Facilitator's Guide
Problem Solving and Decision Making
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Overview

Engages participants in a hands-on demonstration of Pi
Provides participants with a concrete experience that will help participants find and retrieve knowledge in years to come.  Participants are challenged to explore this model approach for teaching abstract concepts and discovering implications for refining their teaching practice.
Objectives:
To become sensitive to the need to connect abstract concepts to concrete and meaningful classroom experiences
To explore strategies that honor brain-based learning
To provide an example of a strategy for active learning as called for in the emerging mathematics and science standards.
Related CWL Activities:
 From Abstraction to Meaning: Making sense out of Pi
Time Frame:
 90 ? 120 minutes
Preparation Requirement:
Read section 3 ? pp. 69 to 75
Materials Needed:
 Meter sticks, cans, jars, bowls, various circular objects, meter tapes, large chart paper with grids, chart markers, blue tacky or masking tape for hanging    charts
Transparencies:
Easy as Pi  - Sample Diagram and Data Chart
Handouts:
Easy as Pi - Activity Direction Sheet
Easy as Pi -: Sample Diagram and Data Chart
Reading:
Reinventing School Through Brain-Based Learning
Program Outline
Section 3.6 From Abstraction to Meaning: Making sense out of Pi
Have participants read an excerpt from ìReinventing School Through Brain-Based Learningî.
Discuss Pi.
Group activity ? Easy As Pi: Activity Direction Sheet and display the Easy as Pi: Sample Diagram and Data Chart transparency
Large group discussion


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