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School breaks Designing a daily schedule for your school |
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 World of Work  Becoming a(n)... Teacher  Context The task asks for a bell schedule at a school taking into account the changing performance levels of students during a day. Role Students adopt the role of a schedule designer at a school board advising company. Activity Students analyse bell schedules for schools in connection with graphical information about changing performance levels of students during the day. They work together in small teams and use mathematics to decide on alternative schedules. Product The product is a an alternative bell schedule for the school with an underpinning explaining why the students’ performance is expected to increase with this new schedule. The product can also include a letter for the school board. |
Abstract The design of a daily bell schedule for your school seems to be a simple task. From your own experience, you know that you cannot just continue working and pay the same amount of attention without any breaks. Every now and then you need to eat and drink something, you get tired and after a while your concentration slackens. So, breaks are necessary, but…how can these breaks be organized in the most effective way? Few, but longer breaks, or many short breaks, or a mixture of these? So, the question is: what does your optimal schedule look like? This task is designed for a half day mathematics modelling event for teams of students in lower secondary education. No advanced mathematics is required. The task offers possibilities for exploration, analysis, reasoning, calculation and design. Documents Copyright/Creative Commons Mascil partner: NL  Materials are published under the CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 license.    |
Inquiry Learning Inquiry Learning Dimensions - Exploring situations ✓ - Planning Investigations ✓ - Experimenting systematically ✓ - Interpreting and evaluating ✓ - Communicating results ✓ Discipline - Mathematics ✓ - Biology - Physics - Chemistry - Engineering Target group - Primary Education - Lower Secondary Education ✓ - Upper Secondary Education Age range 11-15 Duration 120 min. |
