Surprise! Turn Routine Problems into Worthwhile Tasks

Autor:	Shelly Sheats Harkness, Richard Caulfield, Robert Riley
Rok vydání:	2003
Předmět:	Surprise media_common.quotation_subject Mathematics education Psychology media_common
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
Externí odkaz:	https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_________::5991a6a6ce59c8bc1fbea1276a5c77b9 https://doi.org/10.5951/mtms.9.4.0198 Zobrazit plný text záznamu