A different way to work

Today we’re trying something new.  We’re flipping things around, and standing up at the boards, working on vertical surfaces in groups.  The groups are randomly chosen by drawing cards from a deck.

We sometimes are helping other groups, and we can get inspiration and hints by looking around the room.

Grade 11s are working on creating data sets with different restrictions on mean median and mode.  Grade 10s are working on factoring differences of squares, and grade 9s are solving equations.

We’re even making up our own more challenging problems to extend our thinking.