Task Design

Realistic Math Education: Defining the “real” in real world

Dan Meyer recently posted about how students aren’t easily fooled by attempts to make make tasks “real world” by placing a photo next to them. I found myself nodding along at what he described.  I once naively asked a fourth grade class to write real world problems about fractions and received the following response: The …

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