Three-Act Math
Deconstruct the experience. What are the three acts of this story? What were the teacher moves? How is it different than the same kind of problem in a textbook?
Textbook Makeover
Where is the hook in each of these problems? What kind of image would provoke a student to wonder that hook on her own?
Interesting to Challenging
How do you turn something interesting into something challenging?
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Follow-Up Reading
If you’d like to learn more about today’s work, let me recommend two posts I’ve written.