Class activities and lessons were organized for optimal use of time.
Table 1 illustrates a lesson plan that was presentedby Hyokchon Kwon, a Master Teacher with Seongsan Middle School in Seoul.
The lesson began with a short video clip of the
curvilinear flight path of a Shenzou 9 Chinese rocket launch,
which illustrated a real-world quadratic function and the role
of minimums and maximums.
An example of the type of work produced by students is shown in Figure 1 where students used a “mind-mapping” strategy to summarize what they had learned
from quadratic functions.
These activities were supported by textbooks and workbooks that are designed for both group and individual work.