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Inverse Trig Functions 11 Aug 2013 | 08:44 pm
At TMC13, I was in a group of people talking about precalculus. One of the exercises we did was make a list of some of the topics we found challenging to teach as teachers — and we broke out in groups...
TMC13: The State of Things (for Me) 2 Aug 2013 | 02:30 am
I recently went to TMC13. If you don’t know what that is… there is a community of math teacher bloggers and twitterers who met up at a conference called “twitter math camp 2013.” It was a conference “...
Students know themselves better than we do: Recommendation edition 30 Jul 2013 | 07:20 pm
I teach high school, but until last year, I did not teach a class filled with mainly juniors. However every year I still get asked to write between 5 and 10 college recommendations. This year, I was a...
Exploring the MathTwitterBlogosphere 19 Jul 2013 | 07:47 am
Coming in October 2013!!! This year, we’re going to be holding a updated version of the Math Blogger Initiation that happened last year! We were crazy surprised by how many people were interested in ...
My thoughts on #MTBoS 27 Jun 2013 | 10:10 pm
That acronym stands for the bulky and unwieldy (in name, in actuality) mathtwitterblogosphere. There have been some heated discussions lately online (on blogs, on twitter, on email) around a post that...
My Introduction to Rational Functions 31 May 2013 | 08:03 am
Going into Rational Functions My impression is that most people introduce rational functions by showing something like… … and then spend the rest of the time asking kids some questions, like “what’s t...
Senior Letter 2013 30 May 2013 | 09:39 am
Each year I write a letter to my seniors and give it to them on the last day of classes. I have done it since my first year of teaching. And I keep doing it, year after year, but this was the first ye...
Quotes from Calculus 29 May 2013 | 07:12 pm
Seniors are done with classes. (The rest of the Upper School is preparing for final exams this week, and finals are administered next week.) Yesterday one of my calculus students gave me this 12-page ...
Intersections, a high school math-science journal 22 May 2013 | 07:15 am
At the end of last year, a science teacher and I came up with the idea of creating a math-science journal for students to publish their work in. Our school has a literary and art journal and even a fo...
An Animal Problem 14 May 2013 | 10:44 pm
One of our math club leaders gave out this problem as the final problem of math club for the year. I had never seen it before, and after she handed it out, a number of math teachers were in a tizzy ab...
