3 Acts - Embrace the Drawing Board

Constructing Math Instruction Nathan Kraft's 3 act math This is my attempt to build on the work of Dan Meyer, probably most well known for his TED presentation. You can also check out his blog and his 101 questions website to find similarly intriguing photos/videos. I also like Andrew Stadel's work which you can find here. Click on the box to access each lesson. The following are tasks that I started, but I'm not crazy about them. Robert Kaplinsky - Glenrock Consulting Dan Meyer's Blog about 3-act 2016 Oct 7. I was wrong about everything below. After admitting defeat to #bottleflipping, my commenters rescued the lesson. I’m sorry. Relevant background information: Last spring, 18-year-old Mike Senatore, in a display of infinite swagger, flipped a bottle and landed it perfectly on its end. That thirty-second video has six million views at the time of this writing. my brother's teacher banned bottle flipping what— maya !! Some of my favorite math educators suggested that we turn those water bottles into a math lesson instead of confiscating them. I was game. Marta flipped x2 + 6x + 8 bottles in x + 4 minutes. Obviously unsatisfactory, right? For me, at the end of this hypothetical lesson, I want students to feel more powerful, able to complete some task more efficiently or more accurately. Ideally, that task would be bottle flipping. But what if the task wasn’t bottle flipping (where math won’t help) rather predicting the outcome of bottle flipping (where math might). Act One Act Two