Pedaling a Bicycle

Bicycles are everywhere. Most of us know how to ride them. Many ride a few times a week. But have you thought about how the gears of a bike work? It’s stranger than you might think.

A little bicycle history…

I started the meeting with a notice/wonder on some images from the history of the bicycle. Here are the images, with some of the things the group noticed and wondered, followed by some comments from me.

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The Lawn Mower Problem

What happens when we let students write the questions?

Tyler opened the meeting by giving us a situation adapted from one he’d seen on Twitter posted by Fawn Nguyen. He then asked two questions: What do you notice? What do you wonder? Continue reading “The Lawn Mower Problem”