tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1907702537884089718.post596800536424591754..comments2023-10-07T09:26:02.868-07:00Comments on Exit 10A: This One's For RobertJoe Schwartzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02304083254248927187noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1907702537884089718.post-4638293285828576562015-12-03T18:02:32.915-08:002015-12-03T18:02:32.915-08:00Molly,
Thank you so much for taking the time...Molly, <br /> Thank you so much for taking the time to let me know how your staff reacted to the activity. I especially love how your kindergarten teachers were thinking of ways to adapt the task for their kids. And actually finding out how much the food is marked up would be a great task for middle school kids.<br /> It's true we all get better as we learn from each other. "All of us are smarter than one of us," is what Graham Fletcher always says. Please continue to share and encourage your teachers to add their voices and ideas into the mix. Joe Schwartzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02304083254248927187noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1907702537884089718.post-2830936984103106302015-12-03T17:02:53.481-08:002015-12-03T17:02:53.481-08:00Joe, thank you for sharing your ideas! As a princi...Joe, thank you for sharing your ideas! As a principal, I rarely get to apply these sorts of lessons with kids, but I shared this activity at our staff professional development this week and had a great time watching teachers wrestle with it! The "what do you notice, what do you wonder" construct was new to them, but it really resonated. And they loved the way the undressed table required them to make sense of the problem and persevere in solving it. As we shared out strategies for creating a 1500 calorie equation, we were able to incorporate and model number talks strategies, and celebrate the many correct ways there were to approach the problem.<br />A couple of my favorite moments: 1)In the "wonder" phase, one teacher hypothesized that the number represented the percentage markup for each food item. 2)My kinder team decided the numbers were too large to work for their students, but they thought using Weight Watchers points would give kids the right kind of practice!<br />Again, thanks for putting your work out there. We all get better as we learn and grow from and with each other. I've shared your blog with my staff, and I won't be surprised if I see more adaptations of your lesson ideas in our classrooms. And hopefully your Starbucks example will help to encourage them to publish their own fabulous ideas, strategies, and experiments.<br />Molly Largehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11946719291724998626noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1907702537884089718.post-620131442162025572015-11-02T13:45:03.060-08:002015-11-02T13:45:03.060-08:00Thanks for sharing this, Mark. I like how you too...Thanks for sharing this, Mark. I like how you took the idea and made it your own, and used it to suit the needs of your class. Graham's idea about stripping data from tables is very powerful. I know that I need to encourage teachers in my school to use it on a more regular basis. Joe Schwartzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02304083254248927187noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1907702537884089718.post-34458031787393834342015-11-02T10:55:32.168-08:002015-11-02T10:55:32.168-08:00Joe, Thanks for this work. My third graders are w...Joe, Thanks for this work. My third graders are working with addition and subtraction with larger numbers so you put this out at the perfect time for me. I'll write up the way I used it but wanted to let you know I love the way you used Fletcher's ideas about stripping the data. I pulled info from this site https://www.fourmilab.ch/hackdiet/e4/foodcalories.html I chose to use the Fruit and Snacks categories to get started. We had a very similar conversation about what the numbers meant: price? amount in stock? But then I have a kid whose mom is a nutritionist and he asked "Could these be calories?" From there I had them find ways to equivalent amounts of snacks and fruit. Great stuff and thanks! Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14441486039218705583noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1907702537884089718.post-25027778109583149322015-10-28T16:04:07.144-07:002015-10-28T16:04:07.144-07:00Thanks Matthew! I'm glad you're able to f...Thanks Matthew! I'm glad you're able to find some of what I do useful and inspiring. Making files available is clearly something I need to take the time to figure out how to do. I promise I'll get to work on that. For this activity, the list of McDonald's foods will depend on what your class likes to eat. Here's the link to the nutrition pdf...<br /> http://nutrition.mcdonalds.com/getnutrition/nutritionfacts.pdf<br />...which I should have embedded in the post. If you try this out, let me know how it goes.Joe Schwartzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02304083254248927187noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1907702537884089718.post-49482359996497367372015-10-28T07:01:34.139-07:002015-10-28T07:01:34.139-07:00I love this idea. Thanks for also sharing Graham ...I love this idea. Thanks for also sharing Graham Fletcher's Undressing Tables. Robert is right, your work is inspiring to me. I shared some of your stuff during an Ignite talk at an EdCamp. Are the PDFs from this activity available to the public? <br />Thanks for all that you do.mdhardmhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07032957649425481006noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1907702537884089718.post-92140989841509196502015-10-26T14:09:48.779-07:002015-10-26T14:09:48.779-07:00Thanks for your comments, Robert. One of the great...Thanks for your comments, Robert. One of the great things about the MTBoS is that you can tweet out something like that video clip, and others can take it and find inspiration. <br /> I know that I should get things on my blog better organized and accessible ; you're not the first to make that suggestion. I need to make the time to do that.<br /> I also know that I am now part of that "Starbucks line". I'm proud and honored to be in that line with you and everyone else in this amazing community.<br /> Joe Schwartzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02304083254248927187noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1907702537884089718.post-40151597763864330192015-10-25T08:19:15.587-07:002015-10-25T08:19:15.587-07:00What a wonderful post to read. Thank you so much ...What a wonderful post to read. Thank you so much for this! I have a few thoughts to share:<br /><br />First, I LOVE your take on the video. While it grew from the same inspiration, it is truly a different lesson that many teachers would love to use. The way it was rolled out so reminds me of some things I recently heard from Dan Meyer where he talks about turning up the math dial to increase engagement. Think about how much differently the lesson would have gone if it was presented as a word problem that said something like this. "Find foods you can eat for 1500 calories or less." Students would have complied but not found it nearly as engaging.<br /><br />Second, I guess my next push for you would be to start encapsulating these great ideas on a lessons page so people can easily find them. That way you can list the standards used and some of the handouts and save the next teacher time. When you find time for it, let me know so I can publicize it and add it to the problem-based lesson search engine.<br /><br />Third, realize that this is much like when someone starts a chain reaction at a Starbucks drive through and buys a coffee for the person behind him or her. That person buys for the next person and so on. Sometimes these lines go on for over 400 people. Where I am going with this is that while I greatly appreciate your kind words, people like Dan, Fawn, and Andrew did the same thing for me. You may not be thinking about it but you are actively doing the same thing for future MTBoS members: you are inspiring them through your sincerity and hard work. Plus, I am certain when you see educators with amazing ideas to share who are just missing an audience, you will go out of your way to help them too.<br /><br />Thanks again for taking the time to write this up. It was fun reading.Robert Kaplinskyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12730219834465583755noreply@blogger.com