Group Members: Arsema, Dash, Timell

PART 1: RESEARCH - Your group will research information regarding brain science, math
dispositions, and/or possible “solutions” to reversing math mindset pollution.

Possible questions to consider in researching:

● Why is it important to learn math?

● How does your mindset affect your approach to learning?
● How do others talk about math? How does that affect us?
● How does media (TV, movies, social media, music, etc) influence our thinking about
math?
● Are you born “smart” or not? (brain science)
● How do demographics play a role in math mindsets?
● CREATE YOUR OWN

Potential Sources:
Khan Academy - Growth Mindset

YouCubed - Unlocking Children’s Math Potential

YouCubed - Brain Science

TedTalk - The power of believing that you can improve

Mindset Works

Everyone Can Learn Mathematics to High Levels: The Evidence from Neuroscience

FIND YOUR OWN SOURCE

Research Findings

Source 1: Link Here https://www.apa.org/education-career/guide/subfields/brain-science

 Our brain is the most important part of our body. It’s what gets us to do what we do in our
everyday life. They are doing some research on seeing the brain doing work.

Source 2: Link Here

https://healthtalk.unchealthcare.org/does-your-child-have-fortnite-fever/#:~:text=Your%20Br
ain%20on%20Fortnite&text=%E2%80%9CIf%20you're%20playing%20more,looks%20like%20i
n%20your%20mind.

Summarize what you learned from this resource in 3 to 5 sentences:

This told me that Fortnite helps your brain grow. It helps by giving you perseverance even
when you're not getting victory royals. It helps your mind and helps you not give up on math.

Source 3: Link Here

https://onlinemathcenter.com/blog/math/learn-math-with-detective-stories/

Summarize what you learned from this resource in 3 to 5 sentences:

Data Drop:

Include AT LEAST 1 data visual (graphs, tables, charts, etc) you found during your research
related to math mindsets and/or how to learn:

PART 2: SURVEY QUESTION CREATION- Your group will create survey questions for our data
collection.

We are co-creating one survey to collect data about people’s dispositions towards math and
their general mindsets. You responded to this survey on the first day of How to Learn Math.

Your task as a group is to come up with 2 to 3 statements for our survey that can be responded
to on a scale of strongly disagree to strongly agree.
Disagree to Agree Survey Statements
These statements should be related to beliefs, mindsets, experiences, strategies, etc regarding
math and how we learn.

Statement 1: Do you think the brain helps you learn things?

Statement 2: Perseverance is a huge part of math and Fortnite really helps people not give up

Statement 3:

Score Rubric

10 3 sources related to math mindsets and/or how we learn were researched

and summarized with 5 sentences each
1+ source was outsourced (found on your own)
1+ data visual was included
3 statements were created for our survey that can be responded to on an
agree/disagree scale related to math beliefs, mindsets, experiences,
strategies, etc.

9 2 sources related to math mindsets and/or how we learn were researched

and summarized with 3-5 sentences each
1 data visual was included
3 statements were created for our survey that can be responded to on an
agree/disagree scale related to math beliefs, mindsets, experiences,
strategies, etc.

8 2 sources somewhat related to math mindsets and/or how we learn were

researched and summarized with 2-3 sentences each
Data visual missing
2 statements were created for our survey that can be responded to on an
agree/disagree scale related to math beliefs, mindsets, experiences,
strategies, etc.
7 1-2 sources slightly related to math mindsets and/or how we learn were
researched and summarized with less than 3 sentences each
Data visual missing
1-2 statements were created for our survey that were off topic or could not
be responded to on an agree/disagree scale