Title: What was something that surprised you, concerned you, or seemed to be very significant about the research presented on Friday?
1What was something that surprised you, concerned
you, or seemed to be very significant about the
research presented on Friday?
2What if anything from the research studies has
given you some insights or ideas to take back to
your school or your own classroom?
3InstructionsWorking in teams, find a problem
that you think is a good problem to be used at
critical points in a unit or chapter that will
bring the ideas together or a good problem that
can be used to introduce the big ideas that will
unfold throughout the chapter. The problem does
not have to be original.Sources include the
texts in the high school teacher's room, EDC
(Mathematics Learning and Teaching (MLT) gtgt
Center for Mathematics Education (CME) )Math
Forum, NCTM Illuminations.
4Tuesday's class will be devoted to your work
together on this. At the end of class on
Tuesday, you should hand in your problem and on a
separate sheet of paper or file the following
accompanying information about the problem
- Course and/or grade Mathematical unit or chapter
and where the problem fits in the chapter - Expectations for what students might do with the
problem, different approaches and/or insights - A rationale or explanation for why you think it
is a good problem