Do the impossible
Posted in algebra 1, class design, technology on Mar 31st, 2009
Last year, I finally resolved to end the “wandering eyes” problem during tests. It seemed like there was no way to ensure that nobody would sneak a peek during tests, and when kids had the same test they would easily be able to cop an answer from their neighbor and it would be really really [...]
Posted in geometry on Mar 8th, 2009
I just lost a couple of hours to the law of cosines. It kicked my. So now, with my newfound knowledge I feel ready to have a go at class tomorrow. Thanks to the kind folks at the math forum I set it up with geogebra, schemed off about 5 pieces of scrap paper, and [...]
Posted in everything else on Mar 4th, 2009
Wrote a student on the survey I handed out today. It’s fun to read the little thoughts kids have about class. Any ideas on being more to the point and engaging?
Posted in everything else on Mar 1st, 2009
I’m on attempt #3, and finally had some success. First, I had kids take two guesses. 1. 8ft = ? cm (I drew 8 ft and 1 cm on the board) 2. 15 mi = ? cm (Made them picture some local 15 mi distances) Then we did 58 hands to fingers to people type [...]
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