Modeling Monday Math Event
Modeling Monday was born when the math teachers in my school district decided that it would be a valuable exercise to have ALL of the students from grades six through twelve complete the same math problem on the same day.
Recently, all of the students in my district’s two middle schools and one high school worked on a math problem titled, “110 Years On.” In this post I will share with you the purpose of Modeling Monday and some interesting takeaways that our math teachers experienced as we implemented Modeling Monday in our classrooms.
I will also share with you a link to the problem itself, a YouTube video that captured the essence of the Modeling Monday event in our district, and some pictures of student work in the event that you decide to give Modeling Monday a try in your own classroom. [Read more…]
First of all, hats off to nearly 100 teachers who took time out of busy schedules to answer my two survey questions recently. The first question asked teachers where they were in their personal implementation of the Common Core Math Standards. The second question was:
