Friday, June 30, 2006

The end of education schools

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Check out this post on Robert Talbert's Casting Out Nines . He is referring to an essay by Peter Wood that predicts that education sch...
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NCTM standards vs. California Algebra standards?

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As a relatively new teacher, it's hard for me to really know what to believe. In my math methods class, I was taught the socio-constru...
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Wednesday, June 28, 2006

Wanted: A Good Conceptual Structure for Algebra 2

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In my note-taking post, I talked about structuring my summer Geometry class conceptually. I am interested in doing the same thing for my Alg...
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Tuesday, June 27, 2006

5-hour classes...

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...didn't seem that tough at the time... I thought I was going to have a nice, easy summer. I don't know what I was thinking. Plan...
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Monday, June 26, 2006

Yours is not to reason why...

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...just invert and multiply! This seems to be one of the fundamental philosophical questions in math education. Do you teach tricks and rul...
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Sunday, June 25, 2006

Which Geometry texts do you like?

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In trying to get up to speed on Geometry teaching, I have been reviewing quite a few different textbooks. Each one, of course, has its good...
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Summer Geometry

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Tomorrow starts our very first summer Geometry course. All of our incoming students take Algebra 1 as freshmen (even though many have ...
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How do you have students take and use notes?

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This is a huge problem at our school! Our students have never learned how to effectively take notes in class, and then how to actually use ...
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Saturday, June 24, 2006

Welcome

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Hi! I have been teaching high school math for the last 6 years at Downtown College Prep, a charter school in San Jose, CA. Our students ar...
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