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Engaging Students Through Debate: Enhancing Skills Across Subjects

Explore the benefits of incorporating debate activities in education to foster critical thinking, teamwork, and communication skills in students across various subjects.

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Engaging Students Through Debate: Enhancing Skills Across Subjects

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  1. WELCOME! Before we begin, prepare an argument for each of the following: • The best movie is ______. • The most important math topic is ___. • ___________is the best method for solving the system: @PiSpeak

  2. Arguments @PiSpeak

  3. ARGUMENT - a statement made with sound reasoning. Every argument has two key parts: CLAIM - the controversial statement being made. WARRANT - the justification for the claim. ARGUMENT = CLAIM + WARRANT “My CLAIM is ___________ and my WARRANT is _____________________” @PiSpeak

  4. Activity #1: Soapbox Debate Name, Claim+Warrant • The best movie is ______. • The most important math topic is ___. • ___________is the best method for solving the system: ARGUMENT = CLAIM + WARRANT @PiSpeak

  5. Backing up… @PiSpeak

  6. Some Introductions Chris Luzniak UA School for Law & Justice @PiSpeak

  7. A video of my class… http://mass.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/mtc13.pd.math.deb/encouraging-debate/ @PiSpeak

  8. Why Debate? • Socratic Method • Student Centered • Critical Thinking skills • Questioning skills • Public speaking skills • Literacy skills • Rhetoric skills • Research skills • Public Speaking skills • Evidence skills • Note taking skills • Refutation skills • Critical Pedagogy Skills • Teamwork Skills! • Civics • Current Events • Philosophy • Critical Theory • Critical Thinking • Humanities • Rhetoric • Political Science • Economics • Debate Across the Curriculum – any subject area @PiSpeak

  9. Why Debate…in STEM? • Meaningfully Engages Large Classes • Danielson connections • Improves Graduation Rates & College Readiness • Common Core connections: CCSS.Math.Practice.MP3 Construct viable arguments and critique the reasoning of others. • “students understand and use stated assumptions, definitions, and previously established results in constructing arguments…They justify their conclusions, communicate them to others, and respond to arguments of others.” • “students try to communicate precisely to others…they have learned to examine claims and make explicit use of definitions.” @PiSpeak

  10. From Educators… “The use of debate in my classroom has increased the motivation and engagement of my most apathetic students. They love the competitive nature of debate and eagerly delve into texts that they otherwise typically avoid.” -Science Teacher “Debate has inspired students to think more critically about math’s applications in the real world…and about the content itself.” -Math Teacher “The work…has helped us close achievement gaps by empowering students to believe in themselves and push beyond [their] limits.” -Superintendent BPS @PiSpeak

  11. Oral Arguments @PiSpeak

  12. Activity #1: Soapbox Debate Name, Claim+Warrant • The best movie is ______. • Calculators should be required in class. • The most important math topic is ___. • ___________is the best method for solving the system: ARGUMENT = CLAIM + WARRANT @PiSpeak

  13. Activity #2: Circle Debate Summarize, Claim+Warrant Always, Sometimes or Never? • Max gets a pay raise of 30%.  Jim gets a pay raise of 25%.  So Max gets the bigger pay raise. • When you cut a piece off a shape, you reduce its area and perimeter. • and are co-terminal on the Unit Circle. ARGUMENT = CLAIM + WARRANT @PiSpeak

  14. Activity #3: Point. Counter-point. Would you rather….(a) Have crayons for teeth (b) Have spaghetti for hair Would you rather solve this problem… (a) Using a proportion “Find 45% of 80”(b) Making into a decimal and multiplying Claim+Warrant ARGUMENT = CLAIM + WARRANT @PiSpeak

  15. Activity #4: Table Debates Team A: It is better to solve by breaking the shape into rectangles. Team B: It is better to solve by finding the large rectangle and subtracting the missing piece(s). ARGUMENT = CLAIM + WARRANT @PiSpeak

  16. Activity #4: Table Debates Problem: Side A: Using a reference angle is easier than converting to degrees because… Side B: Converting to degrees is easier than using a reference angle because… ARGUMENT = CLAIM + WARRANT @PiSpeak

  17. How to Start @PiSpeak

  18. 1. Write DEBATEABLE Questions • Always / Sometimes / Never • Agree / Somewhat Agree / Disagree • Should • Best/Worst (method, solution…) • Biggest/Smallest • Most • Weirdest/Coolest • Variables @PiSpeak

  19. Which problem shows the BEST mistake?

  20. 2. Give Structure/Sentence Starters @PiSpeak

  21. @PiSpeak

  22. Some structures… @PiSpeak

  23. 3. Make it exciting/personal/engaging

  24. Make it Debatable @PiSpeak

  25. Graph the function

  26. The BEST way to graph a sine function is… (For example, )

  27. More Examples @PiSpeak

  28. Paragraph Debate

  29. There are an infinite number of Pythagorean triples (three numbers that work in the Pythagorean theorem). 2. The square root of a number is always smaller than the original number. @PiSpeak

  30. Classwork/Proof

  31. KenKen! 3- 2÷ 2 9x 1- 5+ 2÷ • For a 4x4 puzzle, fill in with numbers 1-4. • Do not repeat a number in any row or column. • The numbers in each heavily outlined set of squares, called cages, must combine (in any order) to produce the target number in the top corner of the cage using the mathematical operation indicated. • Cages with just one box should be filled in with the target number in the top corner. 4

  32. FULL SCALE DEBATE

  33. A video of my class… http://mass.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/mtc13.pd.math.deb/encouraging-debate/ @PiSpeak

  34. Contact Me cluzniak@gmail.com Luzniak.com @PiSpeak clopendebate.wordpress.com

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