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Brent Loken - Innovative Educator and Change Agent


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GSP Student Samples

 

1. Non-Linear Functions Portfolio-This was a six week investigation of non-linear functions. Students created a GSP portfolio to demonstrate their understanding on non-linear functions in the real world.

2. Linear Functions Portfolio- This was the first GSP assignment given to my 8th graders. Below is an example.

3. Fire Problem -This is the classic fire problem and how one of my former students solved this problem while in Geometry Class. The student was not told to use GSP, she used what she had learned during my class to solve this problem.

4. Pentagram - This sample is from a student exam over forms of equations of a line.

5. Cricket Bat - This is another sample from a student exam over formsof equations of a line.

6. Paper Folding Problem - Click here for directions to this problem. Check out the two ways that my students solved this. The second way was discovered through a series of accidents. Quite cool.

7. Advanced Animation - Some examples of some more advanced math and animation.

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