For next week, we will do something a bit different to prepare to work on problem solving.
There are three readings here: the first two are from Prestage & Perks (2001), Adapting and extending secondary mathematics activities: New tasks for old. London: David Fulton. The third reading is from Brown & Walter (2009). The art of problem posing (Third edition). New York: Routledge.
Please read the one you have chosen in your group and summarize it briefly on your blog.
Then find three textbook problems (from the math textbook you use, or one borrowed from the class). Try to choose three quite different problems, perhaps algebra, geometry and number theory or whatever presents itself.
Using the strategies offered in the reading, see if you can 'open up the problems' in interesting ways, to make them more exploratory, problem-posing or lending themselves to student understanding. We will take a look at the original and revised problems in class.
1) Prestage & Perks: New Qs for old
2) Prestage & Perks: Context, reality, ambiguity
3) Brown & Walter: What-if-not in action
There are three readings here: the first two are from Prestage & Perks (2001), Adapting and extending secondary mathematics activities: New tasks for old. London: David Fulton. The third reading is from Brown & Walter (2009). The art of problem posing (Third edition). New York: Routledge.
Please read the one you have chosen in your group and summarize it briefly on your blog.
Then find three textbook problems (from the math textbook you use, or one borrowed from the class). Try to choose three quite different problems, perhaps algebra, geometry and number theory or whatever presents itself.
Using the strategies offered in the reading, see if you can 'open up the problems' in interesting ways, to make them more exploratory, problem-posing or lending themselves to student understanding. We will take a look at the original and revised problems in class.
1) Prestage & Perks: New Qs for old
2) Prestage & Perks: Context, reality, ambiguity
3) Brown & Walter: What-if-not in action
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