Author: Jack Cook Title: Director Role: Research/tech assistance org Location: Franconia, , NH Date: 10-04-01 Administrators can encourage more "traditional" teachers to use literacy in their mathematics classrooms by doing the following: encouraging a departmental meeting of mathematics teachers to discuss means for getting students into the linguistics of word problems. encouraging mathematics faculty to model the deciphering of word problems using language-based strategies such as vocabulary identification, tying mathematical operations mentioned to mathematical symbols, interpreting questions

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