Explain Everything

Goal - students explain their math thinking and consolidate their understanding
Background - Using Patterns to Algebra students have been moving through concrete, picture and abstract representations of patterning rules.  After 12 lessons we wanted to consolidate our learning so the students created tutorials.  They were to create one pattern rule, show with tiles, graph and finally solve using just the numbers (abstract)
Learnings - the students are getting faster at creating "Explain Everything"
- creating the slides made them think and discuss what the pattern looked like
- using the labels allowed them to interact with each slike to expalin the steps involved, or explain parts of the  equation - multiplier, constant and variable

Surprise Learning - students had not connected the variable with the position number as the part of the equation that changes.

Joy - each tutorial was about 39 seconds.  So it was super quick to catch the misconception.  Initially students were upset that they had created a tutorial that showed errors in thinking.  However, we now celebrate that we have tutorials that document their learning!!!