Extra Blog: August

My senior project is teaching Middle School Math and although I haven't been able to go to the actual class and spend one-on-one time teaching students, I was still able to help my mentor out. I helped my mentor set up an activity where the student in the class created a human graph. By this I mean that students represented numbers and as a group they had to go out and graph the given function. The students would first line up on the x-axis with he number given to them, then they would plug their number into the function and move up and down the y-axis. The end result is that the students would actively experience xy-coordinate system to review its elements and be informally introduced to a linear function.