Tag: tech

  • Why Coding?

    One question that comes ups often with math majors in the program is “Why do I have to take a computer science class?” I am not sure where the official requirement comes from, but I can say that I am extremely thankful I had a computer programming class in college. It was over 20 years…

  • 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…

  • Additional Plot.ly v. JMP comparisons

    My learners have been using Plot.ly for a week, and have asked me a ton of questions on how to do certain things with their data. I wanted to add details to my last post on Plot.ly v. JMP and tell you the decision I made regarding the issue. All of the questions I have below…

  • Quiet but busy day

    Today was my quiet day, only two classes. But, I was busy all lunch upgrading my learners calculators!   Yes, that is the pile I have done today at lunch. About 5 learners have already come in and picked their calculator up, thank goodness. I am a bit nervous having $1200 of calculators sitting on…

  • Burning a day: getting calcs under control

     via With three sections of 32, 34 and 35 in AP Stats  I am trying something different this year with teaching calculator skills. Instead of teaching the skills as I go like I did in previous years I switched it up and burned a day. It was not wasted though, it was highly productive. I have…

  • #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…

  • Power: an explanation that made sense

    via I want to begin with an apology for the length of this post. It is long, but the payoff is huge (especially since it was hinted at that there may be a question on a future AP exam that follows this idea closely). So, I will kick it off with great way of writing…

  • #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…

  • An experiment with a new Addon for Powerpoint

    Well, this is new to me, at least. I have used powerpoints in class, but this add-on allows you to do some different things with the software. I hate to compare this to Prezi, but clearly that is the only comparison to be made. It is called pptPlex, and is a free add-on from Microsoft.…

  • My thoughts on #TMC12 & overcoming myself

    I am rather late to the gate with these thoughts, in large part because I drove (well, rode my motorcycle) to St. Louis from Reno, which took 4 days to get home. More on that in a different post when I do the math from the trip video. If you ask one of the teachers…