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The Four Steps To Create A Classroom Where Students Are Excited To Learn Mathematics

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Open Middle Book
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  • Amazon Kindle

 

My Online Workshop
  • Empowered Problem Solving

 

Why We Should Reconsider Using Word Problems (And What We Should Be Doing Instead) Webinar
  • Elementary school version
  • Middle school version
  • High school version

 

Open Middle
  • Open Middle
  • Open Middle Depth of Knowledge Matrices

 

Lessons Referenced
  • How Many Chip Bags Will There Be?
  • How Many Stars Are There In The Universe?
  • How Much Is One Third Of A Cup Of Butter?
  • How Many Soda Combos Are There On A Coke Freestyle?
  • How Much Money IS That?!
  • How Much Shorter Are Staggered Pipe Stacks?
  • Charge!
  • How Much Bigger Should They Make Zoolander’s School?
  • How Much Does The Aluminum Foil Prank Cost?
  • The Apple
  • Taco Cart
  • Basketbola
  • Barbie Bungee
  • Mullet Ratio
  • How Much Money Should Dr. Evil Demand?

 

Blog Posts Referenced
  • Mathematical Modeling: Do You Need Better Spies Or Analysts?
  • Mathematical Modeling Can…
  • Beware of Fake Math Modeling Problems
  • Problem Solving Framework

 

Books Referenced
  • Made to Stick book
  • If You Hopped Like A Frog
  • The Doorbell Rang

 

Other Resources Referenced
  • Visual Patterns
  • Desmos’ Polygraph
  • Desmos’ Pomegraphit
  • Which One Doesn’t Belong
  • Surface Area of Sphere via Orange
  • Volume of cone and cylinder
  • Graphing Stories
  • Graham Fletcher’s progressions videos

 

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