I have just got back from 3 amazing days up in the Coromandel in Kuaotuna. What an amazing part of the world!
The purpose of this trip was to start looking at the Design Thinking around my problem.
To begin with I looked at my problem. It still needed a bit of work.
Initially I was looking at the fact that the learners were uninterested in maths. The learners are unable to fully understand and talk about their working in maths.
It was a valuable session to relook at the problem by both understanding the context of the situation and understanding the problem at hand from the perspective of the "user".
To do this we were part of a parent meeting with the BOT of the fake "Kuaotuna Area School". We were given a part to play and our feedback was to come from this person. I was a lawyer.
This process was fantastic and a little confronting at the same time. It was valuable to hear others feedback and feedforward.
After the session I reimagined the problem. The issue is Maths progress and achievement is low within the middle school.
Following on from this the MIT team started to discuss "How might we turn this problem into an opportunity?" We used post it notes and gave ideas using the scaffold of how might we comments.
The purpose of this trip was to start looking at the Design Thinking around my problem.
To begin with I looked at my problem. It still needed a bit of work.
Initially I was looking at the fact that the learners were uninterested in maths. The learners are unable to fully understand and talk about their working in maths.
It was a valuable session to relook at the problem by both understanding the context of the situation and understanding the problem at hand from the perspective of the "user".
To do this we were part of a parent meeting with the BOT of the fake "Kuaotuna Area School". We were given a part to play and our feedback was to come from this person. I was a lawyer.
This process was fantastic and a little confronting at the same time. It was valuable to hear others feedback and feedforward.
After the session I reimagined the problem. The issue is Maths progress and achievement is low within the middle school.
Following on from this the MIT team started to discuss "How might we turn this problem into an opportunity?" We used post it notes and gave ideas using the scaffold of how might we comments.
Hey Marc exciting to see you are part of the DFI. Looking at Maths progress is interesting - one thing I know is that whatever it is a solution is unlikely to be an out of the box one like Mathletics. Having kids excited by problems and thinking. Identifying patterns etc so many ideas to explore. The type of thinking in Youcubed might be a place to start - they have great ideas about visual maths and a week of inspirational math https://www.youcubed.org/weeks/week-4-grade-k/ . Thanks for bweing part of MIT - look forward to seeing your inquiry develop.
ReplyDeleteMarc looking forward to seeing where your thinking is going to really excite and engage students in wanting to be part of the new wave of problem solvers and explorers in this world today and tomorrow!
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