Instructional Nudges with Zandra de Araujo

About this episode

Curtis and Joanie discuss the concept of Instructional Nudges with guest Zandra de Araujo, exploring their impact on student engagement and learning in mathematics.

This episode of Room to Grow, Curtis and Joanie welcome Zandra de Araujo to the podcast. Zandra and her colleagues, Sam Otten and Amber Candella created math classroom “Instructional Nudges,” small tweaks to classroom practice that can make a significant impact on student engagement, learning, and sense making of mathematics. The conversation reveals the origin of the Instructional Nudges project, some specific example nudges and how they work, and the coming soon Instructional Nu...

People in this episode

Hosts: Curtis, Joanie

Guest: Zandra de Araujo

Topics covered

• Instructional Nudges
• student engagement
• mathematics education
• classroom practices
• learning strategies

Keywords

• Instructional Nudges
• student engagement
• mathematics
• classroom practice
• learning
• education

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