Summary of Main Points

*An education student was given the assignment of selecting a lesson plan from a credible site online and presenting it to her class
*she was encouraged to adapt/modify the lesson to suit her needs, but was also
allowed to use 'as written'
*she chose to use it "as written"
*She taught a math lesson focused on showing the difference between forming combinations when order mattered and when order didn't matter using ice cream flavours as her demonstration
*After completing the lesson, her professor pointed out that all of the answers given in her lesson were mathematically incorrect (the answers given in the lesson plan were actually the opposite of the correct answers (her peers had actually given the correct answers, but she informed them that they were incorrect based on her 'answers')
*The student claimed she had taught the lesson exactly as she had found it on the website (and she was right, the site actually had the same errors)
*The significance of the error would have been huge in a real elementary class (students would have been confused about whether order matters when forming
*Both the student and professor acknowledged and recognized that even though the lesson plan had come from a reliable site, errors could still be found.
*The professor contacted the authors of the lesson plan site and they fixed the mathematical errors on that lesson plan and several others on their site that also contained errors
*Moral of the story is...teachers should never just deliver a lesson exactly as seen on the internet (or anywhere for that matter) without first working through the questions/assignment/task first. AND just because something is on the internet does NOT mean it is correct