Mathsational

For the month of January the folks at Explore MTBoS are challenging you to write one blog post per week.  This weeks challenge is to write about a favorite.  You can read more about the challenge  here . So far this year, my favorite lesson has been Julie's Candy Catapult .  Use the previous link to read about how she created and implemented the activity.  I used the activity over a period of 3 class periods at the direct station in my hybrid classroom .  This worked out to be about 60 minutes total for each student. First I allowed the students to choice their own group of 3.  I explained that we were going to use this catapult to shoot candy across the room.  Then then would do some calculations so that they could predict where the same candy would land when we shot from the top of a student desk rather than from the floor. I needed a lot of help from Julie and from the members of our physics department.  I wanted to be sure tha...