Comments on: [WCYDWT] Bean Counting /2011/wcydwt-bean-counting/ less helpful Fri, 12 Apr 2013 06:40:51 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.2 By: A Day In… Honors Algebra 1 | Reason and Wonder /2011/wcydwt-bean-counting/#comment-781916 Fri, 12 Apr 2013 06:40:51 +0000 /?p=9608#comment-781916 […] then, the lesson began. (Full disclosure: I wrote the lesson a year after reading this, and was even more influence by a jigsaw-puzzle-building activity–solo, solo, then tag-team–I […]

]]> By: problem solving « sonata mathematique /2011/wcydwt-bean-counting/#comment-526274 Tue, 02 Oct 2012 00:56:08 +0000 /?p=9608#comment-526274 […] for the first problem solving lesson, we kicked it off by having some fun with Dan’s “bean counting.” I made students give me a quick estimate after watching the first video (before trying to do […]

]]> By: Matt Vaudrey /2011/wcydwt-bean-counting/#comment-406092 Wed, 21 Mar 2012 20:41:49 +0000 /?p=9608#comment-406092 I did this today with Algebra I, GATE and General, students. I found that showing the Little Big League clip first got them thinking (mostly because it has attractive integer operators).

I passed out calculators for the bean counting problem, but made them give guesses (and back them up) first. Some couldn’t wait, and started crunching numbers.

The catharsis was definitely more potent in the bean counting video than the Little Big League video (“Wait, what’d he say?”). Once the time stopped at 4.5 minutes, students started with bragging.

“Ahhh! I TOLD yoouuuuu!”

]]> By: Video Story Problems | sdardis /2011/wcydwt-bean-counting/#comment-390819 Tue, 21 Feb 2012 03:23:53 +0000 /?p=9608#comment-390819 […] develop strategies for teaching the eight math practices.  At lunch, the workshop head played this Dan Meyer bean counting video for us to think about.  A few days later, a colleague of mine, Ben Rimes, started posting […]

]]> By: Paul Wolf /2011/wcydwt-bean-counting/#comment-359171 Wed, 07 Dec 2011 21:25:02 +0000 /?p=9608#comment-359171 So if anyone wants to know how this would go over in an Algebra 2 class of relatively advanced ability, it works great.

I put up a slide with the original “textbook” problem, and we talked about it for a bit, then we did the first video, which was kind of slow going. Trying to get the kids to justify why we can add the rates was tough, but we got a great argument as to why we shouldn’t average them. Then we launched into the sequel, which they jumped into right away, and if they didn’t get the right answer, they at least got its reciprocal divided by 100.

By then the textbook problem was an afterthought.

]]> By: Fun with Math Tests « Dan's Instructional Coaching Resources /2011/wcydwt-bean-counting/#comment-355325 Mon, 28 Nov 2011 19:07:04 +0000 /?p=9608#comment-355325 […] up” one of her test questions for math class. I stole the approach from Dan Meyer (/?p=9608), although he does it much better than I. Can you guess what the question is? Share […]

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]]> By: Tim Erickson /2011/wcydwt-bean-counting/#comment-301154 Thu, 14 Jul 2011 04:35:31 +0000 /?p=9608#comment-301154 @Shawn: in the Ancient Years, there was an iMovie plugIn (I can’t find it on my disk!) that let you put time codes in. A non-exhaustive search for such a thing for modern iMovie found this:
http://www.imovieplugins.com/plugs/timer.html

I bet there are even better ones, but this one is at least cheap.

Tim

]]> By: dy/dan » Blog Archive » A Train Leaves Chicago Traveling At Who Cares? /2011/wcydwt-bean-counting/#comment-300585 Mon, 11 Jul 2011 18:08:36 +0000 /?p=9608#comment-300585 […] See also: [WCYDWT] Bean Counting […]

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