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You are currently browsing the category archive for the ‘Abstracting’ category. What Does Zero Mean? April 5, 2015 in Abstracting. Student thinking about electricity. Here are some conversations that come up every year. Student: “I tried to measure current, but I couldn’t get a reading.”. Me: “So the display was blank? Student: “No, it just didn’t show anything.”. Note: Display showed 0.00). Student: “We can’t solve this problem, because an insulator has no resistance.”. Me: “So it has zero ohms? They mi...
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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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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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Let Students Request Feedback or Evaluation? | Shifting Phases
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Let Students Request Feedback or Evaluation? April 24, 2015 in Assessment. Grades are not the point. I’m thinking about how to make assessments even lower stakes. The upside of requiring practise problems. So they won’t have to do any practise. That, of course, sours our classroom culture and makes it harder for them to think well. I’m considering a couple of options. One is, when they write a quiz, to ask them whether they are submitting it to be evaluated or just for feedback. Another option is simply ...
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I Hope This Old Train Breaks Down...: March 2015
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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. Saturday, March 21, 2015. Geometry to Algebra Transition.
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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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I Hope This Old Train Breaks Down...: Some Calculus Worksheets
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I Hope This Old Train Breaks Down. Posts Organized by Date. Posts Organized by Topic. Sunday, March 15, 2015. Here are two of them: I used this. To help kids wrap their minds around basic integral Calculus applications, and this one. Is how I introduced implicit differentiation, using the analysis of non-functional relationships as a premise. After this, I had the students do some pure skills practice in converting geometric formulas to differential equations with time as the domain. Illustrating this wi...
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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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more on grading—a synthesis of some my favorite thinkers (part one) | non-abelian
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High school math teacher in nyc interested in school transformation, math for social justice, equity/inclusion and grading reform. More on grading a synthesis of some my favorite thinkers (part one). This is part one of a series I’ll be writing on grading. Guskey, Kashtan, and Reeves. On his blog, Douglas Reeves writes. I know of few educational issues that are more fraught with emotion than grading. Co-founder of Bay Area Nonviolent Communication. Focusing on a shared purpose. Guskey continues to emphas...
