To begin, I want to welcome you to my class. I hope you'll start the year with a growth mindset, believing that intelligence is malleable and is developed through hard work and perseverance. Your past performance in math does not determine your success or failure this year. Every one of you can be successful in my classes as long as:
You believe that there is no such thing as a dumb question.
You attribute your successes and failures to your actions.
You accept failure as a milestone toward success.
You actively engage with the text.
I am here to challenge you (your brain), using research-based neuroscience and learning theories with an emphasis on developing strategies to apply mathematical concepts, making sense of problems, abstract thinking, and critiquing reasoning.
If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough