for the teaching of math and other subject matters. In this talk we will discuss some of these nationwide efforts and share mathematics teachers’ experiences with distance teaching. We will also present some principles and ideas to develop online mathematical tasks, drawn from our teacher professional program, that can be useful for mathematics teachers.
Salomé Martínez is a professor at the Universidad de Chile and Director of the Laboratory of Mathematical Education, Center for Mathematical Modeling, University of Chile. She is also Director of the UNESCO Chair: "Preparing teachers to teach math in the 21st century," a recipient of the UNESCO-Hamdan Bin Rashid Al Maktoum Prize for Outstanding Practice and Performance in Enhancing the Effectiveness of Teachers, and a corresponding member of the Chilean Academy of Science.
Supplementary Materials are listed below:
Lesson demonstrations (in Spanish): http://sumaysigue.cmm.uchile.cl/demos/
Laboratory of Mathematical Education, Center for Mathematical Modeling, University of Chile website: https://cmmedu.uchile.cl/
Booklets and videos (in English): https://www.dropbox.com/sh/ytchbhswu5hvwwg/AACQfrq_0pL0Upv74HGxOCJaa?dl=0
Alice in Randomland, A Mathematical Adventure books:
http://sumaysigue.cmm.uchile.cl/links/alicia.html
Newspaper interview with Salomé Martinez (in Spanish): https://www.latercera.com/que-pasa/noticia/salome-martinez-la-profesora-chilena-invitada-a-relatar-en-eeuu-como-los-docentes-del-pais-han-debido-hacer-clases-en-linea/TYW6C7775FE7JN3TKC52M4Y4UI/