Karen CampeNov 7, 2023
Electing to do some #ProblemSolving on Election Day?
Here's one lovely Q from November's Calendar of Problems:
Nov 14.
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I like to lower floor for students by asking "find at least one ordered pair that could be fourth vertex" & ask Ss to explain how.
Working in groups (after individual think time) can spur them to share strategies, & "find them all"
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Here is set up with 3 given vertices:

Can begin #ProblemSolving with #NoticeWonder

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There are 3 unique locations for 4th vertex that create a parallelogram.
Can you find them? How did you find them?
Spoilers ahead...

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There's so much to discuss about the 3 solutions!
--How do you know each is a parallelogram?
--Can you prove that?
--What about 3 parallelograms is #SameDifferent?
What an interesting combined image... what do you #NoticeWonder ?
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Nov 7, 2023 at 4:06pmWeb
Show threadKaren CampeNov 7, 2023
For more #ProblemSolving fun, check out the entire November Calendar at
https://karendcampe.wordpress.com/2023/11/02/november-calendar-problems/
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November Calendar Problems

Do you want to make problem solving a habit in your math class? Here is the 30-year-old November 1993 Calendar of Problems from my cache of old Mathematics Teacher1 issues still hanging around my a…

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