Creating Wicked ASSIGNMENTS
Paul Hanstedt · 2023
The New York state government has created a council to develop a list of recommendations regarding the lifestyles of primary school age children. That mathematics plays a role in Adams’s assignment is also important for several reasons. First of all, for most of our students, quantitative reasoning is usually going to matter in an applied way; that is, students will use it in their work for a nonprofit, a web design firm, or a car rental agency. Math matters, and this assignment makes that starkly clear to a group of first-year art students who at first may see mathematics as unnecessary. Signature work can occur in capstone courses, undergraduate research, internships, or in the creation of an ePortfolio. The important criteria are first, that it’s student led, dealing with unscripted (wicked) problems, and second, that it’s cumulative.