STEM Network
Reading Apprenticeship
Richard Abdelkerim
Richard visually introduced the idea of dot plots and then challenged the participants to carry out their own surveys and make a dot plot using the people in the room. Then they could post their dot plot to instagram.
What did you get from Richard's Lesson?
"He showed a common mistake by having us think about and reflect whether we had asked the same question to the same person twice. Normally we would say, 'This is a common mistake.' But this time, we said, 'Oh! I may have a mistake!' We learned the common mistake by doing"
"There were time constraints, so it felt like this urgent thing and I had to ask, 'Ok, what are we doing?' and get started right away."
"I don’t know what he did, but it was really easy to follow directions. I really want to know how he did that. He showed a model of the outcome first --- he showed the dot plots first."