Final blog post for February.
I just uploaded another worksheet to the website, this one centering around writing/solving quadratic equations. The real world application is a bit exotic this time; students have to work out some of the logistics of owning a cruise liner. The inspiration came from a fairly common type of word problem, which involves finding the speed of a boat through water given a particular river current speed (as well as a few other pieces of information). Because the current affects the boat's speed relative to the shore differently when traveling upstream vs. downstream, the equation for time ends up being quadratic. For some reason, this worksheet took me a very long time to put together. I just had a hard time piecing together the different parts of the activity in my head, and I spent a lot of time sitting at the computer without making much progress. I am still not completely satisfied with it (in particular, I am not sure if the necessary "hints" I provided for the some of the problems are quite clear enough), but I am happy enough about it to post it on here. I think I will leave it for now and perhaps come back to it again later.
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Well, I finally got around to finishing the additional website that I have been talking about. Here is the link: https://miches611.wixsite.com/realtimemath
I decided to use the program "Wix" for this. Personally, I found it to be much more versatile, customizable, and user-friendly than Weebly. I will to continue to update this website (along with my weebly) as I get more work done on my project. Overall, things are going fairly well; I am excited to put all of my efforts into making new worksheets/answer keys again. We will see what the rest of this semester holds in store. Oops. For the second time in the past week, I've had a dream where I remembered something that I was supposed to do (but forgot to do) in real life. Looks like January only got one blog post, but that just means February will get a little extra attention.
Unfortunately I don't have a ton to update at this time (I feel like I say that a lot). All of the answer keys have been uploaded to this website. I decided to publish them separately instead of attaching them to the ends of their respective worksheets. I just thought it would be more practical to have them as a separate product. After all, it's probably better for the worksheets not to have a readily available answer key attached to the end for students to look off of as they work. I am still working on making a separate website using "Wix" to be the base of my project; I will post the link when that is finished. As a final note, I met with Ms. Lepi a few days ago to touch base. We both seemed to think that I am at a pretty good place right now, so that gives me a little more confidence moving forward. |
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