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This course will build on practices and knowledge established in Math Methods I. The focus remains on the design of high-quality mathematics experiences inclusive of student needs, identities, points of view, and lived experiences. This course is deliberately designed to increase participants’ knowledge of, and ability to enact, exploration/discovery-based lessons, differentiation, critical consciousness, and culturally relevant pedagogy. Participants will engage in discussion and implementation of practices related to differentiated instruction (e.g., modifying tasks to promote student choice and challenge; adjusting lesson delivery for cognitive strategy, explicit/direct instruction, and explicit inquiry instruction; etc.) with close attention to equitable mathematical discourse. Participants will learn to incorporate Funds of Knowledge, Culturally Specific Pedagogy, Social Justice Mathematics, and Ethno-mathematics principles into their data collection and instructional planning. Participants are expected to apply their work from this course to their fieldwork settings. This will provide them with the opportunity to reflect, revise, and develop new understandings about the impact of teaching on student learning.