Mathematics, secondary education, high school, Education, Multicultural, Educational equalization, equalization 

Demonstrates how connecting real-life activities with mathematical concepts, and building on students' knowledge and experiences, can help them excel in the classroom. Strategies that can immediately be implemented to help students form better connections with the content they are studying are also described. 

Enhancing the learning environment through student-led mathematical discussions / Fran Arbaugh, Patricia L. Avery --
Facilitating whole-class discussions in diverse classrooms: strategies for engaging all students / Rebecca Mcgraw, David Romero, Robert Krueger --
Mathematics instruction and academic English: adapting problems for varying English proficiencies / Kerry Anne Enright --
Help one, help all / Julie Sliva Spitzer, Dorothy Y. White, Alfinio Flores --
Yes, you can: teaming to support lower-attaining students in accessing algebra / Sandie Gilliam, Megan E. Staples, Jennifer Roberts Lahey --
Using a "New Synthesis of Reading in Mathematics" to encourage disadvantaged high school students to act like a community of mathematicians / Janet St. Clair, Jamye Witherspoon Carter, Sibyl Yvette St. Clair --
Generating problems, conjectures, and theorems with interactive geometry: an environment for fostering mathematical thinking by all students / José N. Contreras --
Egyptian fractions, a graphing calculator, and rational functions: 200 BC mathematics with AD 2000 tools / Armando M. Martinez-Cruz, José N. Contreras --
Moving from deficiencies to possibilities: some thoughts on differentiation in one mathematics classroom / Mark W. Ellis --
Why discourse deserves our attention! / Beth Herbel-Eisenmann, Michelle Cirillo, Kathryn Skowronski --
Discussions of mathematical thinking: engaging all students in learning mathematics / George W. Bright, Jeane M. Joyner --
Learning from one another: why and how to do classroom observations with your colleagues / Fran Arbaugh.