Comments on: Three-Act Mario /2013/three-act-mario/ less helpful Wed, 27 Feb 2013 03:24:24 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.2 By: Gary /2013/three-act-mario/#comment-732020 Wed, 27 Feb 2013 03:24:24 +0000 /?p=16456#comment-732020 This is terrific – very simple, engaging, and transferable.
Editing in the music across the video was an excellent choice – that music might be (perhaps sadly) the most recognizable piece of music in the world! I showed the video on my SmartBoard, turned the music on and who wouldn’t tune in then?
So I immediately posed this lesson to my Alg 2 class. We all, of course, assumed linear, and worked like dogs to get an answer around 1300, and were shocked in act 3 that it wasn’t even close.

BAM! Not everything’s linear!

That was our introduction to quadratics.

]]> By: Tom Lesisko /2013/three-act-mario/#comment-728607 Fri, 22 Feb 2013 22:44:46 +0000 /?p=16456#comment-728607 To see students display a positive passion toward solving a math problem brings joy to every educator’s heart. Keep up the great work!

]]> By: Dan Requa /2013/three-act-mario/#comment-726443 Thu, 21 Feb 2013 00:29:19 +0000 /?p=16456#comment-726443 Cancel that, found it on your site Nora. Thanks a bunch!

]]> By: Dan Requa /2013/three-act-mario/#comment-726441 Thu, 21 Feb 2013 00:27:36 +0000 /?p=16456#comment-726441 Love it! Great three-act, can’t wait to use it!

Now where can I get the 3rd act?

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