S: Noah was seen at the Batt School for treatment. Noah was noted to be in a silly mood throughout session. Frequent redirection to task noted, especially at the end of session. O: Noah first participated in an alphabet identification task, where he was asked to label all of the uppercase letters of the alphabet given letter cards with pictures (i.e. “A” with the letter provided and a picture of an apple). He completed the activity with 42% accuracy. He then identified the letters within his name with 89% accuracy. After, Noah was asked to label the category of the 4 items provided. He completed the activity with 80% accuracy. Lastly, he was asked what does not belong in a group of 4 items. He completed the task with 70% accuracy. A: Noah displays consistency/increases across most goals. Noah is noted to confuse “N” with “H” during letter identification task within name. P: Continue POC.
Today Aiden and I worked on the circumference of a circle. I began by asking him about his prior knowledge, what's a circumference, diameter, radius? We recalled the formulas are C=Pi*D and/or C=2*Pi*r. We considered the measure of a tire's circumference and compared it to the linear distance. Aiden recognized these values are equal. We were given the measure of the circumference (28in) and asked to find the diameter of the bicycle tire. Aiden knew to divide 28 by Pi. Next we considered different variations of the circumference formula. That C=Pi*D is the same as Pi=C/D. For a visual application, I gave Aiden string and asked him to cut it at a whole number length, he chose 12 inches. He created a circle with the string. Then he used the ruler to measure the diameter. He then divided the circumference 12 by the diameter measure and we found the ratio as 3.09 (our goal was to get to Pi=3.14, so we were close). We ended with a challenge problem involving rates of rotation. Aiden was given the rate of a gear with a diameter of 6cm as rotation 2 revolutions per second. Then had to use that to find out the rate that a circle with 2cm would be. We determined in 1 second the larger circle traveled 12Pi cm in 1 second. This would imply the smaller circle would rotate 6 times in that time span of one minute. In other words, the smaller circle revolves 6 times in 1 minute.
Ben resumed his MAPs testing today. He worked hard on the problems. One of them he read and did not understand and I took a look at it. I am confident there was an error in the problem (I took a photo of it to ask a colleague). He worked hard the whole period. The problems got into complex numbers and solving quadratic equations which is Algebra 2 content. He did his best. He did not finish but is close to it.
We created sea creatures using magic gel. After placing the colorful gel in molds, we placed the molds in a calcium/water solution. This allowed the gel to harden to create little sea creatures.
Carson had MAPS testing again today. He worked hard all period. He was able to finish the test with just a few minutes left in the period. So we went outside to play ping pong.
Today Matthew got great practice with the unit circle. Matthew recalled that sine goes with y, cosine goes with x, and tangent is y/x. I gave him problems like sin(300 degrees). Matthew had to visualize where that corresponds to on the Unit circle. Then he had to relate that location back to the reference angle of Quadrant 1. He determined the ordered pairs there and then was able to evaluate the trig function. These problems are like a puzzle with multiple steps. I could tell he enjoyed working through the problems, and felt a sense of success when achieving the right answer. Today we finished the Chapter. The goal moving forward is to review and then take our last test.
Today Joshua and I worked on the Multiple Choice Practice Test in AP classroom. I asked Joshua to take the lead in the problem solving. He worked the problems aloud and did a great job recalling concepts we haven't seen in a while. We got through 12 problems and Joshua only had difficulty with 1 of them. We covered polynomials, rational functions, limits, logarithms, polar coordinates, and some other overlapping topics. Tomorrow we will focus on FRQs.
When I arrived to Ben's classroom he shut the door on me. He told me NO. I opened the door and told him how rude that is, and it's not up to him whether we have class or not. He told me he just arrived and wasn't ready for class. I told him I was going to retrieve the computers and he had a few minutes to get ready, but when I returned we were going to finish the MAPS test. When he saw that I was upset from him shutting the door on me, he became very friendly, in almost an apologetic way. I think he realized that wasn't appropriate to do.
We began testing. He again worked hard on the problems, articulating his way through each. The problems are starting to get challenging for him and he was seeming to become defeated. I let him know it's ok not to know everything, that I appreciated his efforts, and that if he needed to take a guess to move on, that is ok. He did not finish the test, so we will resume next period.
