Thinking Thursday: Explain a Math Trick
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What is the square root of
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The purpose of this blog is to help generate and share ideas for teaching high school math concepts to students whose skills are below grade level.
About Me
- Dan Wekselgreene
- I am a math teacher in the Bay Area, California. Previously, I taught for eleven years at Downtown College Prep charter high school in San Jose, where the target student is low-skilled and of the first generation to go to college. Currently, I am teaching at Capuchino high school in San Bruno. On this blog, I will post strategies that I am trying, and I would love to see strategies that others are using to help bring students up to grade level and teach them real math skills. If you want more information on any of my lessons, feel free to email me at yochanan AT gmail.com. Also, if you have ideas to share, please comment.
Algebra 1 Files
Note: if you don't have Gill Sans, try changing the font to Tahoma. These files were all created in Mac OS X.
I work in Keynote, and export the presentations to Quicktime for those who don't have Keynote to check them out. If you want something in Powerpoint, let me know, and I can usually convert it reasonably well.
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I work in Keynote, and export the presentations to Quicktime for those who don't have Keynote to check them out. If you want something in Powerpoint, let me know, and I can usually convert it reasonably well.
Here is a direct link if the widget is giving you problems.
Algebra 2 Files
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Numeracy Files
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4 comments:
litna? or lutna?
I'm not familiar with "The Temple of My Familia" either, but love the puzzles, thanks again for sharing. I'm thinking about spending my summer revamping my algebra 2 to be a bit more puzzle-oriented.
I'm looking into Perplex City for some inspiration.. but thanks for putting your stuff out here as well.
"Luna" - it's easier when you know the teachers' names :) I haven't read the book either, but it's her favorite. I asked the teacher for each puzzle to come up with a "thing" that the students would have to do or figure out, and this was hers.
I'd like to see whatever you end up creating over the summer - let me know if you're interested in collaborating at all. I'm continually revamping my classes.
A great site that has all the old Perplex City cards (so you can look at the puzzles without buying tons of cards) can be found here.
I just finished up for the year on friday, so I'll be taking a short break from thinking about classes (thta call that a vacation.. right?), but I start teaching a summer college class in june, so I'll begin looking at puzzling my classes soon enough.
What do you do with your blog over the summer?
Yeah, it's good to take a break from thinking about teaching every once and a while :).. I don't know what I'll do with my blog over the summer (this will be the first summer since I started writing it), but probably I'll just let it sit. I'll be away for most of July, but I'll be back in August when staff development starts, and that's when I do most of my planning and revamping for the new year.
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