In case you are trying the MARS MAP Classroom Challenges for the first time, it is recommended that you read the Brief Guide for teachers and administrators before you get started.
Before the lesson, students work individually on an assessment task designed to reveal their current understanding and difficulties. You review their responses and create questions for them to consider when improving their work.
At the start of the lesson, students reflect on their individual responses and use the questions posed to think of ways to improve their work. They then work collaboratively in small groups to produce, in the form of a poster, a better strategy to the task than they did individually. In the same small groups they implement the strategy.
In a whole-class discussion students compare and evaluate the different strategies they have used.
Working in the same small groups, students analyze sample responses to the task.
In a whole-class discussion, students review the methods they have seen.
At the end of the lesson or in a follow-up lesson, students reflect individually on their work.
To help you assess how well students are able to organize, represent and analyze bivariate categorical data in an appropriate way.
To identify and help students who have difficulty in choosing a suitable, systematic way to collect and organize the data. This could include constructing tables, two-way tables, or frequency charts.
To identify and help students who have difficulty in interpreting their own and others' findings clearly and effectively.