This was a crazy week at school since we had an Inservice Day on Tuesday, along with a well designed Senior Skip Day on Monday. Hats off to my seniors, since we have always had the "Senior Skip Day" but only 40%- 50% of the senior actually skip. Not this year, I had a grand total of 2 students all day long. Needless to say my first week of the inquiry plan turned into 3 days.
On Wednesday we were finishing up a unit on Taxicab Geometry, I had my students work in pairs (the groups were formed by proximity) on a worksheet dealing with applications. The worksheet consisted of problems which the students needed to find the best location for a retail store given certain parameters, also a question in which the students needed to construct boundary lines on a map for a given school district. The following day the students came up in pairs to present their findings to the class. Although some groups came up with different solutions, they backed up their solutions with good facts and reasons.
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Sounds like you had a crazy week!
ReplyDeleteGlad the inquiry plan is going well, hopefully this 3 day week gave you some insight into how the rest of the plan my work out.
Yes- I believe that other classmates are finding that the best laid plans don't always work in the real world (impressive seniors there). Sounds like the taxi cab project was motivating for the students- how did you assess this?
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