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Semester reflections
It is crazy, but I have not blogged once during this semester. My last post was a forward looking statement on class closures that I wanted to do. The good news is, I did it. Every single day, I had an alarm set, and I did the class closure. You can find my form here:…
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Closures: my first goal for new semester
The semester starts tomorrow for me, and I am working hard at addressing some of my shortcomings. One weakness I have always had was the closure to my lessons. I could never really figure out how to close the lesson. No, scratch that. I knew how, I never really could REMEMBER to do a good…
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PBL: Project? Problem? Does it matter
Last week I attended the PBLWorld workshop. It is a 3 day workshop hosted by the Buck Institute for Education (BIE). I am not going to get into what that conference experience was like. It wasn’t good. I would not recommend any math teacher (any teacher of any subject, actually) to ever attend PBLWorld unless…
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Beauty and joy found in a math proof
There may be a perception among high school age learners and some adults that math classrooms are not creative spaces. I have heard with my own ears from both groups of people. How large the groups of people are who believe this is up for debate, but not the goal of this post. Instead, I…
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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…
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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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Who are the real teacher leaders?
Last week, I attended the AMTE conference. AMTE stands for the Association of Mathematics Teacher Educators and is a fabulous group. I have been a member for 3 years now, but this was my first attendance at their conference. One take away (and I had more than one) was from Samuel Otten, (twitter: @ottensam) host…
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Writing my methods section: a mixed method look at TMC17 part 2
On to the qualitative analysis. (For the quantitative, see previous post) In the #mtbos, we talk of ourselves as a ‘community.’ We talk of the community of TMC, and a community of mathematics educators. The problem, then, is that there is not a clear definition of the ‘community.’ Anyone who says they are a member…
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Writing my methods section: a mixed method look at TMC17 part 1
I have been buried this semester with work, teaching two full sections of an education theory class, doing observations of our preservice teachers, and also writing my proposal for my dissertation. via Lets say the first two items in that list got far more priority during the first half of the semester, and I had…
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Why do we punish learners in math class?
I am all fired up and angry about a new graphing calculator app today. Not that the app exists, but the way they are selling it. Reason number 1: I don’t know what to say about this other than express my complete and utter revulsion at the ideas expressed by this new graphing calculator app…