The Exponential Curve

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.

Saturday, January 17, 2009

Do skills tests work?

As I've written about before, a large part of the students' grades this year in Algebra 2 are based off of the skills tests. The me...

Wednesday, January 07, 2009

Sold out or bought in?

We're back from break, and it's time to gear up for finals. Since DCP is a California public school, my course is standards-based. ...

Tuesday, December 09, 2008

Algebra 2: Lines and Systems

I'm trying to cram in a unit on systems of equations and inequalities before break. It's hard, since so many students are still not...

Tuesday, December 02, 2008

Algebra 2: Parent Functions

We ended the functions unit before Thanksgiving. I'm not giving a comprehensive test until just before winter break, and I think that ...

Thursday, November 20, 2008

Algebra 2: Horizontal Shift and Review/STAR Problems

Translation and transformation have continued to prove extremely difficult for my classes. Even my strongest students have been struggling....

Saturday, November 15, 2008

Algebra 2: Vertical Translation and Transformation

I've been really good about my timing all year, until this lesson... I wasn't able to finish it in any of my classes. We almost got...

Sunday, November 09, 2008

Algebra 2: Graphical Analysis Practice

We have Veterans' Day off on Tuesday, but we still have school on Monday. Would have been nice to get a four-day weekend. How many abs...

Thursday, November 06, 2008

Algebra 2: Graphical Analysis

Here are the latest files... more work with domain and range (which continues to stump some students) in interval notation form, and my favo...

Brilliant!

Students were asking why we have to learn interval notation. I was going on about ease of communication and writing things more simply, but...

Monday, November 03, 2008

Algebra 2: Interval Notation

I went back and forth on whether or not to spend time on this, and in the end I decided to go with it. It will be helpful to students who g...

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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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