Tag: lessons

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • Alg2 Lesson next week

    Sometimes the internet is your savior and sometimes your timesink, but when reading @Cheesemonkey’s material, it  is always golden delicious bits of luscious learning. Take, for example, her post on Transformations in Precalc. It is a fabulous exercise, and I am going to do it this week. I was talking with my fellow teacher in…

  • My learners taught me today

    Algebra 2: My learners blow my mind. I assigned my Honors Algebra 2 learners to write their name. Seriously, all they had to do was write their first name. In Desmos. With functions. Heh, I am evil, right? It gets worse. They had just taken a quiz, so we only had about 10 minutes left…

  • My “Rules” and Literal Eqs

    My 3 rules for Algebra. Meg Craig made them pretty, I framed them, and went over them in Alg 2 Honors class last period.  Today we moved into Literal Equations. That is how I teach the rules and reinforce the rules, with literals. Typically, these are one of the hardest things learners to grasp and…

  • Block Schedules and AP Stats

    My last post brought up the fact I am on a block schedule. It is a good schedule and I like the way I have created interaction with learners because of it. Our schedule goes like this. First class every day is P.A.S.S. – Panther Academic Student Support. It is 45 minutes of work time…

  • A philosophy of teaching math

    This post is really for a friend of mine who is very much math aware and capable, but does not teach math. He has twin sons who are absolutely amazeballs smart, and through talking with him one day I espoused my approach to algebra. He was intrigued and wanted more info. This is my attempt…

  • Connecting Alg 1 through Stats & Calc – Lesson ideas

    My goals: Construct a consistent vocabulary of problems that can begin in Algebra 1 and extend through to Calculus, Statistics, and all courses in between. The problems must have the potential to be engaging to learners. The problems must hit at least 4 of the eight Mathematical Practices & high school math standards (CCSS). My…