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My favorite blog post was the Math Teaching Lesson Plan. I thought that it allowed me to practice lesson planning and creativity in the clas...
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As for the dvd clip we watched in class, it was really interesting how the teacher taught polynomials to grade 8 students without doing much... -
Have you experienced a state of flow through certain experiences? What prompts it? Is it sometimes connected with mathematical experiences? ...
Good approach, and good that you noticed that the number of house fires seems unreasonably large. I think I spotted the error: the conversion from cubic cm --> cubic metres is 1 million cc's = 1 cubic metre (which is 1000 litres). It looks to me like you've converted 18,550,790.5 cc to 185, 507.9 cubic metres (dividing by 100, as if you were working with linear cm, rather than by (100)^3 or 1 million, since you are working with cubic cm). So your resulting volume is too large by a scaling factor of (100)^2 -- and so is the number of house fires! (So would it be enough to put out even one large house fire?) We would assume that the tank is kept full...
ReplyDeletePlease revise this one to add your corrections and reflections on the task. You also need to add your own extension OR a new problem you create based on something you've observed in life, preferably with a photo you took!
ReplyDeleteHmmm ... your extension addition here is quite vague. These fire department water tanks were not built by the artists; they were prefab tanks that were later painted! What do you mean about building and constructing the giant soup can? What do you mean about using ratios? This is a rushed addition that has not been well thought out!
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