Lesson Parking Lot

The Golden Frame

I come across so many amazing lessons (mostly on twitter) that I want to remember. Since I'm hired as a special education teacher that teaches math, instead of a math teacher, I don't get very many opportunities to plan curriculum. So, often, I save the lessons to my computer or to my favorites and I forget they exist in the tiny moments when I get to contribute more fully to what we are teaching (as opposed to how it is taught which is generally my wheelhouse). All of that said, I hereby dub this space a Lesson Parking Lot.

I'm going to accumulate lessons that I would like to come back to. For now, they will probably be random. In the future, I would like to organize them by subject and type. This space will remain a work in progress for that reason.

1. The Golden Frame by Fawn Nguyen

The gist of it is:
You give students a piece of artwork. You talk to them about how expensive it is to frame. You have them use a predetermined piece of paper to try to mat the photo. Students may become sufficiently frustrated with the activity and try to come up with some math to figure it out.

2. The Famous Bridge Problem by Fawn Nguyen

The gist of it is:
This is the famous bridge problem where there are 7 bridges and you can only cross each once. Fawn breaks down the question and asks her students to investigate whether different scenarios are possible. I think this would be a good lesson for Math Workshop or Applied Math.