This is the schedule for the June 25-27 session at Synapse School in Silicon Valley. I will post the schedule for the August 7-9 session at Atrium School near Boston when it becomes available.
◊ This is a tentative schedule, based on my best estimate of how long things take. Topics may move or vanish. ◊ Because of the cumulative nature of some of the work, it is important to attend everything.
◊ We will start on time every day. ◊ Mini-breakfast: 8:30 a.m. School day: 9:00 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Polyomino Perimeter: a discovery lesson connected to many algebra topics Welcome and Introductions Story tables: powerful representation of order of operations and equation-solving (with Shira Helft)
Stairs and Slope: geoboard lessons
Electronic graphing: Stairs, Designs Modeling with Graphs and Tables: "real world" connections, linear vs. non-linear cases
Lab Gear 1: introduction to algebra manipulatives, the area model
Letters and Postcards: linear inequalities Lab Gear 2: perimeter, combining like terms; factoring
Afternoon:Lab Gear 3: minus, equations, signed numbers Signed Numbers game
The McNuggets problem: a rich number-based problem Function Diagrams: parallel axes representation of functions
Lab Gear 4: perfect squares trinomials
Lab Gear 5: fractions, minus in the corner piece, completing the square Walking graphs Wrap-up and closing: evaluation, reflection, implementation
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