At one point, I think my students got lost in the technology and missed the point of the lesson. Did they really understand how transforming data (adding a constant or multiplying by a constant) impacts the results of summary statistics? I will be teaching this same concept tomorrow to my other Probability & Statistics class and they will not be using Fathom. Will things be better? I hope so. Stay tuned!
Tuesday, October 17, 2017
Teach 180: Anyone, Anyone (Day 32)
We had a good turnout for our Math Madness team this morning and our first Math League contest was successful - triple the number of students in previous years. But I felt like it was a sub-par day for teaching. I had good activities planned, but I felt myself rushing in my Period A Probability & Statistics class. I wanted to get things done quickly to make sure the students had time to work on a mini project in Fathom. I found myself asking basic questions and then answering my own questions! Ugh!
At one point, I think my students got lost in the technology and missed the point of the lesson. Did they really understand how transforming data (adding a constant or multiplying by a constant) impacts the results of summary statistics? I will be teaching this same concept tomorrow to my other Probability & Statistics class and they will not be using Fathom. Will things be better? I hope so. Stay tuned!
At one point, I think my students got lost in the technology and missed the point of the lesson. Did they really understand how transforming data (adding a constant or multiplying by a constant) impacts the results of summary statistics? I will be teaching this same concept tomorrow to my other Probability & Statistics class and they will not be using Fathom. Will things be better? I hope so. Stay tuned!
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