You are very rigid. I am very supportive. Another assignment might be to write a skit or dialogue about Midpoint, Distance and Slope arguing about who is most intelligent. New York state students are tested on higher-level thinking skills in earlier grades than before. For example, it used to be that fractions were not introduced until grades four or five in elementary schools.
Teachers say turning math problems into real-life situations is most effective with students.
He found the polls leading up to the presidential elections a perfect way to teach about percentages. Students learned that data can be misleading, depending on how it is portrayed graphically. I take them from Reader's Digest, from restaurant managers, from cartoons. Cartoons, inspirational sayings and a huge replica of a calculator adorn the walls of his Dutchess County classroom. Through the year, Grassia works examples tied to the new, harder assessments into classroom lessons.