{"id":87,"date":"2023-05-01T14:26:40","date_gmt":"2023-05-01T14:26:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mlm.mathematicalthinking.org\/?page_id=87"},"modified":"2023-05-03T13:08:55","modified_gmt":"2023-05-03T13:08:55","slug":"unit-zero","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/mlm.mathematicalthinking.org\/?page_id=87","title":{"rendered":"Unit Zero"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"777\" src=\"https:\/\/mlm.mathematicalthinking.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/UnitZeroFirstPage-1024x777.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-40\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mlm.mathematicalthinking.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/UnitZeroFirstPage-1024x777.png 1024w, https:\/\/mlm.mathematicalthinking.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/UnitZeroFirstPage-300x228.png 300w, https:\/\/mlm.mathematicalthinking.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/UnitZeroFirstPage-768x583.png 768w, https:\/\/mlm.mathematicalthinking.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/UnitZeroFirstPage-1200x911.png 1200w, https:\/\/mlm.mathematicalthinking.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/UnitZeroFirstPage.png 1211w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>As exciting as the VMT environment is, the MLM project recognizes the need for other activities that value and build on students&#8217; assets, experience, and mathematical selves. MLM seeks to support students to become effective collaborators, to feel capable and interested in math, to believe that they belong in math, to take risks, and to show up and persist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Drawing on research in related fields, MLM encourages the use of many effective approaches, including: the 4H\u2019s of Belonging-Centered Math Instruction by Jamaal Matthews, a life values writing exercise, connecting to underrepresented math exemplars, and routines such as \u201cNotice and Wonder\u201d (in both student problem solving and in teacher review of student work), and \u201cWhich One Doesn\u2019t Belong?\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These approaches fit into a Unit Zero, and are woven in throughout the year to sustain and build on the work in VMT.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button is-style-outline is-style-outline--2a07ec6aacc718c675e128eaed42c5ff\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-background-background-color has-text-color has-background no-border-radius\" href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/presentation\/d\/153hoYKg_dGTcu-7FcAgn2EXYmo_px9x3m3rclaU_BE4\/edit?usp=sharing\" style=\"color:#0071a1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Visit our unit zero slide deck<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As exciting as the VMT environment is, the MLM project recognizes the need for other activities that value and build on students&#8217; assets, experience, and mathematical selves. MLM seeks to support students to become effective collaborators, to feel capable and interested in math, to believe that they belong in math, to take risks, and to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-87","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mlm.mathematicalthinking.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/87"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mlm.mathematicalthinking.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mlm.mathematicalthinking.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mlm.mathematicalthinking.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mlm.mathematicalthinking.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=87"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mlm.mathematicalthinking.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/87\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":127,"href":"https:\/\/mlm.mathematicalthinking.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/87\/revisions\/127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mlm.mathematicalthinking.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=87"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}