Do the impossible
Posted in technology, what can you do with this on Sep 4th, 2009
I’m baaaaaaaaaaaaack! After a long break, the longest I’ve had in the four summers since I began teaching it’s time to get back in the swing of things. I joined in the scheduling of my small school (110 kids in 7/8 grade). After spending time understanding the beast and more time writing macro code for [...]
Posted in algebra 1, pre-algebra, what can you do with this on May 25th, 2009
On September 23rd, 1999, the Mars Climate Orbiter lost contact with NASA engineers. After an exhaustive search to reacquire the signal until the 25th, the Orbiter was assumed to have been destroyed as it entered Mars’s atmosphere or to have bounced off and “re-entered heliocentric space.” Software guiding the Mars Climate Orbiter assumed a set [...]
Posted in pre-algebra, what can you do with this on Jan 25th, 2009
We’re doing percents of in Pre-Algebra tomorrow. For a good high impact visual review I think this will be helpful to project up onto the board. I am good at making geogebra manipulatives, but I still stink at what you do with ‘em once they’re up on the board. Dan mentioned his trouble in using [...]
Posted in algebra 1, geometry, what can you do with this on Dec 16th, 2008
Dan has a great thing going with his What Can You Do With This posts. Here’s my first attempt at joining in. The motivation for this comes from an attempt at getting students to play with and by extension understand, or “have a feel for” the Standard Form of a linear equation (Ax + By [...]
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