More Blogs!

Two of the blogs I began following mentioned using material or an idea from Dan Meyer so I Googled him and found his blog.  He updates his blog constantly and has so many different ideas and teaching strategies for teaching math.  His blogs are normally fairly short, but straight to the point.  He did one activity that touched so many different things, it was pretty impressive.  He had the students doing math, learning Excel, participating, and more.  He had students guess how many malted eggs were in a container, but also gave a smaller container and actually told them the amount of eggs in that container.  He then had the students come up with their own questions about the data, such as who won, who had the worst guess, etc.  The students worked in pairs on laptops and used the data given to them  Excel to find the answers to their questions.  It was a really interesting activity and I am excited to read more on his blog.  His blog has so many posts and so much information!