Saturday, February 23, 2008

Math & Art: Big Numbers

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Check out this site. Really cool images . "Depicts one million plastic cups, the number used on airline flights in the US every six ho...
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What's the percentage of "adders-across" in Numeracy?

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In the past, I've given diagnostics before a unit so as to be able to compare pre- and post-instruction scores. Now, in the spirit of d...
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Friday, February 22, 2008

My mini-whiteboard love-hate relationship... Can you help?

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I've been using mini-whiteboards daily in my numeracy classes all year. Students use them most of the time, except when I have a worksh...
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Thursday, February 21, 2008

4.58 x 10,000 = 4.580000

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Most of my numeracy students remember that helpful rule from middle school: "Multiplying by 10 means adding a zero", and so we get...
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Monday, February 18, 2008

Welcome

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Most of our students are English language learners, but most have Spanish as their native language. As of a few weeks ago, we have a new st...
Saturday, February 09, 2008

Divide by Zero?

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This is pretty cool. I've never heard of the animated lego genre before, but I guess it's pretty popular . Most of these films are...
Wednesday, February 06, 2008

Caught Being Good

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If you're a Harry Potter fan, you've probably noticed that classroom management at Hogwarts isn't much of an issue. Sure, they ...
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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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