Writing Component

A big part of our math curriculum at iMiddle is getting students to be able to explain their thinking in writing. The benefits of writing in math are well-documented. In the excerpt below, Judy Willis explains some of these benefits in an article titled, "The Brain-Based Benefits of Writing for Math and Science Learning."

"When it comes to math and science, writing brings more than literacy and communication advantages. The practice of writing can enhance the brain's intake, processing, retaining, and retrieving of information. Through writing, students can increase their comfort with and success in understanding complex material, unfamiliar concepts, and subject-specific vocabulary. When writing is embedded throughout the curriculum, it promotes the brain's attentive focus to classwork and homework, boosts long-term memory, illuminates patterns, gives the brain time for reflection, and when well-guided, is a source of conceptual development and stimulus of the brain's highest cognition.

The "iMiddle Math Writing Rubric" is a framework for students to write about how they solve a particular problem.