“Last night, the school board voted on student uniforms. Teacher uniforms are still being debated. BUT….the law says that uniforms must be provided if students are eligible for free lunch. (assistance must be provided to those eligible for reduced lunch) Our school has over 70 % free and reduced lunch students. The solution? Change the […]
I really like Sudoku but there isnt much math involved. Someone told me about the puzzle called Ken Ken where you have to use math to solve it but it also has the rules of sudoku in it. I think that in my classroom I will have a few of these puzzles lying around if […]
When doing research for our alternate text project I came across a book, Math Attack:How to Reduce Math Anxiety in the Classroom, at work and in Everyday Personal Use” but on that particular website it did not give a summary; so, I did some research on the book just to see what it was about. […]
Monday was my first day back in Ellsworth observing in a high school math classroom. I was able to observe a class that is new to my cooperating teacher for this semester. Immediately I noticed how much less class participation there was. The other classes I observed last time I was in the class would […]
Over the past few months I have really enjoyed the math I have shared with my peers and the math that has been shared with me by my peers. I also enjoy the field experience I am involved with but I felt like something was missing. I found out that it wasn’t something missing it […]
While many of our students will not have “dycalculia”, this website that I came upon provides some very good advice and insight into the mind of almost any child. We can all continually work on thinking about the mind of each student and how they will perceive things in math. A few simple examples are […]
Zapgrab is one of the tools that we used on deployment, but I think can also be a really handy tool for use in creating visuals. All it is is a very simple way to take screen shots of whatever size you want. I downloaded it here, and its a free download. Just open the program, […]
So, I’ve been debating with myself what to do with the last two weeks of class. We’ve dabbled in a lot of things (more than usual), but haven’t spent much time on any one software resource or math topic. My feeling for what’s going to be most useful is for us to spend most of […]
In a lesson a bit like LeeAnn’s, Mr Sweeny describes a lesson on exponent rules using Wolfram Alpha. If you browse through his site, you’ll also find that he describes the study method he teaches to his college-bound juniors and seniors. If you, like me, aren’t very self aware about how you study, you might […]
When you are copying and pasting something from Word into Notebook, you may notice that embedded graphics (including some formulas) don’t paste in. What’s going on is that you can paste text or you can paste graphics, but not both at the same time, so past the text, and then past the graphics, and all […]