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Semester 2 - Blog 1

Hey everyone, welcome back to the blog! A few days ago, we had our first class back for EDBE 8F83. In this post, I will reflect upon this lesson by using different prompts and supplementing them with images and resources.   What struck you during this session? Something that struck me during the session was that we can all view the same solution in very different ways. In the Jo Boaler Ted Talk, she showed a problem where you were given squares and had to describe how you saw the pattern growing. The way I saw the solution was that there is one block being added on top of every block present as well as one on the end. This is similar to a method that she described in her podcast as the raining method. She gave seven different solutions to this problem that she had encountered and I have put the raining method as well as two other examples below for your viewing.  I found it interesting how we can all approach the same problem in different ways but get the same solution. As a f...