/2007/graphing-stories/ less helpful Fri, 25 Aug 2017 18:33:49 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.2 /2007/graphing-stories/#comment-2437980 Fri, 25 Aug 2017 18:33:49 +0000 /?p=213#comment-2437980 […] Dan Meyer’s famous Graphing Stories continue to be useful to me as a high school algebra teacher as I move more into inquiry based learning to engage my students. Here’s an example of how students can develop Common Core State Standards (CCSS) for algebra while they develop collaborative skills for our high-tech society.  1)  I played the graphing story Elevation vs. Time and had students draw rough estimates of the graph as Dan suggested.  2)  Then I provided equations for the piece-wise function in scrambled order, one per pair. 3)  Students went to Desmos.com (one computer per pair), most of them for the first time.  4)  As a class, we discussed and graphed the first line segment or two, and they crossed those off their scrambled list.  Then they took turns entering line segments to complete and share their graphs with me. […]

]]> /2007/graphing-stories/#comment-605105 Sat, 08 Dec 2012 14:57:42 +0000 /?p=213#comment-605105 […] that students can graph to tell the mathematical story happening in the video. I recommend reading this post by Dan Meyer to get a full sense of how this works and where the idea came from. All of the […]

]]> /2007/graphing-stories/#comment-599409 Tue, 04 Dec 2012 22:42:02 +0000 /?p=213#comment-599409 […] Five years ago I released a collection of 10 fifteen-second videos that helped orient my students to abstract and graphical representations. […]

]]> /2007/graphing-stories/#comment-582499 Wed, 21 Nov 2012 08:55:57 +0000 /?p=213#comment-582499 […] that’s any good in my classes with the rest of the Internet. I spent over 18 hours prepping a 45-minute lesson last year but that kind of work is easier when you can share it with 6,000 people over a two week […]

]]> /2007/graphing-stories/#comment-499561 Sat, 01 Sep 2012 18:56:35 +0000 /?p=213#comment-499561 […] @duinok’s lead, in her Favorite First Day of School post – I checked out Dan Meyer’s Graphing Stories to use as an intro to my first unit.  We viewed 8 of his videos – I asked students to sketch […]

]]> /2007/graphing-stories/#comment-416490 Thu, 12 Apr 2012 17:08:04 +0000 /?p=213#comment-416490 […] The Blah-Blah I know this isn't new. dy/dan » Blog Archive » Graphing Stories […]

]]> /2007/graphing-stories/#comment-378942 Sat, 21 Jan 2012 12:39:54 +0000 /?p=213#comment-378942 […] dy/dan » Blog Archive » Graphing Stories I used Photoshop and Motion for the graph work. Final Cut Pro to sequence things up and DVD Studio Pro for the pretty menu. In the pantheon of paid video projects I've completed this year, this forty-five minute math lesson holds its own and I'd like to put it your hands. […]

]]> /2007/graphing-stories/#comment-369706 Sat, 31 Dec 2011 05:25:49 +0000 /?p=213#comment-369706 […] 3 Acts: Incredible Shrinking Dollar; Shower vs Bath?; A Lousy Mathematical Problem, especially Graphing Stories! GA_googleAddAttr("AdOpt", "1"); GA_googleAddAttr("Origin", "other"); […]

]]> /2007/graphing-stories/#comment-359142 Wed, 07 Dec 2011 19:35:11 +0000 /?p=213#comment-359142 […] the graphs in elsewhere.  This year, however, I remembered seeing an intriguing blog post about graphing stories.  So I gave it a […]

]]> /2007/graphing-stories/#comment-348929 Mon, 14 Nov 2011 21:39:00 +0000 /?p=213#comment-348929 […] lesson on real-life graphs was based partly around Dan Meyer’s Graphing Stories (see here for the original). It was an introductory lesson for a set 2 class (out of 5) who I will only see 3 […]

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