To facilitate a fair challenge, have students send their mashups to you anonymously so the class is unaware…
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Discuss why certain mashups work better than others and allow students to share their underlying understandings of fractions…
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Give students much latitude Goal is to take a funny photo (the on-camera size relationships are wildly different…
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To approach a scene recreation, a tape measurer may help position the subject(s) at the predicted distance(s) from…
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To get everyone to look the same height onscreen, you need to line up everyone’s feet as well…
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These are absolutely incredible. What’s great is how they don’t pretend to be photoshopped or overly processed –…
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Check out my Fraction Mash family tree of celebrity mashups using pictures I found online. I mashed the pictures together…
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Ask a couple of students to collect some outlier data by “posing” some very short objects (e.g. a…
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One measurement technique is to develop a standard idea of what it means to “fit” with the chosen…
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Urge students to take care both when they take their photos and when they adjust their calipers to…
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It is important that students personalize their Caliper Tool with their current height. The act of measuring themselves…
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Students might remember from previous activities that their image size changes as they move farther away or closer…
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