Minutes 9/24

*Share out how are things going?

--Elizabeth peer editing and POW drafts created great POWs but regular IMP 2 is not going as well as she would like.
--Marchetti is reteaching lessons regarding intercepts and rule of four concepts
--Chandler focusing on their interpretation "how many lines will there be?" "what are the constraints?" doing lots of summative quizzes throughout the week.
--Megan Honors classes doing well with the Rule of 4, students need more practice and lessons regarding graphing the constraints and feasible region.

We agree that the regular class needs a lot more direct instruction and scaffolding.
In the regular class our focus is for studnets to be able to solve systems, it is okay if the regular class doesn't get to the later linear programming problems.

Share RULE of 4 data

Marchetti -- has more Partially Proficient
Elizabeth -- the honors kids are doing okay with rule of 4
Chandler -- Going from the Rule to Table went pretty well, however they are not labeling the axes. 70% can make up an appropriate situation.
Megan -- Honors kids almost all proficient

Share Teaching Strategies
* Students can use a situation that just pertains to the 1st and 4th quadrant.
* Need practice rearranging equations
* Chandler is focusing on the Rule. (Rule to table, Rule to situation, Rule to graph) -- this seems to be successful.
* Elizabeth's class discussed the y-intercept as the "starting out" value, the slope is the rate of change which is either increasing or decreasing.

* What happened with HW 6? Do they not read the text?
--Maybe we should have a graphing quiz where the inequalities are graphed but they must shade the correct feasible regions...

Discuss the end of COOKIES UNIT
Assessment should include a skills section and a conceptual section with a linear programming problem. We will scaffold the linear programming problem for the regualr IMP 2.
Skills section should include y intercept form and standard form, graphing lines and finding intersection point, solving systems, substitution and elimination, and rule of 4.

We will test the week after Parent Teacher Conferences.
UNIT FINAL
Megan -- honors linear programming problem
Elizabeth -- IMP 2 regular linear programming (scaffolded) problem
Chandler -- Skills and rule of 4 section
Marchetti -- CCC focusing on student growth and the big ideas of the unit.