Wednesday, November 4, 2015

11/4 Team Building, Goal Setting

1.  Warm-up:  Take a moment to reflect on what you have achieved so far in math this year.  Then, answer the following questions.

a)  What is your goal for Chapter 3?

b)  What will you do to achieve that goal?


2.  Class meeting
  • Share out our goals
  • Hold each other accountable for attaining our goals
3.  Team High Fives/Handshakes

4.  CPM Team Roles Script
  • Fishbowl:  Observe and take notes of the positive team dynamics you see.  Observers must be silent.
  • Example Problem:
    • Work with your team to add parentheses to  4 + 2 · 5 + (-3) so that the resulting expression has the smallest possible value.  Then find a different way to add parentheses to the same expression so that it has the largest possible value. 
5.  Begin Lesson 3.2.1 Subtraction of Integers
  • Objective:  I will develop strategies for subtracting integers

Homework:  Lesson 3.2.1 R/P (checked on Monday)