Day 9

I am feeling like the course is becoming disjointed.  I am trying to piece this spiral together as best as I can with the best outcome for my students.  Since I have taught Grade 9 applied every semester since I started teaching, I am struggling to find flow in this course with the spiral.  I have been following Mr.Orr is a Geek's blog for assistance in the spiral.  I trust that it will go well.  But, we are the end of week two and I am in need of trying to fit some pieces still together!
I had the class start with a minds on to solidify their knowledge about the pythagorean theorem.  This exercise pushed their thinking because it was not a right angle triangle.  But, it did help students understand this concept.

We then consolidated of the desmos activity from the lab.  This led to a discussion about constants and multipliers from patterns to algebra.  We looked at some simple examples with just multipliers and then added in constants and multipliers.  I am not confident that I had the entire class understanding (in this case, I am happy for the spiral to retouch on it again!)

We reviewed the terminology in regards to correlation and then practiced drawing lines of best fit and making predictions (either by extrapolating or interpolating).

At the end of class, I had them reflect on their learning from the week.