Tuesday, December 19, 2006

The name's Overun. Rise Overun. But you can call me Slope.

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The year ended with a great assembly. The dance classes performed their jazz dance final, complete with white gloves and top hats. The gro...
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Tuesday, December 12, 2006

Showdown!

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I forgot to post about the last lesson - I gave students a quiz on radicals and complex numbers, and I also taught them how to factor trinom...
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Monday, December 11, 2006

The Numeracy Project

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To complete the dorky math teacher persona, I am in a band with some other teachers (and a couple of students). We are called The Numeracy ...
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Saturday, December 09, 2006

Financial Literacy Project (or, screwing over the freshmen for fun and profit!)

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I have the beginnings of an idea for a project to do later in Spring, for the exponential functions unit, in conjunction with our freshman C...
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Thursday, December 07, 2006

Next Lesson: Powers of i; Basic Trinomial Factoring

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Today in class, we started with a mini-lesson on finding the powers of i, using the "multiplying by i = rotating by 90 degrees about th...
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Monday, December 04, 2006

Next Lesson: Operations on Complex Numbers

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Tomorrow, the Do Now will introduce the idea of finding the distance to the origin on a coordinate plane by creating a right triangle and us...
Friday, December 01, 2006

Next Lesson: Intro to Complex Numbers

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Still catching up - this was today's lesson... This lesson's scaffolding is based off of some ideas in the book Where Mathematics Co...
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Next Lesson: Properties of Square Roots

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I'm catching up a bit - this was Thursday's lesson... The homework due for this lesson was a review/exploration of the multiplicatio...
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...