The time is fast approaching when you will be out interacting with actual high school students, and then you will need to change your wardrobe (most of you). Now, your goals here are two fold. 1. Don’t look like a high school student. Unless you’re over 35, you’ll probably make things easier on yourself (especially […]
I’ve been looking for software that will let me make some nice 3D objects for students to play with. I like doing 3D geometry, but in the Math for El Ed class, we spend one day a week in the lab, and sometimes it seems like it’s wasted because 3D is so hard to come […]
Kate Nowak at f(t) shared some of her thoughts about worksheets a few months back. As she says: there are good worksheets and bad worksheets. The good ones make you think. The good ones give you feedback so it is self correcting. The good ones are focused: you spend a lot of time thinking about […]
Completing the square is hard because it has a lot of small steps that have to be put together, and it’s hard to remember what you’re doing unless you understand it well (and you practice). Sam Shah at Continuous Everywhere but Differentiable Nowhere shared his successful strategy for teaching this. It doesn’t look flashy, but […]
I have become a great Kate Nowak fan since discovering her blog f(t) a few months ago. You’ll probably notice this as a theme in my posts in the next few weeks. Anyhoo… she shared her most recent strategy for introducing logs (I think you’ll like it–it might be as good as the Casci swoosh). […]
Sometimes when you are teaching something the first time–or even the second–you want a really concrete way of showing what’s going on. I really love how Carolyn’s lesson on factoring polynomials using fractions tiles worked (go read it right now!). There are two things I see that made the lesson work really well: one is […]
So, there’s this thing about WordPress blogs. What they look like is determined by the “theme” that you install in the blog, and you can totally change the look of the blog in about 5 minutes by installing and activating a new theme. Anyway, suggestions for themes are welcome.
Fractions are the bane of every middle school and high school teacher’s existence, I think. Adrienne Stuckey of Education Adaptations writes that a lot of the students she works with are at a disadvantage because they don’t know their multiplication facts well enough to make factoring easy. (You notice this problem when students are learning […]
When figuring out how to do your practice computer assignments, do this: from xkcd
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