Monday, August 31, 2009

Year ten at DCP, off to a strong start! My students this year rock.

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Ok, so it was more than a month. But at least I'm finally writing again. I don't think I will be able to post about every lesson l...
Saturday, June 20, 2009

Back in a month

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I'm going out of town for a few weeks, and with any luck, I won't be thinking about school. Posting for the new school year will st...
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Thursday, May 14, 2009

Numeracy Curriculum

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I finally got around to posting my old Numeracy curriculum on my box. This is by no means a final draft of what I think our 9th grade basic...
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Monday, May 11, 2009

Algebra 2: Quadratics

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We are nearing the end of the quadratics unit, which got chopped up by the STAR test and all the associated hoopla. I don't have too mu...
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Monday, April 13, 2009

STAR Review

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When we get back to school next week, we have a week of classes, and then we have the STAR tests. Instead of trying to jam in a few more co...
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Sunday, April 05, 2009

Quick update

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I haven't had much energy lately to post, but I've still been updating my box.net account. We ended unit 5 with polynomial division...
Saturday, March 14, 2009

Algebra 1: Introduction to Inequalities

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I'm not planning our Algebra 1 classes this year, so I have not been producing much for it. But I did put together a scaffolded introdu...
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Friday, March 13, 2009

Algebra 2: Reducing Polynomial Fractions

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I started this lesson with some theatrics. I asked them to simplify the fraction shown in the picture, and of course they all wanted to can...
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Algebra 2: Factoring Difference of Squares

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Continuing with the lessons, we learned to factor difference of squares expressions. I used a geometric approach to help make sense out of ...
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Algebra 2: Factoring, and More Factoring

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It's been a while since I posted. The last week of February was our Junior Trip, in which we take all of our junior class on a 4-day-lo...
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