| Where is the math? I had only been teaching for a couple of months
but I heard this question and similar ones posed since my beginning days
as a math student. The very idea of going up to a vendor and asking him
where the math was did not seem that outrageous. Or did it? I applaud
risk taking among my students. As a new teacher, everything I do holds
some sort of risk. The idea to use the story plot was a successful risk
for me as a teacher. I want to show my students that the best thing about
risk taking is the discovery in the outcome. One can always learn from
the academic risks one takes on. As it applies to matrices, I had my own
insecurities about the information. The biggest challenge I had was making
sure the information that I had concretely in m my mind became clear for
the students to process. Using the story of the Lauren Hill vendor made
the math clear and concrete in a more effective way than a more abstract
explanation. |