Amazon Packaging Play TIME!
POP: How might I engage students in authentic real-world projects while balancing content and skills? Displayed package designs - left side Maximizes Volume and right side Minimizes Volume Background: My original POP focused on the balance between acquisition of...
The MTA got me in my feelings!
Our students (and staff!) have so many feelings about the MTA, mostly disappointment and frustration. At the start of this semester, I wondered how I could create the final project for my Calculus to allow for them to: Share their personal lived experiences Personally...
Decisions, Decisions, Decisions
This semester, as students wrap up their PBAT essays, wrap up their content learning, and wrap up their super special time with me learning about Trigonometry, I began to think about the same question over and over again. "How can I get students to think more for...
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Amazon Packaging Project
Background: I was recently inspired to restructure my Final Geometry project based on a conversation I had with a Project Based Learning professor from University of Pennsylvania. I mentioned to Wallace during my midyear meetings that I wished my projects were more...
How might we incorporate authentic reflection opportunities for students to make real mathematical decisions and justify them?
As I develop drafts of projects for my students, I am constantly thinking about ways to inspire THEM to do the thinking. If I give them a project filled with steps, am I robbing them of the decision-making workout that we need as adults to thrive in this world? If I...
But what’s that got to do with me?
Last semester, I wanted my PreCalculus students to have the opportunity do what mathematicians do. I wanted to embed opportunities for my students to do authentically engage in the core practices of the discipline of mathematics, specifically for them to ask and...
Without Proofs, Life is FALSE
Background: I have been teaching Geometry for a few years now and LOVE teaching proofs. Students are asked to identify appropriate evidence that supports a claim, use logic and deductive reasoning, construct accurate mathematical representations, use...
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