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Last spring, when I said I wanted to teach a math class to kids between the ages of 9 and 14 at our local homeschool co-op, people looked at me like I was crazy. “You can’t teach the same math to a 9 and 14 year old.” “Their ability levels vary too greatly to do math in a co-op setting.” That’s what people said. I likely would have agreed with them if not for the fact that I had just finished reading Mathematical Mindsets.
That book made me realize that our co-op kids would benefit from an experience where they got to work together on really hard problems, even if they couldn’t solve them. In the end, I was really happy with how it went. If you’d like to be brave and make people think you are as crazy as I am (or just try these out on your own kiddos), I’m sharing the 6 problems we worked on, along with answer keys and reflection questions for kids to self-assess.
Via John Evans
