Last week, when the kids were teaching each other about math concepts they'd recently learned, one of my students had to teach me. He was showing me how to make parallel lines on a grid, and I realized... we were tiptoeing right on the verge of the concept of slope. Slope is something that's usually studied rather later in mathematics, but this seemed to me like one of those wonderful Summers-Knoll moments when one can take an idea and run with it. So, I made sure to introduce the concept with each group, last week, and today I wanted to review it with them a bit, just to solidify the idea. It's a bit of a tangent right now, but the concept will come up again, and not too long from now, for some of them. So, we began by reviewing on the board, but then we started looking around the room for something with a slope we could measure. It was Jesse who presented us with an option:
We measured her from her head to her heels, and found the slope she formed, using the floor and the table as our X and Y axes. (If I'm remembering right, her slope was something like 113/-120.) Go Jesse!
And here's just a taste of our ongoing dramatic efforts: Alec and Mike expressing unrequited love.
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