What is ADD ME?
Affective Domain Development in Mathematics Education (ADD ME) is a professional learning program and research project designed to support and measure the impact of explicit focus on affective development in mathematics instruction and assessment. ADD ME integrates research on culturally-responsive and equity-focused mathematics teaching with decades of work that has argued for the importance of affective development for student learning, particularly in mathematics.
What does ADD ME mean by affective development?
ADD ME focuses on value as a critical component of affective development in accordance with the five-level continuum of the affective domain introduced by Krathwohl et al. (1964). Defined in this way, affective development refers to the extent to which students are open to new learning and ultimately able to integrate this new learning into their existing personal value systems. This is consistent with research on funds of knowledge and the evidence that the diverse values and experiences students bring from their homes and communities should be leveraged as resources for mathematics teaching and learning.
What does ADD ME do?
In ADD ME, we aim to offer a clear, easy-to-use framework to guide teachers in their focus on affective development in mathematics and provide a mathematics-specific rubric for assessment of both teachers’ focus on affective development in their practice and students’ resulting growth. Just as Bloom’s Taxonomy is often used to understand and guide development of learning objectives and high-cognitive demand mathematical tasks, the ADD ME framework helps teachers to understand what it means to provide opportunities for mathematical experiences that support high-level affective development in mathematics.