Students are encouraged to look at real world data and comment by answering 4 questions: What do you notice? What do you wonder? How does this relate to you and your community? What's going on this graph?" and are asked to "Create a catchy headline that captures the graph's main idea."
By Friday morning, Dec. 3, the "Reveal" will be posted with the graphs’ free online link, additional background and questions, shout outs for student headlines and Stat Nuggets(definitions of statistical terms and where they are seen in the graph).
An expected delight mid-month in the New Yorker, Richard Rusczyk's profile details the humble beginnings of his online Math programs' prominence even pre-COVID.
As his Art of Problem Solving website says "Stretch Your Student to Their Fullest Mathematical Potential. Learn from the leaders in advanced math, alongside outstanding classmates, with interactive online math for students grades 5–12."
Even before the pandemic, the higher education landscape was rapidly shifting. This article, Higher Education Should Prepare for Five New Realities, written by The Great Upheaval authors Arthur Levine and Scott Van Pelt outlines the changes faced by colleges and universities as "They point to a future that is outcome-based, time-independent, digital, individualized, low-cost, and available any time and any place."
Their key questions about the future of education include:
• how much will colleges and universities change, what will change, and how will these changes occur?
• will institutions of higher learning be able to adapt to the challenges they face, or will they be disrupted by them?
• will the industrial model of higher education be repaired or replaced?
• why is higher education more important than ever?
In 9 of the stacks, the coins all weigh 1 ounce but one stack has coins that weigh 2 ounces. Using only a digital scale and only one weighing, identify the stack that contains the 2-ounce coins.
The answer to November's Brain Puzzler: 13.75 seconds.
