Algebra

Presenter: if you look at this picture what do you see and don’t look in your book because there’s a little preview of it. So if you’ve look just pretend that you haven’t and so what might this be if you looked at this and you were going to make a _________________ What might that be?

Participant: Could be measles.

Presenter: Could be measles. Okay. What else could it be?

Female Participant: A giraffe.

Presenter: A giraffe. Okay. What else might it be

Male Participant: could be close to A galaxy.

Presenter: okay close to a galaxy there was something over here from near the wall

Male participant 2: a dessert

Presenter: a dessert. Ah I like that thinking. Alright so. Okay. And so ________ alright let’s take a little step out and look at it.

Audience: ahhhh

Female participant: dessert

Presenter so now a desert yes right could it be dessert

Participant: Sushi

Presenter: Sushi. Sushi am sorry

Participant: A blanket

Presenter: A blanket beautiful crochet

Male Participant: could be a painting

Presenter: could be a painting. Some abstract art. Okay and so then if I step out then what would you say

Audience: Ohhh

Presenter: Sushi we were close right so so if we look at this we really would use the sweet little _______ metaphor for kind of zooming in and zooming out and are we looking at the right thing. And so we’ll come back to this several times over the few days so if I come back to this picture for so long we have zeroed in on I have student data and I can drill down to particular FC and so I just can _________ on this one FC and so sometimes in math what happens?

Participants:

Presenter: we lose some of things that are around it so I leave some of the student expectations that maybe in that same cluster or that same unit. Because am perseverating on one little piece and then sometimes then we good we step back a little but we still stay focus on this one cluster what happens? WE lose site of the whole fish. Right because how...