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Nt1310 Unit 3 Assignment 1 Lesson 1

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In lesson 1, I would still use my same warm-up problem, but as mentioned above, I would want to push the students to think deeper about the problem. I would accomplish this by asking probing questions to get the students to consider the problem from a different perspective. Also, by creating a more debatable perspective, the students would have a greater opportunity to defend their thinking with mathematical reasoning. This would also challenge the students who do well in math to think even deeper about a concept that may seem obvious. While 76% of students lost some points on calculating single probability, most of them just lost points because they forgot to reduce or reduced incorrectly. This lets me know that I needed to emphasize the …show more content…

To help solidify the concept of calculating different compound probabilities I would use this student centered activity: Within their groups, the students would each have to come up with an example of an independent and dependent probability problem. This would allow the students who understand the concept to move to the next level of thinking by getting to create their own scenarios. This would also enable the students who were still struggling to have the opportunity to discuss the differences between the terms with their peers. They would then have to solve their own problems to create an “answer key”. I would then check their problem and answer key to make sure that the table group understood how to solve these problems. The questions they made up would then be given to a new table to identify which was independent and dependent and then solve to provide additional practice and opportunities for discussion. The final step of this activity would be for each group to come to the front of the classroom and “teach” their problems to the class. According to Ron Kurtus (2012), “Statistics show that you learn more by teaching

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