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How another country teaches the Quadratic Formula
One of the most enjoyable thing I have done over my career is work with teachers from other countries. The university is a host site for the Fulbright Teacher Excellence and Achievement program which brings teachers from other countries to the US, where they spend six weeks in classrooms and university classes. As a teacher,…
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Thank you #MTBoS & #Iteachmath community
Friday night in class, I gave out an assignment to my preservice teachers (PST) entitled “Engaging the Mathematics Community.” Here it is in it’s entirety: Engaging the Mathematics Community; Miscellaneous Assignment 2: 10 points The goal of this assignment is to encourage you to engage with the existing larger mathematics education community. You must do…
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Different Cooperative strategies
In my last post, Why I won’t use Direct Instruction, I was provocative and challenged some of the typical thinking about math instruction. The post generated some terrific conversation, both here and on Twitter, and although I have not changed my mind for my own classroom use, I do admit there may be times when…
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Math on the Move
I had the opportunity to read a preprint edition of Malke Rosenfeld’s new book, Math on the Move, and here are my thoughts. First off, let me start off with what this book is not. As educators we have probably sat through a professional development where someone told us that in math class, we can…
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AP Stats projects
Wow, it has been a while since I posted anything, and I need to share a ton of things I have done. I predict that I will post a lot in the next several weeks. The school year is winding down, but my learners are ramping up. Grad school is down for the summer (with…
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Central Limit Theorem Love
Besides the usual quote on the board today, I also have this math pickup line: How can I know hundreds of digits of pi and not know your phone number? I am featuring a new math love / pickup line each day this week (some days will have more than one). If you want the…
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Pictionary in Stats
I tortured my learners with a game, a game that was awesome and they all agreed was worth while. We played a Stats Pictionary! I used this document. Ch 5 – various distributions- Pictionary I created these distributions using the Illuminations Applet called plopit. http://www.shodor.org/interactivate/activities/PlopIt/ Here are my rules: 1. Each pair gets one…
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Greedy Greedy learners – a good thing
That’s right, they got greedy, and lost. Well, everyone gained, knowledge and skills that is. Today (and tomorrow in one period) in AP Stats we are playing The game of Greed. This is a great game, that challenges the learners in the end to make box plots and comparison statements about the created data. You end up…
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Notes, Pacing & lesson idea
One thing I am really working on in AP Stats is the amount of notes, the lack of notes, and the engagement of my learners. AP Stats is one of those courses where the amount of vocab to assimilate is so huge, that it cannot all be done by activities. I have found that a…
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Relaying in Stats, Melting down in Alg
You are here! That is my AP Stats objectives board for the next few weeks. Today and yesterday we finished up Categorical data analysis with Relay Cards. It was very successful. I had many learners telling me they understood what they were doing, and they were saying this even though they were making mistakes in…