On Not Teaching Addition: A Homeschooling Parent Teaches and Researches Math

Abstract

Interactions with the humans in one’s life can have bearings on the way one interacts with one’s work—and vice versa. In particular, the ways in which a math person who is also a parent interacts with their children can correlate with the ways that person interacts with students, colleagues, and with math itself. This article describes some of that correlation in one mathmom’s life. In particular, this mathmom worked toward balancing, both as a mom and as a teacher, her beliefs and feelings with societal mindsets and practices