1. Dennis and Jennifer Kirkey Mount Boucherie Secondary
Sorting Out Critical Thinking
Dennis and Jennifer Kirkey
Mount Boucherie Secondary
Kelowna, BC
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Friday, October 25, 2013
Steveston London Secondary
Richmond, BC

2. Inclusive Pedagogy and Assessment Practices in Pre-Calculus 11
Lorraine Baron
ww.bcamt.ca

4. Trig Ratios Quizzing Activities
Teacher directs students to prepared materials:
Quiz cards (teacher or student prepared)
Work sheets
Other…
Partner A quizzes B.
Partner B answers.
Partner A praises or coaches
Partners switch roles.
Partners trade cards and thank each other.
Repeat steps 2-5 a number of times.
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5. Quizzing Activities Great for quick recall topics
Great for questions that don’t require written work
Great for visual type questions
Nice review to start off a class
(especially after a weekend)
Can be used for kids to teach each other
Kids do a lot of questions in a short period of time
(and don’t realize they actually did work!)
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6. Translations Sorting/Matching Activities Sort the graphs into groups
how did you decide what groups to use?
Sort the other cards into groups.
how was this set of sorting criteria different?
Group all the cards in a way that makes sense.
What criteria did you use?
Blue box green cards: graphs
Blue box yellow cards: equations, vertex

7. Skittleanthium Interesting Activities Blue box green cards: graphs
Blue box yellow cards: equations, vertex

8. Skittleanthium Measure 75g of Skittleanthium
Determine the average mass of a single Skittleanthium atom
Skittleanthium has the unique property that it decays according to a probabilistic model
Only Skittlenthium exhibiting an "s" will decay
If an "s" is exhibited the probability it will actually decay is only 1 in 3!
Blue box green cards: graphs
Blue box yellow cards: equations, vertex

9. Skittleanthium
Observe and record the decay process after various "shakes" (assume 1 Shake = 1 min)
Graph the decay of Skittleanthium:
Mass vs Time
Determine an equation that models the decay of Skittlanthium
𝐴(𝑡)= 𝐴 0 (?) 𝑡
Determine a Half-Life decay equation, and calculate the half life of Skittleanthium
𝐴(𝑡)= 𝐴 0 ( 1 2 ) 𝑡 ℎ
Blue box green cards: graphs
Blue box yellow cards: equations, vertex

10. THANK YOU! http://inclusivemath.weebly.com/ Jennifer Kirkey
Dennis Kirkey