by MathPickle | Aug 7, 2015 | Muse of Mathematics
In your last post, you ended with a recommendation that teachers maintain a level of classroom chaos so that students didn’t know if they are slow or fast. Yes – I don’t emphasize speed in my assessment of a student, and I want to protect slow students from a...
by MathPickle | Aug 7, 2015 | Muse of Mathematics
Do you think we over-prompt our students? Prompting is useful to focus the classroom’s attention on one part of a problem. It also helps the teacher steer the class towards a new problem or resource. However, prompting does not provide a shortcut to student...
by MathPickle | Aug 7, 2015 | Muse of Mathematics
Can you give us another good problem – one that’s possible please. This is a problem I give to my grade 1 students. The Fairy-Tale-King invites you to sit down in front of him… “design for me, a magical castle with beautiful towers.” It turns out that he has enough...
by MathPickle | Aug 7, 2015 | Muse of Mathematics
The last time we talked you introduced us to cipher-breaking in World War I. I always mention war if I have the opportunity, because that engages the half of the class with excess testosterone ? The link to war also connects the problem to the real world. Do all good...
by MathPickle | Aug 7, 2015 | Muse of Mathematics |
You were going to give us an example of a good problem. Here is a good problem for students tackling percentages, and probability. The problem takes an hour or two… This is an example of some cipher-text created from a Polybius Square. The Germans used a variant of...
