I found that estimating the volume of water in the Giant Soup Can Tank a very similar problem to that which would be solved in a Physics class. Fermi Problems are generally used to estimate the order of magnitude for a quantity in a given space. These problems usually have very flexible approaches, because the end goal simply justifying the closest possible guess.
For the Pro D Day on October 20th, I attended UBC's "Introduction to SOGI in the K-12 Context." It was a really informative workshop, and I took away a lot of ideas on creating safe spaces in the classroom.
"Battleground schools" by Mathison and Ross was a very enlightening read. I was not aware of the many pushes in mathematics education over the years, assuming that it stayed relatively constant until the most recent curriculum shift. I think that view was partially motivated by conversations from my elders. My family received a standard British Education in the Caribbean, and likewise with our friends from the UK, India, Hong Kong, etc. From those discussions I had understood that the North American Education system was slightly lower in some respects to the British System, but didn't know of the movements that polarized educators- especially for math! I thought that the shifts were in connection to subjects such as language arts, English, Drama, Music, Social Studies, etc.
Throughout Eisner’s, “The Three Curricula That All Schools Teach,” I found myself in agreement with the descriptions of the three curricula. Eisner mentions how students who graduate from secondary school spend 12,000 hours in school settings, which is a considerable amount of time for their exposure and compliances to the goals of the curriculum.
LESSON PLAN:
Here's the lesson plan for Chernie, Esther, and I's lesson:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1JHQ12-x3AkxAMUZgkpAem8jumMaeLTv4V2e1efBVf2I/edit?usp=sharing
Our topic is Introduction to Slope for Grade 10 Foundations and Pre-Calculus.
*Edit: October 16, 2023
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| Results from my TPI |
My results range in order as: nurturing, developmental, apprenticeship, social reform, and transmission. I was surprised that nurturing was dominant; developmental, apprenticeship, and social reform were present; and that transmission was recessive. It always seemed as though math teachers needed to have a higher balance of nurturing and transmission, so initially, I had trouble reconciling those contradicting results. Having reflected on my teaching experiences however, I realize that these results were very in line with my actual style.
TOPIC:
For the micro-teaching lesson plan activity, I would like to introduce: basic piping (decorating) techniques for baked goods.
