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Sam Olderbak | Informal Math
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Trying to figure out how to blog and teach math at the same time. Author Archives: Sam Olderbak. December 24, 2016. I hate everything about homework (I guess except for the idea of it). I hate trying to figure out what is the best way to grade homework. Do you grade for participation or correctness? Maybe I should just give quality feedback instead. That will motivate students to put in more effort, right? I am sure it would, but who has time for that? How many problems do I assign? Except for the fact t...
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Self-Evaluation Checklist for Questioning | Informal Math
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Trying to figure out how to blog and teach math at the same time. Self-Evaluation Checklist for Questioning. June 5, 2015. Some of the favorite books I have ever read about math education are the Every Minute Counts. Books by David R. Johnson. These books give great ideas about arranging your desks, checking homework, direct instruction, the classroom routine, notebooks, etc. One of the topics that shows up in all 3 books is. David suggests using a Self-Evaluation Checklist on questioning. Math with Bad ...
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Estimations and Wagers | Informal Math
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Trying to figure out how to blog and teach math at the same time. July 2, 2015. So I create a game and it is a total rip off of Wits and Wagers. The basic idea is the students are given some sort of situation to estimate. They each right their estimation on their card. Students place the cards in order from least to greatest. They wager on which answer they think is correct. Then they check their answer. This entry was posted in Uncategorized. MTFSO–Graphing Polynomials →. July 13, 2015 at 1:30 am. You a...
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Function Wall | Informal Math
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Trying to figure out how to blog and teach math at the same time. June 16, 2015. I sometimes think about what things I can put on my walls that are not your traditional math posters. Word walls seem to be a strategy that work for some teachers. I tried something similar this year with a Function Wall. I teach Algebra 2 and what I did this year was every time we learned a new function, I hung up that function’s poster. This entry was posted in Uncategorized. Self-Evaluation Checklist for Questioning.
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Hexagon- the first spark | DIY: Math PD
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Sometimes it's better to just do it ourselves. Hexagon- the first spark. This was my warmup today:. Draw a six-sided shape. I followed up in our discussion with “Is a hexagon a 6-sided shape? 8221; and “Are all 6-sided shapes hexagons? 8221; Tomorrow they’re going to be in groups to categorize the shapes from Christopher Danielson’s Hierarchy of Hexagons. Project. These are my probably incoherent notes:. Lots of people said yes, so we had to look up the definition of a hexagon. 6th period: Much less deba...
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Skip to main content. Create interactive lessons using any digital content including wikis with our free sister product TES Teach. Get it on the web. Mr Kraft's Wikispace. Mr Kraft's Three Acts. Mr Kraft's Virtual Filing Cabinet. Discussions on Teaching, Professional Development. Vi Hart's Doodling Videos. PCMI 2013 Problem Sets. Problem Based Curriculum Maps. Which One Doesn't Belong. By Robert Kaplinsky and Nanette Johnson. By NCTM) - Not bad if you need something free. HotMath Algebra 1 Activities.
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Hallmark ain’t got nothin’ on us. | DIY: Math PD
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Sometimes it's better to just do it ourselves. Hallmark ain’t got nothin’ on us. We did an awesome project today inspired by Fawn. Coming up on area of composite shapes, I needed a way for students to practice the composite-ness and the “splitting up” skill. A popular text book problem asks about pools and tiling/grass/etc around the pool in the yard, so I thought about having them draw a pool and do all that jazz, but I couldn’t really get that idea together. Foreshadowing of calculus: the smaller we sp...
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NCTM14 -> New members? | DIY: Math PD
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Sometimes it's better to just do it ourselves. NCTM14 - New members? NCTM 2014 left me ON FIRE. (Almost literally, it was so hot walking around on Saturday.) But seriously, it left me hungry for more: more PrBL in my classroom, more student conversations, more teacher online collaboration, more ed conversations, more all of it. Give a “new teacher” discount” a la student discount (how do you define/prove “new teacher”)? Give a first-time attender discount? As well as a similar one for prospective teachers.
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April | 2014 | DIY: Math PD
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Sometimes it's better to just do it ourselves. Hallmark ain’t got nothin’ on us. We did an awesome project today inspired by Fawn. Coming up on area of composite shapes, I needed a way for students to practice the composite-ness and the “splitting up” skill. A popular text book problem asks about pools and tiling/grass/etc around the pool in the yard, so I thought about having them draw a pool and do all that jazz, but I couldn’t really get that idea together. Foreshadowing of calculus: the smaller we sp...
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