[Editor’s note: This is the first installment in what will be an ongoing series highlighting innovative area teachers and the creative ways they help students learn.]
If Denver Broncos wide receiver Wes Welker cuts across the field looking to score on a deep pass during Super Bowl XLVIII, Taylor High School students in Jessica Breedlove’s class will know how to stop him.
Playbooks for the four NFL teams in the divisional playoffs are in her algebra I students’ hands, as they come up with routes to run parallel to a player, block him and follow him. Disguised in football, the project teaches students about line equations and writing systems of equations — which is a big component of the statewide algebra End of Course Assessment.
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“They’re going to pretend they’re at the Denver Broncos complex, and they’ll say, ‘This is my play, and this is how I know it will work,’” said Breedlove, who has been at Taylor for five of her seven years of teaching. “Whenever I’ve explained substitution, it’s always during the football playoffs. I’m a football fan … so I’ve always used that analogy.”
ARTICLE/ PLANS: Super Bowl & Systems of Equations
From the Kokomo (Indiana) Tribune....
January 28, 2014
Innovative Educator: Jessica Breedlove
Taylor teacher has students calling plays for the Super Bowl
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