Homework for the long weekend

This week, students have been exploring patterns, making predictions, and writing general statements and rules.

Each night, students have engaged in these activities on their own, for homework.  Often, they had to invent strategies to solve the homework problems.

In class, we have used the previous night's homework to discuss strategies that students have used.

In other words, we have been solving problems and developing strategies at the same time.  This means that students' strategies should get progressively more sophisticated, and that students should get progressively more comfortable solving the homework problems.

For homework this weekend, I would like students to go back through each of the past three homework assignments (see list below), and reflect on their strategies. They might have a more sophisticated strategy now, or they might be able to solve a problem that they couldn't before.  Although there is no way to "check off" that students have done this assignment, I think it is very valuable for students to reflect on their own work.  Thus, I expect that students should spend at least 20 minutes reflecting.  Please help your son or daughter organize 20 minutes to reflect on their strategies, and to re-solve old problems in new ways.


The three HW assignments are:

1. Snowfall!
2. Patterns and predictions I 
3. Patterns and predictions II.

As always, all of the HW, class activities, and class notes can be found by clicking the "daily activities, notes, and homework" link in the "Class Links" box on the right side of this page.