MPM2D - Day 63: Problem Solving with Quadratics

I struggled with the title of this lesson and blog post as all the "problems" are "math land" questions - we wrap a fake context around what we want our students to show us and ignore real world constraints. However, here is what we did today.

 

We focused a lot on what we were trying to find and which tool would get us there, with stops along the way for those students that were lost and confused. Here is another one:

And a third example:

Here is today's homework.