Because my students took the statewide End Of Course Test (EOCT) earlier this week, my school allows me to give a final project instead of an exam. This was a big break for me because my kids are tested out and I have no desire to write a 50 question comprehensive multiple guess test that [...]
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Thanks, Bowman Dickson (@bowmanimal), for Math Taboo! Whenever I tell my kids to give me a definition in their own words, I get some regurgitation of what I already said. No real understanding needed. Enter Math Taboo: The idea of the real game is to get your partner to guess a word by describing without [...]
Can you help me make this into a 3 Acts problem? I was thinking some thing along these lines: Act 1: movie clip of someone trying to crack a combination lock. I want to set up the question “how long will it take?” Act 2: What are the rules for these combination locks? Maybe I [...]
Recently googled: JMAP ExamView Question Banks of NY Regents math exams…going back to 1890! Oh, and I go back to work on Tuesday, to a building with 50% more students than in May, to the year my classes’ English Learner population should tip 50%, probably to “float” into other teachers’ classrooms, to teach physics!, to [...]
This is the Polar Clock (apparently, it’s soooo 2009). I recommend grabbing the screensaver or smartphone app (Win/Mac/Android/iPhone versions all available). In a pinch, you can watch a video of someone else running the app here. Polar Clock isn’t precisely a Meyerian[1] What Can You Do With This? creature. But I do think the Polar Clock falls in [...]
Students will “compare the averages of summary statistics from a large number of samples to the corresponding population parameters.” –GPS MM1D3.b Thoughts on what this would look like?
Thanks for the inspiration, Kate Nowak. Your Circumcenters was an amazing lesson that my colleagues and I turned into a full-fledged project. The day before Thanksgiving break, my students searched for approximately 25 treasures that were hidden inside and out of my school. We secured permission to hide treasures in offices of the most feared [...]
Today, I made a bunch of huge math mistakes in front of my classes. Intentionally. At the board, I simplified, added, and multiplied a bunch of rational expressions. The hook was that I’d make an error in every solution. They just had to spot it. This pedagogy is a riff on the joy kids have at [...]
Here’s a contribution to Kate Nowak’s row games collection. I played with the page layout so a pair of students could collaborate on a single sheet of paper. For the uninitiated, a row game is played by two students. They solve separate problems that have the same answer. It’s a collaborative event because when their [...]
I’ll be teaching logical statements (inverse, converse, contrapositive…) this week. There’s a great little logic exchange in the scene below. For the sake of my deaf students and English Learners, I added subtitles to this clip from the 1999 made-for-tv movie, “Alice in Wonderland”. It works with the Georgia Math 1 task “From Wonderland to Functionland [...]
