The following very similar entries # anyqs two of Dan and Nancy-two teachers worked in Grand Forks, ND. Asked the readers to decide which was the first work best, and I disagree with most of these.
Dan
Dan features spigot leak bucket. It’s just a diversion. Drip drip drip drip drip.
Nancy
Nancy features faucet leak in measuring cup. It’s just a diversion. Drip drip drip drip drip. But Nancy also includes timer on her iPhone. At the end of 39 seconds it went close to Cup measuring camera where you can see how many ounces leaked so far.
Why has the best sports story told Dan
The first Act introduces for a good story. Does very little to find a solution. Think of the shark in Jaws chewing on a woman swimmer. At this stage, we don’t have any idea about what are the tools, resources, and information will be presented to the task of killing the shark. We just know we want from the dead.
The first act of a good story requires very little thought to the Viewer. And calls, instead, gut. Ideally I think the first law in Nancy Viewer, “my word. How much water is that tap go to waste? “Instead, because the incentive Nancy tools and resources, and information that belongs in the second act of the story (only a few minutes later in the lesson!) The viewer thinks, “Oh. This is a problem in math, right? “
We need to curb our natural tendency as a teacher of mathematics to burn even interesting problems on the altar of us gods mathematics. In this case, all this means you can wait until after the students put their interests before granting the tools, resources and information to solve it.
BTW: picky? Absolute. But the fun in this task was not to negotiate the details. For all its worth, if you can call me timers featuring prominently in the work of one of my stories (as did the “Bowen Cairns recently) it would be right. Timers came from a position of insecurity that nobody will ask, “when”? If not explicitly given in the first law of time. To do so now.
Integration 