Dear {{custom.firstName}},

Your challenge in this upcoming lesson is to skip this screen.

After your students work on a challenge on screens 5 and 6, they compare the strategies of two fictional students who solved the exact same challenge.

But why use the work of fictional students when you have real students in front of you? Let’s consider an alternative and let students lead. 

Be on the lookout for the Ebonys and Diegos in your class. Snapshot their work (or even their brilliant unfinished bits), display them side by side, and encourage your students to Compare and Connect. Your students may use words like “get rid of” or “elimination” in their explanation, even though they haven’t been introduced to the elimination method yet. Let’s celebrate and honor that.

You’ll start to see the tide shift and have more students feel seen, knowing that their ideas belong in math class.

Dan & the Desmos Classroom Team

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