Perplexity SPS

One of my pet peeves - I'm always tempted to actually try paying with a penny and insist that I shouldn't have to pay any more.

My 3 act line segment length lesson

" Come up with a formula that will use the information that matters and then return a number to tell us who did the best and worst job drawing the midpoint." Interesting way to introduce midpoint and assess which formula suggested was "best." There are follow-ups with drawing the best triangle, square, and circle. (I would definitely do triangle & square - teacher's guide shows examining largest areas possible given the perimeter as the best solution!)

This is a table we created to organize perplexing elementary math tasks by standard. 

Here is the link to the K three act task. https://docs.google.com/a/sudbury.k12.ma.us/document/d/1RjxV30RLMFx-a0Z0WnLaYpbuU4peNA1ehMS_fk1GWEw/edit

This is a library of word problems turned into videos created by students.

Dan Meyer's 3-Act Lessons

Melting ice cube increases the volume of a glass of water

Here is a picture of weight capacity in various units - standard and non standard.

this is for use in the melting glacier problem for AMII, how much ice needs to melt for the water levels to raise 3 feet.

This site from Dan Meyer has videos used specifically to get students to graph a story.

Perplexity Course Summer 2013 (Dan Meyer - in class website)

This is a video looking at equilateral triangles and properties of triangles 

Here are some directions for making videos that illustrate story problems.

How long will it take for a rock to fall? Fits in Quadratic Unit heights and times.

This is a cool page with some different scenarios for students to graph.