Category: Success YES!

  • Tracking time for annual reviews

    I have a problem. Or rather, I had a problem. This problem has gone on for the last four years, and this year I am finally doing something about it. In my role as a Master Teacher, I have a role statement on file with my Dean at at the University. It says that I…

  • 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…

  • High Fives revisited

    A late in the day #BlAugust post. Yesterday Jennifer tweeted this at me, and I teared up a little. Thanks to @gwaddellnvhs for the idea and inspiration https://t.co/Jv4KM6DkEb — Jennifer Abel (@abel_jennifer) August 21, 2016 And the tweet it refers to is this one: #MTBoSBlaugust post: How I Changed My Classroom Culture Through High-Fives https://t.co/YoCHLMzsF0…

  • The benefits of a handshake

    Another #BlAugust post! Doing great and creating habits here. This morning I was walking to the the office across campus, I saw a person standing outside a building looking around. He looked kind of lost, which is not unusual on campus this time of year, so I asked if I could help him. He was…

  • Software that makes my life easy

    I have been searching for a bulletproof, simple, and efficient backup solution for my PC for about two years now. I have tried several different tools, online versions, software versions, and nothing really worked for me. Maybe I was too picky. More like too lazy, really. First off, my requirements: I have read repeatedly about the…

  • Today’s smile

    Okay, it was yesterday, but I was crazy busy and didn’t post it. Yesterday, out of the blue, one of the learners I had three years ago tweeted this:   Doing hypothesis testing with Stata and still using the stats @gwaddellnvhs taught me 3 yrs later in my non-STEM majors. Thanks Waddell! — Cassidy Hansen…

  • High Fives: A #TMC15 my favorite

    At #TMC15 I shared my favorite of the “High 5”. Richard Villanueva is awesome enough to record them all and post, so I will just share the video of what I said. It is short and sweet: There is the video. I want to stress a few points. Giving high fives to my learners absolutely changed me.…

  • 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…

  • I Have, Who Has in Stats; Speed dating in Alg2

      Today was mostly successful for my learners! Yay. I am behind in the book keeping / grading department so I won’t talk about that much. This is always my downfall, and it is so easy to have a conflict of interest between grading effectively and timely, and time spent producing interesting fun lessons that…

  • AP Stats – Better learning this year

    via I have done some things differently this year in AP Stats that have paid off tremendously. I realized it today when I put up a Barron’s flashcard as a warmup and although almost everyone got it wrong, everyone in the entire class could describe the graphs correctly. The words; uniform, symmetric, bimodal, unimodal, skewed…