Capture Their Interest

…developing critical and creative thinking in mathematics

My 3-Act Lessons

I Break…You Choose – pptx version

JUJUBE JUBILEE

My One Kilometre Walk with improved video

My One Kilometre Walk – DESMOS VERSION

MY IDEA OF A 20 MINUTE WORKOUT

PEDESTRIAN COUNTDOWN

CONCENTRATING ON ORANGE JUICE

CANADIAN THANKSGIVING

U.S. OPEN GOLF

U.S. OPEN GOLF – DESMOS VERSION

CAN OPENER – DESMOS VERSION

CAN OPENER – PPTX VERSION

Andrew Stadel on Mistakes

July 24, 2015

Originally posted on Five Twelve Thirteen:
I went to Andrew Stadel’s afternoon session at TMC yesterday: Math Mistakes and Error Analysis: Diamonds in the Rough. I got out of it a fun technique to get students thinking, and some new perspective on building deep knowledge. Andrew talked a great deal about the value of mistakes, and…

Teaching to the negative space

July 24, 2015

Originally posted on The Number Warrior:
I’ve been troubled ever since David Cox asked why students needed to learn the names of the algebraic properties (associative, identity, and so forth). Certainly I see misunderstandings: students confronted with not aware they can combine the 3 and 2 with associative and commutative properties, or the classic leading…

Risk Taking

July 20, 2015

What are you doing differently to model risk taking?

Capture Their Interest

…developing critical and creative thinking in mathematics

My 3-Act Lessons

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