{"id":64,"date":"2013-08-27T20:38:57","date_gmt":"2013-08-27T20:38:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mrmclaughlin.com\/web\/?p=64"},"modified":"2022-11-21T20:58:40","modified_gmt":"2022-11-21T20:58:40","slug":"project-based-learning-in-math-08-27-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mrmclaughlin.com\/blog\/2013\/08\/27\/project-based-learning-in-math-08-27-2013\/","title":{"rendered":"Project based learning in math 08\/27\/2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20210415082436\/http:\/\/blog.discoveryeducation.com\/blog\/2013\/08\/27\/project-based-learning-in-math\/confident-professor-at-blackboard\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-45226\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-45226\" title=\"Confident Professor at Blackboard\" src=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20210415082436im_\/http:\/\/blog.discoveryeducation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/math-300x248.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"248\" \/><\/a>I just finished reading a post in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20210415082436\/http:\/\/blogs.edweek.org\/edweek\/on_innovation\/2013\/07\/deeper_project_based_learning.html?cmp=ENL-EU-VIEWS2\">Education Weekly<\/a>\u00a0that was given to me by my principle\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20210415082436\/https:\/\/plus.google.com\/u\/0\/117539040124196832827\">Chuck Malone<\/a>\u00a0. He asked us to comment on it with respect to our content area using google+ and I thought I would re-post it here.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\u201cPick compelling subjects: help students frame big but specific questions;\u201d (<a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20210415082436\/http:\/\/blogs.edweek.org\/edweek\/on_innovation\/2013\/07\/deeper_project_based_learning.html?cmp=ENL-EU-VIEWS2\">Deeper Project Based Learning<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20210415082436\/http:\/\/blogs.edweek.org\/edweek\/on_innovation\/\">Tom Vander Ark<\/a>)This is automatically a challenge for students of math. Math for a lot of people has a built in fear response. In Math we need to have a problem that is interesting and yet not too hard. Often the really good problems require some very hard math that most high school students have not reached yet.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I am an Antirealist (see this for explanation\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20210415082436\/http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=TbNymweHW4E\" rel=\"nofollow\">Is Math a Feature of the Universe or a Feature of Human Creation?\u00a0<\/a>\u00a0) when it comes to math in that I believe math is 100% made up.I don\u2019t mean it is fake. I mean it is not discovered like science. Math is created to explain our universe. If the universe was different all the math would be as well. I see math as more of an Art. We are trying to paint a picture when words and pictures won\u2019t work. Try to draw a 10 dimensional space. String theory says we exist in one but only the language of math with its numbers, symbols, and graphs can \u201cpaint\u201d it with any accuracy.<\/p>\n<p>So what is the conclusion of this? Find things students can\u2019t explain or draw without the aid of Math. Show any student a set of points and have them choose a way of making it make sense to themselves and to the world around then. Maybe it\u2019s a graph, maybe it\u2019s a 3D model. Math lets us rework the world around us so we can perceive it, explain it, and feel ourselves fit into it.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0I just finished reading a post in\u00a0Education Weekly\u00a0that was given to me by my principle\u00a0Chuck Malone\u00a0. He asked us to comment on it with respect to our content area using google+ and I thought I would re-post it here. \u201cPick compelling subjects: help students frame big but specific questions;\u201d (Deeper Project Based Learning,\u00a0Tom Vander Ark)This [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrmclaughlin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrmclaughlin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrmclaughlin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrmclaughlin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrmclaughlin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrmclaughlin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrmclaughlin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64\/revisions\/65"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrmclaughlin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrmclaughlin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrmclaughlin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}