3-Act Task: Finding a Balance
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Standards: 1.OA.D.7 1.OA.D.8 Act 1 What do you notice? What do you wonder?
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3-Act Task: Make It Rain!
Standards: 3.OA.A.3 4.NBT.4 4.NBT.5 6.RP.A.1 Act 1 What do you notice? What do you wonder?
Numberless 3-acts
On Wednesday I posted a 3-act task that I planned to use in my class the next day. Here’s how it went… Act 1 asked students to watch a video and record what they noticed and what they wondered. As … Continue reading
3-act Task: Trail Mix
Student engagement is a funny thing. On twitter I’ve been pretty critical about using extrinsic rewards to increase student engagement. Me to extrinsic rewards for engagement. I just can’t get behind it, but open to being wrong https://t.co/jFviTCJZdN pic.twitter.com/nJeRISGREN — Andrew … Continue reading
3-Act Task: The Doubling Die
Standard CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.7.SP.C.5 – Understand that the probability of a chance event is a number between 0 and 1 that expresses the likelihood of the event occurring. Larger numbers indicate greater likelihood. A probability near 0 indicates an unlikely event, a probability … Continue reading
3-Act Task: Train Station Construction
Train Station Construction Act 1: What do you notice? What do you wonder? Questions: How many tiles are missing in each design? How many total tiles are in each design? Act 2: There are 20 unfinished tile designs in the … Continue reading
#MTBoS Mod: 3-Act Edition
One of the missions of this blog is to take the work of the amazing online community of math teachers known as the MathTwitterBlogoSphere (MTBoS) and to show what modifications are made for students with disabilities. I call it the … Continue reading
School-wide Mathematics Activity – Estimation Station
Almost seven years ago I tweeted this: Fast forward several years, one on-going pandemic including sanitized groceries, and we have revived the “Estimation Station” as a school-wide mathematics activity. Here’s how we are doing it!
An Inch Wide and An Inch Deep: A Call To Action
One of the most popular ways to critically describe mathematics education in the United States is “a mile wide and an inch deep.” The TL;DR is that most mathematics education focuses on too broad an array of topics with a … Continue reading
Cost-Benefit Analysis
It’s the start of a new school year and one of my personal goals this year is to get back into blogging. Reflection is a key part of my pedagogical practice and this blog serves that purpose. Another reason is … Continue reading
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