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, October 31, 2009

Story of 1

I was clued in to the existence of The Story of 1 a couple of weeks ago from my twitter PLN. I had my sub show it to my algebra 1 classes ...

Tuesday, October 27, 2009

Algebra 1: Solving Equations Puzzle

Here is a puzzle activity for reviewing equation solving. I found that it worked better when I made an answer mat for students to put thei...

Putting students in control of their learning

In the last couple of years, I've worked to really clarify exactly what skills I expect my students to learn. The assessment system mak...

Monday, September 21, 2009

Distributive Property and Multiplying Binomials

I made a review lesson for my Algebra 2 students on these topics, to make sure they are really ready before we start performing operations o...

Saturday, September 12, 2009

Algebra 1: Solving Equations

I am beginning the planning stages of our unit on solving equations in Algebra 1. In my past experiences, some students pick this up very q...

Monday, September 07, 2009

Algebra 1: Skills List

My goal for this weekend was to complete a rough draft of all the skill items that will be assessed on the first semester final exam. These...

Sunday, September 06, 2009

My current experience with Algeblocks

This student finished all of the simplifying expression problems on paper (correctly), and then used the algeblocks for the following: But c...

Saturday, September 05, 2009

Ok, I'll tweet.

I've resisted it until now, but it seems like a lot of good stuff is happening in the twitter world. No point in shutting myself out.

Algebra 2: Error Analysis

My algebra 2 students needed more practice solving equations with rational exponents. I was trying to think of an interesting and yet still...

Monday, August 31, 2009

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

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...

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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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