Meet Stan



The Backstory

Meet Stan.  Stan's the form of guy y'all destination upwards alongside when y'all determine to alter your bellwork 5 minutes earlier degree starts.  In a rush, y'all search google images for the perfect moving painting of a coordinate plane.  You honour ane that fifty-fifty has points already marked past times letters.

You desire to kickoff involving the degree inward about mistake analysis.  So, y'all convey a fictional grapheme wrongly seat ane of the points.  Oh, this fictional grapheme needs a name.  Does the mention actually matter?  No, non every bit long every bit y'all selection a mention that doesn't belong to ane of your students.  Stan volition work.  

Now, y'all convey Stan misidentifying a signal on the coordinate plane.  You hand your students this data together with inquire them if Stan is correct.  Most importantly, y'all inquire students to justify their answer.  Why is Stan correct?  Or, why is Stan incorrect?

Something is all the same missing though.  What does Stan expression like?  Since the bell is nearly to telephone together with students are going to hold upwards streaming inward your class, eager to produce the bellwork, whatever infinitesimal now, y'all determine to move inward "boy" into the search box within the Smart Board Gallery.  Stan is who y'all destination upwards with.  Sure, he's a fiddling weird looking, but the students won't notice...


Lessons Learned
  • Students volition notice that Stan is a fiddling weird looking.
  • Students volition desire to draw a mustache on Stan to brand him a fiddling less weird looking.
  • Students won't ever respond the "Why?" query inward the agency y'all expression them to.        

My Favorite Answer 

To illustrate the end lesson learned, I introduce to y'all my favorite respond of the 24-hour interval to the "Why?" question:

Me:  Is Stan correct?

Student:  No.  He's wrong.

Me:  Why?

Student:  His math instructor isn't every bit smart every bit my math teacher. 

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