Rough-Draft Talk in Front of Hundreds of Math Teachers. Bull; March 9, 2018. I was on a raised platform with seven middle school students to my left and six to my right and several hundred math teachers surrounding us on all sides. But what kind of math should we.

If others would but reflect on mathematical truths as deeply and as continuously as I have, they would make my discoveries. Intercepts and Asymptotes and Holes, Oh My! On February 20, 2017. On January 30, 2017. Making Sense of Exponential Models. On July 24, 2016. Exponential growth is a topic that deserves especially thoughtful treatment as part of a high school education because a person who has thought deeply about.

Monday, August 8, 2016. This has been a dream of mine for the past three years, so I was excited to finally be allowed to submit an application. The application questions really got me thinking. Yes, calculus allows students to navigate both abstract and applied mathematics. If done right, it .

Make Your Own Whiteboard Tables. In the spring of 2015 I received brand new square tables for my classroom and turned the tops into whiteboard tables. It was a game-changer that I stole from Reuben Hoffman. Early iteration of my 10 tables. 8221; questions from students. That can be cut to size.

I have taught for 20 years and I still have a lot to learn. Wednesday, June 12, 2013. I hope that you will continue to follow me there. Some of the stuff that was attached by scribd or box did not come through and I am working on that as I can.

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Maths is Not a Spectator Sport. Thoughts on teaching and learning Mathematics. Why One Hundred Percent is Important. 8220;We will spend a fraction of time in the first two weeks checking students are up to speed and highlighting areas they need to improve.

To graph the equations as we went. As a result, students appreciated the point of factoring as a tool to find solutions and graph quadratics. We started with the x-puzzles. 8221; This was followed by a.