A mathematical hat made by Patrick Honner’s students as part of an award-winning lesson plan. Image: Patrick Honner.
Many math teachers have a hands-on approach to their subject, but those hands aren’t usually covered in finger paint. Scott Goldthorp, however, sometimes teaches messy math classes. Goldthorp, a teacher at Rosa International Middle School in Cherry Hill, New Jersey, was the grand prize winner of the inaugural Rosenthal Prize for innovation in math teaching, sponsored by the recently openedMuseum of Mathematics and awarded during MoMath’s opening week last December.
The Rosenthal Prize aims both to provide incentives to outstanding math teachers with new ideas and to disseminate those ideas as widely as possible. In addition to cash prizes, Goldthorp and runner-up Patrick Honner will have their winning lessons distributed to schools around the country later this year.
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