Creative+Problem+Solving+2014-2015

TRI 3: 2014-2015
[|Link to Binder Organization] [|Math Skills] and [|Disposition Skills] List


 * || **WEEK 11** ||
 * **6/1** || Growth Portfolio Work Day ||
 * **6/2** || Growth Portfolio Work Day ||
 * **6/3** || Last Giant Inflatables Work Day ||
 * **6/4** || Growth Portfolios Due!! ||
 * **6/5** || Last Puzzle Day ||


 * || **WEEK 10** ||
 * 5/24 || No School - Memorial Day ||
 * **5/25** || Giant Inflatables Work Day ||
 * **5/26** || Growth Portfolio Work Day ||
 * **5/27** || Puzzle Day/Senior Finals ||
 * **5/28** || Giant Inflatables Work Day ||

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 * || **WEEK 9** ||
 * **5/18** || [|Start Giant Inflatables Project] ||
 * **5/19** || Continue Giant Inflatables ||
 * **5/20** || Puzzle Day!
 * **5/21** || Portfolio Work Day ||
 * **5/22** || Giant Inflatables Work Day ||

|| || || -Write and SHARE your write-up for a growth skill See [|this document] for extra hints and directions ||
 * || **WEEK 8** ||
 * **5/11** || Classic Brain Teasers
 * **5/12** || Sequences and Equations
 * **5/13** || Finish Dots Pattern Task/Sequences and Equations and [|Reflection] ||
 * **5/14** || Puzzle Day
 * **5/15** || Growth Portfolio Work Day

|| + Task Reflection Sheet || || ||
 * || **WEEK 7** ||
 * **5/4** || Making Money? Comparing Investments
 * **5/5** || Having Kittens Activity
 * **5/6** || Joy of X reading and notes
 * **5/7** || Read and grade [|sample growth portfolio] ||
 * **5/8** || Puzzle Day

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 * || **WEEK 6** ||
 * **4/27** || Tables and Function Families - Patterns in Algebra
 * **4/28** || [|Growth Portfolio Day 1] ||
 * **4/29** || Puzzle Day
 * **4/30** || Pattern Task Assessment
 * **5/1** || No Class - Half Day ||

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 * || **WEEK 5** ||
 * **4/20** || Mixed Problems Packet ||
 * **4/21** || Build Wooden Puzzle Cubes ||
 * **4/22** || Build Wooden Puzzle Cubes ||
 * **4/23** || Build and [|SOLVE] Wooden Puzzle Cubes ||
 * **4/24** || Puzzle Day

[|article "Struggle for Smarts? How Eastern and Western Cultures Tackle Learning"]
 * || **WEEK 4** ||
 * **4/13** || Link to

Function and Situation Matching Activity || Task Reflection Sheet: || ||
 * **4/14** || Continue Function and Situation Matching ||
 * **4/15** || Finish Function and Situation Matching
 * **4/16** || Variations on a T-Pattern
 * **4/17** || Puzzle Day! ||

Spring Break || ||
 * || **WEEK 3** ||
 * **3/30** || Exeter Math [[file:ExeterPacket.pdf]] ||
 * **3/31** || Sierpinski Triangle and Reflection
 * **4/1** || Budgets and Billions Activity ||
 * **4/2** || Puzzle Day!
 * 4/3 || No Class - Spring Break ||

|| || Beginner: Intermediate: Advanced: [|Reflection Questions] || ||
 * || **WEEK 2** ||
 * **3/23** || Assorted Puzzler Problems
 * **3/24** || Algebra Tiles Perimeter Task
 * **3/25** || Choose Your Pattern Task
 * **3/26** || Puzzle Day
 * **3/27** || Growth Reflection Readings, Notes, and Essay

Essay: Write a short reflective essay about the readings. Your writing should address, but is not limited to, the following questions:
 * What fact most surprised or interested you?
 * How do the ideas in the readings relate to your life inside school? Outside school?
 * How do you think the ideas in the readings relate to what we do in this class?
 * What is your overall reactions to the readings? ||

Syllabus: Contact Info Sheet: "Can You Think Under Pressure?"
 * || **WEEK 1** ||
 * **3/16** || Mindset Quiz:[[file:MindsetQuiz.doc]]

Fermi Problems: || The Border Problem || L-Pattern Task Reflection Questions: 1.How was this task similar or different than the Border Problem from yesterday? 2. Did you use any strategies from yesterday's problem? 3. Give the task a 1-10 difficulty rating and explain why. || Mindset Quiz:
 * **3/17** || Present the Fermi Problems
 * **3/18** || Complete Task Reflection for the Border Problem
 * **3/19** || Introduction to Growth Mindset

Pentagon Train Task:

-Don't leave anything blank. -If you get stuck, explain why, describe what you do know, ask a question, etc. || Reflection ||
 * HW:** Square Spirals Task
 * **3/20** || Puzzle Day - Week 1