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Mathematical Processes - Problem Solving

 
 
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Mathematical Processes - Problem Solving
by Colin Veldkamp - Thursday, 2 May 2013, 11:25 AM
 

One idea to promote problem solving is to try and get students to figure out a concept on their own instead of just telling them what it is.

An example of this is operations on radicals for Math 20-2.  A group of teacher's I worked with in Edmonton Public came up with these sheets (find the sheets on the Problem Solving Process Page) to get students to try to discover the rules for operations on radicals.  I just handed out the sheets and once they thought they got it they would check with me and then get to work on some practice.  

I'd like to develop something similar for entire and mixed radicals in 10-C ... unless someone has something made already???

Colin

 
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Re: Mathematical Processes - Problem Solving
by Colin Veldkamp - Monday, 6 May 2013, 11:54 AM
 

Thank you to Corinna Wynia for sharing some resources on Irrational Numbers from her district.  I've added them as a Zip file to the 10-C site in a folder called Shared Resources from Colleagues under the Exponents and Radicals section.

I especially like Activity 3 of the Learning Plan that focuses on writing entire radicals as equivalent expressions by using factor pairs.  Then from the list of equivalent expressions you can identify any mixed radicals.

Thank you once again Corinna and if anyone else has any activities (big or small) that you find work well please consider contributing to the site!

Colin  

 
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