Geometry Lesson Study
During my student teaching, I worked with three other math intern teachers to create engaging lessons that promote higher order thinking. In the second lesson study we created, I was the lead teacher and decided we could start to come up with a creative way to learn about discovering the formula for circumference. Our team of intern teacher's learned that working together it really helps us think more deeply about how the students are going to approach the activity, it improves the quality of the task and the assessment.
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The goal of this lesson was to have students explore the relationship between the diameter of a circle and the circumference of the circle to find the formula for circumference. A goal we had as a group of teachers was to create an engaging task that would help students look more deeply into why the formula works the way it does. We had them explore by using string to wrap around many different cylinders. They used that same piece of string to measure diameter. This helped them look into the relationship between diameter and circumference.
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Algebra II Lesson Study
The goal of this lesson study was to engage students by using a problem that they see in real life and have more students participate in classroom discussion by using cold calling. This lesson covered ideas about parametric equations. We wanted students to be able to interpret how an object's change in height relates to its change in velocity and vise versa by interpreting graphs of the two dependent variables graphed against one another. We also wanted students to be able to make connections between graphs and equations by considering ways to create a single equation containing the two variables (height and velocity) which would
model what is happening on the graphs.
model what is happening on the graphs.
juggling_circus_pins_lesson_study_report.pdf |