The Power of Creating

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The Power of Creating

• Whats your line?

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Whats Your Line?

• Sketch a graph of your favorite line with a
  y-intercept of 4 and write the function rule.
• Sketch a graph of your favorite line with a slope
  of 4 and write the function rule.
• Post your graphs under the corresponding headings
  and write the function rules.

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Y-intercept and Slope

• What do you see?

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Summative

• Find three equations of lines where the slope is
  -2 and three equations of lines where the
  y-intercept is -2. Graph the lines and label
  them with the function rules.

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The Power of Creating

• Powerful by themselves
• More powerful when put together to look at
  commonalities.

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The Power of Creating

• Generative design centers on taking tasks that
  typically converge to one outcome and turning
  them into tasks where students can create a space
  of responses.
• Stroup, Ares Hurford, 2005

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Rubrics
http//www.mathbenchmarks.org/rubric.htm
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Rubrics
http//www.mathbenchmarks.org/rubric.htm
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Open Ended Questions
http//books.heinemann.com/math/
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Other Examples

• Create the equation and graph of a quadratic
  function with y-intercept of 4 and then again
  with a vertical stretch factor of 4.
• Create a system of linear equations whose
  solution is (3,2).