tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8537494321067959493.post5093615108950760278..comments2024-03-04T21:07:02.238-08:00Comments on BorschtWithAnna: NBI Post #2: Something That I'm Proud OfAnna Blinsteinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13960574914938362477noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8537494321067959493.post-29800431456300685782012-09-04T17:01:14.731-07:002012-09-04T17:01:14.731-07:00Wow! Thanks for sharing. I like your blog backgro...Wow! Thanks for sharing. I like your blog background. I have used stairs (going up and going down) to introduce slope on graph paper which has helped the students understand positive and negative slope. I have also used Key Curriculum press. There is a great stacking cup activity that I did in a workshop but haven't personally taught that I would like to try:<br />http://www9.georgetown.edu/faculty/sandefur/handsonmath/downloads/pdf/cups-t.pdfAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8537494321067959493.post-63024349974752733902012-09-01T14:15:15.150-07:002012-09-01T14:15:15.150-07:00Love, love, love that you bring in the motion dete...Love, love, love that you bring in the motion detectors! They really do help kids connect a physical experience to the math.<br /><br />Thanks so much for sharing your lessons. I noticed that the top of the linear walks one includes group roles. I may or may not be stealing that idea.Megan Hayes-Goldinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11235614310269066451noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8537494321067959493.post-21093677418124879192012-08-25T21:34:00.960-07:002012-08-25T21:34:00.960-07:00These are a couple of pretty awesome looking lesso...These are a couple of pretty awesome looking lessons. Thanks for sharing!Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14000927289273630744noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8537494321067959493.post-21577972712386454782012-08-25T19:49:05.273-07:002012-08-25T19:49:05.273-07:00I teach 6th grade gifted students and have never t...I teach 6th grade gifted students and have never taught Algebra I, but these lessons sound great! I have done some lessons similar to the beginning of your lesson involving patterns -- mine was adapted from the book The Pattern and Function Connection. (http://www.keycurriculum.com/products/supplementals/the-pattern-and-function-connection) The book has many visual patterns (linear and non-linear) and the lessons lead students into creating function tables, writing functions, and graphing them -- but the first step is to describe in words what they see in the pattern. This leads to some great discussions about how the completely different ways students describe the same pattern correspond to the various expressions for the function. Although it's going beyond our curriculum, I always take this a step farther by simplifying the expressions to show that they're equivalent. They're always amazed at how expressions that look completely different can really represent the same thing! Alisanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11259961888654356340noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8537494321067959493.post-57134809804435017492012-08-25T14:59:39.830-07:002012-08-25T14:59:39.830-07:00Thanks, Fawn! I wish I could just mail you the mot...Thanks, Fawn! I wish I could just mail you the motion detectors when we're done with them because we really only use them like twice the entire year and they're pretty pricy.Anna Blinsteinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13960574914938362477noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8537494321067959493.post-88908249352765267282012-08-25T14:10:55.412-07:002012-08-25T14:10:55.412-07:00I love your Intro to Slope Interecept because I lo...I love your Intro to Slope Interecept because I love doing patterns with kids, and we're doing a similar lesson on Day 1! Ahh, I have to get a few motion detectors, tired of watching other teachers use them for great lessons. Thanks, Anna.Fawn Nguyenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03605571262680195155noreply@blogger.com