Clip 29/41: Standard 3: Construct Arguments & Critiques Using Rate of Change Part 1A
Overview
Mathematically proficient students understand and use stated assumptions, definitions, and previously established results in constructing arguments. They make conjectures and build a logical progression of statements to explore the truth of their conjectures.
Antoinette Villarin begins her lesson on graphing constant rates of change by reviewing the learning goals and mathematical practices, naming Standards for Mathematical Practice 1, 3, 6, and 7. She notes that it is important that her students understand how to build a mathematical argument, and she shares sentence frames and key vocabulary that the students will use as they build their arguments.
Antoinette presents a model of two bottles attached to each other so that fluid can flow between them, and she asks her students to to make sense of the problem by describing what they see happening.
Students share that as the amount of fluid in the top container/prism decreases, the amount in the bottom container/prism increases.
This clip also relates to standard 1 (make sense of problems and persevere in solving them), standard 4 (model with mathematics), standard 6 (attend to precision), and standard 7 (look for and make use of structure).