Everybody is jumping into this new education bandwagon like it is something that is new indeed. Here are some issues I want to raise about UbD. I am quoting Wikipedia in
What is scaffolding in education?
Scaffolding is a metaphor for describing a type of facilitating a teacher does to support students learning. Some educational paper lists some of these scaffolding like “breaking the task into
Assessing understanding of graphs of functions
Problems about graphs of functions can be grouped into interpretation or construction tasks. The tasks may involve interpreting individual points, an interval, or the entire graph. The same may be said about construction tasks.
Evolution of the definition of function
How do you define function? Do you teach relation first before teaching function? Does knowing about relation a pre-requisite to function understanding? The concept of function “was born as a