Online Teaching Techniques: Using Pattern Puzzles to Teach Content

(W Sept 23, 7-8:30 pm Eastern Daylight Time)

In this 1.5 hr. workshop, teachers will work individually and then as a team to identify a pattern in puzzle pieces that are tell the story of a theorem, function, or process. Once the pattern is defined, participants will use the pattern to predict what comes before or what comes next in the series. Testing their hypothesis against additional information will allow them to revise their explanation of the rules that govern the pattern. Using a technique that can be repeated with different content, phenomena, or skills, we will look for topics that lend themselves to this method of learning-while-doing to provide an engaging critical thinking activity for online or in-person classes.