Structuring a little competition into class.
Posted in class design on Dec 3rd, 2009
I teach a “mathletics” class where we do mostly mathcounts problems. I wasn’t happy with the way it was structured last trimester, because kids generally weren’t engaged as much as I would have liked. So this trimester I re-structured things. I keep a spreadsheet of team points, it’s a running total. Today we completed a [...]

