Purposeful Practice & Dandy Candies. August 5th, 2014 by Dan Meyer Practice may not always be fun, but it can be purposeful. Some of my favorite tasks lately contain purposeful practice. For instance, Dandy Candies tells students they’re going to package up 24 cubical candy boxes. It asks them, “Which of four packages uses the least amount of packaging? Which uses the least amount of ribbon?” This is the usual house style. But then we ask them to find out if another package dimension will use even less material. So now the students have to think systematically, tabling out their work so they don’t waste effort finding the surface area of a lot of different prisms. Contrast that against a worksheet like this, which is practice also, though rather less purposeful: Where else have you seen purposeful practice?
I’d look to: Robert Kaplinsky and Nanette Johnson’s Open Middle project.Malcolm Swan’s tasks: impossible points & break 25.Bryan Meyer’s scientific notation task. BTW. A workshop participant gave this algorithm. Make It Count 2 / Home - Make it Count. The comparison of education rates in Syria and Australia. Ngram Viewer. Working Backwards by Annabel D on Prezi. Maths wk 7 tasks by Meg Elphick on Prezi. Acting Out Stratgey. All About Mass. Volume and Capacity. World History TimeMap. 40 Useful and Creative Infographics. Six Revisions Menu Main Categories CSS HTML JavaScript Web Design WordPress Web Development Design Inspiration UX Design UI Design Freebies Tutorials Tools Links About Contact Advertise RSS Twitter Facebook 40 Useful and Creative Infographics By Jacob Gube Information graphics (or infographics) are graphical depictions of data and information.
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