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By: A Day In… Honors Algebra 1 | Reason and Wonder

A Day In… Honors Algebra 1 | Reason and Wonder — Fri, 12 Apr 2013 06:40:47 +0000

[…] rang. Sets were found. Homework was checked. Estimations were made, reasons were given, the answer was […]

By: A Day In… Honors Precalculus with Trigonometry | Reason and Wonder

A Day In… Honors Precalculus with Trigonometry | Reason and Wonder — Wed, 03 Apr 2013 05:50:47 +0000

[…] back to today. We then played SET for two or three minutes. For the first round students had 60 seconds to work quietly in small […]

By: Gregory Taylor (@mathtans)

Gregory Taylor (@mathtans) — Sat, 23 Mar 2013 01:42:47 +0000

I’ve played Set, card version, my wife has a deck… but I haven’t done it in many years, maybe even a decade. Don’t like it. I can never see the sets as fast as other people, and even by myself, I’m always second guessing whether there’s something there or not. More frustrating than fun. But then, this is coming from a person who doesn’t play games much at all – whenever I’m losing, I feel bad, and whenever I’m winning, I feel bad for the other guy, so kind of lose-lose all around. I have to get my “fun” teacher cred elsewhere.

Regarding the other questions, I haven’t used those other web resources in class, and I suspect the last 2-5 minutes of a class tends to happen one of three ways:
-I’m taking up some work (either a quiz or a couple questions on the board) and run out of time, or divert into how this relates to something else we’ve done, or both…
-They’re all working on exercises or something else as I’m going around and answering things individually. In the case of the class where they’re not fond of maths, they tuned me out ten minutes ago anyway.
-I do a song. Once a month, maybe.

But then I haven’t actually self-analyzed how classes wrap up. I do say “have a good next period/lunch/afternoon” most of the time though.

By: Fawn Nguyen

Fawn Nguyen — Tue, 19 Mar 2013 14:30:33 +0000

Hi Michael. I played SET for the first time just this past summer at the Math Teacher’ Circle training in Palo Alto. (Our t-shirt from the training are the cards in SET.) LOVE the game, except I seem to be the slowest one to see a “set” of anything. I want to show blind people how to play it so I can have a chance.

I do Estimation180 with my 6th graders. That’s our daily warm-up. Just last week, I randomly assigned 2 VisualPatterns to each student as their weekly PS (problem solving).

I haven’t had too many class periods when there are extra minutes this year. But I have two boxes (single and double digits) of “Make 24” on my desk.

Thanks so much, Michael, for the mention here too.