Class+Assignment+-+461

Hi everyone!

Since we are missing another class today we must make up the time offline to avoid meeting again on 11/25. Please complete the following activities and be ready to participate in a discussion on 11/18. You are not required to complete any assignment to submit to me and you aren't required to complete the following activities tonight in lieu of class. Just make sure to come prepared on 11/18. I would definitely separate these into a few viewing so that you don't feel overwhelmed with 3 hours worth of work. Again, this is in place of a class meeting, hence the length of the videos/assignment.

As you watch the first two videos, observe and make note of the differences and similarities between the two classes. I'm a realist, and realize that you can scrub through the videos but watching teachers teach and critiquing, analyzing, and separating the good from the bad is a valuable exercise.

How does watching the video of Amanda Ripley, and reading the article from the New York Times, shed light (if any) on anything that you observed in the two classroom videos?

Watch the following videos in their entirety:

http://www.timssvideo.com/66 (50 mins.)

http://www.timssvideo.com/69 (50 mins.)

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Read the following article:

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/27/magazine/why-do-americans-stink-at-math.html?_r=0

(20 minutes)