Saturday, June 21, 2008

The Numeracy Project - Live

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This is our Spirit Week 2007 gig. We rocked the house! Voted best math teacher band in downtown San Jose! Check out my singing debut in t...
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Tuesday, June 10, 2008

Another year finished...

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Classes are done, finals are being graded, and graduation is on Friday. Instead of writing about how I'm feeling right now, I think thi...
Tuesday, May 20, 2008

Algebra 2 Exhibition

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We just completed a project in Algebra 2. Each student designed a picture made up only of lines and shaded regions. They had to then deter...
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Wednesday, May 14, 2008

A winning review activity

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My students always complain that we don't play enough games in class. I know they love games, but most of the games I've seen are q...
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Wednesday, April 23, 2008

Big changes

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The 10% cut in school funding in CA has really thrown the school for a loop, and we've spent the last couple of months figuring out how ...
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Wednesday, March 19, 2008

Prepositional Nightmare: Anywhere a Cat Can Go

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One of the problems with block scheduling is that, when you lose a day of school, it throws your whole system off. Due to community day on ...
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Sunday, March 16, 2008

Physics is Phun

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I don't have the proper hardware to experiment with this, but it looks extremely cool. Check it out: Phun - 2d Physics Sandbox .
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Don't tell, but I learned something on YouTube

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I've been using Keynote this semester as an experiment, to see how it could work in my Numeracy class. So far, it's gone pretty wel...
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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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