The PoWs also offer the opportunity for students to investigate concepts that we may or may not have had time to look at in depth. I'm excited about the PoWs that you make available and the feedback that is so important. Thank you for all your hard work. They are presented with the problem on Tuesdays. This helps the students understand what the question is asking.
Students then discuss ways to solve the problem.
On Thursdays, students are given another 10 minutes at the beginning of class to begin to discuss possibilities and we share ways they have come up with to answer the problem. On Fridays, they are completing their write-ups as if they were to answer the problem on the Internet. I only require the students to submit one problem every nine weeks, but they must attempt the problem weekly. I have also had wonderful comments from parents regarding the use of technology as a teaching tool in the math classes. This site is used for our problem of the week contest for 8th grade students.