CAREER: Designing and Enacting Mathematically Captivating Learning Experiences for High School Mathematics

We will share the results of our designed based research project on how to design secondary mathematics lessons which shift the aesthetic opportunities of students. We worked with a group of six high school math teachers and used mathematical story framework to explore how mathematics lessons on topics that are typically described as boring or dull by students can instead be described as surprising or intriguing. We learned that designing lessons using the spring Mark shifted the interactions of students and teachers around Mathematics, such as shifting the types of questions that are asked.