Tuesday, December 25, 2007

A Jewish-Italian Hannakristmas

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I'm in Cleveland at my dad's house for the annual event... the homemade gnocchi and sauce were great, the kids got lots of noisy pl...
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Thursday, December 20, 2007

A case study: freshmen's ability to listen...

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(Background: cell phones are not permitted. If seen/heard, they are confiscated until parents pick them up.) {Phone rings; I answer} Me: C,...
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Wednesday, December 19, 2007

More decimal and percent work

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For the next lesson in Numeracy, I wanted to keep building students' ideas about what percents and decimals are, and how they relate to ...
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Friday, December 14, 2007

The decimal point's job... where's the one?

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This has been a long and stressful week, but it ended well yesterday. The biology classes were on a field trip, so my Algebra 2 class only ...
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Friday, November 30, 2007

Fidelity in Math

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In Algebra 2, the topic today was an overview of functions. Some students were having difficulty understanding the "each input has exa...
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Wednesday, November 21, 2007

Happy Tofurkey Day

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If you've read my blog in the past, you may have noticed I haven't been writing much lately. I've had some bad health problems ...
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Sunday, October 21, 2007

Don't worry, I'm not dead...

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My Numeracy students are now about a month into their ALEKS experience. I started all students out on the third grade standards level (the...
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Monday, September 24, 2007

Our Department Picture: Math Rox!

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Monday, September 17, 2007

Are you ready for this?

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I quickly mentioned the Readiness Checker idea a few posts ago, as a new idea I got from another teacher. I want to revisit it here, now th...
Saturday, September 15, 2007

What we have to watch out for (a partial list)

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San Jose, though a relatively safe city overall, does have a significant gang problem. Our students are generally not involved in gangs dir...
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