Motivating Mathematical Ideas Using Sitcoms and Movies Scott

Motivating Mathematical Ideas Using Sitcoms and Movies Scott Adamson, Ph. D. Milos Podmanik

The Office Intro https: //www. youtube. com/watch? v=0 GXj. AMnv 1 zs

Session Goals • Share ideas for motivating mathematical thinking and problem solving. • Enjoy the brilliance of the creators of The Office! • Reveal how conceptual understanding can lead to procedural fluency and proficient problem solving. • Be entertained by famous scenes from The Office! • Possibly…be challenged to dig deeper into the mathematical meaning of familiar ideas. • Laugh and have fun!

Season 5 Episode 12 – Prince Family Paper No youtube version of this clip

What? ? !!!! • Michael Scott: Let's see if I can help. Ohhh. Oh, math! That's not so hard. Ok. You have four of these. Little girl: Right. Michael Scott: Ignore the parentheses right? Why is this little two so small? It- it's weird. You just-- don't- you just go by the x. The x means times, so that means four times x two, what is double four? Little girl: Eight. Michael Scott: Right! Excellent. Way to go! Nice. Grandma: Oh. Don't put that. . .

Funny Song Tricks and Gimmicks Clever Rhyme This formula Another formula That formula Mnemonic

Average Rate of Change Constant Rate of Change Problem Solving Proportional Reasoning Arithmetic and Multiplicative Comparisons Real-world contexts Idea of Function Interpreting and Analyzing Graphs Meaning of Arithmetic Mean

Season 5 Episode 9 – The Surplus https: //www. youtube. com/watch? v=d. Wfr. MMNe. K 2 k

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Season 5 Episode 13 – Stress Relief https: //www. youtube. com/watch? v=Vmb 1 tq. Yqy. II

How many is that per hour? 1 minute 100 beats 1 minute 60 copies of 1 minute… 60 copies of 100 beats In 60 minutes or 1 hour, there are 6000 beats! 100 beats

How many is that per second? 1 minute 100 beats

Season 5 Episode 13 – Stress Relief https: //www. youtube. com/watch? v=Vmb 1 tq. Yqy. II

Season 9 Episode 4 – Work Bus https: //www. youtube. com/watch? v=Xp. M 90 v. En 8_g

How much time to spare? • Pie shop closes at 5: 00 pm • 5: 00 pm is “ 20 minutes from now” • Pie shop is 13 miles away • Traveling 55 MPH Unpack the mathematical thinking/reasoning!

It could sound something like this… •

It could sound something like this… •

Season 9 Episode 4 – Work Bus https: //www. youtube. com/watch? v=Xp. M 90 v. En 8_g

Take Aways Share with a person next to you one thing you might take away from this session.

Math Teaching Practices 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. Establish mathematics goals to focus learning. Implement tasks that promote reasoning and problem solving. Use and connect mathematical representations. Facilitate meaningful mathematical discourse. Pose purposeful questions. Build procedural fluency from conceptual understanding. Support productive struggle in learning mathematics. Elicit and use evidence of student thinking.

Thank you! s. adamson@cgc. edu @getrealmath www. getrealmath. wordpress. com milos. podmanik@cgc. edu