Thinking
are students posing relevant questions?
Managing Self
are students managing their time well in order to complete the tasks?
Relating To Others
are students listening actively to each other and sharing ideas?
Understanding Language, Symbols, and Texts
are students interpreting the ideas appropriately?
Participating And Contributing
are students contributing appropriately as group members?
Inspired by Conrad Wolfram, Dan Meyer, and Ewan McIntosh, Real messy maths questions are deliberately ambiguous, they focus on Maths as opposed to calculation and deliberately entice problem finding as opposed to solving.
Copy of the RMM questions
Poster
Whiteboard
Slideshow
Students work in groups to solve the RMM problem to:
Identify the questions they need to ask,
Identify where they can go to find the answers to their questions,
Come up with a solution to the RMM problem,
Complete the reflection sheet,
Assess how well they have worked together as a group.
Students all work on the same problem
Students work individually on a variety of problems
Students work on RMM while the teacher is doing ‘just in time’ workshops
Designate a RMM day when everyone works on the same or a variety of problems
Thinking
Managing Self
Relating to Others
Using Language, Symbols, and Texts
Participating and Contributing
Social sciences
Literacy
Maths
The slideshow embedded below is the one we created and then crowd-sourced for ideas - it's yours to enjoy.