Surprise! Turn Routine Problems into Worthwhile Tasks
Autor: | Shelly Sheats Harkness, Richard Caulfield, Robert Riley |
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Rok vydání: | 2003 |
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Zdroj: | Mathematics Teaching in the Middle School. 9:198-202 |
ISSN: | 2328-5486 1072-0839 |
Popis: | Textbook problems are often mundane, uninteresting, and allow for very little mathematical thinking or discourse. Because students in our township scored lowest in the category of ratio and proportional reasoning on our statewide assessment, we–three eighth-grade teachers–decided to work together to address this area of weakness. We modified a typical textbook problem related to this mathematical concept in an attempt to foster students' thinking, mathematical understanding, and discourse. In this article, we describe what happened in the classroom when we introduced our “modified” textbook problem. |
Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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