There I was, sitting in our presentation at the CMC-South math conference on November 1st, watching the adorable and amazing Matt Vaudrey take his turn explaining Barbie Zipline. He was so cool, telling the story of how he created an activity for his kids that would help them realize the application of the Pythagorean Theorem. Once the conference ended, I wobbled back to my room where I would be miserably teaching the unfunness of the Distance Formula.
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At my old site, we had this cheesy video news that played once a week and included a "Would You Rather?" segment to get kids thinking. The beef I had with it was that they were asked to choose between being blind for a day vs being deaf for a day (or something even less relevant). I liked the idea, but it got old and wasn't related to the content that I was teaching. From that, the idea came up about creating a math version of such questions to get kids thinking. Oh yeah, and there's that "Standards for Mathematical Practice" thing.
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