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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.

Monday, November 27, 2006

I'm more afraid of the midterm than they are...

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Tomorrow is the fall midterm for my Algebra 2 Honors class. It covers everything from the start of the year: the real number system and its...
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Wednesday, November 22, 2006

Next Lesson: 3x3 Systems Word Problems (and Thanksgiving!)

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I just finished the class - last period of the last day before Thanksgiving break, right after a special double-length lunch with music, dan...
Sunday, November 19, 2006

Our Gorgeous Department

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Click here to see the rest of the staff. Signed 8x10 glossies are available by request!

Next Lesson: 3D Graphing (better than the PS3!)

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In this lesson, I will take the class to our computer lab so we can work with the OS X Grapher application. This is the program I've be...
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Wednesday, November 15, 2006

Real World Applications

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What math teacher hasn't heard "when will we use this in real life?" a thousand times already? Typically you hear this when t...
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Tuesday, November 14, 2006

Next Lesson: 3x3 Systems of Equations

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Up next are those pesky systems of three equations with three variables. We are going to work on solving them by linear combination. I...
Monday, November 13, 2006

Next Lesson: Systems of Inequalities

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In this lesson, we will go beyond graphing linear inequalities to graphing systems of inequalities, including non-linear inequalities (we...
Friday, November 10, 2006

Next Lesson: Graphing Linear Inequalities

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We are finally moving on from the functions unit into a brief unit on systems of equations and inequalities. Last year, I included linear p...
Tuesday, November 07, 2006

Functional Success

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Break out the champagne! Here are the results to the Functions and Relations unit test: 10| 3 9| 0 1 2 3 3 7 7 8 8 8| 0 0 4 8 7| 0 1 7 8 9 ...
Monday, November 06, 2006

I'm really not obsessed with transformers, I promise!

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...but this is just too funny. Click in the box to play the video.
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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.
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