Activating Prior Knowledge

Well - here I go, trying to spiral my way through 9 applied math.  First day started with some serious structure laid down in hopes of preventing those inevitable fires that come about in the oncoming months.

As one of my favourite colleagues from MDHS often described teaching - it's "trench warfare out here." I certainly laid a dug a deep trench and it started well.  My students and I battled the math together on the first day.

We started with some prior knowledge activation as was suggested by my fellow colleague Ms. Phan out in Ottawa-Carleton District School Board suggested that I do.

Here are some of the results of today's prior knowledge activation in which they tried to brainstorm as many topics as possible and categorize them under different levels of confidence.