Participant Project

Throughout the course you will find suggested pacing for the project in each unit. In suggesting pacing for the projects, we hope to offer opportunities for you to give and receive feedback throughout the course. Pacing recommendations for the Alternative Project are found just below the Classroom Activities Project.

Classroom Activities Project:

In order to stay on pace to complete your project and in time to receive feedback from your colleagues, we recommend that you complete the following over the course of this unit:

  1. Create your project consisting of:
    1. A reflection on what you have learned in your student interviews that you will apply in teaching fractions in the future.
    2. A lesson plan based on one or both of the problems that you have implemented and what you have learned from your interviews with students. (Please include the elements that your district requires in a lesson plan)
  2. Share your project in the discussion forum either by uploading it or pasting the information directly into the text box.
  3. Provide feedback on at least three of your colleagues' projects, item 4.7 on the sidebar. (Note: Project review will continue throughout units 4 and 5).(Show additional guidelines for providing feedback)

If you have not yet conducted an interview with students, you may want to choose from the computation problems provided below.  We also encourage all participants to download and try variations of these tasks with students.
Multiplication and Division (Vincent)Write a Story Problem (Matt)Estimation (multiple operations)
If 9 people want to share a 50-pound sack of rice equally by weight, how many pounds of rice should each person get? Write a story problem for: 2 1/2 ÷ (3/4) .

Then solve your story problem. Talk out loud as you think.		 The sum of 1/6 and 2/3 is closest to:

a) 3
b) 9
c) 2
d) 1
Explain your thinking.
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Alternative Project:

To stay on pace to complete your project in time to receive feedback from your colleagues, we recommend that you complete the following over the course of this unit:

  1. Finalize your project consisting of:
    1. Your project's rationale and goals.
    2. Your product to address those goals. It can be a draft version.
    3. What you plan to do next to complete or use the product.
    4. Questions on which you would like to have input from other participants.
  2. Share your project in the discussion forum either by uploading it or pasting the information directly into the text box.
  3. Provide feedback on at least three of your colleagues' projects, item 4.7 on the sidebar. (Note: Project review will continue throughout units 4 and 5)(Show additional guidelines for providing feedback)