Comments on: Great Classroom Action /2014/great-classroom-action-17/ less helpful Sat, 14 Jun 2014 17:44:00 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.2 By: Dan Meyer /2014/great-classroom-action-17/#comment-1935025 Sat, 14 Jun 2014 17:44:00 +0000 /?p=19721#comment-1935025 @Christina, I love hearing student questions because it reveals a lot to me about their curiosities. I don’t need their questions to match the question I’d like to ask them.

Asking for their questions and asking them my question serve two different purposes.

Asking them my question orients us all in the direction of the same mathematics.

Asking for their questions helps them start to engage with the scenario, gives me a chance to learn about their curiosity, and offers us questions we can choose (or choose not) to take up later.

]]> By: Christina /2014/great-classroom-action-17/#comment-1928779 Fri, 13 Jun 2014 16:50:07 +0000 /?p=19721#comment-1928779 Thank you for the mention, Dan. As I’ve done that task multiple times now, I’ve noticed how each group does come up with my intended question. However, the other questions they come up with seem to be dependent upon the content they have been recently working with. For instance, the last group of 5th graders that I gave the Cheese Balls task to came up with a bunch of questions around the idea of Volume. So the teachers and I have been wondering when is the appropriate time to do 3 Act Math tasks? Our consensus is that “it varies” depending upon many scenarios we came up with…but would love your thoughts.

Thanks again,
Christina

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