Things have been crazy the last couple of weeks as I have been trying to balance life between being the lead math teacher, the digital learning specialist, a mom, a wife, ect. We went one-to-one in the last couple of weeks with iPads.
Today's lesson was not very awe inspiring on the surface, but it actually seemed to work. First, I hate teaching proofs. Like, how? HOW do you teach students to think logically. I frequently get asked for a list of alllllll the reasons you can use in a proof. Imagine the doubt I get when I try to explain that there really isn't a comprehensive list that can reasonably be provided and there really isn't one particular 'answer' to writing a proof. I did have my students add this webpage to their reading list in Safari and that seemed to somewhat appease them.
Tomorrow we will take a quiz so today we just practiced and practiced proofs. I used this nifty little website for the students to individually go through. There were 8 parallelogram proofs that I had them solve, but there are MANY more proofs that I will definitely utilize in the future now that we have iPads.
This took about 45 minutes or so of students working and me meeting with them individually to go through the process. As they finished, they continued to proofs about the five properties of parallelograms. This was to be there homework and they were required to complete two.
I hope to see the understanding from their quiz tomorrow.
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