Playlist: Bookmarks
Power can be Visible or Invisible
What are examples of unseen Power? And can invisible power be more powerful than visible power?
What’s the Pattern? Fraction Addition
Can your students figure out how to add fractions by looking for a pattern?
Find The Pattern: Multiply Fractions
What if you set the stage for students to discover how to multiply fractions?
Tournament: 8 Wonders of the Solar System
Which location is the most wondrous place in the solar system?
Precipitation Tournament
Eight types of precipitation battle it out in this tournament.
Not Like The Others: Types of Rocks
Igneous, sedimentary, metamorphic — and one that doesn’t fit. But which one? Depends on your argument.
Not Like The Others: States of Matter
How is each of the states of matter not like the others?
Generalization: Change Leads to More Change
Can you think of a time in your life when “Change lead to more change?”
Generalization: Problems Lead to New Rules, Which Lead to New Problems
Problems create rules. Rules create new problems. Can you trace the cycle in history, stories, and your own life?
Numerator or Denominator: Which has more power in a fraction?
What do you do with students who already get their fraction operations? Give them a contrived project about recipes or pizza slices? Make them solve annoyingly hard practice problems? Please. Here, we get students thinking in a whole new way, pondering which has more power, the numerator or denominator.
The Personalities of Rocks
What would an igneous rock be like? Would it get along with a sedimentary rock? Could they handle the hot personality of a metamorphic rock?
Undoing Multiplication With Division
Multiplication and division, natural foes, are constantly seeking to undo each other. Students will attempt to reverse the effects of multiplication by dividing once, twice, or even thrice!
Grouping Quadrilaterals In A Hierarchy
Can we classify quadrilaterals like we classify living things?
A Visual Guide To Dividing By Fractions
Have you ever wondered what it looks like to divide by a fraction, man?