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Yet again, following f(t)’s lead
[UPDATE: Posts on starting blogs... Kate's... Miss Cal.Q.L8's... Riley Lark's (scroll down)... all definitely better than my two cents...] I can’t help it. I really dig Kate Nowak. (In the platonic...
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A Benefit and Peril of a Laptop School
Tomorrow my Algebra II students are going to take their final exam. The year has come to a close. I’ve taken stock of the year in a number of ways. Here’s another summary of my year (a la my SmartBoard...
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PCMI as a learning community
Note: This post was started in Late July, and abandoned until now in Late August I promised three posts post-PCMI on what I’ve learned — on math talk, on lesson study, and on PCMI as a learning...
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WELCOME TO THE INTERNETS, a series of tubes
Kate “I’m not snarky” Nowak and Sean “the squirm” Sweeney are working on putting together a… “Welcome to the internet, math teachers” page on the internet. As much as I like them, I feel like this...
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Reading Math
My Algebra II kids don’t like to read the textbook. Heck, neither do my calculus students. This isn’t surprising. It’s extra work and it’s hard. My class also makes it hard for them, because I do not...
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Edublog Nominations
Drumrollllll please… Here are my 2010 Edublog Award Nominations… (my 2009 nominations are here) Best individual blog: Shawn Cornally’s Think Thank Thunk Shawn’s blog arrived on the scene in Februrary...
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Email breakdown 2010-2011
Last year I had archived 2,270 emails to and from (and about) students. (I make a separate folder for each student and file everything related to that student.) The breakdown from the data last year...
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Make it Better: Memory Modeling
“A monk weighing 170 lbs begins a fast to protest a war. His weight after t days is given by W = 170e^(-0.008t). When the war ends 20 days later, how much does the monk weigh? At what rate is the monk...
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Math Taboo
I participated in a great twitter conversation the other day where we brainstormed a few strategies to help make our courses more accessible to English Language Learners (we used the hashtag #ELLmath,...
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And So It Begins…
The year in full swing, and it feels like I’ve been teaching for days upon days, even though it has only been two days, so I suppose I should have said “day upon day.” It shocks me (BZZZ!) that a...
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Absolute Value
So I taught absolute value equations in Algebra II. And so far I think things have gone fairly well. I read Kate Nowak’s post on how she did absolute values, and I thought I would change my more...
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Students communicating mathematics has opened my eyes to mathematical...
This year, as I have been in the past few years, I’ve been attempting to incorporate more writing in my math classes [note: Shelli found a post from 2009 I wrote on this endeavor]. It’s been...
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A High School Math-Science Journal
In my first year of teaching, fresh from my haze from history grad school, I remember approaching the history and English department chairs about creating a high school level journal for those...
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Intersections, a high school math-science journal
At the end of last year, a science teacher and I came up with the idea of creating a math-science journal for students to publish their work in. Our school has a literary and art journal and even a...
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Intersections, 2013-2014
Today we had our launch party for Intersections, our school’s math-science journal. Last year a science teacher and I gathered interested students to produce this journal — and they worked tirelessly...
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