@chelseaparlett At the high school level, the #pandemic has made it so there’s much more variability in prerequisite skills students have coming into STEM courses. #highschoolmath #mtbos #iteachmath #statsed #mathed

Worked through a fascinating lesson by Open Up Resources about visualizing Quadratic Products using Area Models and negative numbers. I always found algebra tiles a baffling model for negatives since intuitively negatives are reduction in space but this is nice explanation.

How have you found the Area Model effective for your students?

#iteachmath #iteachmaths #highschoolmath #Mtbos
Full lesson here: https://access.openupresources.org/curricula/our-hs-math/integrated/math-2/unit-2/lesson-7/teacher.html