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Algebra 1 Course Outline
This is a course outline for Algebra 1, designed by Ann Shannon & Associates, LLC for the Bill & Melinda Gates foundation. This unit provides students with an opportunity to engage in meaningful mathematical investigations, drawing heavily on the eight Mathematical Practices. The objective is to help students understand the importance of seeing, doing, re-constructing, and supposing in learning mathematics.
Dan Ryder teaches high school English and humanities, but his students still wind up learning computer-aided design and 3D printing. In his classes at Mt. Blue High School in Farmington, Maine, Ryder has students design and build 3D “fidgets” after learning about the impact of stress and studying social entrepreneurship.
Elizabeth Dogget remembers how hard it was to personalize instruction to meet student needs while she was student teaching. “It was really difficult to track where my students were on their progress towards meeting a learning objective and giving them timely feedback,” she recalls. “Often I would take a bunch of stuff home over the weekend, but by the time I got through giving them all feedback, it would be too late for them to make meaningful changes.”
The Mathematics Design Collaborative (MDC) brings to mathematics teaching and learning high-quality instructional tools and professional support services that play a pivotal role in helping the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation realize its ambitious goal of having 80% of low-income and minority students ready for college by 2025.
Apr 15, 2017
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