Guestbook / Open Mic
Please introduce yourself to the rest of us in the guestbook below. Throughout the day, if you’d like an answer to a question — any question! — but don’t feel like shouting, toss it into the form below.
Perplexing Application Problems
Deconstruct the experience. What happened at the beginning, middle, and end of the application problem? What were the teacher moves? How is it different than the same kind of problem in a textbook?
Textbook Makeover
Where is the hook in each of these problems? What kind of image would make a student wonder that hook on her own?
Interesting into Challenging
How do you turn something interesting into something challenging?
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Lab Work
Turn these multimedia problem packages into challenging investigations for your colleagues. Refer back to the rubric we developed for Great Application Problems.
Pre-Algebra:
Algebra:
Geometry:
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Algebra II:
