Meeting with the DLC Tutors
http://mathforum.org/dlc/tutors.july14.html
5:00 - 7:00 July 14, 2008

Part I: Online Mentoring (about 30 minutes)

Learning Goals: Identifying the key mathematics to connect to, and learning specific ways to ask about it.

Overall Description: We will examine four samples of student work, two from Function Challenge and two from Car Rental Quandary. We will discuss how to respond to students in a way that will lead to the most effective revisions.

 

Part II: Suporting problem solving strategies (about 1.5 hours)

Learning Goals: Getting every problem solving strategy heard. Supporting the students as they suggest various strategies to solve a problem. Learning ways to anticipate and identify strategies.

Overall Description: We will facilitate two problem solving sessions for Snowy Driveway and Making Triangles. Each tutor will choose to play the role of a student who is presenting her/him with a certain challenge (for example, a student who is always ahead of the group.)

Interpretating the Problem:

• Read the problem for 2 minutes.
• Discuss your undrstanding of what's happening in the problem.
• Ask questions such as: What do we know?- I don't understand - I am not clear about - Is it always the same amount of..

Discussing Problem Solving Strategies:

• Think about a strategy to solve the problem and name it.
• Pair with another tutor who named the same strategy to work on solving the problem.
• We will have a group check every few minutes to see how everyone is progressing following their own strategy.

Wrap up: Getting ready for our weekly supplementary session.

 

Problem Selection for Week 4

Math 100

• ***3308: Snowy Driveway
• 3040: Count Your Change
• 2824: Three Consecutive Integers

Math 110

• ***3136: Making Triangles
• 3700: Ancestors

 

DLC Summer 2008 Wiki

http://mathforum.org/wiki/MathForum? DlcSummer2008

 

Contact Us

Steve, Suzanne, Mai and Lillian