tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2256375873271579383.post352273744361269944..comments2024-03-27T23:55:01.532-07:00Comments on Divisible by 3 [Andrew Stadel]: Your Life Depends On ItAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06699410662148629132noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2256375873271579383.post-31661346974463306152015-02-17T16:11:48.468-08:002015-02-17T16:11:48.468-08:00Thanks for sharing this insight Andrew. I'm a...Thanks for sharing this insight Andrew. I'm always looking for generalizations to apply to any math lesson I am creating. My takeaway is to ask POWERFUL questions. Powerful questions cause students to ask more questions, ask for more information, make estimates, and create a fight (aka debate). <br /><br />Need to ponder some more...<br />Tim McCaffreyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01224088900992906783noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2256375873271579383.post-59002863723404202015-01-08T20:29:27.380-08:002015-01-08T20:29:27.380-08:00Hi Julie,
I totally appreciate your comment here...Hi Julie, <br /><br />I totally appreciate your comment here. Believe it or not, I'm at a place where I would rather hear a teenager's answer more often than not. That said, I changed the question so it is now more focused on quantity and not a list of people. Thanks for sharing.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06699410662148629132noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2256375873271579383.post-19186886291848307212015-01-08T20:27:17.774-08:002015-01-08T20:27:17.774-08:00Hey Andrew,
Glad you enjoyed the episode. I just f...Hey Andrew,<br />Glad you enjoyed the episode. I just finished the podcast this afternoon and had similar thoughts to yours as well. Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06699410662148629132noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2256375873271579383.post-55002260982651917472015-01-08T20:25:41.693-08:002015-01-08T20:25:41.693-08:00I'd love to hear how it goes. Please report ba...I'd love to hear how it goes. Please report back...Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06699410662148629132noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2256375873271579383.post-30778764240813213812015-01-08T20:23:34.988-08:002015-01-08T20:23:34.988-08:00Finally, I got you thinking!
It's about time.Finally, I got you thinking!<br />It's about time.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06699410662148629132noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2256375873271579383.post-1909504634819963592015-01-08T09:26:58.948-08:002015-01-08T09:26:58.948-08:00I love this! I think my kids will really enjoy qu...I love this! I think my kids will really enjoy questions like this. Thanks for the idea.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2256375873271579383.post-24196545044162462062015-01-08T08:52:03.612-08:002015-01-08T08:52:03.612-08:00I also listened to this podcast and I came away wi...I also listened to this podcast and I came away with a similar feeling. What an interesting question about the value of something that is not normally quantified. "How much money is one year of life worth?" Radiolab went on to talk about how some countries are trying to quantify how much the "work" that nature does in order to compare it to the same work done by paid humans. For instance bees in a Chinese town disappeared because of the chemicals being used on the farms, so humans began to hand-pollinate the flowers instead of the bees who do it "naturally." <br /><br />This Radiolab episode was a treasure trove of thoughts about value, quantification, and interesting numeracy questions. Thanks for bringing it up, Andrew!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2256375873271579383.post-68537523039916085922015-01-08T08:24:43.605-08:002015-01-08T08:24:43.605-08:00My takeaway from this post is that we should be mo...My takeaway from this post is that we should be more intentional, whenever possible, about choosing questions and tasks that "spawn a rich discussion like this." I have to simmer more on what this actually looks like but I appreciate you making me think about it.Robert Kaplinskyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12730219834465583755noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2256375873271579383.post-70853185786391223972015-01-07T18:07:40.581-08:002015-01-07T18:07:40.581-08:00I went to a Quaker school and we did lots of think...I went to a Quaker school and we did lots of thinking about values, society, war and peace, etc. In the late '70s and early '80s, the discussions of war vs. peace tended to be apocalyptic. At some point when I was in 7th or 8th grade, someone gave us a thought experiment about a bunker big enough to save only a certain number of people, and who from a list of people, each described briefly, we would save from annihilation by putting them in the bunker. <br /><br />I found this so fascinating that I proceeded to spend quite a bit of time in the following weeks thinking out which of my classmates I would save and which I would abandon to the nuclear holocaust. Yikes. I SWEAR I was a pretty good kid and grew up to be a decent adult who places value on every person's life... but I think of this sometimes when I read about the differences between the adolescent brain & the adult brain.<br /><br />I guess I'm just saying, don't ask any questions you don't want to hear a teenager's answer to.Julie Wrighthttp://www.twitter.com/msjwright2noreply@blogger.com