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- 6. If you do decide to do
something different, keep 3
things in mind:
- 9. 1. It needs to work
2. It needs to be fun
3. It can’t piss off the boss
- 10. You have 3 bosses:
students
parents
principals
- 15. Your kid wants two things:
1) make progress
2) have fun with their friends
- 19. What if you could keep the
principal and the parents
happy?
- 25. 1. Get SAT test prep questions
2. Put them in quiz/test form
- 26. 1. Get SAT test prep questions
2. Put them in quiz/test form
3. Get those quizzes online (for
your kids)
- 27. If you can check that test-prep
box, then you get to play (in a
#’s way)
- 30. Most kids are convinced the
math they’re doing is NOT
connected to reality.
- 31. They know (after the quiz next
week) they’ll never have to
remember how to complete the
square again …ever.
- 35. So they do what all of us do
when we hate something:
- 37. 1. Avoid it (don’t turn it in)
2. Ignore it
3. Outsource it
- 38. 1. Avoid it (don’t turn it in)
2. Ignore it (copy it from Ed on
the bus in the AM)
3. Outsource it
- 39. 1. Avoid it (don’t turn it in)
2. Ignore it (copy it from Ed on
the bus in the AM)
3. Outsource it (see #2)
- 40. 65% of middle school boys
would rather take out the trash
than do their math homework
- 56. When they start talking,
listen,
ask clarifying questions
and write down what they say.
- 58. When your kids start talking,
listen,
ask clarifying questions
and write down what they say.
- 60. “I wish math class taught me to
solve real-life problems”
- 61. “I wish math class taught me to
solve real-life problems”
- 66. Or “How do we balance the cost
of health-care with quality
care?”
- 67. Or “What do we do about
immigration in this country?”
- 69. If a kid doesn’t like it, no
problem, (s)he just has to come
up with their own.
- 70. If a kid doesn’t like it, no
problem, (s)he just has to come
up with their own.
(It is America after all.)
- 71. If a kid doesn’t like it, no
problem, (s)he just has to come
up with their own.
(It is America after all.)
- 72. So you both have something
new (and reality-based) to do
now.
- 77. You only need 3 things for kids
to engage in this real-life math
- 79. Thing 2: a platform they can
interact (passively) with you and
others about their answer
- 80. Thing 3: a deliverable that
packages their answer
- 81. Thing 1
2 Weekly Turn-ins:
1 Pager (what I’m learning)
½ Pager (what I’m learning
about myself)
- 87. I want my kids to be able to:
1) Get important work done
- 88. I want my kids to be able to:
1) Get important work done
2) Manage internally (Define
themselves)
- 89. I want my kids to be able to:
1) Get important work done
2) Manage internally (Define
themselves)
3) Manage others (Stay
connected)