Tag: #myfavfri

  • 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.…

  • #TMC Reflection – MyFavs

    My Favorites are some of the best part of the TwitterMathCamp experience, and this year was no different. I know one favorite I had was walking into this building and seeing that even a public high school could afford to build a dedicated Science & Math Center! But inside the building, we were offering our…

  • Projects in my AP Stats class

    The AP exam is over, finals are in two weeks, and my learners have been busy bees constructing knowledge for the community. That is their goal in this post-AP Exam stage of the class. Their charge and challenge is to do something that constructs, creates, or consolidates knowledge for the school or the community. Below…

  • #MyFavFri – Learners teaching themselves Completing the Square

      Yea, that’s right. I just had 2 classes in a row teach themselves and others how to complete the square with circles and ellipses. How did I accomplish this miracle, because I really do consider it to be a miracle. In my Advanced Algebra Class we have the following problem called, creatively enough, The…

  • MyFavFriday–My pens

    It has been a while since I have done a #MyFavFriday, but I realized this week that I absolutely have a favorite I would like to share. My pens. I love pens. I have a ritual I do every morning to make sure I have my wallet, room keys, cellphone and yes, by Rotring Quad-point…

  • #My Fav Friday: Dropbox

    It has been a while since I did a #MyFavFriday post, but I have to share this because it has been making my life so much easier this school year. Dropbox.  Yes, that service. I know, so many other people have written about it in the past, and so have I, but this year I…

  • Online graphing calculators

    My #myfavfri post this week is on 2 ways to graph equations online easy and simply. I struggled with showing graphs large and in charge in a way that learners could duplicate at home, and then I came across these 2 methods. 1. Desmos’ “A Better Calculator” which is found at http://abettercalculator.com. Some nice features.…

  • #MyFavFri: scheduling posts, $1.00 notebook & a poem

    I was having a tough time writing this post this week because I have been at Exeter Math training for the last 2 days, and will be for 2 more days. This training has been a huge time suck, with homework given every night that I have spent a lot of time on thinking as…

  • #MyFavFriday–Personalizing my classroom

    This year I am trying to make my classroom more personal and less institutional. So many math classrooms are can be described and “lacking a personal touch,” I think because as math teachers we don’t realize just how much that personal touch is missed. I know when I was in college, we spent so much…

  • A visual representation of Imaginary solutions

    For today’s #myfavfriday I am presenting an idea that has been percolating in my head for a while. If you want to know what a #myfavfriday is, then see Druinok’s blog here. Learners have a devil of a time with quadratics. Afterall, there can be 2 solutions, 1 solution, or no solutions in Algebra 1,…