Amy Gruen at square root of negative one teach math has found a way to teach piecewise defined functions that worked for her students. This is a really difficult skill for a lot of students, so this is a totally awesome lesson to read about–go read it!
As requested, here is a link to the Google Art Project, where you can explore some famous museums. Also see Google Maps’ Street View feature for more fun.
I found a lesson plan called A Thousand Lockers. Despite the fact that it has explicit instructions for using a spreadsheet to explore the problem, it seems to be a type 2 lesson with lots of room to explore various ways to reach an answer and discover an algebraic relationship.
Here is a lesson about Algebraic Transformations. It is a type one lesson because it helps students explore different algebraic transformations without being too teachy. I like it because it introduces the concepts not with numbers but with shapes and letters.
Here is a type 1 lesson plan using excel. It is very very explicit in the instructions for make sure that the students know what they should be doing. http://teach.fcps.net/trt10/Documents/planetage.html
This lesson deals has the students look into different styles of houses and how they are built. The students are to style their own home with different requirements including what scale factor to draw their plan in and some legal issues about what percentage on land they are allowed to build on. The lesson is […]
The Trig lesson plan that our group did for Dr. Hofacker’s class, I believe, is a good example of a type 2 lesson. Although we gave the students the questions that we wanted them to answer, they were fairly broad questions and we did not tell them exactly how to find the answers to the […]
I found a lesson on the PBS Teacher’s website that incorporates many mathematical concepts just in time for Earth day! The lesson focuses on the linear modeling of population growth and decay. The guided approach to this lesson defines it as a Type 1 lesson.
The 6th grade students had just finished working on rates and ratios and a lot of fraction work, and had taken an image and increased it by a scale of 3. I was to teach them the next lesson that brought about the idea of different scale factors, and the relationship between the area and […]
Here is a lesson dealing with percentages and totals. It relates to fast food and calories which is very interesting. I think it could definitely be a good lesson to integrate with a health and fitness class. The technology is mostly Microsoft Office Software, however, it is very guided as you will see. Fast Food Fun