Have you heard of the movement to “rehumanize math”? It’s a term from Rochelle Gutierrez who writes:
A more rehumanized mathematics would depart from a purely logical perspective and invite students to draw upon other parts of themselves (e.g., voice, vision, touch, intuition).
On this screen in Fit Fights, you have a fantastic opportunity to help students draw on their vision and intuition.
Taking full advantage of that possibility might mean telling students, “Just use your best guess here. Don’t worry about being exact because that isn’t really possible yet.”
The more thinking you can invite from students at the start of Fit Fights, the more thinking you’ll have to celebrate and develop as the activity progresses.
Dan & the Desmos Classroom Team
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Great advice from other teachers.
Oakland, CA
We had students write an example of positive and negative correlation graphs in their notebook. We had a great discussion about possible examples for different types of correlations.
Tolleson, AZ
I really tried to push kids to be creative with the Create Your Own Challenge portion. I would challenge students to create a scatter plot that no one else could figure out.
Wilmington, NC
Students may create a data set with virtually no association. This is a good graph to go back to in future lessons to show that the "best model" would essentially be a horizontal line, in which case the x value has no affect on the y value.
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