emergent math

Lessons, Commentary, Coaching, and all things mathematics.

Category: task design

  • Find, Adapt, Create: A Path Towards More Agreeable Task Design Time

    In the past I consistently struggled with making the turn from the excitement toward problem-based learning (PrBL) to the actual design of complex, engaging problems. Typically I would spend the morning building the buy-in (the “why”), another part of the morning conducting some sort of problem simulation to showcase PrBL (the “how”). Then my instructions…