Exit Slip: December 2

I had an amazing time doing combinatorics in my practicum school this week, and saw how much the students loved it. Statistics is my favourite kind of math because I believe it is so practical, and watching the students get engaged in the results was so fun for me! I asked Susan if we could do combinatorics in class on Thursday and she said she could come up with a few ideas - and they ended up being great!

I had so much fun with the bell ringing and the patterns. I think it's such an interesting way to explain music and sounds. The combinatoric poem was also a lot of fun and would have been a great way to connect Math and English class. Having these activities connect cross-curricularly is a great way to get students to stop asking the worst question ever: "When will we ever use this in real life?" (Of course, always said with a groan.)

A picture of our combinatoric art quilt! Done by assigning 10 people each their own colour paper, and then the 10 people switch places to form the paper quilt.

I tried to upload the video of the bell ringing but the file is too big for Blogger!