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Introduction to My Capstone Journey:

I sought to find out if students would rise to the challenges presented to them in a course that many students actively dislike. My research was focused on exploring the benefits of Inquiry-based tasks in a middle school math classroom. For years I had experimented with a few different hands-on tasks in the classroom and had hypothesized that they were more effective than teaching with a direct instructional approach. I also wanted to test how students would respond to content that was at their grade level with minimal remedial teaching. I took this opportunity to put those hypotheses to the test and measure the growth of my students over the course of the school year using inquiry- and project-based styles of teaching and holding students to the grade-level standard required by the state in tandem with consistent work in the classroom around positive mindsets. Positive outcomes would result in higher math scores and greater gains in learning over the course of the school year.