Reply To: Lesson 6-1: Question

[Jonathan Lind]

Introducing matrices this week

Attention: Using transition diagrams to create or show a natural need for matrices. It’s a class of curious students, and this is a brand new format for presenting info, so I think it will graph their attention.

Generation: Students will turn the diagram into an organized table, which we’ll start referring to as a “matrix”

Emotion: I think when we can get students to see that something they have experience with (tables) is already the new content we’re going to talk about, especially if they can come up with it themselves, that creates an emotional connection.

We’ll see about spacing…