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#Made4MathMonday – Math practices poster and more
I made something! I haven’t been very ‘makey’ lately. Focusing a lot on teaching college students, observing college students in the classroom, and then observing more. But, we got a new classroom on campus at the beginning of the semester, and we needed decorations. I looked all over for some good, high quality posters of…
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Changing math preservice teachers’ minds
Math majors who are interested in teaching are the toughest group of learners. They really are. They are in a mixed science / math class, so they band together. They reinforce each other’s beliefs that the way they have been taught math is a great way, because they have been successful in learning math that…
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#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…
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#TMC Reflection – Alg2 Sessions
At TMC14 (Twitter Math Camp 2014) this year I did not attend many sessions, because I was the co-lead or lead in several blocks of time. It was great, and the comments I received were very complementary. I think the teachers telling me that were just being nice a little bit, but I hope they…
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A class excited about logs
[I really need to return to blogging. My lack of focus on reflection has hampered me this semester, and I need to fix that. To that end, I am making a commitment to blog and to jog. Those are the foci this year of the ellipse that is my world.] Yea, how often does that…
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My Class Noticed & Wondered
So the other day I am giving my Algebra 2 STEM learners (this is our Honors designation” the big picture of Algebra 2. You know, so they know where they are at and where the class is going. This is what I had written on the right of the screen. After writing this down,…
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Why do we check n<10%?
A great question to understand why we check conditions in stats, “What happens we have a sample size greater than 10% of the population?” One of the themes of Tabor’s institute was what happens when we violate the conditions, and on day one we asked this question. Another way to phrase this question is, “Does…
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AP Stats: Pedagogy and questions
I spent the last week at the Silver State AP Conference this week with Josh Tabor as the instructor. First, let me just get this out of the way. If you ever have the chance to spend some time with him, do it. Do not pass Go, do not collect $200, just go directly to…