{"id":28,"date":"2013-11-25T10:22:38","date_gmt":"2013-11-25T17:22:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.makingmathematicians.com\/hollysblog\/?p=28"},"modified":"2013-11-25T10:22:38","modified_gmt":"2013-11-25T17:22:38","slug":"teaching-mathematical-modeling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.makingmathematicians.com\/hollysblog\/?p=28","title":{"rendered":"Teaching Mathematical Modeling"},"content":{"rendered":"

As I was preparing a unit on expressions (translating, evaluating, and simplifying), I decided to branch out and include a real-world \u201cproblem\u201d to entice students to see the benefit of writing equations and expressions.\u00a0 I ended up creating a video detailing a pretty involved scenario in which students would need to sift through possible constants and variables.\u00a0 At the end of the video, I asked the question \u2013 How can you model a possible solution to this problem?\u00a0\u00a0 Because my 5th grade son\u2019s teacher is such a great sport, she offered to test the lesson in her classroom and we certainly found some interesting results.\u00a0 Upon being asked to generate a model for the problem, all the students started drawing these elaborate schematics and asked if they could create them in 3-D.\u00a0 It became very evident that students aren\u2019t quite comprehending the numerous meanings of math models.\u00a0 Looking over Henry Pollak\u2019s discussions on math modeling for the common core, I decided to make a follow-up video helping students see that mathematical modeling can take many different forms.\u00a0\u00a0 Here is the link to the original video:\u00a0 https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=nXBL79tlBg4<\/a>.\u00a0 I would love for teachers to try showing this video to their students and see if their misconceptions for math modeling are the same.\u00a0 The youtube link for the math modeling video is https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Iew9nppByKs&feature=youtu.be.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/body>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As I was preparing a unit on expressions (translating, evaluating, and simplifying), I decided to branch out and include a real-world \u201cproblem\u201d to entice students to see the benefit of writing equations and expressions.\u00a0 I ended up creating a video detailing a pretty involved scenario in which students would need to sift through possible constants […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,2,3],"tags":[9,11,22,29],"class_list":["post-28","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-algebraic-expressions","category-ccss-8-mathematical-practices","category-math-ideas-lesson-activities-for-every-classroom","tag-algebraic-expressions-2","tag-common-core-8-practices","tag-math-modeling","tag-varialbes-and-constants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.makingmathematicians.com\/hollysblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.makingmathematicians.com\/hollysblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.makingmathematicians.com\/hollysblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.makingmathematicians.com\/hollysblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.makingmathematicians.com\/hollysblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.makingmathematicians.com\/hollysblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.makingmathematicians.com\/hollysblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.makingmathematicians.com\/hollysblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.makingmathematicians.com\/hollysblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}