![]() ![]() Then over the weekend, they were asked to finish their research and write their editorial individually. They of course used their laptops, and were allowed to pair up - but only for those 50 minutes. I gave students one 50 minute class period to work on their pro-con lists for Newton and Leibniz. They were then supposed to write an editorial defending that position.Īs a former historian of science, I know that it’s a terrible question. And instead of asking “who invented calculus” they were supposed to take a side on who they think deserves the most “kudos” for calculus. As my kids read each of the tabs carefully, so they knew my expectations, they soon learned that I wanted them to investigate Newton and Leibniz. So I modified a WebQuest I found and created this (click picture below): The history of math might bring more interest to some of the ideas my kids were studying (and will study). It was (and is) made by real people, forged in the crucible of a historical and cultural moment.ģ. I wanted my students to learn that math was (and is) not done by robots in ivory towers, simply working to torture them. I wanted them to do some research on their own to learn what calculus is.Ģ. They didn’t know anything about derivatives or integrals, or what calculus is, except for my rant. This was early enough in the year that my kids were in the middle of limits. With a spare day to kill, and a non-AP class full of seniors who generally seem to like writing papers more than they like writing equations, I decided to try it out. In a nutshell, a WebQuest is an assignment that you put on the web with instructions for kids to follow - and all the work they are doing comes from resources on the web. ![]() I in fact only learned about themfrom randomly stumbling across it during one of my many hours of traipsing around in the internet aimlessly. If you don’t know what they are, you aren’t alone. A few weeks ago, I tried my first WebQuest.
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