Due to the "Scrooge Musical" special assembly and schedule, our team needed to rearrange how we delivered today's instructions. One part of the day was devoted to students completing their work on Ticket Totals (see yesterday's blog). Students from the Cepheus group were mixed into the present groupings and offered their strategies to the solutions. After whole group share of strategies that worked and did not work then time to re-evaluate their solution, students were then presented with a new challenge, In a Shorter Way. This gave students the opportunity to take the learned strategies and thinking from Ticket Totals and apply them to In a Shorter Way.
Finally, students were assigned the task to writing a reflection paragraph. The paragraph must include the following:
- what strategy(ies) did you use yesterday?
- what worked and what did not work?
- what strategy did you use today after the whole group share?
- how did it improve your ability to work and find a solution?
- what strategy(ies) did you use from Ticket Totals to help with Shorter Way?
HOMEWORK: Have the reflection paragraph finished for Monday's class.
