surveys—compared to the challenges that statisticians like
Justin Detlor grapple with in the real world.
I wondered, “what if my students really had to organize
complex information with clarity?” Boaler’s ‘low floor, high
ceiling’ tasks such as the Painted Cube challenge and a
simple card game Ron Lancaster of OISE shared with me
transformed into weeks of mathematical inquiry. Our math
classes went from ordinary to extraordinary, as students
moved through math challenges collaboratively and
were determined to find solutions. For the first time ever,
I had junior students begging for more math time because
they ‘had just one more thing they wanted to try’ as they
manipulated data and tried to find patterns. My students
were able to demonstrate advanced mathem