Bringing your students outside is important to help build their connections with one another. This helps students to ask one another when they need clarification outside of class and do not want to email their teacher. Having a closer knit classroom helps to build joint excitement for learning about new subjects and potentially applying what they are learning in the classroom even further. An example of this happened in class last Thursday. The physics students in class made a kite with the material we were learning with in class and applied it to the subject!
I found that doing the braids and knots in class showed such interesting patterns. I feel as though students in the lower high school grades would find this exciting to visualize the patterns they are learning about. This will help visual and physical learners in the classroom to extend math to their learning styles. Math normally does not extend that often to those learning styles so it is important to make them feel included as well.
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