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Every classroom is unique, but take a look inside one AMDM classroom at Bowie High School in Austin Independent School District, Austin, Texas (many thanks to Kelly Flickinger and her students).
In Spring 2009, Kelly agreed to field-test a couple of AMDM lessons with her students and let us video her classroom during these lessons. Students are studying one aspect of numerical reasoning as they build on their algebra and geometry background to work on the mathematics of tire sizes and aspect ratios. (After the numerical reasoning unit, they will go on to deal with statistics, finance, discrete math, trigonometry, and modeling with algebra and geometry.)
The full video runs 21:35 minutes, edited from a lesson (Student Activity Sheet I.B.5, pdf 978kb) taught during a 50-minute class period. The video may take a minute to load.
Video sections: Teacher sets up activity (0:01 to 6:10), students work on the task with teacher support (6:10 to 13:25), teacher facilitates student presentations (13:25 to 16:00), teacher leads focused discussion (16:00 to 17:35), students continue presentations (17:35 to 20:16), teacher leads the whole group in discussion to bring the class to a close and set up the next day's work (20:16 to 21:35).
Download a video transcript (pdf 120kb). Note: The transcript is available to support your understanding of the video only. Please do not simply read the transcript without watching the video. It's important to see the work in action!
The individuals pictured in this video (and in the case of students under 18, their parent / legal guardians as well) granted permission for the Dana Center to record them and to use the video in support of the Dana Center's mission.