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Minimum Expectations 7 Aug 2013 | 07:20 am
I spent the last two days in some district-provided professional development around the Common Core Math Standards. Overall it was a pretty good two days, in spite of my misgivings about Common Core i...
Help Me Make This #howtolearnmath Poster Better 3 Aug 2013 | 11:40 pm
I'm still enjoying my How To Learn Math class. In a recent session, Professor Boaler talks about her own "Mathematical Thinking Process" and how we often don't make that very transparent to our studen...
Mindset 1 Aug 2013 | 04:21 am
My How to Learn Math class is going very well - I'm halfway through the sessions and feel like it has been very worthwhile. A good portion of the first part of the class was built around the ideas in ...
The Future 22 Jul 2013 | 07:12 am
I just finished reading The Future: Six Drivers of Global Change by Al Gore. I think everyone should read this book1. It reminds me of when I first read The World is Flat2 and, while I don't think it ...
My First Semester Algebra 1 Lesson Plans (CCSS Edition) - Draft 17 Jul 2013 | 10:16 pm
As I indicated in a previous post, my school is in the process of rewriting our Algebra curriculum to more closely match the Common Core. I've now completed my first run through of my (very rough) fir...
Three Acts/101qs/#WCYDWT - A First Attempt 15 Jul 2013 | 02:34 am
So as I'm creating my lesson plans for Algebra 1 for next year (more on that in a future post, hopefully) I'm feeling pretty bad about something. You see, there's all this great material out there dev...
How To Learn Math 2 Jul 2013 | 11:56 pm
I've decided to attend Stanford. Sort of. I just enrolled in EDUC115N: How to Learn Math: In July 2013 a new course will be available on Stanford’s free on-line platform. The course is a short inter...
End of Year Student Evaluations of Me 13 Jun 2013 | 08:15 pm
Previously I posted the mid-year student and parent evaluations of me. At the end of the year I gave a slightly different (and shorter) survey to my students. This was given to them after they complet...
Algorithms, Quadcopters, and the CCSS-M 12 Jun 2013 | 11:17 pm
So, as usual, the end of the school year (and then subsequent visit from my in-laws) ended up leaving not enough time to do my self-assigned homework around #algorithmchat in a timely manner. But, in ...
By The Numbers 19 May 2013 | 11:36 pm
It's both a fun time of year in high school and a time to reflect. I've had kind of an interesting juxtaposition of a couple of items. We have a couple of students that I know at my school who are gra...
