I had to get the monster on one-side by himself because I wanted to know what HIS weight was, not the weight of him AND 4 other blocks. A few of the reflection comments were as follows: We started out by playing with this Khan Academy module where you’re balancing a scale to figure out the weight of a monster. One-step equations can be intuitive when working with whole numbers, which makes having students model it visually on a scale difficult why make an easy thing hard? Well…to try and make the harder things easy later on. But we had fun auctions in class this week! PRE-ALGEBRA Additionally, in 6th grade math, I feel I’ve got a wider gap between students with a lot of background knowledge on the current concept and students with no background knowledge.
Dan Meyer has a collection of blog posts called “If (insert math concept) is the asprin, how do we create the headache.” I felt I was shoving asprin down my Pre-Algebra students throats as they were saying ‘I don’t have a headache but I do now!’ during our lesson on modeling one-step equations.
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