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What’s In the Way of Making Students Prove, part I. Wednesday, Apr 7 2010. In response to my last post, Kate Nowak. Raised the most important set of issues I can think of:. I will absolutely stipulate to all of this:. Can we come up with some kind of explanation? But they have no idea how to even start and it feels unfair and scary to ask them to. It would not occur to them to draw a picture and extend the legs and think about similar triangles, in a zillion years. C) The vicious cycle. Wrote about the n...
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Observing | Bowman in Arabia
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Skip to main content. Skip to primary sidebar. Skip to secondary sidebar. Profiling the life of Bowman Dickson as he lives and teaches high school Physics in Amman, Jordan. Observations: Socratic Dialogue or Socratic Monologue? Posted by Bowman Dickson. This is from a short series of posts about some of the things I learned from a year of observing and being observed with a colleague). Hey, I’m a math teacher, not an artist). Has this situation ever happened to you? What kind of answers are we getting?
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Teaching | Bowman in Arabia
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Skip to main content. Skip to primary sidebar. Skip to secondary sidebar. Profiling the life of Bowman Dickson as he lives and teaches high school Physics in Amman, Jordan. The Related Rates of an Automatic Pizza Saucer. Posted by Bowman Dickson. I always struggle a bit with teaching related rates. That’s what makes that classic ladder problem even remotely interesting (why the hell would one side be moving at a constant rate while the other is speeding up? If the pizza spins at a constant rate and the a...
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More Reflective Homework | Bowman in Arabia
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Skip to main content. Skip to primary sidebar. Skip to secondary sidebar. Profiling the life of Bowman Dickson as he lives and teaches high school Physics in Amman, Jordan. Larr; Blogging About School Leadership for Klingspace. The Related Rates of an Automatic Pizza Saucer →. Posted by Bowman Dickson. I would get 30 homework assignments that look basically the same and spend tons of time giving useless feedback. That they didn’t really even look at, and students were focused on completion. 8211; which i...
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Math Circle | Bowman in Arabia
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Skip to main content. Skip to primary sidebar. Skip to secondary sidebar. Profiling the life of Bowman Dickson as he lives and teaches high school Physics in Amman, Jordan. Category Archives: Math Circle. The “One Cut” Problem. Posted by Bowman Dickson. What can you do with this? Today, we did what I thought was one of the coolest explorations I have seen in a while. It is called the “One Cut” or “Fold and Cut” problem, with inspiration from Patrick Honner (@MrHonner, this part. With one group today, we ...
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Calculus | Bowman in Arabia
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Skip to main content. Skip to primary sidebar. Skip to secondary sidebar. Profiling the life of Bowman Dickson as he lives and teaches high school Physics in Amman, Jordan. The Related Rates of an Automatic Pizza Saucer. Posted by Bowman Dickson. I always struggle a bit with teaching related rates. That’s what makes that classic ladder problem even remotely interesting (why the hell would one side be moving at a constant rate while the other is speeding up? If the pizza spins at a constant rate and the a...
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Related Rates | Bowman in Arabia
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Skip to main content. Skip to primary sidebar. Skip to secondary sidebar. Profiling the life of Bowman Dickson as he lives and teaches high school Physics in Amman, Jordan. The Related Rates of an Automatic Pizza Saucer. Posted by Bowman Dickson. I always struggle a bit with teaching related rates. That’s what makes that classic ladder problem even remotely interesting (why the hell would one side be moving at a constant rate while the other is speeding up? If the pizza spins at a constant rate and the a...
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Whiteboarding | Bowman in Arabia
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Skip to main content. Skip to primary sidebar. Skip to secondary sidebar. Profiling the life of Bowman Dickson as he lives and teaches high school Physics in Amman, Jordan. Whiteboard Experiments: Modified Mistake Game. Posted by Bowman Dickson. I have used Mistake Game. In groups of 2-3, students write solutions to a problem on a large whiteboard. After checking their correct answer with me, they go back through and make a mistake in their solution. Kind of like a mini answer key. I tried something new ...
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Skip to main content. Skip to primary sidebar. Skip to secondary sidebar. Profiling the life of Bowman Dickson as he lives and teaches high school Physics in Amman, Jordan. Author Archives: Bowman Dickson. Data Driven: Authentic Assessment and a Data Based Business Case Study. Posted by Bowman Dickson. What is authentic assessment. In the math classroom? A business case study presented to people in the business world. HOW WAS THIS AUTHENTIC? To figure out what was appropriate. Though they received an...
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