/2010/ps-swedish-yoghurt/ less helpful Sat, 21 Jul 2012 22:57:06 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.2 /2010/ps-swedish-yoghurt/#comment-475673 Sat, 21 Jul 2012 22:57:06 +0000 /?p=8568#comment-475673 […] Jean-Marc!) as was this explanation (thanks, Carmen!) but in my hands this problem verges on pseudocontext because I'm asking the students to use an operation (exponential modeling) that may or may not […]

]]> /2010/ps-swedish-yoghurt/#comment-277312 Mon, 14 Feb 2011 04:25:21 +0000 /?p=8568#comment-277312 […] I think the idea that most people came away with my presentation was the idea of context vs. pseudo-context.  I was happy to hear people ask me about the ways in which they were instructing mathematics.  I […]

]]> /2010/ps-swedish-yoghurt/#comment-276523 Thu, 03 Feb 2011 21:06:14 +0000 /?p=8568#comment-276523 […] problems” are horribly contrived (see Dan Meyer’s on-going discussion of “pseudo-context” for more on this), and the Fundamental Counting Principle is one of those topics that lends […]

]]> /2010/ps-swedish-yoghurt/#comment-275546 Sat, 22 Jan 2011 14:32:20 +0000 /?p=8568#comment-275546 […] subjective, but Peter Brouwer sent in the problem that I thought satisfied both halves of the working definition of pseudocontext in the most spectacular fashion. This is it. This is as bad as it […]

]]> /2010/ps-swedish-yoghurt/#comment-274804 Sat, 15 Jan 2011 22:04:38 +0000 /?p=8568#comment-274804 […] investigation of pseudocontext. I'm sure it would've taken me many months more to come up with my working definition of pseudocontext had you all not come through with so many […]

]]> /2010/ps-swedish-yoghurt/#comment-274774 Sat, 15 Jan 2011 18:26:18 +0000 /?p=8568#comment-274774 […] are submissions I received that didn't seem to fit the criteria. This isn't to say they're great problems. This isn't to say that I'd throw water on any of these […]

]]> /2010/ps-swedish-yoghurt/#comment-274258 Sat, 08 Jan 2011 15:50:26 +0000 /?p=8568#comment-274258 […] are three problems that satisfy the second half of the working definition of pseudocontext. I cop to a lot of guilt at the end of this post. […]

]]> /2010/ps-swedish-yoghurt/#comment-274217 Sat, 08 Jan 2011 05:59:02 +0000 /?p=8568#comment-274217 Today we did this systems problem in Algebra where we were trying to figure out when 2 trees would be the same height. When we finished the problem, I said “Who would care about this?” I think my students like it when I acknowledge the ridiculousness of some of the problems and I think that can make pseudo-context ok. Then we decided that Monk (if any of you have ever seen that show) would care because he likes things even. (Monk is an OCD Homicide detective, I’ve been watching the show on Netflix). I think I’ll show them a clip from the show the next time I do this type of problem.

]]> /2010/ps-swedish-yoghurt/#comment-272897 Mon, 20 Dec 2010 20:12:12 +0000 /?p=8568#comment-272897 […] original worksheet our group gave students suffers slightly from the psuedo-context problem, but I think it is still works. For instance, the Merrill Auditorium in Portland, Maine […]

]]> /2010/ps-swedish-yoghurt/#comment-272705 Sat, 18 Dec 2010 15:56:13 +0000 /?p=8568#comment-272705 […] I'm clearing out my inbox, trying to tie a bow around this pseudocontext thing. Here are three problems that satisfy the first half of the working definition of pseudocontext. […]

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