He's referring to beating me down while informing the teacher's pet (Fawn) of his tactic. |
- a blog post,
- a lesson plan,
- an interpretive dance,
- a work of visual art,
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Interpretive dance really got me thinking. I thought back to the handful of dance lessons my wife (fiance at the time) and I took to practice for the First Dance at our wedding. My wife was a natural. As for me, well let's just say all the dance lessons in a lifetime wouldn't have helped. Here's a dance photo I have of us where it actually looks like I'm doing something worthy. Don't be fooled.
Here comes my lesson idea. I'd like to see the relationship between the number of steps taken in a dance over time. So let's make it a graphing story. Here's the first 30 seconds of a dance. Write a story for it. Even better, can you write the functions (along with any intervals, domains, ranges, etc)? Go here to Desmos to check your answers. I give you my interpretive dance.
Thanks to Sadie, Timon, and Michael Pershan for inviting me to their hangouts. I was honored to collaborate with you guys during one of the hangouts and bounce ideas off of each other. Thanks to Fawn for getting me in trouble, ratting me out to the teacher, and reminding me to submit my final project. Where would I be without you? Probably in class and not in the principal's office.
I would love some feedback on this lesson idea. Would you have your students dance? If so, what dance(s)? Would you have students come up with a function for each type of dance? What kind of relationships would you have your students look for? Would you consider "dancing" an applicable use of functions? I leave you with this clip. You must give these guys (Sean and John Scott) some crazy respect. They're insanely fantastic at tap-dancing. Just watch the first minute. Then make a graphing story.
Dance,
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K is beautiful. How the hell did you get so lucky?
ReplyDeleteThis is your "interpretive dance"? Sheesh. Nice try. Got my hopes up for nothing.
Here's what I'm thinking. We show the students by actually dancing to the different music (well, not you obviously) and/or showing video clips of the different dances, like "swing, salsa, the waltz, and the two-step box" (cha-cha-cha is my fav though, it's all about Santana), then give the kids the graphs of these dances, and see if they could match which dance to which graph.
Oye Como Va
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