June 5

The SAN Script – The week of June 6 – 10

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St. Anthony This Week

Monday, June 6

SAN PJ and movie morning

Emily (co-op) baking in the staffroom blocks 3 & 4

Tuesday, June 7

Paul away (AM)

Culture Shock Hip Hop Dance Lessons

Dr. Olmsted testing in ELL room

Staff meeting:  Health and Safety survey/Atomic Learning

Wednesday, June 8

Waste-free Wednesday

gym closed (concert setting)

concert: Wise Atangana et ses amis de St-Anthony

Weeding Wednesday at lunch with the Green Club

Thursday, June 9

Ms. Dexter, reading volunteer, in Mrs. Rupnik’s class AM only

Recycle Day at St. Anthony Catholic School- PLEASE recycle today – all material to be left inside  near the parking lot door

summer library visit from Jennifer Johnson:Primary 8:45, Juniors 9:15

Robotics de-brief and planning session – Paul away 9:00 – 11:00 am

Papa Jack Popcorn

Staff Party

Friday, June 10

PD Day – school closed

The Three Acts Of A Mathematical Story – a blog post on teaching Math that was suggested to me

2013 May 14. Here’s a brief series on how to teach with three-act math tasks. It includes video.

2013 Apr 12. I’ve been working this blog post into curriculum ideas for a couple years now. They’re all available here.

Storytelling gives us a framework for certain mathematical tasks that is both prescriptive enough to be useful and flexible enough to be usable. Many stories divide into three acts, each of which maps neatly onto these mathematical tasks.

Act One

Introduce the central conflict of your story/task clearly, visually, viscerally, using as few words as possible.

With Jaws your first act looks something like this:

The visual is clear. The camera is in focus. It isn’t bobbing around so much that you can’t get your bearings on the scene. There aren’t any words. And it’s visceral. It strikes you right in the terror bone.

With math, your first act looks something like this:

The visual is clear. The camera is locked to a tripod and focused. No words are necessary. I’m not saying anyone is going to shell out ten dollars on date night to do this math problem but you have a visceral reaction to the image. It strikes you right in the curiosity bone.

Leave no one out of your first act. Your first act should impose as few demands on the students as possible — either of language or of math. It should ask for little and offer a lot. This, incidentally, is as far as the #anyqs challenge takes us.

the rest of the acts can be found here
More here – a TED Talk by Dan Meyer  – Math Class needs a Makeover

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Posted June 5, 2016 by mcguirp in category SAN This Week

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