"Keeping It Simple
I also learned over the years that asking straightforward, simply-worded questions can be just as effective as those intricate ones. With that in mind, if you are a new teacher or perhaps not so new but know that question-asking is an area where you'd like to grow, start tomorrow with these five" - then add to your bag of tricks regularly.
"She says it gives her the opportunity to do more demonstrations and students are getting more attention than ever before." - Some of our DSF teachers are doing this and it is worth discussing strategies that work and activities that engage during class time.
"You've seen the tasks. You've read the research. You're basically bought in. But how do you begin? More importantly, how do you introduce students to inquiry driven learning?"
"In my honors Algebra II class of sophomores, I always look forward to doing a culminating project on quadratics. We start at the beginning of the chapter with introducing the project and having the kids break up into groups of 3 and 4 and start designing and building a catapult outside of school. "
A free, flexible, nine-week online course that will allow K-16 educators to learn about how deeper learning can be put into practice. Might be interesting to pop into.
"I'm a high-school math teacher completely frustrated with new math, reform math, fuzzy math, the color of math, talking about math, literacy across the curriculum and all those other things that get in the way of students actually learning math, not to mention the ever-present "You need to help raise our scores by taking one day a week to go over test-taking skills" and other administrative folderol."
Web-based screen recorder. Create and share screencasts on the web. Nothing to install or download. PC and MAC Maybe for some little flipped class-type activities that students want to create.
"David Cox sent his students through Function Carnival where they tried to graph the motion of different carnival rides. (Try it!)
Every student's initial graph was wrong. No one got it exactly right the first time. But Function Carnival doesn't display a percent score or hint tokens or some kind of Bayesian probability they'll get the next graph right. It just shows students what their graph means for that ride. Then it lets them revise."
"The Neukom Institute for Computational Science, at Dartmouth College, is offering prizes for high school students who create 4-minute movies that show the world of equations we live in. In 240 seconds, using animation, story-telling, humor, or anything you can think of, show us what you see: the patterns, the abstractions, the patterns within the abstractions."
