Comments on: Five Favorites â€” 101Questions [5/5/12]

By: Denis Roarty

Denis Roarty — Sat, 12 May 2012 18:41:24 +0000

I would like to think there are groups on track to build the infrastructure talked about here. Starting with open source publication, a community of people (perhaps paying membership fees as suggested above to maintain the thing), a variety of templates to create content (including a few three acts templates), a platform to review, tag, annotate, branch off and improve/repurpose the original content, a platform to drop in a class list and assign content to students, perhaps a place for some analytics and reflection that uses student work to improve the content… etc…

If anyone knows of such a place or would be interested in having it built out, I would love to know. droarty@yahoo.com

By: Ryan

Ryan — Fri, 11 May 2012 15:14:11 +0000

Dan:

“One of my goals for 101qs.com is to have a platform that makes it easy for me to create these kinds of pages, which at the moment I create by hand, with a lot of time and irritation.”

-Maybe there’s a way for each user who uploads content to 101qs to contribute to the 2nd and 3rd Act material, particularly if they are pulling from lessons they’ve already delivered to students. That way we’re churning these out as a community rather than putting the burden on one, or a few, individuals. Your 3 Acts pages have an crisp aesthetic quality that I really appreciate – would opening up to workload to many users be a case of “too many cooks?” Then perhaps there’s a second site (101 answers) with a catalog of 2nd act material or links to websites that have answers, etc.

“I’m guessing uploading and downloading act two and three will have to be a premium feature, limited to users who have paid some kind of community membership dues.”

-I’ll pay it!

By: Dan Meyer

Dan Meyer — Tue, 08 May 2012 06:16:48 +0000

David:

Logistical problem from your end or the teacher’s?

I guess I'm just wondering if more than a couple hundred teachers in the US would be willing to give students that kind of latitude in self-selecting an assignment. (The teacher should probably give students feedback, let's not forget, on each of those different problems.)

Will Act 2 information be available? My guess is that there is a small percentage of Act 1s that actually have a fully formed lesson behind them. If Act 2 is available, will student have access or should that be left to the teacher to provide as part of the conversation that takes place as the student seeks a solution?

One of my goals for 101qs.com is to have a platform that makes it easy for me to create these kinds of pages, which at the moment I create by hand, with a lot of time and irritation. I'm just another user on the site, though, so if I can upload that material so can any other user, which is great, though I'm guessing uploading and downloading act two and three will have to be a premium feature, limited to users who have paid some kind of community membership dues.

By: Daniel Schaben

Daniel Schaben — Mon, 07 May 2012 12:22:24 +0000

How many semi-loads is that? Does the United States Produce enough grain to cover the board? These last two questions I ask after their is reasonable answer?

By: Daniel Schaben

Daniel Schaben — Mon, 07 May 2012 02:58:33 +0000

The Wheat and Chess board problem – An interesting question. How many bushels of wheat must we purchase to cover the board?

By: Flora

Flora — Sun, 06 May 2012 21:53:18 +0000

Sounds like a great idea. Teachers could use it to search too.

By: Bob Lochel

Bob Lochel — Sun, 06 May 2012 21:34:58 +0000

I feel that tagging may be a good start. It’s a tricky thing…we don’t want to put kids into a positions where we are suggesting too much about these pictures, but there are certainly some natural categories for many of the pictures.

For example, I recently worked with a geometry teacher, where her students had to seek a picture which interested them. It would be nice to have a geometry tag to allow kids to just cycle through pictures with a geometry slant. A number of my posts fit into the prob/stat category.

By: Rob

Rob — Sun, 06 May 2012 19:02:51 +0000

The chessboard is done beautifully at http://www.etereaestudios.com/docs_html/inspirations_htm/movie_a.htm
or
http://www.etereaestudios.com/docs_html/inspirations_htm/maths_index.htm
If you haven’t seen the video, be sure to watch it.

By: andrew

andrew — Sun, 06 May 2012 00:16:38 +0000

Would work great in a time-flexible middle school classroom, except:

“AGREE NOT TO … use 101qs if you are under the age of thirteen (13) years old;”

Stupid COPPA.

By: Nathan Kraft

Nathan Kraft — Sat, 05 May 2012 20:08:43 +0000

Dan,
I really like your idea because there are a ton of videos and pictures that all hit the same topic. For instance, the marshmallow problem is really not that much different than the gummy bear problem. But maybe the marshmallow problem is too easy for one student and they’d like something more challenging. (This reminds me of tiered assignments.)