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Ufficio XII - Ambito territoriale per la provincia di Modena Iniziativa seminariale a cura dell’Istituto “Luosi” di Mirandola «CONTENT and LANGUAGE INTEGRATED LEARNING – CLIL riordino scuola secondaria di 2° grado» Ipsct «Cattaneo» di Mirandola D.S.: Prof.ssa Maria Cristina Mignatti Prof.ssa : Maurizia Rebecchi Ufficio XII - Ambito territoriale per la provincia di Modena Iniziativa seminariale a cura dell’Istituto “Luosi” di Mirandola LEARNING UNIT: EQUATIONS GREATER THAN THE POWER OF TWO CONTENTS: REVISION OF THE CONCEPT OF EQUATION THE CONCEPT OF FUNCTION AND ITS GRAPH EQUATIONS OF A HIGHER ORDER THAN TWO, TO BE SOLVED BY FACTORIZATION LEVEL: TWO THIRD-YEAR CLASSES AT SECONDARY LEVEL EDUCATION (VOCATIONAL SCHOOL) LEVEL OF STUDENTS’ LINGUISTIC ABILITY: PRE-INTERMEDIATE STRATEGY: INTERACTIVE LESSON AND WORK IN PAIRS MATERIALS: PHOTOCOPIES, PROJECTOR, BLACKBOARD TIME: 7 HOURS Ufficio XII - Ambito territoriale per la provincia di Modena Iniziativa seminariale a cura dell’ Istituto “Luosi” di Mirandola FIRST LESSON: INTRODUCTION OF NEW VOCABULARY AND REVISION OF ALREADY STUDIED CONCEPTS TO CREATE MOTIVATION: USE OF VIDEO TO EXPLAIN THE LINK BETWEEN MATHS AND REAL LIFE, AS IS DONE IN FOREIGN COUNTRIES PROBLEM: “The concentration of a drug, in parts per million, in a patient’s blood, x hours after the drug is administered, is given by the function This function is the result of a research carried out at the Sautheast Missouri State University:Math Field Day, 2005 This is the question: “How many hours after the drug is administered will it be eliminated from the bloodstream?” Ufficio XII - Ambito territoriale per la provincia di Modena Iniziativa seminariale a cura dell’Istituto “Luosi” di Mirandola TEXT ANALYSIS, EXPLANATION AND PROBLEM SOLVING. TO ASSIST THEM IN FINDING A SOLUTION, I PROVIDED THEM WITH A GRAPH OF THE FUNCTION. GRAPH EVALUATION THE ABILITY TO READ A GRAPH IS MULTI-DISCIPLINARY Ufficio XII - Ambito territoriale per la provincia di Modena Iniziativa seminariale a cura di Istituto “Luosi” di Mirandola DOUBLE CHECK OF STUDENTS’ UNDERSTANDING: ORAL DISCUSSION ATTEMPT TO SOLVE THE PROBLEM WITH ALGEBRAIC METHOD WITHOUT THE USE OF THE GRAPH: THE STUDENTS SUGGESTED TO SOLVE THE EQUATION WITH TOTAL FACTORIZATION AND RUFFINI’S METHOD TO REITERATE THE LINK BETWEEN MATHS AND EVERYDAY LIFE I GAVE THE STUDENTS THIS QUESTION: “SUPPOSE SOMEBODY GOES TO A DISCO AT 1 A.M. AND ASSUMES DRUGS AT 2 A.M., WHAT TIME WOULD HE BE ABLE TO DRIVE HOME SAFELY?