Comments on: The Mullet Ratio

By: Mullets: The Only Lesson They’ll Remember | Mr. V's Class

Mullets: The Only Lesson They’ll Remember | Mr. V's Class — Mon, 14 May 2012 23:26:50 +0000

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By: Elizabeth Lyon

Elizabeth Lyon — Thu, 10 May 2012 15:20:44 +0000

Thank you for another example of a lesson with an all-access beginning and opportunities for students to take it as far as they can.

It’s posts like these that make me want to get back in the classroom, if only to do this lesson! And, sadly yes, I could use one of my own high school pictures as an example.

By: mr bombastic

mr bombastic — Wed, 09 May 2012 21:06:11 +0000

I like the written activity very much for helping to develop an intuitive idea of what a ratio means, but I think the students should be pushed a little bit further to check how much intuition they have built – and maybe they were through class discussion, etc.

I would like to see some additional questions on this day or the next that do not involve measuring and calculating the ratio (just estimation and mental math). For example, sketch a person with a mullet ratio about half that of Barry; or sketch three different looking people with about the same ratio; or a person whose hair is half as long as Barry with a ratio three times as large; or sketch a person that has a mullet ratio of…

The author indicated that the kids were sort of headed towards this anyway by fabricating measurements that create high ratios, but that is much easier than shooting for something more specific than a big ratio.

By: Sue VanHattum

Sue VanHattum — Wed, 09 May 2012 18:53:07 +0000

Why gross? I used to have a “mullet” hairstyle. I liked it, but I hated this strange name it got.