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I Hope This Old Train Breaks Down...: October 2014
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I Hope This Old Train Breaks Down. Posts Organized by Date. Posts Organized by Topic. Friday, October 31, 2014. How it Must Feel. What do you do? So, what do you do besides trying to be empathetic? And, more so than grading, how can I serve them all? Those are open questions in my mind. Would love if you could chime in to enlighten me in your thoughts about this. Thursday, October 2, 2014. What to Do When You Are Busy. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Subscribe in a reader. How it Must Feel. In case you have ...
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Algebra, Essentially: Reflections and Transformations
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Sunday, August 26, 2012. In my town, school starts this week. My children have new backpacks and lunchboxes and shiny pencil cases with 5 newly sharpened pencils in each. The New Blogger Initiative. Is filled with stories of first day jitters and school year goals. This is a hard time for me. But working towards it. By offering some of these things for sale. I know the mathtwitterblogosphere is a sharing culture. I have lots to share, but I have mixed emotions about sharing everything. So in the meantime...
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Modeling Chemistry Workshop – Day 3 Part 2 | Science Without Spectators
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Creating a classroom where everyone (including me! Modeling Chemistry Workshop – Day 3 Part 2. August 20, 2014. Beginning Unit 2 – Smelly Particles. Have students draw a story board (3 panel particle picture) to explain how the smelly particles got to their noses. What do you need to get out of the discussion:. Particles moved (at first you didn’t smell them, then you did). Consider the whole system (the room and ALL the particles in it – including AIR! Hot/Cold Water and Food Coloring Demo:. What do you...
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I Hope This Old Train Breaks Down...: February 2014
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I Hope This Old Train Breaks Down. Posts Organized by Date. Posts Organized by Topic. Thursday, February 27, 2014. Ok, quickie update. If you want more info about anything, you can dig through my current lesson plans here. I am feeling great about all of this. 3 In Precalculus, we have been doing lots of trig and it has been just lovely. And the same horizontal location ("Estimate where on the unit circle there is a horizontal coordinate of -0.4? C) They really explored the idea that the graph changes sh...
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I Hope This Old Train Breaks Down...: How it Must Feel
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I Hope This Old Train Breaks Down. Posts Organized by Date. Posts Organized by Topic. Friday, October 31, 2014. How it Must Feel. What do you do? So, what do you do besides trying to be empathetic? And, more so than grading, how can I serve them all? Those are open questions in my mind. Would love if you could chime in to enlighten me in your thoughts about this. November 14, 2014 at 12:33 AM. December 16, 2014 at 1:56 AM. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Subscribe in a reader. How it Must Feel. Conti...
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I Hope This Old Train Breaks Down...: August 2014
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I Hope This Old Train Breaks Down. Posts Organized by Date. Posts Organized by Topic. Friday, August 1, 2014. One Resource a (Week)Day #19: Using Desmos in Calculus. I am starting to focus in to think about what I want to do with my classes during the first week of school. For Calculus, I think the choice is obvious. I should start them off by playing with Function Carnival, over at Desmos.com! This is really a fantastic tool that incorporates real mathematical instruction, not. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom).
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I Hope This Old Train Breaks Down...: Circumference of the Moon
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I Hope This Old Train Breaks Down. Posts Organized by Date. Posts Organized by Topic. Wednesday, March 25, 2015. Circumference of the Moon. So, as a follow-up to Erastothenes using geometry to calculate the circumference of the Earth, this week I plan to go over how we can use the ratio to Earth to calculate the circumference of the moon! The lesson idea came from my colleague John. I fleshed it out to scaffold it for my kids. It looks like this. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Subscribe in a reader.
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I Hope This Old Train Breaks Down...: What to Do When You Are Busy
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I Hope This Old Train Breaks Down. Posts Organized by Date. Posts Organized by Topic. Thursday, October 2, 2014. What to Do When You Are Busy. Today, one of the things I read over the summer came back to me. The thing I read was written by a therapist, regarding his patients who are stressed and unhappy because they feel like they're spread too thin among work, family, friends, etc. The therapist's advice is that you cannot make more minutes in a day, but you can increase the quality. How it Must Feel.
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square root of negative one teach math: March 2015
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Square root of negative one teach math. Just some things this high school math teacher thinks about. Sunday, March 22, 2015. Solving Exponential Equations (No Logs). This is my second year teaching a "not advanced" Algebra 2 class. One of my goals has been to avoid simplifying or watering down the curriculum, even though my students are lacking in pre-requisite skills. Instead, I've been taking more time for almost everything. Try to write an expression that equals 8, using a base of 2 with an exponent.
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I Hope This Old Train Breaks Down...: Posts Organized by Topic
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I Hope This Old Train Breaks Down. Posts Organized by Date. Posts Organized by Topic. Posts Organized by Topic. Since I share a good amount of lessons in my blog, I think I should start to organize them by topic (as opposed to only listing them chronologically). The order doesn't mean anything. I'll try to keep this updated regularly, but no promises. Raw lesson plans without accompanying reflections:. Not a blog post, but this link to all my lessons for Grades 7 through 12 from SY2011-2012. And how I st...
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