Week 6 Blog Post
For my one focus student, I used an example from a playground to illustrate a math concept. Students were beginning a lesson on solving inequalities and equations, and the math concept that I wanted them to all grasp was always making sure to perform the same operation to both sides of the inequality/equality. Since all of the students in my class just went through elementary school and are familiar with various playground objects, I used an example of a see-saw to illustrate the concept of keeping two sides of an equation in balance. I asked students to picture themselves sitting on a see-saw with a smaller cousin/sibling/etc. on the other side. This would imply that the student was on the ground, and the smaller cousin/sibling/etc. was in the air. I then asked what would happen if they were both wearing 5 pound backpacks, and removed the backpacks at the same time. This was to illustrate that as long as we added or removed the exact same amount of weight fr...
