Week 27 – Project Week Presentations & 3 Act Math

Week 27 – Project Week Presentations & 3 Act Math

The highlight of the week was the Project Week presentation fair.  I wrote about project week in some of my previous posts, and here is a video from last year's Project Week.  The work the students did was impressive to say the least.  I scurried around this year as well getting as much footage as I could.  It's hard because there were 10 presentations going on at a time and the presentations were only 10 minutes long.  I tried to get footage of at least two presentations every 10 minutes.  The video was a ton of fun to put together,…
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Challenges Of An Inquiry Based Math Classroom- Part 2

Challenges Of An Inquiry Based Math Classroom- Part 2

Check out 'Challenges Of An Inquiry Based Math Classroom Part 1' to see how I develop inquiry through dialogue & discussions in my classroom. Another way I've tried to develop a little bit more inquiry and curiosity in mathematics is through Dan Meyer's 3-Act-Problems (check out Meyer's TED talk on math education in the US if you're interested).  I had heard of these 3-Act-Problems for a long while but didn't actually try one out until later in the year.  The 3-Act comes from the idea of how a story unfolds; Act 1 is where you grab your audiences attention, Act…
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