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Elizabeth Lynn's Math Adventure

Tuesday: Snow Day!

11/18/2014

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Bummer. Today was supposed to be my formal observation and the lesson would have been a great one for showing the changes we're making to our curriculum.  Alas, nature is in control, not me.

So, instead, I'll share a fantastic moment from yesterday's second hour.  I didn't post learning targets that the Taco PT focused on because it was such a mysterious and weird video, I didn't want to give any ideas about how to solve it. Instead, I had kids look over their brand new Learning Target sheet (there are MANY this unit, see yesterday's post) and have them decide what the main themes were going to be.   Clearly, they had not heard about the Pythagorean Theorem before.  Many attempts were made to say both words, with no one coming close.  When I explained it was a theorem based on the teachings of a man named Pythagorus, they completely lost it and broke out in loud guffaws.  It simply never occurred to me that they wouldn't know who that was.  Cool! I get to see them figure it all out over the next week.
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