To provide a mechanism for student exploration of difficult concepts in depth. To help students construct their own process for solving story problems. Students edit existing book chapters or sections to reflect their personal experiences, adding their own examples, vocabulary and order of presentation. Students act as book reviewers or critics and analyze chapter sections. Student teams work together to develop chapter sections in a jigsaw exercise where each team develops a different section of the chapter, becoming experts on that material and teaching it to the other teams.
Students work in teams to develop the entire chapter.
Many students find mathematics textbooks hard to read because of the technical nature of the vocabulary and presentation format. I would like you to try your hand at writing a section of a textbook on the topic of solving word problems. Be as original as you like and use what ever illustrations or examples you feel would be helpful to a beginner trying to learn how to set up and solve word problems. Especially consider your own approach and reactions to learning word problems and use your hindsight to prepare materials which will help your fellow students. I mean you may use interesting examples, tell a story, write a poem etc.