![]() ![]() Typically, when the initial sentence makes it to the last person, it is not the same. If you have not had the pleasure of playing the Telephone Game, it goes something like this: One person whispers a sentence to another person, that person whispers the same thing (or as close as they can remember) to the next person in line, so on and so forth until it arrives back to the first person. Is there time to go deeper into that idea at this point? Is it something that arises later and this could just be a nice “Interesting, that is something to think about”? Is it something that will lose more than half of the class and can be addressed with that student later to gauge understanding? Or is it something that will end up as a version of the Telephone Game? ![]() I deal with this in many ways and it really depends on the situation. ![]() ![]() It’s true, it works, and you know you will get there, but my first thought is always “ Do they know why? while my immediate second thought is, Oh no, now this will look faster to some of my students who will quickly grab onto it to save themselves some time, not caring why it even works. The class is sharing strategies for solving a problem and all of a sudden, one student explains his/her “shortcut” or algorithm to the class. I think we have all been there (or maybe it is wishful thinking that I am not alone:)… ![]()
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