Class Activities

Minnie’s Juice Cup [3actMath]

by Jon Orr

Here is a 3-Act Math problem I’ve been working on. My first unit in the fall is measurement and I wanted something to do with volume.

Minnie’s Juice Cup!

Act 1:

Question: How many juice boxes will fit in the cup?

Act 2:

Make them guess for each of these measurements.

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I am open to suggestions on how to handle the two different diameters. I tried averaging them and came up with a pretty accurate answer.

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Act 3:

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2014 Pictures

by Jon Orr

This morning I read a blog post from Jonathan Claydon on 180 blog posts. I’ve learned lots of class/math ideas this year from reading 180 blogs and I loved his ideas on 180 days of pictures. My goal next year is to start posting 1 pic for each day. It would be a great thing to show the students at the end of the semester too!

here are a few pictures from this semester.
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Game of Risk

by Jon Orr

Recently read a blog post of a review game …. Risk from Angie (@aeakland) . I love review games instead of just textbook questions…..so i adapted this game to be played in my MHF4U Advanced Functions class.

Here are the rules….

  • In teams, each team starts with 100 points. Write your points and names on the board.
  • Complete any of the Risk Questions in any order. (They are just the Review questions from the textbook).
  • For each question: After coming up with a solution, wager any or all of your points.
    • If you are correct – – add the points to your total!!! Yay!
    • If you are incorrect — subtract that many points from your total. Boo!
  • The top three teams with the most points were eligible to enter the draw at the end for the prize!!!

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Great things about the game…

Kids were cheering — when getting the problems right!……that doesn’t happen when just working on review problems from the book.

Kids were self /peer assessing their work — by betting they were deciding how confident they were on their work! They took their time, and thought about their answers making sense!

Kids were doing math!

The winning team won their choice of a geek sticker!

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Explain Everything….more than a screen recorder

by Jon Orr

I’ve been loving the app Explain Everything more and more! Yes it’s great because when students record their work it forces them to think more about language and ideas than they are used to. I like that! That is what drew me to the app in the first place. But I’ve been loving it even more….. I’ve been using it lately NOT to record work. I’ve been using it to deliver content to students in a new way. We can use the app as a sort of enhanced digital workspace! Here is an example: 20140523-111859-40739536.jpg

Click the picture to download the Explain Everything file

I created this for my lesson on periodic functions. Here is why this is awesome……

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