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Description of Fellow's Teaching Routine

• Millbury Middle School (NRich routine)
  • Students meet in the classroom and the teacher reviews their homework, completed on assistments
  • Students who got a perfect score are sent to the computer lab with me while the others review the homework solutions
  • While in lab, before the other students arrive, we work on a math problem from the NRich site
  • The goal is to get students to have fun while doing math
  • I help them realize the mathematical concept underlying the solution to the problem
  • For NRich problems which are new, I help the students formulate a shared solution that they submit to the web site
  • Some NRich solutions are selected for display on the site the next month, which motivates the students

For some of the NRich problems I implemented a solution in code (using MATLAB). Showing students that there is a programatic, methodological approach to solving the problem was interesting to the students.