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**This post contains the materials and advice you’ll need to run a distanced math tournament with your district, division, school, province, state, classroom, family, coworkers, neighbours, etc., etc., etc.** Honestly, the more math love, the better! (IMHO) In mid-October, I designed a math provincial math tournament open to all middle school teachers in my home …
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If you are like me, your workload hasn’t exactly petered out during these recent weeks of quarantine. Within this new normal, I have found it incredibly beneficial to play. That play is freeform; you could categorize it as aimless, but it is far from mindless. The need to step away from the computer for a …
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My goal this semester was to continue to improve my use of formative assessment (largely through the use of whiteboarding) and expand the role of Project-Based Learning in my classroom. Up to this point, I have developed a wide-scale PBL framework for an applied stream of math we have in the province called Workplace and …
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I have been on my project-based learning journey for a while now. This blog has served as the main receptacle for my inspirations, ideas, successes, failures, and reflections. It is now time to document my next step: wide scale revision. This post will be divided into two main sections: A look back at the posts …
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Those of you who follow me on twitter or read this blog regularly know I have been struggling to implement wide scale Project-based Learning (PBL) into my Workplace and Apprenticeship mathematics courses. This strand of classes is probably unfamiliar to those outside of Western Canada. I have included a link to our provincial curriculum below. …
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This is the finale of a series of blog posts detailing a student posed project. To get the full picture, begin reading at part one: Soft Drink Project Part 1: The Framework As the project drew to a close, students began to place a valuation on their work. Very seldom did the topic of grades …
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This is the fourth in a series of posts detailing a student-posed math project. To get the full picture, please read the previous posts beginning with: Soft Drink Project Part 1: The Framework This post is designed to dampen the fear of math teachers. I know, because I was very afraid that the project had …
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This post is the third in a series of posts detailing the happenings of a math project. To better understand the whole story, please start reading at the beginning: Soft Drink Project Part 1: The Framework The next few classes after the brainstorming class were a blur. Students would come into class, grab their previous …
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This post will make a lot more sense if you read the framework for the project in “Soft Drink Project Part 1: The Framework“. I left the classroom energized; I could not remember a time that I was more pleased with a lesson that I had taught. In fact, I wouldn’t even call it teaching. …
Continue reading “Soft Drink Project Part 2: The Brainstorm”
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This post is the first in a series describing a set of classes in my Grade 11 Workplace and Apprenticeship class. I have designed the course around the ideals of Project-Based Learning (PBL); students encounter a series of tasks, problems, and prompts that necessitate three crucial qualities: Collaboration, Critical Thinking, and Communication. Each unit leaves …