Week 2 Day 3 Please pick up a TI-Nspire and turn it on! Mathematical Goal: How can technology be used to inform instruction? Teacher Goal: Students should be able to:  describe the relationship between the parameters of a quadratic equation in various forms and its graph.  identify the strengths and the weaknesses of each form in describing the graph.

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Now what? How would you use this? What are you going to do with the results? What if they still are having difficulty with one of the quadratic forms? (For example, going the wrong way with the h, k, r 1, or r 2.)

Suppose you don’t have a Navigator system, how could you collect the same information?

Reflect Back on the Week Monday - focused on the 5 Nonnegotiables : Jigsaw of the Minute by Minute Article, review of student work of the Pentagon Problem Tuesday – focused on tools to collect evidence of student learning: looked at Participation Quiz video, developed learning goals, checkpoints, and an exit task for a lesson Wednesday - focused on tools to collect evidence of student learning: continued to develop learning goals, checkpoints, and an exit task for a lesson, completed sentence strip after observing a TIMSS video, created an intervention activity Thursday – focused on using technology to check for student understanding and inform instruction: used Navigator and TI-Nspire calculators

Journal Reflection Consider your own classroom practice and the activities we did this week. How might you improve your current practices to make your formative assessment more effective?