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If you had been my math teacher, I would have learned to read graphs!

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You are making me miss teaching math. Excellent demo. There are so many crossovers for ELA and Social Studies. Students need to be able to read graphs and data to understand informational texts! Data literacy is a huge need for our students in all subject areas and this is a great way to expose them to the connection between understanding our world and reading a graph.

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I am so math-phobic - I wish I had a teacher like you!! I am blown away at how connecting the telling of a story with a graph can be such an authentic assessment tool. EXCELLENT!!!!

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Not only did you help students access the math content, but you gave them a brilliant way to explore their storytelling abilities! Great job, Cody!
-Bob

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I learned so much and cold totally tell that you teach from hope and curiosity - something we aspire to instill in our students. Low floors and high ceilings means that EVERY student in your class is a mathematician!

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Cody, I wish you had been my math teacher. I love how stories and graphs work together to empower students and encourage them to suss out and strengthen their math skills. I also like the opportunities to negotiate meaning by "reading" the graph and cooperating with a peer. Excellent lesson!

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Cody, I wish you had been my math teacher. I love how stories and graphs work together to empower students and encourage them to suss out and strengthen their math skills. I also like the opportunities to negotiate meaning by "reading" the graph and cooperating with a peer. Excellent lesson!

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--Daina

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Yay! Cody, your amazing teaching allowed me to finally understand the graphing from 9TH grade! You're patient, so kind, and I love the detailed and purposeful feedback. The activity was super interesting and fun. I could feel both sides of my brain buzzing! What a great lesson! Got room for one more in your class?
Amanda

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What a great way to bring in choice and creativity for your students. The collaborative component provides students with instant feedback from peers, which could help reduce math-related anxiety.
To create more time for the pair activity, you could condense the time you spend on your teaching context.
Definitely keep in the student work. Your reflections at the end are useful because they show your growth, too.
Great job making connections!
Brooke

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I love this and I love that you are helping them to see math as a language not just numbers or formulas to be memorized. I cringe when people say math can't work with other subject (then they say except science). THIS IS HOW YOU DO IT!

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Cody-- I am so excited to work with you next year. This was fantastic! I love the way you incorporated writing into the math class!  Let's collaborate on this project and bring it into the 9th grade English class!

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Wow! Like, I suck at math. But I was super excited and my mind was going crazy seeing applications of this all over the place. So awesome. In social studies we do look at data sets and graphs and to have students tell a story around those, because there's always a story, those numbers MEAN something, they are representations of lives lived, of lives lost, of riches and robberies...man! Sorry, super stoked on this, wish my son could have you as a math teacher :)

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I love the way this project uses writing as a way to cognitively process math-- it's definitely not just decoration. I experienced the same iterative process working with my partner. Writing is a human tool for thought, it allows us to form thoughts and return to them-- you are joining math and writing tools!
-Lisa

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This is such an amazing way to incorporate writing in math! It was so fun working with my group to create a story with our graph. I didn't seem to get it until I was able to hear the thinking of others in my group. Love that you include this performance task as a formal assessment to see their understanding of the concept. So amazing and will definitely be useful next year in our Flipped Classroom/ Hybrid design Covid has put upon us. Thanks again! Great work!
Kimberly

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This is such a tremendous and immensely creative way to bring writing across the curriculum.  I am in awe!  Thank you for making me feel uncomfortable (as I am not strong in this level of math) so that so much learning could take place.  Great presentation...I LOVED it!
Kathy

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I love this lesson. I can adapt this for my class next year.

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Your last comment about the EL student who did "Big Car, Little Car" reminded me of an early comment I made on your demo, which is that maybe a list of transition language would help that student? Here's a good one - I would whittle this down to exactly what the student would need. This PDF is my all-time favorite and all my kids have it. The one at the end of They Say, I Say by Graff and Birkenstein is also excellent.

--Eileen