{"id":446,"date":"2015-04-08T23:53:59","date_gmt":"2015-04-09T03:53:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.coast2coast.me\/carl\/?p=446"},"modified":"2015-04-08T23:54:56","modified_gmt":"2015-04-09T03:54:56","slug":"grocery-store-takedown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.coast2coast.me\/carl\/2015\/04\/08\/grocery-store-takedown\/","title":{"rendered":"Grocery Store Takedown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In my last class I focused a lot on proportional reasoning, and at the end of March I wanted to give the kids a project that would be rich with a lot of different examples of the topic. \u00a0My original idea was to do a theme based on turning a beat into a song, but it seemed contrived. \u00a0Frustrated, I headed down the street to the only empty grocery store, and thought about how all the prices there were really high. \u00a0Suddenly a flash of insight hit.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The students can take down their expensive local grocery store!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Kids can imagine a product that they like to sell, and then look up how much cheaper it would be at a warehouse store, and compare the difference in prices. \u00a0Then students can use evidence from their local store to estimate how much money they would make from a day of selling the products, and then scale what the products would make over a month. \u00a0I went back home and scribbled a bunch of notes about the idea with a Doc-Brown-Esque level of enthusiasm, but I didn&#8217;t really put together a polished task until last week.<\/p>\n<iframe src=\"\/\/docs.google.com\/viewer?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.coast2coast.me%2Fcarl%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2Fsites%2F3%2F2015%2F04%2FGrocery-Store-Takedown-Google-Docs.pdf&hl=en_US&embedded=true\" class=\"gde-frame\" style=\"width:100%; height:500px; border: none;\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n<p class=\"gde-text\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.coast2coast.me\/carl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2015\/04\/Grocery-Store-Takedown-Google-Docs.pdf\" class=\"gde-link\">Download (PDF, 939KB)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here is what I gave kids, although I really wish I could have made it better.<\/p>\n<p>What I like about it:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a pretty straightforward task whose end goal makes enough students that all students can really understand what their end product should mean.<\/li>\n<li>Students need to use proportional reasoning in so many different places that there are countless numbers of places to discuss it.<\/li>\n<li>Since all students can do different products at different stores, the entire class can come up with different project results so there is no copying fear.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>What I wonder about:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>As a project to help kids express their proportional reasoning, should I have asked them to explicitly demonstrate two or three different ways of finding a number that would proportional to some other set of numbers? \u00a0If so, which ways should they all HAVE to know how to do?<\/li>\n<li>How could this be better?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>IF you can give me any feedback about the project, I&#8217;d appreciate it if you mentioned it by <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/document\/d\/1pf0IULHbQXsQcTT30Fx8vWFPac3HXo_0Xj85TAFY0Ww\/edit?usp=sharing\">commenting on the google doc of this here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>3\/30<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In my last class I focused a lot on proportional reasoning, and at the end of March I wanted to give the kids a project that would be rich with a lot of different examples of the topic. \u00a0My original idea was to do a theme based on turning a beat into a song, but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"My Latest Project - 'Grocery Store Takedown' http:\/\/wp.me\/p4xz6U-7c  Any feedback on the assignment is welcome and appreciated #MTBoS30","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[21,19],"tags":[11],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4xz6U-7c","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coast2coast.me\/carl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coast2coast.me\/carl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coast2coast.me\/carl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coast2coast.me\/carl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coast2coast.me\/carl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=446"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.coast2coast.me\/carl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":450,"href":"https:\/\/www.coast2coast.me\/carl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446\/revisions\/450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coast2coast.me\/carl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coast2coast.me\/carl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coast2coast.me\/carl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}