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Moving 2 Oct 2009 | 07:06 pm
to Points of Intersection. Hope to see you there!
Math deprivation as punishment 17 May 2009 | 05:50 pm
Yesterday programs at San Quentin resumed after a week and a half of non-activity – the prison had been closed in order to prevent an outbreak of swine flu. I had been wearing a blue shirt to work in ...
Writing Inverse Functions 17 Apr 2009 | 12:35 pm
I like Sam Shah’s approach to teaching function inversion. It’s pretty much what I had intended to do this year, but somehow forgot about at some point. Hopefully writing these notes here will increas...
Practice Problems, Patterned Practice 9 Mar 2009 | 07:55 am
A characteristic of problem collections in standard textbooks is that each question tends to stand alone, that attempts at varying the problems in a systematic way in order to elicit patterns are typi...
Notes from the Saturday at Asilomar 8 Dec 2008 | 12:55 pm
“Oh, I get it,” the students say, and I tell them that that's great, and that it is not enough. I tell them that learning math is a lot like learning to play a musical instrument or like learning to d...
Algebra 2 is amorphous and has multiple heads 4 Aug 2008 | 06:39 pm
and defies reduction into compact and self-contained little parts. I am still trying to do just that, however. This continues the discussion about applying Dan Meyer's assessment system for Algebra 2,...
Sharing worksheets 3 Aug 2008 | 02:39 pm
Discovered Box quite serendipitously a few weeks ago, while figuring out something for my Midsession class - and this solved part of that problem of having multiple versions of worksheets on multiple ...
Coffee and math ed readings 29 Jul 2008 | 06:35 am
This summer I've met with a doctoral student of mathematics education a couple of times. Her area of interest is mathematical learning disabilities (MLD). Last time we met in a coffee shop to discuss ...
Have you used Algebra tiles? 29 Jul 2008 | 06:02 am
I introduced integer tiles to my Algebra classes early last fall, and then quickly gave it up. Several students balked at using such middle school measures for studying math, and my arguments that bei...
Language acquisition and learning math 15 Jun 2008 | 07:26 am
Just finished a class necessary toward clearing the credential, and in that context I've finally read through an actual textbook on teaching English learners, which was good. Thinking about strategies...
