Day 5 - Create your own
We spend our teaching careers dishing out questions for students to solve. It would be, however, much simpler for students to create their own questions. This is not an innovative thought but it is important that students can explain through their writing about how their question is a little harder than the ones we have already done. If they create multiple questions then how their questions have developed with difficulty. This gets students to consider the misconceptions themselves while also dealing with a solution path. It is much more likely to stick this way as they are putting more deep thought into their work. I am a strong believer that writing about their work is an important attribute to have and also helps all students to understand more if they are able to explain their working. Students understanding is the upmost importance to me, I repeatedly tell them that there are no 'tricks' taught in my class.
Hope you are having a good start to the week :)
Mr Mathlete