Buzz

This year it’s been hard to foster the kind of collaboration and buzz I’m used to seeing and hearing in my room. There’s a solemnness to the year. The unknown weighs on adults and teenagers alike.

But today, especially in my fourth hour, I felt that energy again.

I love asking my calc kids questions like this one:

They do such a great job giving me reasons why the blue must be the original. But the real task is teaching them that one example does not a proof make.

“Can you convince me why the green cannot be the original? Do you see why that’s a more important question?”

I love teaching logic. These are skills you can use beyond the walls of a math classroom.

Once we were convinced graphically that the blue must be the original function, I asked them to think about it algebraically too.

You’ve gone from a cubic to a quadratic…

“Ahhhhhh”

Sweet, sweet sound to my ears…