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Math education answers the question

"How do we teach?"

 

It needs to answer the question

"How do we learn?"

What are the differences?

What are the challenges?

Implemented open ended tasks

Implemented open ended tasks

Focus on students doing the work

Implemented open ended tasks

Focus on students doing the work

A big push on academic discourse

Implemented open ended tasks

Focus on students doing the work

A big push on academic discourse

It was hard!

Lesson learned

It's so much easier when you give kids something interesting to discuss

"Turn to your table partner and take turns explaining what each of the terms in a quadratic expression equate to when applied to projectile motion"

VS

"Do flying fish actually fly"

Not a parabola 

(graph of quadratic equation)

acceleration / gravity

velocity / speed

position / height

Lesson learned

It's so much easier when you give kids something interesting to discuss

"Alicia and Frank both have containers. They mark their containers with tenths and fill each container to seven tenths. Why does Frank have more Orange Juice than Alicia?

VS

"How can a half be bigger than a whole?"

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DISCOURSE

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visual problem solving

One last thing on the power of visual questions...

Rank these questions in order of difficulty for students

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To ensure that all students are mathematically equipped to solve the world's most challenging problems.

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EdWeb: Empowering Teachers

By Nigel Nisbet

EdWeb: Empowering Teachers

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