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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As I mentioned in a previous post, not all tasks are created equal. Different tasks provide different opportunities for students to learn. Deciding what task to use in a lesson or how to modify an existing task is a decision we make every day as teachers. Dan Meyer recently highlighted how we can begin to …
“Not all tasks are created equal, and different tasks will provoke different levels and kinds of student thinking.” -Stein, Smith, Henningsen, & Silver, 2000 What are we doing today? One of the biggest decisions we make as teachers is choosing the tasks our students will work on during class. We use tasks from textbooks and …