Levels of Convincing

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I recently attended a full day workshop with Jo Boaler where she shared a different way of thinking about convincing someone from Thinking Mathematically by J. Mason, L. Burton, and K. Stacey.  In the book, she identified three levels of convincing: Convince yourself Convince a friend Convince a skeptic   I immediately realized that this…

Why Are You Using That Problem?

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Recently I’ve become aware of the reality that as math teachers, we often talk about what problems we will be using and even how we will implement them but frequently we miss opportunities to discuss why we’re using them. Consider Graham Fletcher’s amazing sugar cube task on volume of a rectangular prism. I can think of three different…