Tag Archives: PoW

Good-Enough-for-Now Curriculum

By Fawn | Published: October 27, 2016

I did my first webinar last week as a precursor to my talk at NCTM’s Innov8 Conference next month. I thought it went okay — or horribly — just tough to be the only person with the mic and not being able to actually see the attendees. It was weird. There are a few slides from […]

Posted in Teaching | Also tagged CPM, curriculum, problem solving, resources, warm-ups | 14 Responses

Giving Feedback with a Highlighter

By Fawn | Published: September 16, 2015

I attended John Scammell’s excellent 3-morning sessions on Formative Assessment at #TMC15. We were asked to share strategies that we may already be doing to give students feedback . I shared about how I used highlighters for this. I promised my group that I would write a short post about it, but I waited until now since I […]

Posted in Problem Solving, Teaching | Also tagged formative assessment, giving feedback, highlighting, John Scammel, problem of the week, The Math Forum | 26 Responses

A Simpler Solution

By Fawn | Published: October 30, 2014

I’m guessing this was about 5 years ago. I was at an all-day workshop when a high school math teacher, sitting next to me, asked about the PoW (from mathforum.org) that I had assigned to my students. I happened to have an extra copy in my backpack and gave it to her. Dad’s Cookies [Problem #2959] Dad bakes some […]

Posted in Problem Solving | Also tagged Dad's Cookies, Math Forum, perseverance, problem of the week, problem solving | 8 Responses

Giving Feedback to Students

By Fawn | Published: August 30, 2014

I checked out Mathspace because of Dan Meyer’s post. I lasted all of 4 minutes. My answer in part b was no good. I tried again, but still I failed. I didn’t give up. Then I gave up. (Guess it wanted me to type in n = 3 from the beginning. I’m still not sure. But by […]