Tech’s Favorite School Faces Its Biggest Test: the Real World
Tech’s Favorite School Faces Its Biggest Test: the Real World
Business, Spoken · SpokenLayer
January 18, 201720m 3s
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Show Notes
On lengths of yarn stretched between chairs, sixth-grade math students were placing small yellow squares of paper, making number lines—including everything from fractions to negative decimals—in a classroom at Walsh Middle School. Working in teams one recent morning, they paper-clipped the squares along the yarn like little pieces of mathematical laundry. Their teacher, Michele O’Connor, had assigned the number lines in previous years, but this year was different.
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