Provide a metaview, lifting students into a wider view of the concept. Use another medium (not reading or writing) to connect students' personal knowing to the concept (i.e. visual arts, music, movement, metaphor, etc.) Involve learners in reflective production that blends the emotional and the cognitive.
Play "What's My Rule?".
Objective: To deepen the connection between machines and functions/equations.
Activity: Play "What's My Rule" with the class. Teacher gives a number and the result of some operations on that number. Several examples will be given involving the same operation. Students will guess the "rule" or operations. The idea of the same operations being performed on the numbers is the pattern...the same thing that repeats.
