I had students do 4 FRQs using arrayLists. Here's the things I would do differently:
- I printed out student solutions, but didn't use them. This late in the game, students can do it themselves. I think next time I would do some of these at the beginning of the unit to give students an idea of how they would use this in an AP context - solutions can be a nice sense-making crutch.
- Smaller groups. I had students working in groups of 5 - that was too big. I need to do pairs or groups of 2.
Overall, some of the problems were a little beyond what students were comfortable with - I think it pushed them to the "stretch" zone which was a good thing.
AP CSP
We are getting toward the end of unit. I did the ColorSleuth App "code-along-style" - I just love that style of teaching. I need to find more tasks that are like this.
Concepts
Started properties of exponents - not the most thrilling unit, but sanity-maintaining.
One Good Thing
I am SO ahead in CSP... I'm excited for what doors this opens for us.
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