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Welcome to Unit 5! (Please help us out with some feedback on Unit 4 before it drifts too far in your memory.)

 

You’ll receive four emails from us throughout this unit, each one offering ideas for celebrating and developing student thinking.

Students often come to believe that every question in math class has one right answer with one right phrasing and only a small number of people in the class can know it.

 

So this screen in Turtle Crossing is a fantastic moment to help students understand that all of us are smarter than one of us.

 

Luca’s graph is rich in information about the turtle’s journey. It contains positions and rates of change. It invites students to think about reasons why the turtle might have stopped for two seconds or where the turtle was going.

 

Let me encourage you to snapshot and present several different student responses, ones which capture unique features of the graph. Every time you celebrate a student’s unique contribution to our understanding of the turtle’s journey, you help the entire class learn more math, and learn more about their value as mathematical thinkers.

 

Dan & the Desmos Classroom Team

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Great advice from other teachers.

Oakland, CA

 

Spend time noticing and wondering on slides 1-2. This will support students to have richer conversations in breakout groups on the next set of slides.

 

Chicago, IL

 

We tightly paced the lesson. We did the reveal first as a class.

 

New York City, NY

 

Pacing with the reveal screens is very important to the lesson.

 

West Chester, PA

 

Use snapshots! Students will have partially correct graphs and they are great talking points to build their understanding.